Course Highlights
  • develop and build analog electronics circuits
  • you will build multiple circuits from sound buzzers to bionics where we actually control a servo motor by reading signals from your muscles
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum

62 Topics
Introduction & whatcha need
Parts & Materials List
Bonus lesson: common breadboards you can get
DC electricity
AC electricity
Bonus lesson - AC with DC voltages
Ohm's law and power
Using multimeters
Resistors
Schematic diagrams and resistors in parallel
Variable resistors
Capacitors
Diodes & LED's
Test your skillz - Quiz #1: Electricity & basic electronic components
Breadboarding and hooking up LED's and diodes
Bonus lesson: Broken power strips in breadboards
Microchips and introduction to the 555 timer
Troubleshooting
Bonus lesson: Selecting a resistor to use with a diode
555 astable mode tone generator
Using our handmade electronics
Soldering 101
Voltage dividers & Voltage Controlled Oscillators
555 Siren circuit
Inductors
Important ratings of resistors capacitors and inductors
Switches and relays
Transistors: An introduction
Heat sinks
MOSFET transistors
Pulse Width Modulation
Servo motors & controller circuit
Servos with variable resistors
The H-bridge
High Power switching with MOSFET's
How servos work/Building your own servos
Continuous rotation servos - hacking servo motors
Test your skillz - Quiz #2: Electricity & basic electronic components
Dual power supplies and that mysterious ground
Transistor amplifiers Part I
Transistor amplifiers Part II: The "perfect" amplifier
Operational Amplifiers: Introduction
LM386 Audio amplifier
Biofeedback and making your own sensors
Differential and instrumentation amplifiers - bionics
Muscle sensing & controlling servos with your muscles - troubleshooting
Single supplies for Op-amps
Frequency Amplification/Colour Organ
RGB LED's and colour sensing
Optoelectronics
Zener Diodes
Salvaging electronics
Transformers: More than meets the aye!
Center tapped transformers
RMS?
Power supplies: Building and hacking
High Power transmission
Bonus: response to student questions about motor speed and power
Bonus lesson: the 555 timer in detail
Bonus lesson: RC constant and capacitors as power supplies
Bonus lesson: Comparators
Bonus lesson: Hysteresis

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