Basic electronics

Basic electronics
Date	2014/07/18
Time
Location
Type	Workshop
Contact	julf

Basics of electronic circuits and components - theory & hands-on

No prior knowledge or experience required.

Preliminary plan:

 A very quick intro/recap on basics (basically secondary school physics, but from a more practical angle)

   Voltage, current and power
   AC and DC
   Resistance, capacitance, inductance
   Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws

 Electrical safety

 Analog vs Digital

 Circuits in practice
   Hard-wired and wire-wrapped circuits
   Printed circuit boards
   SMD (surface-mount devices)
   Soldering

 Passive components
   Resistors
   Capacitors
   Inductors
   Transformers

 Active components
   Semiconductors
   Diodes (normal, zener)
   Transistors (PNP, NPN, FET, Thyristors)
   Optoelectronics
   Valves

   Integrated circuits

 Basic circuits

   Power supplies
   Amplifiers
   Logic circuits

People attending

• Ultratux (could perhaps also help presenting parts of this... unsure...)
• Narya