Learning electronics: Release the Magic Blue Smoke

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Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

mrbill posted:

Also recommended: Practical Electronics for Inventors.

I have this too; it manages to be a general overview of many aspects while still having a lot of detail.

I haven't done anything electronics related in almost a year. I need to go about getting myself some new tools and such. I dunno exactly what sort of project I'll do, but I'm thinking of going in on a microcontroller. This and the microcontroller thread are my favorite parts of DIY:DoD so far.

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Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

Delta-Wye posted:

This is nice for this sort of thing: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/7914

Yeah, getting one of those and the mini-breadboard (which is self adhesive) really opened up a lot in the way of swapping projects out.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2013 07:13

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

I'm trying to build a device to turn my lights on and off remotely for some basic home automation.

Why not use something like this? http://www.powerswitchtail.com/Pages/default.aspx

Edit: Ignore, someone already suggested this.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2014 03:04

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