Crash Course Electronics: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 14:50, 4 March 2012

Parts

Resistors
Diodes / LEDs
Capacitors
Integrated Circuits (IC)
Transistors
Quartz Crystal
Coils & Electromagnets
Actuators
Switches
Encoders
Batteries / Solar Cells
Motors

Sensors

Sensors can be based on:

Resistance
Capacity
Frequency
Integrated Logic
- Voltage (PWM, Analog-Out)
- Serial
- IIC or I2C
- Digital Logic: TTL & CMOS compared

Circuits

Voltage, Current & Resistance
Powersources (+,-,GND,Vss,Vdd), moving direction
Parallel & series circuits
Cryptic abbreviations: TTL, CMOS, I2C/IIC, RS232...
Integrated Circuits:
- DIP (Dual Inline Package)
- SMD (Sub Miniature Devices)
- Identifying Pin-Numbers
Prototyping
- Alligator-Clips
- Breadboard
- PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards)
Working with the Multimeter
Finding and reading datasheets

general

Units and their prefixes (pico, nano, micro...)
Frequency and Sinewaves
Digital numbers representation

Links

All About Circuits: online electronics book
http://www.loullingen.lu/unterrichtsunterlagen.php electronics course from Claude Loullingen
http://www.elexs.de/kap2.htm
http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/m5/tutorials/tutorials.html
http://iad.projects.zhdk.ch/physicalcomputing/

Electronics and Electronics related Tutorials on sparkfun.com

Simulation with visualization of current flow (java applet)

Fritzing

...and of course the suppliers page…

@@ Line 2: / Line 2: @@
 * [[/Resistors/]]
-* Diodes / [[/LED/]]s
+* [[/Diodes/]] / [[/LED/]]s
-* Capacitors
+* [[/Capacitors/]]
-* Integrated Circuits (IC)
+* [[/Integrated Circuits/]] (IC)
-* Transistors
+* [[/Transistor/]]s
-* Quartzes
+* [[/Quartz Crystal/]]
 * Coils & Electromagnets
 * Actuators
@@ Line 12: / Line 12: @@
 * Encoders
 * Batteries / Solar Cells
+* Motors
+** [[Servo]]
+** [[Stepper motor]]
+** [[DC motor]]
 <br/>
 == Sensors ==
@@ Line 32: / Line 37: @@
 * Voltage, Current & Resistance
 * Powersources (+,-,GND,Vss,Vdd), moving direction
-* Parallel & serial circuits
+* Parallel & series circuits
 * Cryptic abbreviations: TTL, CMOS, I2C/IIC, RS232...
 * Integrated Circuits:
@@ Line 44: / Line 49: @@
 * Working with the Multimeter
 * Finding and reading datasheets
+== general ==
+* Units and their prefixes (pico, nano, micro...)
+* Frequency and Sinewaves
+* Digital numbers representation
 <br/>
@@ Line 49: / Line 60: @@
 [http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/index.html All About Circuits: online electronics book]<br>
-http://www.arduino-tutorial.de/ basic electronics + arduino programming <br>
 http://www.loullingen.lu/unterrichtsunterlagen.php electronics course from Claude Loullingen<br>
+http://www.elexs.de/kap2.htm<br>
+http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/m5/tutorials/tutorials.html<br>
+http://iad.projects.zhdk.ch/physicalcomputing/<br>
+<!-- what do others offer? http://blogs.iad.zhdk.ch/hs10-sem3-physicalcomputing1/uebersicht/zeitplan-elektronik/ -->
+Electronics and Electronics related Tutorials on [http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/ sparkfun.com ]
+[http://www.falstad.com/circuit/ Simulation with visualization of current flow] (java applet)
+[http://www.fritzing.org Fritzing]
-It's not important to ''know everything'', it's important to know ''where to find the answer'':
-* LED Resistor calculator [http://www.elektronik-kompendium.de/sites/bau/1109111.htm here] or [http://www.led-store.ch/vorwiderstand-rechner.php there]
-* [http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz LED Array Wizard]
-* [http://www.fritzing.org Software Prototyping ]
 ...and of course the [[suppliers]] page…