Crash Course Electronics and PCB Design
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Crash Course Electronics and PCB Design

Learn Analog / Digital Electronics and PCB Design from the Ground up with Altium CircuitMaker and Labcenter Proteus

Created by Andre LaMothe
112 hours
Video Content
161
Lectures
102,176
Students
4.7
Rating
4.7
(102,176 students enrolled)

What you'll learn

Students will be able to analyze and construct basic analog and digital circuits. As well as design printed circuit boards, assemble and get them running.
Students will be able to leverage this knowledge to build and produce electronic products completely themselves.
Students will be able to use numerous CAD and design tools such as schematic entry, PCB layout and routing, circuit simulators, MATLAB, and more.
Students will learn how to use basic electronics lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal generators, and more.
Students will learn hands on techniques such as circuit construction with solderless breadboards, wire wrapping, and soldering.

Course Content

9 sections • 161 lectures • 112:00:02 total length

The Starting Line

1 lectures • 10:53

Setup, Installation and Getting Things Ready to Roll10:53

Introduction to Electronics

25 lectures • 16:18:22

Course Overview10:22
Intro to Electronics and Meet the Parts52:27
Digital Concepts Primer, Units and Hands On40:02
Atomic Theory and other Spooky Phenomena20:31
Understanding Current and Voltage20:01
+20 more lectures

Advanced Circuit Analysis Techniques and Tools

5 lectures • 03:57:05

Real DC Circuit Analysis39:43
Kirchhoff's Laws and a Dash of Common Sense49:49
Kirchhoff and Ohm vs. Basic Circuits27:00
Voltage Dividers Up Close and Personal58:20
Simulating Circuits with SPICE01:02:13

Electrical Engineering 101 - And Here Comes the Crash Course Part...Buckle Up!

49 lectures • 33:23:26

Game Plan for Section 4.004:44
All About Mechanical Switches49:19
Fun and Games with POTentiometers32:47
Capacitors and AC Coupling59:24
Working with Series and Parallel Capacitor Networks32:42
+44 more lectures

Introduction to Digital Logic Systems, Boolean Algebra, Timing Diagrams and TTL

8 lectures • 03:55:51

Boolean Algebra, Number Systems, and 100% Digital Electronics31:02
Boolean Algebra and DeMorgan's Laws19:54
Logic Families, Data Sheets, and Digital Signal Properties34:26
Slaying the Dragon with Timing Diagrams51:19
Integrated Circuit Packaging and a Walk Through History22:06
+3 more lectures

Taking Digital to the Next Level with Small, Medium, and Large Scale Integration

18 lectures • 08:40:22

Getting to Know Basic Integrated Circuits: SSI, MSI, LSI, and VLSI43:52
Building Circuits with the 74LS138 3:8 Decoder25:12
Intro to LED Display Drivers and the 74LS4719:39
Wiring up the 74LS47 on the Bench28:01
Switching Things up with Multiplexers22:20
+13 more lectures

Printed Circuit Board Design and Technology with CircuitMaker

3 lectures • 02:47:11

PCB Basics and Installing CircuitMaker34:28
PCB Design End to End for Beginners01:05:00
Hands on PCB Teardowns01:07:43

Graduating to Design Engineer: CircuitMaker Fundamentals and Real-World Projects

25 lectures • 17:32:23

CircuitMaker Fundamentals: Forking Projects and Basic Navigation30:39
CircuitMaker Fundamentals: Magic Wand Schematic/PCB Overview27:18
CircuitMaker Fundamentals: Magic Wand...Power Supply Design44:17
CircuitMaker Fundamentals: Magic Wand 555 Timer Design & Parts Selection Process47:30
CircuitMaker Fundamentals: Magic Wand Counter and Decoder Logic58:07
+20 more lectures

Crash Course Bonus Lectures

27 lectures • 25:14:29

May the FSR Force Be with You...01:11:25
The RAPTOR PSX - Solderless Breadboard Power Supply01:28:53
Halloween Bonus Lecture: "H-Bridges and Things that go Bump in the Night"01:02:46
Arduino/ESP32 Hardware and Software Primer01:33:25
Xtreme Shopping Guide - Finding Parts without Breaking the Bank18:35
+22 more lectures

Description

Crash Course Electronics was designed for one thing -- to take you from mystery to mastery in Electronics and PCB Design. This massive course was custom made for those interested in learning electronics from the ground up that wish to leverage that knowledge to build actual printed circuit boards (PCBs). There is no other course like this in existence that has the depth and breadth of Crash Course Electronics. The course starts with atomic physics and the electron, before you know it you are learning Ohm's Law, circuit analysis, AC, DC, complex impedance, RC and RL circuits,  filters, amplifiers, transistors, FETs,  analog and digital theory -- too much to list here! 

But, unlike other courses that are highly technical and math based. Crash Course Electronics was designed to be taken as a journey with the instructor. Each lecture building on the last, each new concept like a new puzzle approached in many different ways. The most complex topics and mathematical concepts are distilled down into understandable lectures and we have a lot of fun doing it! I had to learn this stuff at one point and remember how hard it was, so I approach each lecture as if we are both learning for the first time and make no assumptions about what you know or don't know.

As we progress through the lectures, expect to see every circuit and idea worked out on the black board, virtually simulated (with Labcenter Proteus), and built by hand right in front of your eyes in high def, ultra clean video and audio. Not only will you learn all the theory and practical aspects of Electrical Engineering, but my 35+ years of experience with electronics will be downloaded to your brain with countless real-world tips and tricks that will take you from a hobbyist to a deep understanding of the subject matter. 

Then when we have all the basic electronic theory under our belts, buckle in for something you have never seen -- we will build, not one, not two, but three complete products! We will talk about the design, the motivation, look up parts, background information, and then design the circuits together like colleagues, lay them out in Altium CircuitMaker, route them, verify and produce manufacturing files. If that wasn't enough, we will take those files and go out on internet and send them to a number of online manufactures and get them ready for production, all you have to do is hit SUBMIT!

Last, but not least -- the course is based on my college text book "Design Your Own Video Game Console" aka "The Black Art of Video Game Console Design" -- this 800+ page book is included free of charge (the PDF version) with the course. Although, we won't be talking about game consoles in this course, we will be using the text for its theory, electrical engineering and PCB design chapters.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in learning electronics and/or printed circuit board design.
  • Programmers interested in learning about how the machines they code with actually work and the electronics inside them.
  • Electrical or Computer Engineering students that would like to see what the major is all about end to end as a head start in their degree.
  • Someone that is a hacker/hobbyist that has some experience with electronics, but wants to take it to the next level and obtain a much deeper understanding of electronics and circuit analysis/design.

This course includes:

  • 112 hours on-demand video
  • 0
  • 23 downloadable resources
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Full lifetime access
  • Certificate of completion

Instructor

Andre LaMothe

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