Anyone do electrical engineering (as a hobby)?

[Deleted member 32486]

I like building stuff to make silly sounds and light up. Primordial synthesizers with seventies semiconductor style.

 

[Deleted member 32486]

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[Deleted member 32486]

I eat 2-7 bananas a day. Every time I solder I eat a banana before. I solder paper circuits because it's a way cooler means of prototyping than perfboard and stripboard. Bananas make the long meditative solder sessions melt.

 

[Deleted member 32486]

@Xangsane @ReadBooksEveryday Be honest. Did you guys like it because @Chintuck22 already did? My posts usually do not get likes at all, I can't help but feel this is a snow ball effect.

 

[Xangsane]

@Xangsane @ReadBooksEveryday Be honest. Did you guys like it because @Chintuck22 already did? My posts usually do not get likes at all, I can't help but feel this is a snow ball effect.

Cars! Cars!!!! Toys!!!!

 

[Deleted member 32486]

Cars! Cars!!!! Toys!!!!

I am a car idiot, I can barely drive, I don't care about their inner workings. I played with lots of toys as a kid, I built my house out of legos and tried to make it accurate by taking measurements, but it still had a childish derangement to it. I don't like toys anymore, but I am making a light-up jack o' latern halloween decoration for my little brother with analog circuitry.

 

[Xangsane]

I am a car idiot, I can barely drive, I don't care about their inner workings. I played with lots of toys as a kid, I built my house out of legos and tried to make it accurate by taking measurements, but it still had a childish derangement to it. I don't like toys anymore, but I am making a light-up jack o' latern halloween decoration for my little brother with analog circuitry.

Do you make toys with circuits?

 

[Deleted member 32486]

Do you make toys with circuits?

No. Just synthesizers and audio equipment for the most part.

 

[Xangsane]

No. Just synthesizers and audio equipment for the most part.

You should

make toys with circuits!

 

[Deleted member 32486]

You should

What kind of toys? I circuit bent an elmo guitar toy a while ago, but then it just stopped working suddenly. I was able to change the PCM speed on the chip to pitch the sounds up and down with a potentiometer, which my brother found funny.

 

[PLA1092]

Fuck being a low IQ muzzie currycel! Wish I could do that!

 

[Xangsane]

What kind of toys? I circuit bent an elmo guitar toy a while ago, but then it just stopped working suddenly. I was able to change the PCM speed on the chip to pitch the sounds up and down with a potentiometer, which my brother found funny.

Cars and light up toys!

 

[Deleted member 32486]

Fuck being a low IQ muzzie currycel! Wish I could do that!

It's not as difficult as it sounds. I started my sophomore year of high school after taking a college digital electronics class. Digital electronics is overhyped in terms of difficulty, it's quite fun because of the boolean algebra which is like math if it was cool, useful, and fun. Just start small. I'd recommend reading "CMOS cookbook", which is a pretty comprehensive guide on digital electronics. From there, look into "lunetta" synthesizers and start building shit, it's quite cheap. Lunetta stuff is easy to build because it's all CMOS based, but once you pick up stuff and get better you can start building analog stuff.

 

[Deleted member 32486]

Cars and light up toys!

Like a remote control car? and toys that light up how? I made a light up lebgfinal, it was fun and easy.

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[Xangsane]

Like a remote control car? and toys that light up how? I made a light up lebgfinal, it was fun and easy.

Lebgfinal halloween decorations and holiday ideas. (HIGH IQ THREAD, REALHEADS NEWFAGS GTFIH)

I love halloween, I love incels, I hate women, etc. Esoterica interlocking embalmed in ancient antiquity oldhead photos vingette sepia quartertone inkjet. I made an astable multivibrator based Lebgfinal haunted portrait for kids with ADHD and autism expecting mothers fall holiday ideas...

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YES!!

 

[Deleted member 32486]

YES!!

You should learn basic EE yourself. Making blinking LEDs or LED sequences with digital chips is cheap and easy, you could fabricate any toy you dream of.

 

[Deleted member 32486]

Lead is good for you. ROHS compliant solder is poison

 

[Deleted member 32486]

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[saiya_online]

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Could you send me some basic courses to get into this stuff? I'm a young highschooler who won't be getting into it as a main career (once I'm 16 in a few months I'm applying for junior piloting). But this is still a very good skill to learn ofc! I use to do this stuff when I was younger but stopped randomly because I was a stupid to do vidya mostly hahaha

 

[Deleted member 32486]

Could you send me some basic courses to get into this stuff? I'm a young highschooler who won't be getting into it as a main caree (once I'm 16 in a few months I'm applying for junior piloting). But this is still a very good skill to learn ofc!

Read the Art of Electronics by Horowitz and hill. IDK if you intend to work with new age microcontrollers and computer integrated stuff, but if that's the case, IDK what you read for that. Everything I do with electronics would be possible to do in the 70s.

