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Re:Learn the basics of digital electronics with the hands-on... by jfoutz on Thursday August 24, 2023 @09:47AM (#37248721)
I'm sure someone will have a much better recommendation. Do you have an old physics book? Working a few or a lot of simple voltage divider problems, to just really nail down V=IR is helpful. a ton of digital stuff can be thought of as snapshots between two states. might give you some help reading schematics as well.

a pretty ham fisted analogy, imagine a full glass of water on the left, and an empty glass of water on the right. you pour the water from the full glass into the empty glass. There is a BOATLOAD of physics happening there. but all you really care about is Left glass full -> left glass empty. easy peasy.

if you're comfortable with https://nandgame.com you've pretty much got all you need to know how computers work. the last bit is pretty much, how do you use a transistor to make a nand gate? it blew my mind to find out it's just - https://mathcenter.oxford.emory.edu/site/cs170/nandFromTrans...

Stuff that's changing is tougher, like radios or whatever. digital is sort of steady -> chaos -> steady. analog you care a lot about all the little partial derivatives.

The ben eater videos maybe? https://eater.net/8bit/ He'll walk you through a lot of basic electronics in a pretty casual way.

I wish I could give you something more "sure fire way to learn electronics" but my knowledge is pretty haphazard. that stuff helped me.

Re:Learn the basics of digital electronics with the hands-on... by sanderjd on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:35AM (#37249202)
I was going to recommend Ben Eater's videos and kits as well. I'm not-so-patiently waiting for my oldest kid to be ready to work through those with me.