Hey all! My first post, and it should be an intro!
Since I was a kid, I was interested in electronics. My father and I bought a Radio Shack ???-in-one electronics lab back in the early/mid 80's to tinker. I had fun putting together experiments. But I never really grasped how the circuits I built worked.
Zip forward 25 years ... I'm married with kids. I have all kinds of hobbies, ranging from cars to retro video gaming, to working on anything mechanical, to stained glass. Oh, and family falls in there somewhere. I've decided that I want to finally learn more about electronics, and eventually learn to build my own circuits. I know how to read and build from schematics, but just as when I was a kid, I don't really understand the relationships between all of the components.
To start myself out, I've read through "Getting Started in Electronics" by Forrest M. Mims, the book my father bought me when I was a child.
Now I'm reading through "Make: Electronics", which I'm finding immensely helpful in understanding electronics, considering that I have a deficit in retaining read information. The book is quite hands-on and illustrated, which helps. But I'm sure for a long while, I will have MANY questions.
Hope you're ready!
Since I was a kid, I was interested in electronics. My father and I bought a Radio Shack ???-in-one electronics lab back in the early/mid 80's to tinker. I had fun putting together experiments. But I never really grasped how the circuits I built worked.
Zip forward 25 years ... I'm married with kids. I have all kinds of hobbies, ranging from cars to retro video gaming, to working on anything mechanical, to stained glass. Oh, and family falls in there somewhere. I've decided that I want to finally learn more about electronics, and eventually learn to build my own circuits. I know how to read and build from schematics, but just as when I was a kid, I don't really understand the relationships between all of the components.
To start myself out, I've read through "Getting Started in Electronics" by Forrest M. Mims, the book my father bought me when I was a child.
Now I'm reading through "Make: Electronics", which I'm finding immensely helpful in understanding electronics, considering that I have a deficit in retaining read information. The book is quite hands-on and illustrated, which helps. But I'm sure for a long while, I will have MANY questions.
Hope you're ready!