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I was wondering about the authors of this book. It's in the Introduction: > Michael F. Robbins holds the S.B. in Electrical Science and Engineering and the M.E

I was wondering about the authors of this book. It's in the Introduction: > Michael F. Robbins holds the S.B. in Electrical Science and Engineering and the M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degrees both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mike is the co-founder of CircuitLab, Inc. and developer of the CircuitLab circuit simulation software used by universities, hobbyists, and practicing engineers in 196 countries. It looks like an introductory book to electrical circuits with interactive simulation exercises built into the book. This should give you an intuitive understanding of how the math that was presented actually works at the circuit level, which, I think, is very cool.

cushychicken 7y ago
Certainly makes it clear that this is an attempt to commoditize CircuitLab's complements. More circuit knowledge = more need for simulation resources. Also serves as a pretty good SEO resource for CircuitLab. There are plenty of great analog electronics tutorials out there already that mostly differ in that they don't point to CircuitLab's material. My personal favorite is Analog Devices electronics course. https://wiki.analog.com/university/courses/electronics/text/electronics-toc https://wiki.analog.com/university/courses/electronics/text/...
- compumike 7y ago
  (Ultimate Electronics Book author here.) I'll add that it's also great documentation / example material for how to use CircuitLab. In fact, that's how it started. In many ways, circuit simulators are a power user tool, and so I started this project by just making a larger library of example circuits. It then became clear that I needed to put the circuits together in context, and the idea for the textbook popped up since the context many of our customers share (at least the hobbyist and education segments) is in learning electronics. Now, I'm inspired by communicating in this part-theory, part-practical style that seems hard to find in conventional resources.
  - cushychicken 7y ago
    It's a good idea on many levels. Power to you!

cushychicken 7y ago

Certainly makes it clear that this is an attempt to commoditize CircuitLab's complements. More circuit knowledge = more need for simulation resources. Also serves as a pretty good SEO resource for CircuitLab. There are plenty of great analog electronics tutorials out there already that mostly differ in that they don't point to CircuitLab's material. My personal favorite is Analog Devices electronics course. https://wiki.analog.com/university/courses/electronics/text/electronics-toc https://wiki.analog.com/university/courses/electronics/text/...

compumike 7y ago
(Ultimate Electronics Book author here.) I'll add that it's also great documentation / example material for how to use CircuitLab. In fact, that's how it started. In many ways, circuit simulators are a power user tool, and so I started this project by just making a larger library of example circuits. It then became clear that I needed to put the circuits together in context, and the idea for the textbook popped up since the context many of our customers share (at least the hobbyist and education segments) is in learning electronics. Now, I'm inspired by communicating in this part-theory, part-practical style that seems hard to find in conventional resources.
- cushychicken 7y ago
  It's a good idea on many levels. Power to you!