Beginner videos?

[tony3d]

Just wondering if Dave has any beginner videos, or if you guys have any links to such videos.

[rdl]

w2aew has lots of good beginner tutorials.

https://www.youtube.com/user/w2aew/videos

[DarkStar]

Well, you could probably spend many a day browsing through Dave's past videos. You can see them all on his YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog/videos

[Toble_Miner]

Especially Daves "Fundamental Friday" videos give a lot of useful information to beginners!

[deth502]

Especially Daves "Fundamental Friday" videos give a lot of useful information to beginners!

this, very much so.

there are a few other channels with good beginner vids as well. afrotechmods (??) i thnk is one, ben krasnow has a few vids on electronics, but i found his explanations VERY helpful in understand things, mjlorton has a bunch, but for some reason i just find his stuff hard to watch.

your best bet would be to just search youtube for whatever particular aspet your looking to learn at the moment and go through the vids until you find something that fits your learning style.

[simpson]

mjlorton has some good beginner videos.

[potatogun96]

Afrotechmods has a lot of great videos explaining various concepts or projects.

www.youtube.com/user/afrotechmods

[tehmeme]

A couple of months ago on a whim I created some YouTube playlists of videos from other content creators about basic and fundamental electronics.

The playlists are by no means complete nor comprehensive, they were intended as primers:

Bench Power supplies and related
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBcrnkmovmLzIZw-H0xEAx7ekGBK0jHr_

Kicad, geda, ltspice & gschem tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBcrnkmovmLxuxceuDwkrtFA4r-SEeD9y

making PCBs
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBcrnkmovmLx19K2Osz-pLsa_V1qe9SXC

soldering & howtos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBcrnkmovmLyxGk1oqmd8oB-5EskbPiHI

Some of the playlists I have not made public yet but was in the process of organising were:

transistors & transistor amplifiers
op-amps
electronic filters
function generators
oscilloscopes
guitar electronics

I will eventually get round to completing and refining the playlists but at times this seems somewhat of a resource rehash and a wasted effort.

[EEVblog]

your best bet would be to just search youtube for whatever particular aspect your looking to learn at the moment and go through the vids until you find something that fits your learning style.

That's the trick.
Unfortunately you are never going to find one resource with a whole series of beginner videos from go-to-whoa. So regardless of where you go you'll only pick up bit and pieces.
The closest thing is Chris Gammell's new course with 150 videos in a whole learning series:
http://contextualelectronics.com/
But it's not free.

[michael18]

love the beginner stuff.

[Stonent]

Afrotechmods would be my first choice for parts basics, also look for Collin's Lab or Collin Cunningham's videos, those are pretty good as well.

Derek Molloy who's a college instructor at Dublin City College in Ireland has what appears to be his whole series of courses online from 555 timers to microcontrollers to Beaglebone.

[tony3d]

Wow! Thank you all for responding. Been viewing Martin's, and Collin's video's. Really good stuff. Dave' s video's are funny as hell, but a bit to advanced for me. I am going through the Make Electronic Book, and have purchased all the components to see me through. I bought a reasonably good DMM (Klein MM1000), and a Korad KA3005D power supply. I am just beginning experiment 11 in the book, and so far so good. One of my main problems so far is read Schematics. Any suggestions for that? I have a hard time seeing series, and parallel path flow, and how to translate that to a breadboard. I fully understand a breadboard, and how it works though. I guess this will come in time. Other than that, everything seems to be sinking in. Found a great app for my phone called Electronics Toolbox Pro. It seems to have every tool one could want, and I have used it extensively. Thanks for all your great suggestions, and I'm sure I'll have many questions in the future.

[scott216]

Sparkfun "According To Pete" videos are pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9EF3C374FD903ACE

[nardev]

If you like theory, you might consider to enter this course at MIT https://www.edx.org/course/mit/6-002x/circuits-and-electronics/1130

There is video lecture with a lot of practice and other materials.