MOTM

BTW, that was posted by someone who doesn't know shite about 
electronics... :)

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Marsh" <mmarsh@w...> wrote:
> 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