Make: electronics book plus electronics course

Back from watching about 9 electronics classes on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Dq8blTmSA

which was very informative. i dont regret pausing the experiments for this little deepening of my understanding.

Also, another very, very helpful link here
http://amasci.com/ele-edu.html
 Give it a shot, read a bunch of the articles, even about the stuff you believe you already know because this really made a difference for me.
The author understanding is very clear and he speaks in a language that make things very easy to understand.
I suggest starting with the capacitor article, where he explain really what does a capacitor do and how to think of it when designing or reading circuits.
http://amasci.com/emotor/cap1.html

This stuff is pure gold!


I now have a much better understanding of many things such as the ohm's law, voltage splitting, how capacitors really work, diodes and some application of them such as turning ac into dc etc...

But at the same time, i wouldn't have understood alot of the subjects without having first finish a few of the experiments in the Make electronics book.

So i think doing both at the same time, the youtube course and the book is a great idea.

Pausing the book

Hi,

Okay so after going through experiment 15, i was trying to switch resistors values around to see if i understood properly.

Why use a 10k here, why a 15k there? etc...

My goal is to learn electronic so I can be able to build whatever i want, not only follow other people diagrams and circuits. I want to build my own stuff.

Obviously my knowledge is not up to par, i hate doing stuff from the experiments and not understanding why it work the way it does.
And i especially hate moving forward to the next experiments before having understood the previous one properly, not just on the surface but why it work, the formulas behind it which is just not in this book.


So i went on to google and try to find something that could help me bridge the gap.


And on youtube university, i finally found something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqQ8wO-lNmI

This is excellent, a whole course on electronics going from the very beginning up until very advanced.

All free, very well explained and very organized.

I finished the first couple of talks and i decided that i will go through a whole bunch of them before resuming with the Make: electronics book.

I'm not giving up on this just yet.

Make: electronics book, capacitors explained

Okay so after doing the experiment #8 (for which i didn't make a blog post yet)

I still had questions unanswered by the Make Electronics book.


These questions sent me on a quest to find answers.


And here i found a very interesting video by guess who? The guys from Make!

Apparently they have a bunch of these videos so this may another great resource.


The guys from Make are really awesome!

Maker SHED discussion forums

Hey there.

Another potential resource if you are going through the Make Electronics book is the Maker SHED discussion forums.

forums.makezine.com

Might be a good place to find advices and people who can help you trouble shoot something that isn't working for you.

Make: electronics book, Another student!

Just a quick post to point to the youtube channel of someone going through the Make Electronics book and documenting his efforts and experiments in a series of video.

http://www.youtube.com/user/christophermball?feature=watch

Nice stuff.

Might become very useful if I ever get stuck on some of the experiment!