For learning basic electronics, Radio Shack has (had?) a series of
mini-books that were pretty cool. Also, for stuff targeted at music
electronics, there nothing like Electronotes, the early ones.
Finally, Projects for Guitarists is really great and you can get the
PCBs (and the book) from PAIA.
Mike
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Mike Estee <mikest@a...> wrote:
>
> On Jan 14, 2004, at 10:39 AM, Neil Bradley wrote:
>
> >>> question. Good thing I'm smart enough to admit I'm
> >>> stupid. ;)
> >> I wouldn't go that far, how about just uninformed? ^_^ I'm still
> >> building a mental model about how this whole "electricity"
thing works
> >> too. It's very strange to a software engineer...
> >
> > My father taught me electronics at a very early age and the best
> > analogy
> > at the time was this:
> >
> > Voltage = How fast the water is flowing
> > Current = How much water is flowing
> > Resistance = Anything that restricts the flow
>
> yeah, I've heard that one. it breaks down rapidly as soon as you
start
> to do anything complex though. i personally think that analogy is
a
> barrier to understanding single flow, and should be the first
thing one
> abandons when trying to learn this stuff "for real."
>
> i'm finding there's no substitute for experimentation, and an
> oscilloscope ;) my understanding of all this grew ten fold after I
> could watch the circuits do their thing in a scope. (for fun stick
a
> scope in the output of a 48Khz virtual analog synth and compare a
> square wave at 8khz to an 8khz square from the motm ;) ) i'm
probably
> learning all this stuff in a rather unorthodox manner as well.
being a
> software engineer I've started at the digital end of the spectrum,
and
> as a problem arises in the analog domain (signal integrity, etc) I
> learn about how to fix the problem, what causes it, and of course,
how
> to diagnose it ;)
>
> Hey more experienced people, other than the Art of Electronics,
what
> would you folks recommend for someone wanting to learn more about
> analog electronics? I know you're lurking out there ^_^
>
> --mikes