Crash Course Electronics and PCB Design

Crash Course Electronics and PCB Design, available at $109.99, has an average rating of 4.7, with 161 lectures, based on 15426 reviews, and has 89542 subscribers.

You will learn about Students will be able to analyze and construct basic analog and digital circuits. As well as design printed circuit boards, assemble and get them running. Students will be able to leverage this knowledge to build and produce electronic products completely themselves. Students will be able to use numerous CAD and design tools such as schematic entry, PCB layout and routing, circuit simulators, MATLAB, and more. Students will learn how to use basic electronics lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal generators, and more. Students will learn hands on techniques such as circuit construction with solderless breadboards, wire wrapping, and soldering. This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone interested in learning electronics and/or printed circuit board design. or Programmers interested in learning about how the machines they code with actually work and the electronics inside them. or Electrical or Computer Engineering students that would like to see what the major is all about end to end as a head start in their degree. or Someone that is a hacker/hobbyist that has some experience with electronics, but wants to take it to the next level and obtain a much deeper understanding of electronics and circuit analysis/design. It is particularly useful for Anyone interested in learning electronics and/or printed circuit board design. or Programmers interested in learning about how the machines they code with actually work and the electronics inside them. or Electrical or Computer Engineering students that would like to see what the major is all about end to end as a head start in their degree. or Someone that is a hacker/hobbyist that has some experience with electronics, but wants to take it to the next level and obtain a much deeper understanding of electronics and circuit analysis/design.

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Title: Crash Course Electronics and PCB Design

Price: $109.99

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 161

Number of Published Lectures: 161

Number of Curriculum Items: 161

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 161

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Students will be able to analyze and construct basic analog and digital circuits. As well as design printed circuit boards, assemble and get them running.

Students will be able to leverage this knowledge to build and produce electronic products completely themselves.

Students will be able to use numerous CAD and design tools such as schematic entry, PCB layout and routing, circuit simulators, MATLAB, and more.

Students will learn how to use basic electronics lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal generators, and more.

Students will learn hands on techniques such as circuit construction with solderless breadboards, wire wrapping, and soldering.

Who Should Attend

Anyone interested in learning electronics and/or printed circuit board design.

Programmers interested in learning about how the machines they code with actually work and the electronics inside them.

Electrical or Computer Engineering students that would like to see what the major is all about end to end as a head start in their degree.

Someone that is a hacker/hobbyist that has some experience with electronics, but wants to take it to the next level and obtain a much deeper understanding of electronics and circuit analysis/design.

Target Audiences

Anyone interested in learning electronics and/or printed circuit board design.

Programmers interested in learning about how the machines they code with actually work and the electronics inside them.

Electrical or Computer Engineering students that would like to see what the major is all about end to end as a head start in their degree.

Someone that is a hacker/hobbyist that has some experience with electronics, but wants to take it to the next level and obtain a much deeper understanding of electronics and circuit analysis/design.

Crash Course Electronics was designed for one thing to take you from mystery to mastery in Electronics and PCB Design. This massive course was custom made for those interested in learning electronics from the ground up that wish to leverage that knowledge to build actual printed circuit boards (PCBs). There is no other course like this in existence that has the depth and breadth of Crash Course Electronics. The course starts with atomic physics and the electron, before you know it you are learning Ohm’s Law, circuit analysis, AC, DC, complex impedance, RC and?RL circuits,??filters, amplifiers, transistors, FETs,??analog and digital theory too much to list here!?

But, unlike other courses that are highly technical and math based. Crash Course Electronics was designed to be taken as a journey with the instructor. Each lecture building on the last, each new concept like a new puzzle approached in many different ways. The most complex topics and mathematical concepts are distilled down into understandable lectures and we have a lot of fun doing it! I had to learn this stuff at one point and remember how hard it was, so I approach each lecture as if we are both learning for the first time and make no assumptions about what you know or don’t know.

