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Thank you! I was just going to ask about recommended resources for getting into electronics. I've never been able to find anything that I personally found usef

by kleiba 2y ago

Thank you! I was just going to ask about recommended resources for getting into electronics. I've never been able to find anything that I personally found useful - often times, introductury courses are too basic and slow to keep me focused, or they lack exercises or are too theoretical, etc. There are many hobbyists who have learned all that stuff and can design and implement their own circuits (say, audiophiles or model train enthusiasts), so obviously they have all been able to get there. But I have never managed to learn anything about electronics, although I would really like to.

progbits 2y ago
Yeah it can be hard. As a self-taught hobbyist I've found a mix of university courses (not whole curriculum, just pick and choose and don't feel bad fast-forwarding over some of the math theory), books (art of electronics, practical electronics for inventors), and high quality youtube channels (eevblog, phil's lab, robert feranec, microtype engineering) to be a good way to learn. Also eevblog forums are great. I don't post much but just reading through the discussions you get a lot. My greatest annoyance is the flood of very low quality Arduino tutorials everywhere that polute the search results. Not to be ungrateful, Arduino got me into the hobby, but if you just learned about resistors last week the world doesn't need your blogpost on how to connect it to a breadboard.
- Max-q 2y ago
  You probably know about this already, buy in case you missed it: The Arts of Electronics is a wonderful book on electronics, starting from zero, ending up at bachelor level EE. I was introduced to the second edition (silver) when I attended college in the late 90s, and have later upgraded to the third edition (gold). It also has a companion book with more exercises and lab experiments. For everyone that wants to learn EE, it is highly recommend. Just beware: there are fake copies for sale on Amazon, so be sure you get a genuine copy.
tzs 2y ago
The MITx version of MIT's 6.002, "Circuits and Electronics", is excellent. Its on MIT's OpenCourseWare [1], and on EdX where a session is starting today [2]. The EdX is divided into three parts, and that is part 1. Here are parts 2 [3] and 3 [4]. Caveat: when I took it at EdX the textbook was available online for free during the course, and it is an excellent textbook that I found very useful. That was back when all the MOOC platforms weren't too worried about monetization. Now the textbook is only free online for people enrolled in the "verified certificate track" of the course, which is $189. The book is $64.97 for the paperback or DRM-free PDF [5]. I'm not sure how well the course works without the book. [1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-spring-2007/pages/syllabus/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-s... [2] https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-circuits-and-electronics-1-basic-circuit-analysis https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-o... [3] https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-circuits-and-electronics-2-amplification-speed-and-delay https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-o... [4] https://www.edx.org/learn/electronics/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-circuits-and-electronics-3-applications-2 https://www.edx.org/learn/electronics/massachusetts-institut... [5] https://shop.elsevier.com/books/foundations-of-analog-and-digital-electronic-circuits/agarwal/978-0-08-050681-4 https://shop.elsevier.com/books/foundations-of-analog-and-di...
- creeble 2y ago
  Most of the course in link[1] is available on YouTube as well.

by kleiba 2y ago

progbits 2y ago

Yeah it can be hard. As a self-taught hobbyist I've found a mix of university courses (not whole curriculum, just pick and choose and don't feel bad fast-forwarding over some of the math theory), books (art of electronics, practical electronics for inventors), and high quality youtube channels (eevblog, phil's lab, robert feranec, microtype engineering) to be a good way to learn. Also eevblog forums are great. I don't post much but just reading through the discussions you get a lot. My greatest annoyance is the flood of very low quality Arduino tutorials everywhere that polute the search results. Not to be ungrateful, Arduino got me into the hobby, but if you just learned about resistors last week the world doesn't need your blogpost on how to connect it to a breadboard.

Max-q 2y ago
You probably know about this already, buy in case you missed it: The Arts of Electronics is a wonderful book on electronics, starting from zero, ending up at bachelor level EE. I was introduced to the second edition (silver) when I attended college in the late 90s, and have later upgraded to the third edition (gold). It also has a companion book with more exercises and lab experiments. For everyone that wants to learn EE, it is highly recommend. Just beware: there are fake copies for sale on Amazon, so be sure you get a genuine copy.

tzs 2y ago

The MITx version of MIT's 6.002, "Circuits and Electronics", is excellent. Its on MIT's OpenCourseWare [1], and on EdX where a session is starting today [2]. The EdX is divided into three parts, and that is part 1. Here are parts 2 [3] and 3 [4]. Caveat: when I took it at EdX the textbook was available online for free during the course, and it is an excellent textbook that I found very useful. That was back when all the MOOC platforms weren't too worried about monetization. Now the textbook is only free online for people enrolled in the "verified certificate track" of the course, which is $189. The book is $64.97 for the paperback or DRM-free PDF [5]. I'm not sure how well the course works without the book. [1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-spring-2007/pages/syllabus/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-s... [2] https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-circuits-and-electronics-1-basic-circuit-analysis https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-o... [3] https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-circuits-and-electronics-2-amplification-speed-and-delay https://www.edx.org/learn/circuits/massachusetts-institute-o... [4] https://www.edx.org/learn/electronics/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-circuits-and-electronics-3-applications-2 https://www.edx.org/learn/electronics/massachusetts-institut... [5] https://shop.elsevier.com/books/foundations-of-analog-and-digital-electronic-circuits/agarwal/978-0-08-050681-4 https://shop.elsevier.com/books/foundations-of-analog-and-di...

creeble 2y ago
Most of the course in link[1] is available on YouTube as well.