Can I get advices for a beginner - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / beginners

author: ArdaDilan
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 24, 2021, 07:36:50 am
content: Hey friends, I am Electronics Engineering student and I am interested in hardware design and I design a STM32 development board, a function generator circuit that can give 100Hz-10kHz waves and some other basic circuits like buck and boost converter. I want to ask which circuits that I can design for improve my skills I could not find an idea for intermediate . Can you give me some basic and intermediate examples that I can think on it and design it. Thanks in advance.

author: IamSynthetiC
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2021, 07:50:29 am
content: Welcome to the forum.Project people often start with are clocks, power supplies or other household gadgets. A small power supply (12V, 5V or 3.3V) is a good place to start to learn about the intricate nature of power.If you want more ideas, you can search theprojectspage here on the forum.

author: perieanuo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2021, 08:16:38 am
content: try designing something like a tasmota device, cotrol some appliance from your wifi network, preffered from scratch

author: ArdaDilan
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 24, 2021, 12:17:23 pm
content: Thanks for sharing ur ideas I will look at the projects part of forum

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2021, 03:05:45 am
content: I would point you over to view Dave Jones talk on OP AMP basics, and possibly supplement that info, with analog comparator.That involves parts IC LM324 OP AMP, and LM311 analog comparator.If you can learn about GAIN, in inverting and non-inverting modes, that's a lot right there!

author: wizard69
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2021, 06:16:23 pm
content: There are all sorts of possibilities when it comes to starter or intermediate level projects to learn upon.I always make a point to suggest power supplies. You can start out with 3 terminal controllers which can be fairly easy. As your skills increase you can build some very complex supplies. The important thing is the learning experience and the importance of a proper supply in running your digital circuits.If you have an interest in robotics, RepRaps, CNC and such, there are many intermediate opportunities here. Beyond power supplies you have stepper and servo motor controllers, controller boards with hardened I/O, communications challenges and so forth. The nice thing here is that these effectively are modules that are pieced together in many cases. This allows you to work on one element to completion and tackle others as needed.It looks like you are already interested in a micro controller board implementation. However have you considered making an entire control system on a board. Here I'm talking something like a temperature controller module that uses thermocouples, an output device and a simple user interface. These days such a controller can be implemented in very little space on a PCB. There are a lot of learning opportunities here that probably would be called intermediate as a lot of them center around code writing.Radios are always interesting even if they have fallen out of fashion with the advent of the net. Again you can start out dirt simple and work your way up to bleeding edge technology. Allied with radio tech are audio systems which again can be simple or very complex an innovative.If you or friends, are into hammering on metal, come up with an induction forge controller. These are pretty neat and can heat metal to red hot very quickly.Yea I know I have ideas from all over the place but if you step back a bit you should realize that there are ideas all around you. Find something that fits your interests.