INTRODUCTION
This course has been prepared for
TALKING ELECTRONICS
Interactive by Colin Mitchell of Talking
Electronics, to
teach beginners the practical side of electronics.
Talking Electronics has been in the field of educational electronics for many years and
they have a wide range of electronics kits, both analogue and digital
for the hobbyist and experimenter and specialise in teaching HOW A
CIRCUIT WORKS and how to get it going, if it doesn't work.
The
projects in 5-Projects
are an ideal place to start. They are
simple and teach soldering, assembly, testing and experimenting.
They are all built on a long printed circuit board that is divided
into sections. Each project is identified on the board by a white
border and a project number.
Complete construction details are included for each project in this
"e-book" as well
as theory and notes on resistors, capacitors, transistors, the Light
Emitting
Diode (LED) and a number of other essential electronic components.
Just about everything you need to know is included to get the projects
working.
Each project includes a section on HOW THE CIRCUIT WORKS and getting
it to work, (if you have difficulties). All this information provides
you with an ideal grounding in basic electronics.
A list of components for the 5 projects is shown on page 6 and the
only other things you will need are: a small soldering iron, some
fine solder and side cutters.
This e-book is designed to get you started in the real world of
soldering
and assembly on a printed circuit board.
If you have not done any soldering before, you should get someone
to show you how it is done as it is very important to get the actions
and timing right to make a nice clean, shiny connection without
damaging
the components.
We have included a page on soldering to assists you but it is always
best to get someone to show you first hand.
THE
BUILDING BLOCK
APPROACH
These
pages use the building block approach to teach electronics. Simple
electronic circuits are called building blocks and once you know how
they work, you will be able to combine two or more to create larger
circuits.
The building blocks we are covering are:
1. The NPN/PNP high gain amplifier,
2. The multivibrator (flip flop) and
3: The oscillator.
There are many other building blocks in electronics and these will be
presented in future pages of
TALKING ELECTRONICS
Interactive.
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