As we progress through the lectures, expect to see every circuit and idea worked out on the black board, virtually?simulated (with Labcenter?Proteus), and built by hand right in front of your eyes in high def, ultra clean video and audio. Not only will you learn all the theory and practical aspects of Electrical Engineering, but my 35+ years of experience with electronics will be downloaded to your brain with countless real-world tips and tricks that will take you from a hobbyist to a deep understanding of the subject matter.?

Then when we have all the basic electronic?theory under our belts, buckle in for something you have never seen we will build, not one, not two, but three complete products! We will talk about the design, the motivation, look up parts, background information, and then design the circuits together like colleagues, lay them out in Altium?CircuitMaker, route them, verify and produce manufacturing files. If that wasn’t enough, we will take those files and go out on internet and send them to a number of online manufactures and get them ready for production, all you have to do is hit SUBMIT!

Last, but not least the course is based on my college text?book “Design Your Own Video Game Console” aka?“The Black Art of Video Game Console Design”? this 800+ page book is included?free of charge (the PDF version) with the course. Although, we won’t be talking about game consoles in this course, we will be using the text for its theory,?electrical engineering and PCB design chapters.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: The Starting Line

Lecture 1: Setup, Installation and Getting Things Ready to Roll

Chapter 2: Introduction to Electronics

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Lecture 2: Intro to Electronics and Meet the Parts

Lecture 3: Digital Concepts Primer, Units and Hands On

Lecture 4: Atomic Theory and other Spooky Phenomena

Lecture 5: Understanding Current and Voltage

Lecture 6: Understanding Current and Voltage – Part II

Lecture 7: Series and Parallel Batteries and Circuit Analysis Teaser

Lecture 8: Into the Abyss with AC/DC

Lecture 9: Ohms Law and Just a Bit of Power

Lecture 10: Ohms Law Deep Dive and Basic Circuit Analysis – Part I

Lecture 11: Ohms Law Deep Dive and Basic Circuit Analysis – Part II

Lecture 12: Deciphering Resistor Color Codes and Meet the Capacitor

Lecture 13: Inductors: Be AfraidVery Afraid

Lecture 14: Transformers – Theres More to Inductors than Meets the Eye!

Lecture 15: Manipulating Current with Diodes

Lecture 16: Manipulating Current with Diodes – Part II

Lecture 17: Manipulating Current with Diodes – Part III

Lecture 18: Switching States with Transistors

Lecture 19: Switching States with Transistors – Part II

Lecture 20: Switching States with Transistors – Part III

Lecture 21: Understanding the Alien Language of MOSFETS

Lecture 22: Understanding the Alien Language of MOSFETS – Part II

Lecture 23: Tools of the Trade

Lecture 24: Tools of the Trade – Part II

Lecture 25: Tools of the Trade – Part III

Chapter 3: Advanced Circuit Analysis Techniques and Tools

Lecture 1: Real DC Circuit Analysis

Lecture 2: Kirchhoffs Laws and a Dash of Common Sense

Lecture 3: Kirchhoff and Ohm vs. Basic Circuits

Lecture 4: Voltage Dividers Up Close and Personal

Lecture 5: Simulating Circuits with SPICE

Chapter 4: Electrical Engineering 101 – And Here Comes the Crash Course PartBuckle Up!

Lecture 1: Game Plan for Section 4.0

Lecture 2: All About Mechanical Switches

Lecture 3: Fun and Games with POTentiometers

Lecture 4: Capacitors and AC Coupling

Lecture 5: Working with Series and Parallel Capacitor Networks

Lecture 6: Getting to Know RC Circuits

Lecture 7: Exploring the Dark Side with Inductors

Lecture 8: RC Circuit Review, Simulation with Matlab and Finally RL Derivations

Lecture 9: Understanding I and V in RC and RL Circuits with E.L.I. and I.C.E.

