Newton Braga

Mr. Newton C. Braga was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1946. His activities in electronics began when he was only 13 years old, at which time he started writing articles for Brazilian magazines. At age 18, he had his own column in the Brazilian edition of Popular Electronics, where he introduced the concept of "electronics for youngsters." Mr. Braga has published more than 110 books about electronics, mechatronics, computers, electricity, and science fairs, as well as thousand of articles and electronics/mechatronics/science projects in magazines worldwide (U.S.A., France, Spain, Japan, Portugal, Mexico, Russia, China, et al.). Many of his books have been adopted in schools and universities around the world and even translated into other languages, with sales in excess of three million copies all over the world.