Avoid this tag. It doesn't add anything.
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Where can I find beginners electronics project schematics online, for free?
I have bought the following books in order to start learning basic electronics:
Electronics All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies
Robot Building for Beginners (Technology in Action)
My desire ...
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EE for Software engineers [closed]
Recently I've started playing a lot with 3D printers, Adrunio, Pandaboards and Kinect's SDK. I'm starting to have more and more passion for this sort of devices and I think it's about to turn into a ...
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What will I need to know to make a mini-camera? [closed]
I've recently had some trouble getting hold of a decent car dashboard camera and figured it might be a fun little pet-project to take on.
I'm a software developer by trade, typically for the web. I ...
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Microchip PIC10 (8 bit microcontroller) learning reference. Where to start?
So I've generally learned how to use an Atmel Attiny13a, but now I have found that I need to switch to a Microchip PIC 8 bit microcontroller such as the PIC10 series.
Can anyone give me some good ...
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How hard would it be to hack a “personal soundtrack shirt”
I imagine this is an unusual question for this SE site but here it goes.
I just bought a "personal soundtrack shirt" from think geek.
This shirt is really cool. It comes with a built in speaker an ...
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Useful programming languages for hardware programming [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Programming languages for electronics engineers
i am thinking to take the next semester a course called "Digital systems architecture", and i know that we need to ...
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Is it worth it learning how to use 7400 series “jelly bean” logic IC's or are they completely obsolete?
My road map for learning electronics included the 7400 series logic chips. I started in on electronics by following the labs in the "Art of Electronics" lab manual which includes labs with these ...
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How to build a telephone answering machine with caller id
I'm brand new to electronics. I'm interested in building my own telephone answering machine with caller id receiver from scratch as a learning project. How would you suggest I get started?
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Starting to tinker, any advice? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to become an embedded software developer?
What good resources are there for a high school student to start learning electronics?
I have recently purchased a ...
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Measure the resistance of some DC Motors
I did the following to measure the resistance of some DC motors I have and I'm wondering if I did it properly and if my conclusions are sound :
I had 4 motors (same model) already connected to a ...
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How does an astable multivibrator LED blinking circuit work?
I am beginner to electronics. I come to know about oscillator using RC circuits (Capacitor charge and discharge and time constant tells the behavior of circuit).
Then I saw following circuit that ...
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Learning Verilog online
Now that I'm going to be using the PSoC 5 as my microcontroller of choice, I would like to learn Verilog so I can create my own peripherals for it.
I have spent some time searching the web for ...
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What's a good way to start learning how electronics and circuits work?
I literally already tried getting a degree in Electrical Engineering, and I hated it, and I switched to Computer Science.
But here's the thing-- I find circuits and electronics and electrical devices ...
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Where can I learn about how to create homemade electronics
Unfortunately, all I've learnt so far are concepts. I do not know where to start, but I have made a commitment to practically build some electronics. I want to ask where can I learn and acquires the ...
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Electronics course - From basics to designing circuits [duplicate]
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From zero to “almost pro”: Newbie trying to learn. Good, quick resources?
What good resources are there for a high school student to start learning electronics? ...
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simple explanation of ampers, voltage, watts, current and electricitiy [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is an amp (and other such basic questions) in the simplest possible terms?
How can can this terms be simplified or what are some basic analogy.
let say I have a 9 ...
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How does this SIM card reader circuit work?
The circuit for a SIM card reader is shown here. The circuit uses a CMOS hex inverter and other simple components; yet, not only does it work but it can also communicate with a PC via serial port!
I ...
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Logic Design and FPGA [closed]
I'm a student in the fourth year in the faculty of the electronic engineering in Egypt.
I'm so interested in studying computer architecture and hardware design of RAMs, CPUs ,etc.
I need to learn ...
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Path for a child to learn electrical engineering
What are some paths for a child (7-year-old) to learn electrical engineering (in a safe way)?
I do not want to saturate (or frighten away) the child with lots of concepts, I want that my son learn ...
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How to go from newbie to manufactured?
I'm a software guy who wants to get into the hardware side of things so I can enjoy the same creativity from software design in the physical world.
I've found plenty of posts here regarding how to ...
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Have microcontrollers replaced simpler ICs?
Is it still worthwhile to learn, for example, how to tune a 555 timer with resistors and capacitors, when you can write a timer program for a microcontroller in a human-readable programming language?
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Embedded Development - Taking the Next Step
I'm going to start by telling you what I know. Then I'm going to tell you that I want to get to this magical land of knowing everything about embedded systems development. Then I'm going to ask you ...
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'keyboard from scratch' registering key presses
For my first hardware hack I'm taking a stab at a 'mechanical keyboard from scratch' (where scratch means individual components).
I plan to use a teensy++ board (16MHz) and was wondering about how to ...
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I want to learn enough image and video processing to execute a project idea, pointers?
First of all, I am a total newbie to image processing. I have a project idea, part of which will involve doing the following
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Getting started with Altera FPGAs
I am getting a Cyclone II-based Altera DE1 FPGA board to experiment with. I know a lot about programming, a bit about electronics and very little about FPGAs. What books or other resources would you ...
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Where can I find good documentation about memories?
I'm learning about the different kinds and functionalities of electronic memories (i.e. ram, flash, etc) but I'm a little confused because all the sources show something different and I don't know ...
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From zero to “almost pro”: Newbie trying to learn. Good, quick resources?
I am a total zero in electronics. I just know what is a resistor and what is a capacitor. I also know what is a 555 just because I've been told what it does, 15 years ago. Apart from this and a bunch ...
