When I was around 14, my dad taught me my first circuit. It was also a blinking light circuit, but using a relay instead of an inverter.
It was such an amazing feeling when I built it and it (after a few failed attempts) worked!
So from then on, I was hooked.
But it took me many years before I started understanding things properly. Not because electronics is hard, but because electronics is often explained in a hard way.
Almost every time I finally understood another component or topic in electronics, I was left with a feeling of disappointment: "This is so simple! Why did they have to explain it in such a complicated way??"
That feeling made me start the blog build-electronic-circuits.com back in 2012. I wanted to let the world know that electronics can be easy! And I started writing books, the most popular being Electronics For Kids.
Then in 2016, I launched Ohmify - an online academy for learning electronics the easy way.
Here are my tips to you if you want fast progress:
- Don't just read about electronics - build lots of circuits!
- Get a good understanding of how current and voltage behave in a circuit.
- Get a basic understanding of how these components work: Resistors, Capacitors, Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs), and Transistors.
- Practice finding currents and voltages in simple circuits. You'll need to know this to understand bigger circuits.
Here are two articles I recommend to get started:
Keep On Soldering!
Oyvind @ build-electronic-circuits.com
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