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It seems like these guides never include the most useful info: safety. Does anyone know guides that talk about electronics safety?
He always does the exact thing you're not supposed to do.
It seems like these guides never include the most useful info: safety. Does anyone know guides that talk about electronics safety?
User or component safety? I think in general electronics do not require much in the way of user safety (Ofcourse I exclude power electronics and other high-energy systems) beyond how to properly use measurement devices. Component safety, eg: the art of not killing your semiconductors is another beast entirely
"Applying a reverse polarity voltage, or a voltage exceeding the maximum rated working voltage of as little as 1 or 1.5 volts, can destroy the dielectric and thus the capacitor. The failure of electrolytic capacitors can be hazardous, resulting in an explosion or fire."
Even a small one could take somebody's eye out if they happened to be close to it when it failed and not wearing eye protection.
It seems like these guides never include the most useful info: safety. Does anyone know guides that talk about electronics safety?
User or component safety? I think in general electronics do not require much in the way of user safety (Ofcourse I exclude power electronics and other high-energy systems) beyond how to properly use measurement devices. Component safety, eg: the art of not killing your semiconductors is another beast entirely
When I was first playing around with electronics as a kid using kits and individual components purchased from Radio Shack I once put an LED directly across the terminals of a lantern battery.
The LED exploded sending little bits of plastic flying off at high speed. They all missed me, but if I had been in a little different position when hooking up that LED my lesson in the importance of using current limiting resistors with LEDs could have been punctuated by a serious eye injury.
I'd say that a paragraph when each component is introduced covering what bad things that component can do if you exceed its voltage, current, or power limits would be a good idea even if the course is only dealing with low power systems.
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wtf?
It is not the usual spam. No product link, shady website, obvious scam or political message. Just nonsense.
Terrible website structure, forces you to click and load new pages for every concept, no download option, no see "all in one page" option. Lots of screen area waste.
Have you made any public contributions we can critique?
This is cool, I’ll use this when I get back to studying electronics. the next and previous page shouldn’t open in new tabs though :)
To add to this, on iOS I couldn’t get the cookie pop up to clear so after the first 3 sections I had to move on. The writing was indeed great but navigation and screen real estate for mobile made this a bit tough.
The Art of Electronics, by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill is the way to go. It’s over 1000 pages and has an additional exercise book, but at the end one has some basic understanding what’s really going on.
Analog Devices also has a big, free, really high quality electronics course on their wiki.
https://wiki.analog.com/university/courses/electronics/text/...
Very, very nice. Right from the beginning: > At a fundamental level, electronics is the branch of physics in charge of controlling the flow of charged particles, typically electrons. In practice, electronic engineering uses the highest level manifestations of said flow of charge to provide solutions to problems or needs. I absolutely love reading text that state what we already feel intuitively and present it as an e…
I'm not sure who or what the site is for. If you need a one-para explanation of what you can do with electronics - it doesn't really provide that, because it doesn't provide product examples.
If you want a usable introduction to circuit theory - it doesn't provide that either. (Explaining what a transistor does is "beyond the scope of this text"? OK.)
If you want to know how a modern phone works (which is literally all of EE except power electronics in a small portable device) - there's nothing about RF, comms theory and encoding, error correction, and so on.
So what exactly is this supposed to teach readers?
It looks suspiciously like what's sometimes called Cargo Cult writing - the reproduction of ideas from other texts without fundamental insight into the topic or reader needs.
The main point seems to be to promote the author(s) as an authority, but unfortunately if you want to be authoritative it takes a bit more insight and effort than this. (See also - Horowitz and Hill, for example.)
The Art of Electronics, by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill is the way to go. It’s over 1000 pages and has an additional exercise book, but at the end one has some basic understanding what’s really going on.
Very, very nice. Right from the beginning: > At a fundamental level, electronics is the branch of physics in charge of controlling the flow of charged particles, typically electrons. In practice, electronic engineering uses the highest level manifestations of said flow of charge to provide solutions to problems or needs. I absolutely love reading text that state what we already feel intuitively and present it as an e…
Were it 90% of tutorials or blog posts nowadays and it would take 5 or 10x as much space to say the same thing, detours and forced jokes and analogies included, in the process making it less understandable.