Circuits & Radio
See also:
- Control
What do you actually do: Look at the spec sheet and copy the example circuit.
Circuits
It is surprising and confusing how good people get at electronics without persay being very mathemtical about it. Some of it is pattern recognition
Circuits are not functions. They are relations The delusion of perfect sources
Analog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Analog_circuits
Voltage Divider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_divider
Current divider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_divider
Bridges
Low pass
High Pass
Op Amps
The golden rule.
Integrators Differentiators
Transistors
BJT MOSFET
biasing
Golden rules
Current mirror
Transformers
555 Timer chips
Analyses
Node and mesh
Laplace transform. Because we care about impulse response
Circuit duality
Lanzcos matrices
Oscillators
Filter Networks
Matrices connecting ports to each other. Some compose nice
Polynomal designs
Iterated filters and brillouin book.
Transmission Lines
Line imppeance
Radio
Models of antenna
Circuits aren’t the circuits you think they are. Shit gets messy
Waveguides
Modulation Multipliers
Complex signals smith charts
SDR
https://nostarch.com/field-expedient-sdr-volume-one sdr book
RTL-SDR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-phase_and_quadrature_components IQ quadrature lime gnuradio hackrf one
Debugging / Measuring
Multimeter Oscilloscope scope tutorial
Simulation
Qucs
https://lushprojects.com/circuitjs/ https://www.falstad.com/circuit/
PCBs
KiCAD DIY
https://github.com/atopile/atopile
Digital
Discrete Chips 7400
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_7400-series_integrated_circuits A little bit this kind of thing is just for fun. You can get insanely powerful micorcontrollers for cheap. You could argue maybe for simplicity or speed or parallelism. Serial latch
Microcontrollers
Misc
Art of electronics - didn’t really like this one. ARRL handbook is really good actually https://www.youtube.com/@w2aew
https://github.com/paulhdietz/LEDSensors?tab=readme-ov-file led as sensor