Thanks for the feedback. I had a similar experience starting with one of those 50-in-1 kits! And for me it didn't entirely click until I studied more of the theory and then looped back to the practical.
I've decided to mix both the theory and the practical here, and if "conventional academic textbook" is on one end of the spectrum and "Arudino" is on the other, then I'm aiming somewhere in the middle.
For a recent anecdote: this week, a coworker asked me at lunch, "How does the wall receptacle know to send more power to a 1500W space heater than to my MacBook charger?" And that's a great question. And in 15 minutes we ended up talking about fields and forces and resistive materials and the microscopic origins of Ohm's Law and hydraulic analogies... and somewhere in there, it seemed to start to click for him. And that foundation opened the door to his next question, "So why can't we hear the electrons colliding into the wire?" And that opened the door to a new topic: of course we can "hear" them if we just "listen" at the right frequencies, as analog electronic noise.
I'd love to be able to communicate that sort of intuition on a wider scale than the lunch table!
I appreciate the response. I hope my story didn’t give the wrong impression. There are a lot of paths to enlightenment, and who knows what 8-year-old me could have done with an interactive book.
I could only view it through a mobile device earlier, and now that I’ve had a more detailed look, I see how the simulation and experimentation aspect adds another dimension to the theory. I intend to work my way through the whole thing and see how knowing more of the math will influence my future tinkering.
This is a really cool project! I dig the clear explanations. Although I have a base of this knowledge already I look forward to when the more advanced topics are discussed. I'd love for a breakdown of more advanced, real-world, circuits that are broken down by subsystem and explained. cheers
Thanks for the feedback. I had a similar experience starting with one of those 50-in-1 kits! And for me it didn't entirely click until I studied more of the theory and then looped back to the practical.
I've decided to mix both the theory and the practical here, and if "conventional academic textbook" is on one end of the spectrum and "Arudino" is on the other, then I'm aiming somewhere in the middle.
For a recent anecdote: this week, a coworker asked me at lunch, "How does the wall receptacle know to send more power to a 1500W space heater than to my MacBook charger?" And that's a great question. And in 15 minutes we ended up talking about fields and forces and resistive materials and the microscopic origins of Ohm's Law and hydraulic analogies... and somewhere in there, it seemed to start to click for him. And that foundation opened the door to his next question, "So why can't we hear the electrons colliding into the wire?" And that opened the door to a new topic: of course we can "hear" them if we just "listen" at the right frequencies, as analog electronic noise.
I'd love to be able to communicate that sort of intuition on a wider scale than the lunch table!