:: Electronics Technique Resources ::
A tentative page for electronic practice for more experienced practitioners, some of this material has been moved from the Basics page.

Components

Components: an overview of basic electronic components

Soldering

• soldering tutorials
• smd soldering tutorial 1 - hand-soldering teeny tiny chips!
• smd soldering tutorial 2 - Toaster Oven Reflow Soldering!
• Construction techniques - Home made Arduino prototype sheld

Make/ commission your own PCBs

• Making your own very simple PCBs, with (relatively) minor expense
• Inexpensive service If you can supply a Gerber file, the nice people at BatchPCB.com, connected with Sparkfun, I believe, will make a PCB for you, and make it available to others too, IF you wish. Remember: Fast / Cheap / Good: You cannot have all three. I believe BatchPCB concentrate on the "cheap" and the "good" for you. (There is advice on their site about the Gerber file thing.)

Electronics books

See the following forum discussion for more info: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1167350858

• Books for beginners
  • Physical Computing by Tom Igoe, Dan O'Sullivan.
  • Getting Started in Electronics by Forrest M. Mims III.
  • CMOS Cookbook by Donald E. Lancaster.
  • Designing Embedded Hardware by John Catsoulis.

• More advanced theory and technique books
  • Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz.
  • IC Op Amp Cookbook by Walter Jung 3rd Edition.
  • ARRL Handbook by Dana G. Reed (Editor).

• Encyclopedic books that may change your life
  • The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill.

Electronics resources on the Web

• http://www.as-workshop.de/ pretty comprehensive introduction (in german) on electronics for artists and designers. Entry level.
• http://www.allaboutcircuits.com
• Socratic Electronics, teaching electronics through the socratic method.
• Electronic Tutorials, about Power Supplies, Power dissipation, De-coupling and input protection.
• Workshop Sessions, about driving DC motors, relays, stepping motors, rotary encoders and LEDs as sensors.