Writer Jim Kelly is performing and blogging about every experiment in Make: Electronics, the excellent new beginners book on amateur electronics. Hey, I was gonna do that! :P

Make: Electronics is truly excellent, fresh in both approach and format. For sentimental reasons it saddens me a bit to say it, but this book indeed does take the crown from Forrest M. Mimms' Getting Started in Electronics as the book I'd recommend to children and beginning amateur adults as the first book to get.

A major feature of the book is full-color photographs. I continue to believe there's a need for high-quality multimedia approaches to this material, despite the existence of hundreds of websites on this subject. I'd been thinking of doing a blog like Jim's precisely for this reason, as an unofficial multimedia companion to the book.

Jim has also written or contributed to several excellent books on Lego Mindstorms.