And then there was a sudden 180

New blog look, new focus.

I am slowly, painstakingly teaching myself electrical theory and electronics. The amount of  data available for little or free is stunning and overwhelming. I have been wrestling with how to break down what I want to know into small enough pieces so I can assimilate it. Kinda like cutting up your food and chewing thoroughly before swallowing.

Arduino and the language it uses seems to be key, as are resistors and transistors and voltage and current and amperes and joules and resistance and electric potential and… but it is starting to make sense. I purchased a few learning kits, and as I walk through those, watch a lot of videos, and blow up the occasional LED, I feel it coming together.

Today was SparkFun’s “Adventures in Science” video series. I watched “What is Current?”, “What is Voltage”, and “Ohm’s Law.” They finally broke things down into small enough pieces that it is starting to come together. I think I”ll be walking through a number of their other videos.