Re: Basic/Fundamental Electronics and Circuits
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:52 pm
Hi All,
Like many I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my batch-2 RPi, so I've been keeping busy by reading as much as I can about embedded systems and programming in general.
I've done bits and pieces of C++, C#, Python and Perl in the past and I can "get stuff done", but I've never felt like I had the type of knowledge needed to make use of the awesome expansion boards that are in production for the RPi... so I started hunting for information on embedded development and basic electronics and stumbled across a bunch of resources that I found useful and I thought I share them with the community just in case some others out there are in the same boat of not knowing where to start with this great little gadget:
Great Online Book about Circuits and Electronics (I'm only a few chapters in, but it seems great for a novice like me):
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com
I also came across a project called the NerdKit, which is a small breadboard electronics kit that aims to introduce people to embedded design/programming through example:
http://www.nerdkits.com/
The NerdKit is $70USD and I haven't ordered one yet... but I think it's definitely going to be on my list of things to acquire in the near future. The reviews by it's users are simply amazing. It does advertise itself as a beginners learning kit, so hopefully a complete electronics novice like me will be able to make use of it and get a better grip on working with electronics and embedded systems.
Hope someone else finds these resources useful. Of course, if you have any resources of your own that you'd like to share, please do
Like many I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my batch-2 RPi, so I've been keeping busy by reading as much as I can about embedded systems and programming in general.
I've done bits and pieces of C++, C#, Python and Perl in the past and I can "get stuff done", but I've never felt like I had the type of knowledge needed to make use of the awesome expansion boards that are in production for the RPi... so I started hunting for information on embedded development and basic electronics and stumbled across a bunch of resources that I found useful and I thought I share them with the community just in case some others out there are in the same boat of not knowing where to start with this great little gadget:
Great Online Book about Circuits and Electronics (I'm only a few chapters in, but it seems great for a novice like me):
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com
I also came across a project called the NerdKit, which is a small breadboard electronics kit that aims to introduce people to embedded design/programming through example:
http://www.nerdkits.com/
The NerdKit is $70USD and I haven't ordered one yet... but I think it's definitely going to be on my list of things to acquire in the near future. The reviews by it's users are simply amazing. It does advertise itself as a beginners learning kit, so hopefully a complete electronics novice like me will be able to make use of it and get a better grip on working with electronics and embedded systems.
Hope someone else finds these resources useful. Of course, if you have any resources of your own that you'd like to share, please do