Electronics primers, course material and books

[BBQdChips]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the MIT course materials on EE and CS:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/

I just watched (yes, video) the first lecture from 6.002 (Circuits and Electronics) and I'm hooked! Especially at the end when Prof. Agarwal made a pickle glow .  I can't believe I can get MIT education for free.

Then you have the Stanford SEE (more CS oriented)
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx

My first thought when I saw this thread was about the MIT OpenCourseWare.  Great stuff.  And in some of the cases, even the textbooks are available in electronic format (view only obviously).  I see the above mentioned 6.002 is one of them. 

[ehcaes]

Make magazines channel on youtube is pretty awesome http://www.youtube.com/user/makemagazine

[tronixstuff]

There is an amazing amount of material on analogue, digital, microcontrollers, and heaps more over at Colin Mitchell's website - Talking Electronics.

http://www.talkingelectronics.com/te_interactive_index.html

[robrenz]

If I could only keep one of my books on electronics, This would be it:  http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-Scherz/dp/0071452818/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319339386&sr=1"-1  Practical electronics for inventors by Paul Scherz.
It is the "Art of Electronics" for the rest of us normal intelligence folk.  Even though it has many obvious errors it covers all aspects of electronics and goes into great depth on components. Every type of a component (carbon, wire wound, thin film, thick film, ceramic , etc.) is explained and why you would or would not use it. There is both graphical analogy explanation of electronic principals and the mathematical. Much of the info are very important topics that I have not seen anywhere else .  It is the one book that will stay on your bench.

[maia]

I'm a complete beginner, therefore this thread is very useful for me. When I have time I will look through the primers. I bet they are really useful and avoid that I will came back and ask stupid questions in the forum. Thank you for this Although it could happen that I have some further questions, I hope this is OK then!

[ciccio]

I'm looking a good smps book, is anyone know where can I find switch mode power supply book ?

I have this  one : "HIGH-FREQUENCY SWITCHING POWER SUPPLIES : THEORY AND DESIGN" by George Chryssis - McGraw-Hill 
It's a little outdated and I don't know if a newer edition is available (mine is the second edition, circa 1989?)

Search on Amazon. You can find it and other, more recent books.

[olsenn]

These are the three references that have helped me out the most so far:
     
   * Talking Electronics (books by Colin Mitchell)
   http://www.talkingelectronics.com/te_interactive_index.html

   * Op-Amps For Everyone
   http://www.ti.com/lit/an/slod006b/slod006b.pdf

   * The Electronics Club (website)
   http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/index.htm

Op-Amps for everyone is par none the best resource for finding reference op-amp designs. Talking Electronics has LOTS of great material; however, I find many of the reference circuits have little problems (resistor values approximated, transistor junction voltage drops approximated etc). Lastly the website at the end provides many great tutorials on how to do praticle things.

Enjoy!

[olsenn]

I forgot to mention there is a suppliment (sort of) to the Op-Amps for Everyone reference; it is called the "Handbook of Operational Amplifiers Applications". It can be found here: http://www.ti.com/lit/an/sboa092a/sboa092a.pdf

Together, these two references will describe everything you will ever need to know about op-amps!

[quirmche]

Comprehensive Training in Electronics videos. The site isn't organized the best but the videos are really pretty good, enjoy!!
http://sites.google.com/site/learnrf/

[im_a_human]

Hi, Thanks to everyone for sourcing this information, theres some truly great stuff here. Heres one that will interest people interested in PIC programming...

http://www.gooligum.com.au/tutorials.html

[im_a_human]

Heres a really usefull link that downloads a .PDF document for a design of a DSPIC33F series DSP Educational Signal Processing Platform....

http://spinlab.wpi.edu/projects/dspboard/final.pdf

"A Major Qualifying Project Report
submitted to the Faculty of
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
Degree of Bachelor of Science"

[Mint.]

For really beginner electronics and components I came across a YouTube user named randyfromm who's videos I have found extremely helpful.
http://www.youtube.com/user/randyfromm/videos?sort=da&view=u

[harnon]

If I could only keep one of my books on electronics, This would be it:  http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-Scherz/dp/0071452818/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319339386&sr=1"-1  Practical electronics for inventors by Paul Scherz.
It is the "Art of Electronics" for the rest of us normal intelligence folk.

Was just about to post a link to this book... found it yesterday in Blackwell's and its already helped me out twice (Google books preview). 

[Blofeld]

If I could only keep one of my books on electronics, This would be it:  http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-Scherz/dp/0071452818/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319339386&sr=1"-1  Practical electronics for inventors by Paul Scherz.
It is the "Art of Electronics" for the rest of us normal intelligence folk.

Was just about to post a link to this book... found it yesterday in Blackwell's and its already helped me out twice (Google books preview).

Practical Electronics for Inventors is a nice book, Scherz really tries to explain the concepts as easy as possible. I like his water analogies. Also, lots of practical advice. However, as robrenz has already mentioned, it does contain many errors. It may be useful to print out this errata sheet and consult it frequently while reading the book:

http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/physics/ph235/errata.pdf

The number of errors might come as a shock, but I think for a beginner in electronics the advantage of good explanations outweighs the inconvenience of having to check for errors.

[Blofeld]

A very big collection of links:

http://educypedia.karadimov.info/electronics/electronicaopening.htm