Electronics and robotics resources

Here are some useful references to learn about Electronics and Robotics

• Sparkfun tutorials and products (Beginner to Intermediate): Lot's of good stuff here, tutorials and parts

  • Tutorials

• Check out the tags (upper left on above page) such as:

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Robotics

• Adafruit tutorials and products (Beginner to Intermediate): Similar to Sparkfun above

  • Adafruit

Note: Will will eventually put together robot kit(s); from specifying what the robot should do, to selecting sub-components (motors, sensors etc), and ordering parts and making it work. The above two sites will be useful.

• Allaboutcircuits (Beginner to Advanced): A nice reference from basics to advanced including recent products from hobbyist to commercial applications.

  • Allaboutcircuits

• Fritzing (Intermediate to Intermediate): IDE for design of breadboards and circuit boards (free)

  • Fritzing

• Processing (Intermediate to Advanced): IDE to develop dynamic and static visual displays (free). Useful to display what your circuits or robot is doing, Java based.

  • Processing

• LT Spice circuit simulator (Intermediate to Advanced): IDE circuit simulator and analysis tool (free). This is something you WILL use in college if you pursue a EE degree and professionally if you are a circuit designer. There are many online tutorials to help and it is free. If there is interest, we can make some simple circuits.

  • LT Spice

• Jungletronics has some interesting articles and tutorials for Arduino and MCUs

  • Jungletronics
  • Git