Learning Electronics for hobbyists and beginning students
Learning electronics tutorials for beginners is the primary goal of this site. My “course” pages are numbered in an order that I think most people would like learning electronics while building circuits. This page mostly focuses on listing them. I recently added the following page for people who want to learn about electronics, without focusing on the building of prototype circuits. Simple learning basic electronics guide for beginners
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Simplest circuits introduction
Electronics is made up of circuits. Circuits have 1 or more components connected with conductive material to at least 1 power supply. A light bulb being lit by a voltage source is the simplest circuit. Light bulbs are made for a certain voltage, so it is important that you make sure the light bulb is rated for the voltage you will use.
Light bulbs are now rare in basic electronics. Mostly we use LEDs, which need a high enough value series resistor to protect the LED from the power supply and keep the resistor from overheating. Lightbulbs are resistors that are made to create light from the heat that they generate.
Complete video of basic electronics using a bench power supply
Electronics course 1 Resistor component limiting current Ohms law and multimeter measurements
Separate individual pages cover specific topics in more depth. There is a list of all pages at the bottom of each page.
Topics covered below:
- List of my electronics course pages that cover basic electronics in order.
- Ways you can support this site
- My self study tips
My learning electronics course pages:
The following page links are for beginning learning electronics students. Each page listed here prepares you for the following ones.
001 Resistive component multimeter voltage-current-resistance measurements
002 Diodes especially LED-rectifier forward-reverse bias
003 Diodes-Zener voltage regulator-full wave bridge rectifier-polarity indicator
004 Voltage dividers-trimpot-LDR light dependent resistor-fixed resistor
005 RC time constant-Capacitor-Resistor
006 Capacitor current source voltage ramp – LM334
007 Parallel components – Resistors – Light emitting diodes LEDS – Capacitors
008 NPN Bipolar Junction Transistor BJT switch including capacitor timed fade off
009 PNP Bipolar Junction Transistor BJT switch including capacitor timed fade off
010 NOT gate signal inverter using switch – NPN BJT – 74HC14 IC
011 555 timer bistable mode flip flop with light dependent resistor LDR
012 555 timer monostable mode one shot
013 555 timer astable mode basics
014 NPN BJT switch improved 555 timer output NE555
015 NPN BJT emitter follower common collector voltage enhancement
016 NPN BJT current source – Zener – Trimpot – LDR Light Dependent Resistor
017 PNP BJT current source set with zener diode
018 NPN BJT Schmitt trigger plus capacitor timed off circuits
019 Op amp non inverting comparator – LM358 operational amplifier
020 op amp inverting comparator – LM358 operational amplifier
021 Op amp Schmitt trigger hysteresis adjustment – LM358 operational amplifier
022 Op Amp Voltage Follower – LM358 single supply
023 LM358 op amp NPN BJT improved hi low comparator indicator LED output circuit
024 Passive buzzer NPN BJT controlled by light dependent resistor 555 timer circuit
025 Or logic gate – Switch – NPN BJT – 7432 74HC32 IC
026 op amp current source – LM358
027 op amp – virtual ground – rail splitter – split power supply – 741
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My General Self study tips: It’s good to be able to learn things on your own.
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- Browse the main topics of a subject you are interested in..
- Then start studying what is most interesting/fun to learn. Be aware though that early introductory topics may be needed to understand later topics. But don’t let tough topics take up so much time that you don’t master easy topics.
- Make a brief list of topics you have learned and also what you need to understand better. Go over that list often. Make sure you still understand what you learned well in the past, and also, use the list as a reminder to go over things you need to understand better.
- Practice the actual skills you are studying as much as possible.
- Practice explaining the topic to someone else (you can just roleplay this by yourself).
- Review often.
- Certification – Preparing to get certified in a large number of interesting skills is often a self study process. Certification study material usually assumes that you will be self studying, and probably won’t cost much. Classes are also often available if you want to take them. And of course, you can actually get certified, which may just be passing an exam.
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