Shameless but possibly relevant plug... Here's my introduction to electronics series of tutorial videos:
<a href="http://afrotechmods.com/tutorials/category/tutorials/beginner-tutorials/" rel="nofollow">http://afrotechmods.com/tutorials/category/tutorials/beginne...</a><p>It's about an hour's worth of material and it is very concise.<p>Also here in Youtube playlist format: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gvJzrjwjds&list=PLzqS33DOPhJkRn6e9_OTdQwRojO8qlusI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gvJzrjwjds&list=PLzqS33DOPhJ...</a>
Of interest this is the guy that developed American Fuzzy Lop[1], and the Guerrilla guide to CNC machining[2] (which is similarly well written).<p>[1] <a href="http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/" rel="nofollow">http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/" rel="nofollow">http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/</a>
One thing that took me a long time to `get` was the concept of voltage is a bit miss-leading if you look up the definition even in the video of (<a href="http://afrotechmods.com/tutorials/2016/10/03/basic-electricity-what-is-voltage/" rel="nofollow">http://afrotechmods.com/tutorials/2016/10/03/basic-electrici...</a>).<p>Everyone wants to talk about the penitential energy and what-not. Though that is mostly pointless unless you grasp the first fundamental concept of voltage. Voltage is just simply the effort exerted by electromagnetic field on neighboring electrons.<p>As soon as you grasp that all definition of voltage relate to the real world of doing `work` eg... heating, moving then the concept of voltage of amps is a lot easier to understand.
This is awesome and great as a short-form resource. For years, my long-form (non-concise?) go-to book has been "The Art of Electronics" [0] by Paul Horowitz (and others depending on the edition). It has everything you need in a single reference book!<p>[0] <a href="http://amzn.to/2iZfjbG" rel="nofollow">http://amzn.to/2iZfjbG</a>
Just skimmed but looks pretty comprehensive.<p>Another great reference is the Art of Electronics.<p>Tons a practical advice for selecting components and building circuits that is still relatively relevant even today.
I've been learning about basic circuit design recently and realized that I don't have any clue how things relate to the underlying electrodynamics. Does anyone have some good textbook recommendations that derive things like Ohm's law and concepts of capacitance, etc, from first principles?
This youtuber has some good videos with animations of visual analogies for analog electronics: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4jzgqZu-4s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4jzgqZu-4s</a>
Another very good source of information is the US Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (NEETS). <a href="https://maritime.org/doc/neets" rel="nofollow">https://maritime.org/doc/neets</a>
Also towards the end of the parent directory check the "Electronics Technician" volumes and other interesting stuff on welding, repairing etc.
Great review as an embedded SW guy to nourish my EE background. Nicely peppered with practical tricks and techniques that are useful in the field. I enjoyed seeing the low-pass and high-pass filtered wave signatures along with the explanation of what the problem might be (long/close connections and broken traces, respectively).
Nice, this looks really cool!<p>Although...it is going onto a 'read this soon' list, and I'm probably not alone in that. With these sorts of concise primer articles, have you considered providing a .pdf or .tex of the page?
From the article:
"...consequently, several capacitors in series resemble one capacitor with a larger plate surface area."<p>s/series/parallel/ ??