Basic electronics for Arduino Makers by Udemy
An introduction to electronics to help you make the most from your Arduino or other prototyping platform.
Course Highlights
- Understand the concepts of voltage, resistance and current
- Use Ohm's Law to calculate voltage, current and resistance
- Use Kirchhoff's Laws to calculate voltage and current
- Understand the meaning of and calculate energy and power
- Use resistors in various configurations, like in voltage dividers and voltage ladders
- Read the value of a resistor from its package
- Use pull-up and pull-down resistors
- Understand the use of capacitors
- Use capacitors as energy stores and filters
- Calculate the RC time constant of a capacitor
- Understand diodes
- Measure the voltage drop of a diode
- Understand how to use rectifier and zener diodes
- Protect a circuit from reverse polarity
- Understand how to use a transistor to control low and high power loads
- Calculate the currents and base resistor for a bipolar transistor
- Use the correct voltage regulator for any circuit
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
5 Topics
Study guide
Parts list
The tools you will need
The parts you will need
About software
11 Topics
Electricity particles and current
What is voltage?
What is voltage? (supplemental)
What is current?
What is resistance?
Ohm's Law
Ohm's Law
Calculating energy
Power and energy
Kirchhoff's Law
Kirchhoff's Law example
14 Topics
Introduction to resistors
Reading resistor values
A simple resistor circuit
Resistor power rating
Resistor power
The variable resistor
Voltage divider
Voltage dividers
Voltage divider with current draw
Voltage dividers with current draw
Current divider
Current dividers
Solution to Quiz 7 Question 2
Pull-up and pull-down resistors
9 Topics
Introduction to capacitors
Basic capacitor quiz
Capacitors for storing energy
Capacitors as filter
Capacitors in series and parallel
Capacitors in parallel and series
What is the RC time constant
An RC time constant experiment
RC time constant
11 Topics
Introduction to diodes
Voltage drop and current regulation
Measuring the voltage drop in a diode
The voltage dropper circuit
Voltage drop
Zener diodes
A circuit that includes a zener diode with a load
Zener diode
Reverse polarity protection
How to calculate the appropriate resistor value for an LED
Calculating the LED protective resistor
6 Topics
Introduction to transistors
Calculating the currents in a transistor circuit
Calculating transistor currents
A circuit with the 2N2222 bipolar transistor
A circuit with a TIP122 and a high-power LED
A circuit with a TIP122 and a motor
5 Topics
Introduction to IC voltage regulators
Fixed voltage regulator
A variable voltage regulator circuit
How to calculate the resistors for a variable voltage regulator
Voltage regulation with the LM317
2 Topics
What did you learn? What's next?
Bonus Lecture
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