im interested in small robotics, starting my electrical engineering class next semester - im wondering about microcontrollers, and circuit design together. where can i learn the basics of digital circuit design? and whats a good first step. a book suggested "getting started in electronics" the radioshack book, it comes soon but i think its analogue? i dont know, how can i learn how to deisign simple circuits at first!
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There are also lot's of on-line tutorials. First thing to learn is Ohm's Law for DC circuits.
How about visiting your school's bookstore to find out what textbooks they are using? That way you might be ahead of the game when those classes show up on your schedule.
Start with a PIC microcontroller. For less than $50 you can be up and running with a programmer and everything else you need to use them. Resources abound,
My suggestion is "start small". Get one of the smaller chips (16F628 is a handy one) and see if you can get some LEDs blinking or something like that. Then work your way up.
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