Crash Course Electronics and PCB Design

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: Ohm's Law and Just a "Bit" of Power

Lecture 10: Ohm's Law Deep Dive and Basic Circuit Analysis – Part I

Lecture 11: Ohm's Law Deep Dive and Basic Circuit Analysis – Part II

Lecture 12: Deciphering Resistor Color Codes and Meet the Capacitor

Lecture 13: Inductors: Be Afraid…Very Afraid

Lecture 14: Transformers – There's 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: Kirchhoff's 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 Part…Buckle 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: What's 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 Supply…LM7805 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 Transistors…A 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: It's 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 DeMorgan's 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