getting started in electronics

10 Ways to Tell if You’re a Real Electronics Geek

This time, I want to step away from C programming for a minute and do something a bit different and fun.

Stereotypes are woven into the fabric of society, for better or for worse. Luckily for electronics enthusiasts, the stereotypes we get tend to be on the better side of that.

This got me thinking about the stereotypes people like us endure (I’m using the word “endure” in a facetious sort of way) and what it means to be an electronics hobbyist or enthusiast. To me, an electronics hobbyist and an electronics enthusiast are the same, so I’ll probably use both interchangeably.

After a nice brain-dump, I came up with 10 traits that many electronics geeks have.

Video – Use an Arduino & 2 Push Button Switches to Control an LED

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Greetings fellow geeks, we’re back again with a practical mini-project you can bust out on your bench and use right away. This time I have a short video to go along with the post and also a transcription of the video (scroll down for video) afterwards.

In the video, I use 2 push button switches and an Arduino Uno to turn an LED on and off.

After the video, but before the transcription, you’ll find a schematic and a breadboard circuit diagram (courtesy of Fritzing).

I know, some of you may be thinking who cares, it’s just turning an LED on and off…

How to Get Started in Electronics

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Getting Started with Electronics

The short video below talks about what you’ll need to get started in electronics.

For all you readers out there, I had the video transcribed and have included the text below the video for convenience.