Beginners Tutorial - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / beginners

author: BlueShadow
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 28, 2013, 05:12:55 pm
content: Hi,I like to start with elektronics again (I had some basic electronics in school ages ago) Is there a good tutorial which a beginner can follow out there?I did a couple kits and I did some µController programming(Arduino, ...) But what I would love to be able to do is to learn to make my own basic circuits.(Stuff I would love to be able to do: Powersupplies (AC to DC with like 2-4 diffrent set constant voltages), Basic transistor and oppamp circuits, eliminating the µC for basic things like replacing it with a timer (555 I believe)At least in my opinion thats pretty basic but everything I found so far is either use the kit and solder it. Or look in the datasheets of a gezillion parts get 2-4 College degrees and 20 years of experience. Both options are not for me since I only want to do it as a hobby option 2 is not good enough. and option one well there is no fun in that.

author: Alana
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 28, 2013, 05:25:06 pm
content: Simple answer is: google for basic electronics youtube videos - for example "op-amps 101" or "op-amps basics". This gives you understanding of basic building blocks of electronics and then you may try to put those blocks together to form a more complex devices.And - don't forget about basics of basics - Ohm's Law, Voltage and Current Laws, voltage dividers, how inductors and capacitors works, resonant circuits, diodes, transistors. Everyone of those topics was covered many times in some youtube videos.Treat those videos as if they were lectures at school and make notes. I think this is one of the best way for self-learning electronics.

author: BlueShadow
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 28, 2013, 06:21:20 pm
content: could you guys point me to a good series which has more than one lesson. One of the main problems is what to do next and where should I start so a vedeoseries would really help. Someone who speaks a proper english would be helpfull too. After all english is only my second language.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 28, 2013, 06:38:21 pm
content: Why not read a book?

author: BlueShadow
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 28, 2013, 07:21:06 pm
content: if you got a good one I would be happy to read it.

author: M0BSW
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 28, 2013, 07:27:09 pm
content: The Art of Electronics , has been a bible for me.

author: kxenos
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 28, 2013, 07:38:39 pm
content: +1 for the art of electronics. There is a thread that all available resources are presented and discussed. About video lectures, watch MITx 6.002 videos.

author: MacAttak
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 28, 2013, 08:39:53 pm
content: www.allaboutcircuits.comis quite good. Not as good as some of the others (it has some unfinished chapters), but still pretty good and it is free. You can read it online, or you can download each of the six volumes as a PDF and read them that way. A lot of the core material on basic circuits (analog and digital) is fairly well-written and explained clearly. It is written by a group of people, not a single author, and sometimes it can be jarring to go from one chapter to another when they are written by different people with different teaching styles.Anyhow, you want some decent learning material like that, and also if you follow the forum conversations for a while you will pick up additional little things here and there and it all starts coming together eventually if you stick with it.

author: johnboxall
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 28, 2013, 11:23:13 pm
content: Quote from: BlueShadow on April 28, 2013, 07:21:06 pm"Make: Electronics" -http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596153755.dothen"Practical Electronics for Inventors, Third Edition" - by Simon Monk and Paul Scherz

author: Dave
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2013, 01:43:35 am
content: I recently invested my money in 3 books:The Circuit Designer's CompanionAnalog Circuits (World Class Design)Circuit Design: Know it allThe amount of knowledge piled in these books is just amazing. These books combined cover everything from circuit design, board layout techniques, all the calculations,... They are a really great source of information, I reach for them whenever I'm designing a circuit.The next book I'm getting is The Art of Electronics (I'm currently waiting for the 3rd edition - it hopefully comes out this year).

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2013, 02:38:39 pm
content: Quote from: Bored@Work on April 28, 2013, 06:38:21 pmI tried reading a book once, it was horrible!

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2013, 05:15:56 pm
content: Quote from: peter.mitchell on April 29, 2013, 02:38:39 pmDid you try holding it upright instead of upside down?

author: MrPlacid
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2013, 05:36:48 pm
content: Quote from: BlueShadow on April 28, 2013, 05:12:55 pmCheaper way to go is to google "pdf .edu electronics". You will find lab handouts for college courses. Sometimes class notes and tests are made available (hehehe to save $$ on papers.) It will start costing money if you decided to buy the college textbook that goes with the materials.

author: Anson
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2013, 05:55:21 pm
content: I happen to really like Make's Collin Cunningham on You Tube. He is a bit geeky but in a good way. They are short videos with very simple explainations.

author: midasgossye
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2013, 06:13:18 pm
content: I watched the tutorials of make and AfrotechmodsLink:https://www.youtube.com/user/Afrotechmods

author: w2aew
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2013, 11:13:31 pm
content: You may also want to review some of the videos on my channel. While most of them are a geared around test & measurement, there are several basic electronics tutorials as well. For example, there are several that discuss capacitors and inductors, and bipolar transistor amplifiers, and op amps, and PLL circuits, etc.https://www.youtube.com/w2aew

author: TerminalJack505
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 30, 2013, 01:59:38 am
content: IIT has a ton of video (and web) lecturesonline.The instructors speak English but they may be hard for some people to understand.

author: Lui
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2013, 11:38:53 am
content: try thishttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronics-Dummies-Edition-Dickon-Ross/dp/0470681780/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367494541&sr=8-1&keywords=for+dummies+electronics