Alright let's look at how this whole project is shaping up so far. My plan looks approximately like this:
Season one:
- decide on a project ✅
- look at free (bad) electronics software ✅
- introduce mains electricity, it’s wiring, it’s properties ✅
- introduce electromagnetism, how a transformer works, electrical isolation, how to increase and decrease AC voltages with the transformer ✅
- our first circuit diagram and it’s symbols, what a diode is, how to convert AC to DC using a diode ✅
- what a capacitor is, how it works, how to smooth out voltage with one
- what a resistor is, how to split voltages with them, what a voltage regulator is
- Special Episode how to design a Printed Circuit Board, how to have one made cheaply, how to assemble it. Guest starring my bicycle
No EFS work will be done from the 6th to the 14th of March as I will be busy encountering a variety of gay animal friends.
Before Season 2 there will be an EFS: Gaiden post. This is where I take a break from the project to talk about something else. It's most likely going to be how a radio receiver works!
Season two is not fully planned, but will have chapters on things like current measuring and shutoff, enclosures etc. As the theory and explanation stuff is covered mostly in Season One, this should be much faster.
In general I hope that I can build up a buffer of posts to put out regularly. I settled on a limit of approximately 2000 words in order to keep everything as digestible as possible.
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