i am looking for some circuit board project?
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at
3:56 pm
what is a good web site that teach me how to make my own circuit board? like makeing led blink and programing chip? thx
Tagged with: blink • circuit board • programing
Filed under: Circuit Boards
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There is a plethora of resources if you know where to look. The magazine "Nuts and Volts" is a good source of information, search libraries that you can get to to see if they have copies of the magazines Radio-Electronics, Electronics Experimenter, Hands On Electronics, as well as others that I have probably forgotten. The British have a magazine called "Make" that I have heard of that is devoted to hobbyists. Ramsey Electronics would be a good place for ready to assemble kits. Nuts and Volts recently did an article on circuit board making. A Google search should also bring some good results for schematics, and how to articles that you may be interested in.
Well… the truth is that most websites of that kind are run by amateurs. The quality of the circuits and the advice is very mixed and more often than not I find some serious shortcomings. For blinker circuits that is fine, you can’t really do much harm there. If it does not work, you can always move on to the next web site.
Programming chips (FPGAs and microcontrollers) are a different matter. You will pick up a lot of ad hoc and unreliable techniques there. You will be a lot better off reading the literature offered by the people who make the parts.
As soon as we hit the analog and mixed signal domain, most people are just way in over their heads and there is an awful lot of plain nonsense circulating. Especially when we are talking about audio and amplifier circuits, there is more religion than science on the web.
Truth to be told… there are plenty of very good but awfully boring EE books out there. And another truth to be told… if you want to learn this thing for real, you might as well start learning from those books now. There is no reason why you should suffer through hundreds of bad designs before you pick up enough theory to know how to do it right.
Here is a Berkeley class that will teach you a lot of the basics…
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978507