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I highly recommend the All About Circuits textbook: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/ https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/ It starts from the ve

I highly recommend the All About Circuits textbook: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/ https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/ It starts from the very basics and builds up to quite complex circuits and their workings. It's an all-round great website, too.

mjoin 6y ago
this looks very good. do you know if there is a PDF version that contains the whole textbook? could not find it on the website
- mjoin 6y ago
  actually found the PDFs
  - throw_electric 6y ago
    PDFs are here [0]. They are legally free. [0] https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/ https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/
creyes 6y ago
This is an incredible resource. Learned everything I needed to know for an IoT side project and more from the AAC book
randylahey 6y ago
Wow, I'm so happy to see this is the first result (the reason I came to comment.) I've tried and failed many times to pick up a fundamental, from the ground-up understanding of electronics and electrial theory. Forrest Mims' "Getting started in electronics" was good, but the All About Circuits text book had the depth and accessibility and I was looking for. And it's free!
etrautmann 6y ago
The Art of Electronics is also fantastic
- alexdowad 6y ago
  I respectfully disagree with this comment. I banged my head against The Art of Electronics for years before discovering that the problem wasn't with me... but rather, it was just a very poor book for a learner. It may be a great book for those who already have some grounding in the topic.
  - lmilcin 6y ago
    Please, don't disparage a book because you personally did not find it useful. I, personally, found it very useful and it was my most important learning resources at the beginning. Exactly as you said, because I have already had some exposure to physics and to kind of modular systems (I am mathematician working as a developer) this was perfect resource for me. Different people with different backgrounds learn in different ways and from different types of resources. It is wise to understand there is no single resource that is going to be best for everybody.
    - nkrisc 6y ago
      > Exactly as you said, because I have already had some exposure to physics and to kind of modular systems (I am mathematician working as a developer) this was perfect resource for me. So you're saying they're correct that it's not a good book for a learner without some exposure to the fundamentals. But what's the disparagement you're referring to?
      - lmilcin 6y ago
        It is important to differentiate between exposure to fundamentals of electronics and physics. I believe if you have never been exposed to engineering or another discipline that deals with complex systems (like designing software or mechanical systems) you have to learn to build systems from smaller components. This is where many beginners fail. Even though they can sort of understand what parts do they can't put them together because they don't think in systems. In that case you need something else than AoE. On the other hand, if you have built complex things in another discipline you may find yourself very at home with AoE with no previous exposure to electronics. That's because you already know how to build systems from lego bricks, now you just need to learn new kinds of bricks and rules to put them together.
peterwoerner 6y ago
Mechatronics text books tend to be useful. They are written for mechanical engineers who intend to build circuits and software for mechanic-electronic systems. So they tend to have practical information for those who want to start building electronic circuits now, but have no electrical background.
- tommaho 6y ago
  Have any specific recommendations for a hobbyist and outsider to formal mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines? Thanks!
  - peterwoerner 6y ago
    The one I use is Introduction to Mechatronics by Carryer Ohline and Kenny It covers a lot. On the mechanical side it only covers actuators and control systems.
ci5er 6y ago
That's a nice TOC! Flipping through, I think the thyrister treatment is a bit weak, and I would ideally like to see more in terms of comm-sys, (like how NTSC works for analog/radio TV), but this looks solid. TIL about a nice reference. Thank you!
lifeisstillgood 6y ago
Second that :-)

mjoin 6y ago

this looks very good. do you know if there is a PDF version that contains the whole textbook? could not find it on the website

mjoin 6y ago
actually found the PDFs
- throw_electric 6y ago
  PDFs are here [0]. They are legally free. [0] https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/ https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/

creyes 6y ago

This is an incredible resource. Learned everything I needed to know for an IoT side project and more from the AAC book

randylahey 6y ago

Wow, I'm so happy to see this is the first result (the reason I came to comment.) I've tried and failed many times to pick up a fundamental, from the ground-up understanding of electronics and electrial theory. Forrest Mims' "Getting started in electronics" was good, but the All About Circuits text book had the depth and accessibility and I was looking for. And it's free!

etrautmann 6y ago

The Art of Electronics is also fantastic

alexdowad 6y ago
I respectfully disagree with this comment. I banged my head against The Art of Electronics for years before discovering that the problem wasn't with me... but rather, it was just a very poor book for a learner. It may be a great book for those who already have some grounding in the topic.
- lmilcin 6y ago
  Please, don't disparage a book because you personally did not find it useful. I, personally, found it very useful and it was my most important learning resources at the beginning. Exactly as you said, because I have already had some exposure to physics and to kind of modular systems (I am mathematician working as a developer) this was perfect resource for me. Different people with different backgrounds learn in different ways and from different types of resources. It is wise to understand there is no single resource that is going to be best for everybody.
  - nkrisc 6y ago
    > Exactly as you said, because I have already had some exposure to physics and to kind of modular systems (I am mathematician working as a developer) this was perfect resource for me. So you're saying they're correct that it's not a good book for a learner without some exposure to the fundamentals. But what's the disparagement you're referring to?
    - lmilcin 6y ago
      It is important to differentiate between exposure to fundamentals of electronics and physics. I believe if you have never been exposed to engineering or another discipline that deals with complex systems (like designing software or mechanical systems) you have to learn to build systems from smaller components. This is where many beginners fail. Even though they can sort of understand what parts do they can't put them together because they don't think in systems. In that case you need something else than AoE. On the other hand, if you have built complex things in another discipline you may find yourself very at home with AoE with no previous exposure to electronics. That's because you already know how to build systems from lego bricks, now you just need to learn new kinds of bricks and rules to put them together.

peterwoerner 6y ago

Mechatronics text books tend to be useful. They are written for mechanical engineers who intend to build circuits and software for mechanic-electronic systems. So they tend to have practical information for those who want to start building electronic circuits now, but have no electrical background.

tommaho 6y ago
Have any specific recommendations for a hobbyist and outsider to formal mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines? Thanks!
- peterwoerner 6y ago
  The one I use is Introduction to Mechatronics by Carryer Ohline and Kenny It covers a lot. On the mechanical side it only covers actuators and control systems.

ci5er 6y ago

That's a nice TOC! Flipping through, I think the thyrister treatment is a bit weak, and I would ideally like to see more in terms of comm-sys, (like how NTSC works for analog/radio TV), but this looks solid. TIL about a nice reference. Thank you!

lifeisstillgood 6y ago

Second that :-)