Lecture 10: Fire all Phasors – Reactance and the Math Behind Phasor Representations

Lecture 11: Easing into Complex Impedance with Phasor/Reactance Diagrams

Lecture 12: Imaginary Number Primer and Complex Phasors

Lecture 13: Putting Complex Impedance to Work with RC Analysis, Simulation, and Bench Model

Lecture 14: Phasor Analysis of an RL Voltage Divider Circuit

Lecture 15: Using RL Circuits and Impedance Analysis to Illustrate Low and High Pass Filters

Lecture 16: Bonus Round – Plugging AC Line Voltage in an RC Circuit

Lecture 17: Frequency Domain Analysis of a Low Pass Filter

Lecture 18: Whats Up with Decibels and all this dB, dBm, and dBv Stuff?

Lecture 19: Hands on with Low Pass Filters and Frequency Response

Lecture 20: Going to the Bench with High Pass Filters

Lecture 21: The Dreaded Inductor – Round 1: Low Pass Filters

Lecture 22: The Dreaded Inductor – Round 2: High Pass Filters

Lecture 23: Building the Low/High Pass Filters

Lecture 24: Diodes Reviewed and Starter Applications

Lecture 25: Understanding Zener and Schottky Diodes plus Simple Voltage Regulators

Lecture 26: Half Wave and Full Wave Diode Experiments on the Bench

Lecture 27: Diode Experiments on the Bench – Part II

Lecture 28: Schottky Diode Experiments and Logic Gate Implementation

Lecture 29: Introduction to Voltage Regulators and Power Supply Design

Lecture 30: Power Supply Primer

Lecture 31: Building a 5V Power SupplyLM7805 Style

Lecture 32: Adding 3.3V to our Power Supply Design

Lecture 33: Taking our Power Supply Offline with a Transformer

Lecture 34: Wiring up the Transformer to our Power Supply

Lecture 35: Get the Noise Out! Introduction to Power Supply Filtering

Lecture 36: Circling Back to TransistorsA 15 Minute Refresher Course

Lecture 37: Introduction to Transistor Amplifier Circuits and Models

Lecture 38: Transistor Biasing, Current Amplifiers and Voltage Regulation

Lecture 39: Small Signal Transistor Amplifiers

Lecture 40: Common Emitter Amplifier Design

Lecture 41: Hard Core Analysis of the Common Emitter Amplifier

Lecture 42: Transistor Motor Driver Bench Experiment and Noise Reduction

Lecture 43: Current and Voltage Regulation Experiments

Lecture 44: Building a Practical Audio Voltage Amplifier

Lecture 45: Crossing the Threshold from Analog to Digital Electronics

Lecture 46: Retro TTL Build! – Inverter, AND, NAND, OR, NOR

Lecture 47: Temporal Manipulation and Clock Oscillators

Lecture 48: Timing Circuit Theory and Building Clocks with XTALs and Oscillators

Lecture 49: Its all about the 555 Baby!

Chapter 5: Introduction to Digital Logic Systems, Boolean Algebra, Timing Diagrams and TTL

Lecture 1: Boolean Algebra, Number Systems, and 100% Digital Electronics

Lecture 2: Boolean Algebra and DeMorgans Laws

Lecture 3: Logic Families, Data Sheets, and Digital Signal Properties

Lecture 4: Slaying the Dragon with Timing Diagrams

Lecture 5: Integrated Circuit Packaging and a Walk Through History

Lecture 6: Binary Mathematics Primer and the Full Adder

Lecture 7: Mixing Logic Families and TTL/CMOS Interfacing Considerations

Lecture 8: Circuit Fabrication Technique Review

Chapter 6: Taking Digital to the Next Level with Small, Medium, and Large Scale Integration

Lecture 1: Getting to Know Basic Integrated Circuits: SSI, MSI, LSI, and VLSI

Lecture 2: Building Circuits with the 74LS138 3:8 Decoder

Lecture 3: Intro to LED Display Drivers and the 74LS47

Lecture 4: Wiring up the 74LS47 on the Bench

Lecture 5: Switching Things up with Multiplexers

Lecture 6: Multiplexing Analog Signals on the Bench with the 4051

Instructors

Andre LaMothe
Computer Scientist / Embedded Engineer / Author

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2 stars: 141 votes

3 stars: 855 votes

4 stars: 4241 votes

5 stars: 10086 votes

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