During your building robot journey, you may stop many times trying to understand some parts of Arduino chip, even more you may explore some available projects of building a simple digital clock for example the following: Digital Clock without Shift Register and got stuck with many components which you don't know anything about them. You have two options, either (1)to follow the steps and apply without any question, and after things work you will try to understand; and it’s a fantastic way to get things done quickly! Or (2) you decided to just read about these things one hour or two and then make your own design! For both ways, you have to read about these unknown things, but the second approach lead you to learn before buy things and connect.
We used to follow step 1 in building our project parts, after a while, during building big parts, things became unstable, missed components and missed knowledge. Many problems have been appeared, voltage source is not enough, motors damaged, Arduino is about to say : you will burn me..stop playing! And problems became to be serious, can’t finish our project prototype! without understanding, we are wasting our time.. it’s time to understand, to gain some basic knowledge, to make things run correctly.
For that these reasons, IntoElectronics series are here, we will explore with you some quick resources that we used to understand electronics basics needed to complete our journey. Each resource is tagged with what you are going to know from it. In each article of the series we will explore many resources and trying to make some circuit run here.
Today article is about the electronics basics, take a little mins refresh your electronics background with the following resources:
Refresh #Electronics_Basics
What’s electricity? What’s electronics? What’s current? Voltage? Resistance? Ohm law’s?
Video: Introduction to Electricity #5mins #From the beginning what’s electricity? #Flow of electrons
Video: Electricity and Circuits #8mins #Parallel/series circuits
Video: Ohm's Law #4mins #Relation between Current Voltage and Resistance
Video: Alternating Current(AC) vs. Direct Current(DC) #10mins #find difference between AC and DC
Quick Reading: What are amps, watts, volts and ohms? #Simple explanation
Quick Reading: How electricity works? #Simple #from how stuff works series, make you clearly absorb the big picture of things.
More Electronics Components #explore_basic__electronics_components
If you are not familiar with things like transistor, resistors and capacitors then it’s a good start to take a look for each component, understand the behavior of each and then we can build circuits! It’s not necessary to try it by your hand now, try to grasp the idea behind each component and there will be a detailed explanation and practice for each component in a separated post.
Breadboard
Video: Electronics - Breadboard #8mins #Breadboard for building/testing circuit
Resistors
Video: Electronics - Resistors #7mins #Resistor Color Code & its effect on the circuit.
Transistor & Diode
Quick Reading: How Semiconductors Work #Simple #from how stuff works series, make you clearly absorb the big picture of things. #semiconductor as basic part of knowing what does diode and transistor mean?
Video: MAKE presents: The Diode #8mins #Diode #from where did Diode come?
Video: How Does a Transistor Work? #6mins #demonstration of semiconductors and transistor behavior
Video: Electronics - Using an NPN Transistor as a Switch #7mins #quick application of transistor
Integrated Circuit
Video: MAKE presents: The Integrated Circuit #6mins #what IC is #quick review of its history
