You will also require a fair amount of dosh for projects in costs such as tools, parts, and various odds and ends
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[QUOTE=slippp22;20506998]bear semen[/QUOTE]
This guy knows what he's talking about.
Don't ever play with capacitors and batteries they hurt. Learned the hard way in high school.
You mean like being born in electronics? Like an android?!?!
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Dude I was just researching this. This site, amazing. [url]http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/[/url] You need to know Ohm's law, voltage, watts, etc before you can really start working in depth into electronics. Calculator for the basic variables in electricity. [url]http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-ohm.htm[/url] Also, Arduino all the way. [url]http://arduino.cc/[/url] Extremely easy to use, pretty damn cheap and hey, a lot of people here at Facepunch use them. Also, find a local electronic store. Don't buy resistors or led displays at a store where they are pre-packaged and such. Find a second-hand dealer. I found one, he has tons of old crappy components all in giant 2 story shelves in a warehouse. Resistors there are 5 cents each. At another place where they come in plastic bags, they equal out to about 15 cents each. Anyway, you need a store. Anyway, good luck on your adventure, I started mine a few weeks ago and I am already building clocks and timers.
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And start off with a voltage regulator for like 3.3 or 5V. Or even a 9V battery.
Check this out: [url]http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorial_info.php?tutorials_id=57[/url] Just grab a breadboard, use a voltage regulator and follow the tutorial and you can get a working 5V connection working in no time. Then that voltage is safe to play around with. You can do switches, leds, led segment displays, tons of other little stuff that is a great way to get started.
thanks for the advice one of the making goals is making my mousse vibrate every time i click for gaming
ill look around my area (Perth aus) for some stores.
It can be very confusing to start off, but once you know where to look for help and tutorials, it becomes easy.
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[url]http://www.youtube.com/kipkay[/url]
I would also like to get into electronics, but the problem is I fucking suck at math.
[QUOTE=Lexinator;20506948]so as the title says i'm going to start electronics
eg. making little laser flashlights ands stuff where is it best to start?[/QUOTE]
I can help you here!
This is how i first started, i bought a soldering iron [about $20], some resin core solder [about $5] and well, from there i made heaps of cool shit.
You can find these and much more at your local electronics store, and it's also best to buy a book on electronics so you grasp Ohm's law, and other important concepts of Electronics.
I've made 4 different mini air conditioners, a solar power-supply, an LED/halogen floodlight, and some other gizmos so far. Everything i do works on <24V, so it's safe(ish) [i have got shocks from my aircons before].
My next target is a security-door which has a modified deadbold that can be permanentely locked, and can only be unlocked when a magnet is placed over a sensor which opens the solenoid bolt which is locking the deadbolt. And if the door is kicked down, i'm thinking of the deafening alarm from the other thread.
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You live in Perth? so do i!
Jaycar and Altronics are the best stores. they are both in Northbridge, and you can pick up a catalogue from the store to help choose the components you need when you have your plans.
IMHO; Jaycar is the bigger and better electronics store.
Get a kit with a solderless circuit board and a bunch of parts. Make sure it comes with a manual that teaches you how to put stuff together. That's basically what I'm doing for the next 2 weeks in my electronics course.
I did manage to nearly burn myself because I left a 9V battery connected to a speaker and the resistor I used was too weak. So it got pretty hot.
find yourself an old cheap analog synthesizer and have fun with it
that's how i started till i moved on to computers
I actually once threw a glass of water into a running computer to see what it would do
it was fun
[QUOTE=lolnubs;20507951]I can help you here!
This is how i first started, i bought a soldering iron [about $20], some resin core solder [about $5] and well, from there i made heaps of cool shit.
You can find these and much more at your local electronics store, and it's also best to buy a book on electronics so you grasp Ohm's law, and other important concepts of Electronics.
I've made 4 different mini air conditioners, a solar power-supply, an LED/halogen floodlight, and some other gizmos so far. Everything i do works on <24V, so it's safe(ish) [i have got shocks from my aircons before].
My next target is a security-door which has a modified deadbold that can be permanentely locked, and can only be unlocked when a magnet is placed over a sensor which opens the solenoid bolt which is locking the deadbolt. And if the door is kicked down, i'm thinking of the deafening alarm from the other thread.
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You live in Perth? so do i!
Jaycar and Altronics are the best stores. they are both in Northbridge, and you can pick up a catalogue from the store to help choose the components you need when you have your plans.
IMHO; Jaycar is the bigger and better electronics store.[/QUOTE]
thanks good to see some local people here so yeah ill pop down to northbridge next Saturday
If you wan't to build lasers, check out this forum, [URL="http://laserpointerforums.com/"]laser pointer forums[/URL] very helpful. It's 1/3 scientists, 1/3 hobbieists,
1/3 12 year olds.
Make a coilgun. That's how I started
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Electronics is retardedly easy.
Best place to start is radioshack. :v:
i'm training to be electronics mechanic, and got a decent tool pack for 120€, throw in 10€ for cheap tin welding wire
[QUOTE=Peluri;20508856]i'm training to be electronics mechanic, and got a decent tool pack for 120€, throw in 10€ for cheap tin welding wire[/QUOTE]
Don't you mean soldering wire?
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;20508867]Don't you mean soldering wire?[/QUOTE]
i don't remember what it's called in english
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this stuff
Yeah, solder.
and yeah, getting an electric fly swatter and some capacitators to experiment with is fun
[QUOTE=Lexinator;20508766]got the plans or a link to them?[/QUOTE]
Coilguns are simple, all you need is some plastic tubing, camera-flash circuits and some standard enamelled copper wire.
Look it up on gogle, Coilgun
I've written about a couple of my projects here: [url]http://forum.zomgstuff.net/forumdisplay.php?f=437[/url]. There's nothing really advanced on there, just some fun random projects.
I'm going to post some schematics to 2 new projects that I've worked on in class recently.
1. An oscillating square waveform generator (with variable frequency) from a DC input.
2. A music synthesizer that uses your hands to create music (uses two photo resistors). It sums two triangle waves together from 400 to 1.2 kHz (of course you can change the range, depending on the gain of the op-amp). The best part is that you don't need a waveform generator either, just a DC power supply that can supply enough bias for the 741 op amp.
Take a college course.
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