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Can anyone recommend good instructional videos on basic/intermediate electronics?

I took three years of electronics in high school, but spent the last

25+ in software. I still remember the basics, and I can deal with simple digital stuff, but there are gaps, and I don't remember much of the analog stuff. I'd like to get a basic competency so that I can understand basic circuits, and 'improvise' when necessary.

I spend a lot of time in my workshop nowadays, organizing and working on mechanical stuff. I usually have a TV going with some educational program going in the background. There are times when I have to pause it--if I need to really think about what I'm working on--but a lot of the time I'm working with my hands and listening to the TV...

I have some books on Electronics, but I don't often find the time to sit and study, so it's slow progress. What seems to work well for me is to get an overview of a topic, and then go to the books to fill in the details.

Can anyone recommend a good set of instructional videos, lecture series, or something like that?

Thanks in advance.

-Scott

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Mr. INTJ
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My advice is to jump in and a start a modest project that you are really interested in. If you run into a 'gap', then search the internet. There are so many excellent resources out there it is hard to imagine you have a basic question that you can't find the answer to in a few minutes.

-Kevin

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BoldInventions

Already doing that. I've got an Arduino microcontroller board that I've been using to control motors and servos with PWM, read rotary encoders, etc. I just finished building a TI INA217-based preamp for my (unbalanced) dynamic mic.

On each project, I either remember something I learned in school, or some EE at work points out something in my circuit that's obvious once they've mentioned it. I still have difficulty looking at a complex circuit and breaking it down into meaningful sub-elements.

I'm trying to reach that critical mass point where you know enough, and know where to go to look for the rest...

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Mr. INTJ

Once you're past the real basic stuff, a good self-study course is to pick up The Art of Electronics (ISBN 0521370957) and the companion Student Manual (0521377099). Read AoE and work through the hands-on stuff in the student manual. You'll need some basic equipment, of course, for the lab work. Be aware that there's a new edition of AoE expected sometime in 2009, or at least before Duke Nukem Forever. ;-)

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