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These notes are from Lesson 4 of my Free Email Course. Do you know anyone else who would love to learn electronics? Please share that link with them. Below you can see the circuit we're currently talking about. The resistor and capacitor on the left of the inverter make up ...
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The RC delay element is a way to create a time delay in your circuit by connecting a resistor and a capacitor. It's super simple. And very useful. The 'R' is a resistor, and the 'C' is a capacitor. That's where the 'RC' comes from. And here's how you connect ...
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Can I comfortably fit the components for this project on my protoboard? That was the question I asked myself in my early electronics-building days. If I couldn't, I regarded the project as "too hard". Often the most exciting projects are much larger than the simple ones. It's not that they ...
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It's Friday. And it's the start of the weekend. For many of us, that's a chance to carve out a big chunk of time to work on a project. Today, I set aside some time to browse the web. Looking for fun projects that people are building ...
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I like to tackle this one now and then. It's a question that regularly pops up in my email. It usually goes something like this: "How do I choose components for my circuit?" ...
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