This hand book is for complete beginners to electronic project building. It provides a complete introduction to the practical side of this hobby, including the following topics: component identification, and buying the right parts, resistor colour codes, capacitor value makings etc, advice on buying the right tools for the job, soldering, with advice on how to produce good joint and avoid dry joints, making easy work of the hard wiring, construction methods, including stripboard, custom printed circuit boards, plain matrix board, surface mount boards and wire-wrapping, finishing off and adding panel labels, getting problem projects to work, including simple methods of fault-finding.