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Basic electronics, so I can build one of these and maybe extend it to three computers: https://github.com/jfedor2/screen-hopper/


What resources are you using to learn basic electronics?


This is a bit dated, but if you are interested in general electronics (rather than digital electronics), you can try https://repairfaq.org/.

Digital electronics is in many ways much easier, but the analog part tends to sneak in everywhere, especially when you find your digital stuff isn't working. I think it's hard to design anything new, even digitally, without at least a working knowledge of how Ohm's law, LRC circuits, transistors, diodes, op-amps, etc. work.

I don't think it was this course, but I recall checking out an impressively thick book meant for US Navy technicians. The advantage there is that the assumption (unlikely college textbooks), is that you are intelligent but not college educated, and you need to know how to work on nearly anything electronic. Again, the focus is mostly the analog side. https://archive.org/details/NEETSModule01/mode/2up


Just the github repo at the moment, specifically the "How to make the device" page[0]. I had to search on youtube to learn what a breadboard does. I watched this one[1].

Do you (or anyone else) have any suggestions for hands-on resources? I have Practical Electronics for Inventors, but you don't build anything until Chapter 7 (Page 551). I learn better when I'm making things.

[0]: https://github.com/jfedor2/screen-hopper/blob/master/HARDWAR...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE33WpRWrXs




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