Ja(y)den D. Harper -Author Collective

📢Educators, community leaders, and passionate learners — if you’re eager for insights, skip ahead to the “For Educators“ section near the bottom of this post. We’re here to help you access or adapt this material effortlessly — and at no cost. Your success is priority.

Preorders are live, and the book is officially here! If you’d like to support this project and help more people access it, every purchase makes a difference.

If the price is a barrier — don’t worry.
We still want you to have the book.

Head down to the “For Educators (and Curious Learners)” section — we’ve made sure there’s a path for everyone, regardless of budget or background.

The full release is planned for June/July, right when students, teachers, and makers finally get a breather — the perfect time to dive in, learn, and create.

It’s dedicated to every curious student who ever sat in a classroom and wondered:
“Why doesn’t anyone explain this properly?”

This isn’t just a guide to electronics — it’s a promise.

A promise to the students Ja(y)Den D. HarPer taught.
To the ones who didn’t know the difference between a transistor and a MOSFET.
To the ones who used an LED as a diode in an FM multiplexer and wondered why everything glitched.
To the ones who didn’t feel “technical enough.”
To the ones told to just memorize pinouts — without ever being told why they mattered.

This book exists because you deserved better.

We built the resource we always wished we had.

We wrote this book for:

• The self-taught maker who’s tired of fragmented answers
• The educator trying to make circuits click for a classroom of curious minds
• The student who’s just starting out and needs more than blinking lights
• For the curious minds who think, ‘I want to build wild, brilliant things like that.’ This book doesn’t promise genius — but it gives you the foundation, the logic, and the tools to start creating your own kind of chaos. It was written by someone who was already building strange projects — just not at that scale. Yet.

This is our mission:
To make electronics make sense.
To lift the fog.
To hand you the tools — and teach you how to wield them.

Built From Frustration. Written With Love.

Ja(y)Den D. HarPer didn’t write this as a product. They wrote it because they remembers what it felt like to be lost in a world of vague tutorials, unclear diagrams, and guides that skipped the good parts — the real parts.

They wrote it:

• For the friends who bought Arduinos and gave up because they didn’t “get it”
• For the makers, who just needed the freedom to build something ridiculous — and the knowledge to do it safely
• And for their own students, who asked the right questions, even when no textbook had the decency to answer them properly

This is for you.

What Arduino Unlocked Actually Does

This is not a beginner’s book that ends at blinking LEDs.
And it’s not an engineer’s textbook that assumes you already have a degree.

This book is something in between — and far beyond.

You’ll learn:

• Why resistors get hot, not just what value to pick
• What makes a diode a diode — and why it’s not the same as an LED
• How shift registers really work — not just how to copy/paste code
• What to do when things don’t work — not just when they do

And most importantly:
You’ll walk away understanding electronics — not just using them.

Every member of the Ja(y)Den D. HarPer team studied engineering at a university where the curriculum was internationally benchmarked — on par with institutions like MIT and Oxford. While we’ll never say it was easy, it gave us the depth needed to write something different. Something honest. Something useful.

This book covers the core of first-year university electronics, and even steps lightly into second-year topics — but explains them in a way that’s actually readable. Actually teachable. Actually human.

What Makes This Book Different?
This isn’t just another “hello world” tutorial collection. It’s a full journey through electronics — built for clarity, not shortcuts. Inside, you’ll find:

• Side-by-side comparisons of transistors and MOSFETs — so you finally understand the difference.
• Real-world project breakdowns: Why your LED strip flickers, why your motor overheats, and how to fix it.
• Code examples that don’t just work — they explain why they work.
• Honest warnings: what can go wrong and how to troubleshoot like an engineer.

Every circuit, every page, and every pin explained in plain language — the kind that sticks.

For Educators (and Curious Learners): This One’s for You, Too

We know this material works because we’ve used it in real classrooms. Like the student who wired an NPN transistor backwards — three times — and finally understood why it mattered after tracing current flow in a diagram. Or the moment a class felt what debouncing meant, not from a definition, but from seeing their button press register twice and learning how to fix it in code.

Teaching electronics is hard — especially when the material is inconsistent. When the diagrams are wrong. When the explanations assume things your students haven’t even been taught yet.

We built this book to be teachable.

And right now, we’re building a companion Educator Resource Pack that includes:

• Printable worksheets and logic guides
• Component and project scaling scaling plans for 5 / 10 / 20 learners
• Classroom-friendly adaptations of projects
• Troubleshooting checklists and pacing advice

If you’re a teacher, mentor, homeschool facilitator, or workshop leader — we want to hear from you.
If you’re a student, a curious learner, or someone trying to teach themselves — you’re invited, too.

Whether you’re setting up a classroom or building from your bedroom floor, we’ll support you.

Email jaden.harper.books@gmail.com
Subject line: “Educator Resources”

Body: Let us know what you need — whether it’s a review copy of the book, early drafts, adaptable project ideas, classroom-friendly explanations, printable guides, or something else. If it helps you teach electronics better, faster, and with more confidence, we’ll do our best to provide it.

One of us will get back to you as soon as possible — usually within a day or two. We’re a small team doing this alongside full-time work, but we care deeply about supporting learners and educators.

We’re here to support you — no red tape, no gatekeeping. Just shared knowledge.

From the Authors

We didn’t write this book in a vacuum.

We wrote it during stolen moments . Over coffee, during lunch breaks, in the quiet hours when the world finally slowed down. We wrote it while debugging circuits and mentoring students, while trying to explain — again — why their MOSFET wasn’t turning on.

We wrote it because we were tired of watching good people walk away from electronics, thinking they weren’t “technical enough.”

Because we saw our friends buy Arduinos and give up within a week.

Because we taught students who were told to memorize pinouts and formulas but never why they mattered.

And because Ja(y) — one of us — looked at their partner, the love of their life, and thought:

“They deserve to understand my world from the ground up.”

Their partner had no technical background. No experience with electronics.
But they were curious. And Ja(y) wanted them to feel welcome — not left behind.

Ja(y) isn’t great with words. They’re better with wires, with diagrams, with figuring things out until they finally click.
So instead of writing a love letter — they wrote this book.

They stayed up late debugging not just circuits, but sentences.
Not because it was easy, but because love is sometimes building something complicated…
just to make it simple for someone else.

This book is for that someone.
And for every someone who ever felt left out of a world they wanted to be part of.

So, this book had to be different. It had to explain everything. Not just for engineers — but for everyone.

This isn’t just a guide.
It’s a collection of lessons we wish we had.
It’s every answer we had to look up the hard way.
It’s the light we needed — built piece by piece — when everything else was fog.

If you’ve ever felt left behind by a tutorial…
If you’ve ever wanted to build something brilliant but didn’t know where to start…
If you’ve ever loved someone who speaks in voltage and resistors and just wanted to meet them halfway…

This book is for you.

With clarity. With love. With the stubborn belief that no one is “too late” or “not smart enough” to learn this stuff.

We believe in you — because we were you.

— Ja(y)Den D. HarPer

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