(How? Simply start using the Build-and-Evolve method + deadlines)
Click the play button to learn how to increase your skill level with electronics:
When you have watched the video, you’ll know the secret to increase your skill level in electronics.
Now I want to hear from you:
Which of the steps from the video have you used successfully?
Leave a comment below and let me know.
Jacob says
Great advice! I couldn’t agree more. I’m currently enrolled in Electrical Engineering and have way more confidence and ability because I started the same way. The other students are so lost cuz they’ve never done anything with electronics. I keep trying to encourage them to just build stuff, but they are so nervous about it. The only reason I understand what I do is because I make time to build new circuits and try new things. I can’t stress enough how important it is to get your hands dirty and just build something, no matter how simple, cuz it will help you understand other things so much more.
admin says
Hey Jacob,
That is very smart of you! You will definitely have a big advantage when applying for jobs later ;)
Cheers!
Oyvind
Adam says
Yeah, totally agree. I’m currently studying Mechanical Engineering, but I’m interested in building electronic circuits. I did everything that you said inside the video, google up the circuit that I wish to build, set a deadline by telling my friends that I’m building that stuff. Then I pushed myself to hit that deadline so that I can show it off to my friends. Recently, I just finished building my own arduino circuit for my 4x4x4 LED cube project. My friends are really amazed by my work ;)
admin says
Hey Adam,
Great stuff! And LED cubes are really cool. Nothing better than to show off some cool stuf to your friends ;)
Cheers!
Oyvind
charles cybulski says
I agree as a machinery technician and trainer the only to educate yourself properly is always the hands on approach. Dosen’t matter the field of employment or hobby, the best way to learn is by making mistakes. I train all my technicians with the hands on approach. Learn by doing, fail by never trying. Great video!!!!
admin says
Absolutely Charles. “Learn by doing, fail by never trying” – I like that!
Keep up the good work!
Oyvind
Ekta says
Great video
admin says
Thanks Ekta!
Oyvind
Richard McLean says
Ive taken alot of your advice and its been epic to my success thus far. I challenged myself with a task of building a home made PLC that uses a ladder logic program like ldmicro and wanted to present it to my industrial electric tech class. But I cant find such schematics or pcb designs. Id like to find one that I could do that would work with a single sided pcb since I etch my own. Could you offer any advice or possible a design I could use? They call me the mad scientist in my class because of the things ive created so far like my MOT arc welder. Id like to keep my class mates amazed by following through with my plc as well.
admin says
Hey Richard,
Great to hear that you have had success with my advice – it’s like music to my ears =)
About PLC, I don’t have any design for you. But if you find a schematic diagram, you could always design the PCB yourself to be one-sided…
Keep up your mad scientist stuff!
Oyvind
Colin says
great to see your approach. You are one of us. Sharing as you go and sharing from experience. Thank you.
admin says
Thanks for your comment Colin!
Oyvind
Shrikant says
Great advice thnx a lot..
admin says
Thanks for your comment Shrikant!
Oyvind
Nabbosa joanita says
woow, its a nice video now at the university in my year two and i met electronics as a course unit …..i just liked everything about it cause hv always wanted to make my own circuits but since am just a beginner like me started with what you recommended making blinking lights and siren and am going to follow the two wats to increase my skills before i jump to making traffic lights
Thanks so much
admin says
Great Nabbosa, keep it up!
Oyvind
Abhijeet says
Hey Oyvind, wonderful video. I couldn’t agree more. Thank you for making and sharing this video
Best Wishes
Abhijeet
admin says
Thanks for your comment Abhijeet =)
Oyvind
loyd tucker says
great video I watch and read every email I receive from you, I am a 51 year old and disabled, so I have a lot of time on my hands and I enjoy taking things out of others but I have to ask does the color of a resistor not the color bands change the value or what? I have some blue , white , green and what is the solid color green no #s ? can you tell me that ? Google don’t give me that!!
admin says
Hey Loyd! Thanks for your comment. I have seen that resistors with 1% tolerance tend to be blue. So there might be a connection between tolerance and resistor color – but I don’t know for sure.
Cheers!
Oyvind
Manika says
Really inspiring video….even if i am from electronics background so we only studied theory in our college time…that same typical stuffs definations so we found its very difficult to understand this so never ever build evn a single stuff yet on my own….but after watching this video i want to understand the logic to build and to run the circuit as i am the beginner….plzz keep inspiring us and keep sharing ur knowledge…
admin says
Thanks for you comment Manika! I hope you will be able to start building some circuits soon =)
Cheers!
Oyvind
John Hicks says
Thank you for sharing this and all of the wonderful materials you have authored to help people like me to learn electronics. I look forward to getting your electronics for kids book and attempting inspire my daughters to be makers. Congratulations on getting Joe Grand to write your foreword! Prototype This was my single biggest inspiration to learn electronics!
admin says
Thanks for your encouragement. Prototype This was a great show, and I’m honored to have Joe Grand write my foreword. And that’s great that you want to inspire your daughters to build electronics!
Best,
Oyvind
Aliu says
Wow. Nice video. 10nks for d advice and inspiration
admin says
I’m happy you liked it!
Iain says
Great video start small and work your way up, common sense
admin says
Common sense, but easy to forget =)
ALHASSAN says
Good advice.
The moment I understood the difference that distinguishes between winners and losers is action , the moment I begin to try taking action on building things, I try my first self- project on local air conditioner. from it I gain confidence and all my fears about building circuit have gone away. If you follow a schematic for the first time, second time, third time , then you will begin to start having ideas why they were arranged that way. Here is a simple example, whenever I come across a simple circuit with a resistor in series with the source , I had figured that , its there to limit the current level flowing into the load. Whenever I want to transfer max. Power to the load I make sure the value of resistance at the source equals the one at load. So with time one begins to develops good ideas about circuit building and so on. It’s as you said learn to build by building
admin says
That’s a great comment. You’re definitely doing the right thing.
Best,
Oyvind
Sadru says
Hi Oyvind,
Could you do something about the sound on your video. There is a terrible booming echo which makes it sound like your voice is coming from some far away pit. Couldn’t you arrange to talk into a decent microphone – or improve the electronics somehow to let us hear a clearer signal?
Thanks.
admin says
Hi Sadru,
Thanks for your comment. I do have a mic now, so future videos will be better.
Best,
Oyvind
Cud says
But then this would only cover the making part. What about how the circuit works, how each components operates?
admin says
You’re right. But when you make, you get curious. Then you start to investigate. And then you learn how. I definitely recommend learning how things work too, but I see so many students get stuck after learning how a few components work because they can’t see the connection between that and building a guitar pedal for example. But if you start by building the guitar pedal, you get intimate knowledge of the components needed to build it. Then you study the circuit and see some things you recognize. Then you read the explanation, and things start to fall into place, little by little.
Best,
Oyvind