 

[saiya_online]

Read the Art of Electronics by Horowitz and hill. IDK if you intend to work with new age microcontrollers and computer integrated stuff, but if that's the case, IDK what you read for that. Everything I do with electronics would be possible to do in the 70s.

I'll read the first 30-50 pages or so, already looks very interesting based off cover alone. I might drop a nice $100 and order it. I'll use this is a spring pad to get into it. I have a feeling also this is still useful maybe if I were to get into aviation technology also. As y'know this relates to any modern tech of the period we're in, correct?

 

[Lebgfinal]

How do you get electrical componements

 

[Deleted member 32486]

As y'know this relates to any modern tech of the period we're in, correct?

Yeah. IDK Anything about aviation.

 

[Deleted member 32486]

How do you get electrical componements

Taydaelectronics. Dirt cheap from Thailand

 

[Lebgfinal]

Taydaelectronics. Dirt cheap from Thailand

ok

 

[Deleted member 32486]

ok

Are you interested?

 

[Lebgfinal]

Are you interested?

yes

 

[Deleted member 32486]

yes

PM me if you ever need help. I am not as smart with electronics as I sound but I can still probably help or at least point you in the right direction with stuff.

 

[Lebgfinal]

PM me if you ever need help. I am not as smart with electronics as I sound but I can still probably help or at least point you in the right direction with stuff.

I just don't have anything, if I had the componements maybe I could do something.

 

[saiya_online]

Yeah. IDK Anything about aviation.

Well I'm basically gonna be doing the action part and flying the machine, piloting is just that as well as some basic knowledge on flight theory. Aviation is an entire field that it'll take a few paragraphs for me to explain but for what I'm gonna be doing id recommend reading this for a general outline of what I'll be doing
Amazon product ASIN 0070362408Classic essentials! Also im admiring you putting in good actual useful knowledge into people's minds brother! Besides knowing how to be the creator of the modern era will be powerful. Anyone can ride a hovering machine but can they build it? Hahahaha

 

[Deleted member 32486]

I just don't have anything, if I had the componements maybe I could do something.

OK. You will need a soldering iron, and solder, firstly. You can get those at a hardware store or amazon or something. Then, for components, you'll want OP-amps, like tl0x2, lm358, any of those, they're interchangable. Then get a bunch of resistors, multiples of 10, 22, 47. 100 to 1M range. Capacitors, get various capacitors from .01uf to 10uf range, electrolytic for >1uF and ceramic for lower than that, they're cheap. You'll also want to get solid core and stranded wire. Some breadboards for testing shit, perfboard or stripboard if you want to use that. 1n914/1n414 diodes are cheap and common. Get a bunch of 2n3904/2n3906 transistors, too. Keep in mind basically every component in a circuit IS interchangable, you can use a 2n3904 transistor instead of a bc548 transistor, you might just have to flip it backwards. If a circuit requires a 56k resistor, you probably won't lose sleep using a 47k and a 10k in series instead. There are many shortcuts and comprimises you will need to learn to take to be a good engineer and not constantly at the mercy of the postal office waiting for new parts. If you need more guidance, PM me. It also helps if you find a specific project to build to begin with and order the parts for it. It helps if your first project is easy, you don't wanna spend 10 hours on something you barely understand only for it to not work and get super frustrated, I did this as a beginner, it sucked.

 

[Deleted member 32486]

This goes for anyone if you're interested I can provide assistance getting into this stuff, because starting is the hardest part. Once the ball is rolling and you get some general knowledge and wisdom you can become pretty independent and have fun with it. As a beginner I didn't know wtf to purchase so I ended up buying overpriced starter kits and shit I didn't need, it was dumb. I enjoy this I am autistically interested in it and it's no inconvenience to me to give guidance. I love talking to people about it, I tried getting my IRL friends into it but they don't have the dedication.

 

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[GuyFromSingapore]

Sounds like a good hobby broski. Mirin'

 

[Deleted member 32486]

Sounds like a good hobby broski. Mirin'

Yes. Don't mean to brag too hard but IMO I make some pretty cool shit, and I think anyone can make cool shit if they dedicate enough time. Pictures of cool stuff I've made that look like bombs + a banana peel because I just ate a banana. I love freeform geometrical circuits and paper circuit prototyping.

 

[Deleted member 4301]

I did a course on digital electronics and embedded systems at university. Was super interesting. Made a 4-bit multiplier using only digital components

 

[Deleted member 32486]

Made a 4-bit multiplier using only digital components

Like physically made? Or with software? Sounds like a nightmare to breadboard.

 

[Deleted member 4301]

Like physically made? Or with software? Sounds like a nightmare to breadboard.

Yes on a breadboard without software, only digital components

 

[Deleted member 4301]

I wanna make a speedometer with only digital components (including timer) and motion sensors. I'll send you the design if I make them

 

[Deleted member 32486]

@slop slinger Instead of French-Swiss psychoanalysis.

 

[Deleted member 18582]

@slop slinger Instead of French-Swiss psychoanalysis.

I want to become a Psychoanalysts more than an Electrical Enqineer