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.

Make: electronics book, Tip to read the inscription on tiny components

Make: electronics book, Tip to read the inscription on tiny components

In the last experiment, we had to use very small capacitors.

The magnifying glass was hopeless so i thought of a useful tip, take a picture of the tiny component and zoom in.

Worked fantastic.

Also found out that capacitors sometimes don't show the value but use a code instead.

Google can be our friend in this case.
(just google "capacitor code")