The Art of Doing: Basic Electronic Circuits

Voltage, current, resistance, and more!

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The Art of Doing:  Basic Electronic Circuits
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Jan 2023
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What you will learn

Basic electronic concepts such as current, voltage, and resistance.

Fundamental concepts such as Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Voltage Law, and Kirchhoff's Current Law.

Electronic components such as resistors, potentiometers, light dependent resistors, LEDs, and push buttons.

How to use a multimeter to measure voltages and current within a circuit.

Four "Challenge Circuits" to put your knowledge to the test.

Description

Years ago I bought an Arduino and I can remember how awesome it felt to hook it up, write a program, and blink an LED!  My next question was "How on earth would you do that without an Arduino?!?".  Don't get me wrong, I think Arduino's and all sorts of microcontrollers are awesome, but to me, it abstracted things a little too much.  I'm an avid guitarist and a gear head; I love guitar effects pedals.  Inside those stomp boxes, you won't find an Arduino.  What you will find is the guts of an analog circuit:  resistors, diodes, capacitors, transistors, and integrated circuit chips...all working together to create, bend, and shape a waveform. 

I know there are tons of YouTube videos out there showing various analog circuits but the vast majority of them are the same:  a time lapsed video of someone populating a breadboard or PCB with music playing in the background.  No explanation of what they were doing or why they were doing it, no breakdown of the role of each and every component in the circuit, no conveying of understanding at not just a mathematical level but even a conceptual level.  That is not learning and as someone who wanted to learn, to dive deeper into the subject, so I could figure out how to blink an LED without an Arduino and eventually more, it was a frustrating experience. 

These are the reasons I decided to create this course.  These are the reasons I hope you enroll in this free course; because I can help lift those learning frustrations for you and help you gain an appreciation for analog electronics.


By the end of this course, I hope for two things:

  1. You will want to continue learning about electronics and enroll in my full course!

  2. Have the confidence and knowledge to begin making your own basic electronic circuits!

Good luck and I hope to see you in our next video!

Content

Introduction

Our Starting Point

Resistors, LEDs, and More!

Circuit Setup and Basics
What is a Resistor?
Circuit Challenge 1: Bright Bright Lights
How To Use Multimeters
Circuit Challenge 2: Meter Mystery
LEDs and Measuring Values
Understanding Push Buttons
Circuit Challenge 3: Turn the Lights Off
Understanding Variable Resistors
Circuit Challenge 4: Color the Rainbow

Reviews

Pieter
January 23, 2023
Loved this free course, full of useful information presented in a very approachable style. Just purchased the full course, can't wait to continu my studies.
Teja
August 15, 2022
I think it is definitely good match for electronic students because it is the basic thing that everyone must know if they are electronic students. Otherwise it is meanigless to study in electronics
Danilo
August 6, 2022
Great teaching! Michael's lessons are straight to the point while fun and designed in such a way that keep you hooked and waiting for the next video. For non-native speakers as myself, his language (and speech!) is clear, straight and quite easy to understand and follow. I have just acquired the full electronics' course and am eagerly looking forward to "be back in classroom" with such a talented teacher! Michael, wonderful job! Thank you very much!
Dnyanesh
June 26, 2022
this was the best ever refresher which I learnt in college and its fun to visit this lecture again and trying some online simulation thank you
Navin
April 8, 2022
I am a complete novice as far as electronics and circuits are concerned. My motivation to take this course is to understand how computers actually work! This introduction is just the perfect one - lucid, and simple, yet conveys the rules and the concept with absolute clarity. So thank you very much, Prof! This really is very encouraging in my pursuit of knowledge.
Jonathan
March 22, 2022
All the information is great as is the manner in which it is taught. It stays true to the idea of using components rather than a microcontroller (like an Arduino), while there's nothing wrong with using something like that doing projects like this provides much more insight to the fundamentals of electronics. Therefore, I highly recommend this and the complete course On a side note, it's awesome how this free course is basically a 2 hr preview of the full course and I think the instructor is pretty cool for doing that.

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