How I learned electronics [video]
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How I learned electronics [video]
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Re: How I learned electronics [video]
#2Excellent video.
I like the ‘do’ advice.
> If I had one word of wisdom on learning it’s ‘do’. Don’t wait, ok? You’ll be waiting on Godot.
Re: How I learned electronics [video]
#3New channel to follow! Thanks for the share.
I'm a software guy. But I had enough brushes with electronics as a child to use it for hobbies. My first broken device was a speak and spell. I connected wires to random spots to make it "talk funny". My parents first astonished that I was destroying my toys, realized this and pushed me to the electronics section of Radio Shack. Lots of projects starting with the 555 timer IC. I made radios and timers, and connected my computers to things that moved. This microcontroller revolution really has made me wish I had these things growing up.
One important thing though is I had a friend who was at a similar level as myself for grades 5-7. Though he was literally a ham in grade school. We both learned programming around the same time and the back and forth made it seem so much easier than it really was. And we were so much better at recognizing what was going to be useful, popular, powerful when we worked together as compared to working under instruction.
I lost him to a move. And I needed that so much in higher grades. One good industry-centered mentor would have given me so much. But I guess self-motivation is the skill that got me where I am; and I create incredible things on a daily basis. So there's that I guess.
Re: How I learned electronics [video]
#4Excellent video. I like the ‘do’ advice. > If I had one word of wisdom on learning it’s ‘do’. Don’t wait, ok? You’ll be waiting on Godot.
A variant of analysis paralysis
Re: How I learned electronics [video]
#5Another awesome youtube channel (Ben Eater) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA
Re: How I learned electronics [video]
#6Excellent video. I like the ‘do’ advice. > If I had one word of wisdom on learning it’s ‘do’. Don’t wait, ok? You’ll be waiting on Godot.
I've got a dozen tronclub kits completely unopened.
A 200mhz osciloscope I've only used to test the onboard signal generator.
A decent electronic microscope.
Solder paste in my fridge, never opened.
A broken cheap chinese airgun that I was going to repair (I'm pretty sure it's just a capacitor blown out, but I couldn't find the correct value for it).
I'm the opposite of just "do", I research so much ahead of the "do" and the gap gets so big that it just feels incredibly hard to backtrack to where I last actually "did". It's like I eat dessert before the main course and just like my grandma said, I won't eat the main course because I ate the dessert.
Re: How I learned electronics [video]
#7Excellent video. I like the ‘do’ advice. > If I had one word of wisdom on learning it’s ‘do’. Don’t wait, ok? You’ll be waiting on Godot.
I understood this to be a game dev procrastinating joke, you'll be waiting for the Godot engine to be mature forever, instead just start making the game.
It turns out that Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives..
Re: How I learned electronics [video]
#8Excellent video. I like the ‘do’ advice. > If I had one word of wisdom on learning it’s ‘do’. Don’t wait, ok? You’ll be waiting on Godot.
I understood this to be a game dev procrastinating joke, you'll be waiting for the Godot engine to be mature forever, instead just start making the game. It turns out that Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives..
It's not your fault you didn't know this, but it does say something about the breadth of education we receive
Re: How I learned electronics [video]
#9Another awesome youtube channel (Ben Eater) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA
Seconded!
Also quite a lot of fun is Electronoobs - not quite Ben Eater's rigorous approach or info density, but for sure a lot of enthusiastically shared "doing" and inspiration at the beginner level (and analog projects Ben Eater doesn't cover, as he tends to focus on digital logic and signal transmission topics).
Re: How I learned electronics [video]
#10Another awesome youtube channel (Ben Eater) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA
Another one (relative newcomer but some great stuff, some a bit samey at the moment, but think he'll go far) - Phil's Lab.