Basic electronics for Arduino Makers

Description

In this course, you will :

• Understand the concepts of voltage, resistance and current.
• Use Ohm's Law to calculate voltage, current and resistance.
• Use Kirchhoff's Laws to calculate voltage and current.
• Understand the meaning of and calculate energy and power.
• Use resistors in various configurations, like in voltage dividers and voltage ladders.
• Read the value of a resistor from its package.
• Use pull-up and pull-down resistors.
• Understand the use of capacitors.
• Use capacitors as energy stores and filters.
• Calculate the RC time constant of a capacitor.
• Understand diodes.
• Measure the voltage drop of a diode.
• Understand how to use rectifier and zener diodes.
• Protect a circuit from reverse polarity.
• Understand how to use a transistor to control low and high power loads.
• Calculate the currents and base resistor for a bipolar transistor.
• Use the correct voltage regulator for any circuit..