I’m an electronics enthusiast, and I’m thinking of starting an electronics blog where I can share content that people learning about electronics will find useful. I find that a lot of the educational electronics resources I come across offer good tutorials, but don’t go into enough detail into how and why something works the way it does. I’m hoping people can share some of the other common problems they encountered when learning electronics and the sort of ‘learning resources / online content’ they wish had been available to them at the time.
It would be great if this starts a lively discussion with people sharing common problems and ideal solutions, as well as their favourite online tools and resources, and everyone involved being able to discover something new of use.
Schematics took my some time to get comfortable with personally. Yet understanding them and all of the various components and transducers and ohm’s law and so forth can seem like a daunting task (especially if your about to embark on a new project). Anyone else feel the same way?
My gut tells me that most people aren’t interested in the details; they mainly just want something to work. I started a series of [“how to” blog posts on doing simple tasks with Arduinos. It’s based on little projects I needed done, or things I feel are useful to know.
What seems to happen is that once someone gets the thing they’re trying to do working, then they start getting interested in the details.
susman92: I hear you on schematics. I once gave someone a detailed explanation of a circuit (on a non-technical site) only to realize he couldn’t understand the simple wiring diagram. When I explained it using text, it was like a lightbulb went off and then he was able to go ahead and build it successfully. These days Fritzing would probably be a great help.](http://www.cedarlakeinstruments.com/blog/)
Thanks. What are you using at the joints on SPARC? For bearings, I mean. I have been thinking of building a simple arm for a while and I probably have all the mechanical bits I need but want to avoid using any of my more expensive parts.