31)Getting Started With Arduino 2ndEd
A few years ago I was given a very interesting
challenge: teach designers the bare minimum
in electronics so that they could build interactive
prototypes of the objects they were
designing.
I started following a subconscious instinct to teach electronics the same
way I was taught in school. Later on I realised that it simply wasn’t working
as well as I would like, and started to remember sitting in a class, bored
like hell, listening to all that theory being thrown at me without any practical
application for it.
In reality, when I was in school I already knew electronics in a very empirical
way: very little theory, but a lot of hands-on experience.
I started thinking about the process by which I really learned electronics:
» I took apart any electronic device I could put my hands on.
» I slowly learned what all those components were.
» I began to tinker with them, changing some of the connections inside
of them and seeing what happened to the device: usually something
between an explosion and a puff of smoke.
» I started building some kits sold by electronics magazines.
» I combined devices I had hacked, and repurposed kits and other circuits
that I found in magazines to make them do new things.
As a little kid, I was always fascinated by discovering how things work;
therefore, I used to take them apart. This passion grew as I targeted any
unused object in the house and then took it apart into small bits. Eventually,
people brought all sorts of devices for me to dissect. My biggest
projects at the time were a dishwasher and an early computer that came
from an insurance office, which had a huge printer, electronics cards,
magnetic card readers, and many other parts that proved very interesting
and challenging to completely take apart.
After quite a lot of this dissecting, I knew what electronic components
were and roughly what they did. On top of that, my house was full of old
electronics magazines that my father must have bought at the beginning
of the 1970s. I spent hours reading the articles and looking at the circuit
diagrams without understanding very much.
This process of reading the articles over and over, with the benefit of
knowledge acquired while taking apart circuits, created a slow virtuous
circle.
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challenge: teach designers the bare minimum
in electronics so that they could build interactive
prototypes of the objects they were
designing.
I started following a subconscious instinct to teach electronics the same
way I was taught in school. Later on I realised that it simply wasn’t working
as well as I would like, and started to remember sitting in a class, bored
like hell, listening to all that theory being thrown at me without any practical
application for it.
In reality, when I was in school I already knew electronics in a very empirical
way: very little theory, but a lot of hands-on experience.
I started thinking about the process by which I really learned electronics:
» I took apart any electronic device I could put my hands on.
» I slowly learned what all those components were.
» I began to tinker with them, changing some of the connections inside
of them and seeing what happened to the device: usually something
between an explosion and a puff of smoke.
» I started building some kits sold by electronics magazines.
» I combined devices I had hacked, and repurposed kits and other circuits
that I found in magazines to make them do new things.
As a little kid, I was always fascinated by discovering how things work;
therefore, I used to take them apart. This passion grew as I targeted any
unused object in the house and then took it apart into small bits. Eventually,
people brought all sorts of devices for me to dissect. My biggest
projects at the time were a dishwasher and an early computer that came
from an insurance office, which had a huge printer, electronics cards,
magnetic card readers, and many other parts that proved very interesting
and challenging to completely take apart.
After quite a lot of this dissecting, I knew what electronic components
were and roughly what they did. On top of that, my house was full of old
electronics magazines that my father must have bought at the beginning
of the 1970s. I spent hours reading the articles and looking at the circuit
diagrams without understanding very much.
This process of reading the articles over and over, with the benefit of
knowledge acquired while taking apart circuits, created a slow virtuous
circle.
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