The Art of Doing: Electronics for Everyone

What you’ll learn

• Fundamental electronic components such as resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits. Learn how they operate and build!
• Both DC and AC applications of electronic circuits including transistor switches and amplifiers, RC timing circuits, and filters.
• The LM 358 Operational Amplifier – how to wire it up using a single supply as a crude comparator, non-inverting amplifier, and inverting amplifier.
• The LM 555 Timer – how to wire it up in bistable, monostable, and astable mode.
• The CD 4017 Decade Counter – how to wire it up as a 10 LED flasher and music sequencer.
• 10 "Circuit Challenge Problems" putting your knowledge (what you’ve learned in the course) to the test.
• 10 "Build Together Circuits" where we walk through, together, building 10 unique electronic circuits.
• Exciting circuits include: a working night light, sound to light show, volume meter, toy theremin, toy piano, 8 bit synthesizer, and 8 step music sequencer.

Requirements

• I have designed the course to work with a breadboard, minimal components, a 9 volt battery, and a multimeter. There are times where I use a function generator or oscilloscope to teach. While they are helpful for you, they are not needed to complete the course.

Description

These are the reasons I decided to create this course. These are the reasons I hope you enroll in this course; because I can help lift those learning frustrations for you and help you gain an appreciation for analog electronics.

In this highly interactive course we will go through and cover the following circuit components. Exploring how they operate (with just enough math to hopefully convey understanding), interact with one another, and behave with DC and AC signals.

• Resistors
• Potentiometers
• Light Dependent Resistors
• Push Buttons
• Capacitors
• Diodes
• LEDs
• Speakers
• Microphones
• Transistors
• Operational Amplifiers
• 555 Timers
• Decade Counters
• And More!

• Tri-Color LED Mixer
• Voltage Dividers
• Transistor Switches
• RC Timing Circuits
• Fading LED Circuits
• Astable Multivibrators
• RC Low Pass, High Pass, and Band Pass Filters
• Transistor Amplifiers (Common Emitter Amplifier)
• A Sound to Light Circuit
• Op Amp Comparators, Non-Inverting Amplifiers, and Inverting Amplifiers
• A Crude Motion Detector and Volume Meter
• 555 Timer Circuits in Bistable, Monostable, and Astable Mode
• A Toy Theremin, Toy Piano, and Atari Punk Console
• 4017 Decade Counter 10 LED Chaser
• Voltage Controlled Oscillators
• A 4 Step Music Sequencer
• An 8 Step Music Sequencer
• And More!!!

The presentation of material will constantly alternate from a slideshow shared directly from my computer screen with up close pictures of the circuit I am building for reference to live cameras with viewpoints of my breadboard, oscilloscope, and multimeters watching me build in real time. I will teach, then build, explain, then build with the hopes that you build along with me and at no point in the process experience confusion, frustration, or a lack of desire to continue.

I hope you enroll in this course today and together we can figure out "How the heck would I do that without and Arduino?!?"

Who this course is for:

• Tinkerers, hobbyists, and DIYers of all things electronic.
• People who are interested in designing circuits.
• Anyone who has used an Arduino to blink a light and asked, "How would I do that without code?!?!"
• Anyone interested in creating music from electronic circuits; bleeping and blooping.