Electronics explained in a simple way
“How to combine components to get a specific function?”
Many people ask me this. But that’s like if you want to learn the piano and ask:
“How to combine notes to play a specific song?”
But that’s not the way to learn the piano. And it’s not the way to learn electronics.
Every week I sit down to write this newsletter. And I usually spend about an hour. But today when I was sitting down to write, I had an impulse. I wanted to create a behind-the-scenes video tour of Ohmify.
A few years ago I received a message: “We need to add a fancy new function to our product. Do you know how to do this?” (Okay it didn’t read “fancy new function”, but you get the picture)
An inductor is just a coil of wire.
It’s incredibly easy to make one — just make some loops with a wire. But because wires create magnetic fields, you’ll soon see that it can do some interesting stuff.
That’s what you’ll learn in this article.
I hope you are well during these lockdown times. While writing this, I’m sitting on our balcony and enjoying the sun. I have a beautiful view of green trees with newly sprung white flowers. The pleasant scent of the flowers, and the calming sound of bumblebees, make this quite the scenario. So I really can’t […]
Everyone can learn how to solder. And it’s an important skill to know want to build electronics.
Basic soldering is easy. All you need is a soldering iron and some solder. When my dad taught me as a teenager, I remember picking it up quite fast.
