Guides
Why is this page here?
As a student of Engineering there were often times I was not taught the really useful little tidbits of actual circuit design until much later, if at all. Mostly this is because many of my classes focused on theoretical design in ideal situations, so we never worried about things like bypass capacitors or pull resistors, the effects of loading on a circuit. In fact some of these things weren’t covered until my professional electives came up. As I feel such a delay tends to produce armchair engineers that couldn’t build a practical circuit to turn on a light, I’ve decided to try and write some guides to digital electronic design. So I will post pages here covering many simple but important topics. Check back often as I will add and refresh pages as time allows, and I’ll try to post new ones to the blog so that everyone knows about them.
What guides are available?
I’ve uploaded the first two guides, expect more soon:
- Pull Resistors – covers the basics of pull-up and pull-down resistors, what they’re for, how they work, and when to use them.
- Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) – covers the basics of LEDs, what they’re for, how they work and how to use them, including example circuits.