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Workshop: Electronics From Scratch is Easy - a Nottingham Hackspace geek's introduction to electronics and why you can do it!

Many a geek has come to electronics late and thinks that there's just a bit that he/she doesn't get. The subject appears "hard". Why isn't it straightforward like software? Well, the good news is that it ''IS'' straightforward and all that is needed is a particular way of looking at things.

* this stuff just works but why? An inquisitive mind.

* Electromagnetic phenomena
* electrical charge - electrons!
* static electricity - making it, storing it, using it!
* a galvanometer!
* current - the flow of electrons
* conductivity
* electrical potential and voltage

* the physics and mathematics of electromagnetic flux with Lorentz and Maxwell's equations (and why you can immediately forget this!)

* Lumped Matter Discipline -- we use components!

* resistance to current flow - resistors
* storage of charge - capacitors
* other forms of impedance and inductance (conversely, reactance!)
* silicon semiconductors
* transistors
* building neat things
* logic circuits
* bigger and bigger systems
* ICs
* microcontrollers/SOCs/computers
* ferrite core memory
* supercomputers!
* ?????
* world domination!