Where to go after "What's a Microcontroller?"

Will__S

Okay, so I recently got my boe bot and ping sensor, and have since programmed it to do some moving, scanning and object avoidance (program posted in completed projects section). And today I finished reading through the "What's a Microcontroller?" text. My question is where to go next? I understand programming fairly well as I've been programming for a few years as a hobby, but I'm not very confident with electronics. I purchased a book a few years ago when I tried getting into electronics called "The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz & Hill, but I'm finding it very difficult to make it past just the first chapter. I really want to learn more about the basics of electronics so that I may start adding more functionality to my microcontroller, and possibly design some circuits to delegate tasks to(and free up some power on the microcontroller!).

So does anyone have any books or sites they can reccommend that will teach me the fundamentals of building circuits, figuring out voltages and currents (so I don't fry all of my parts) and the like? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Will

Chris Savage

Will,

·· We have plenty more educational curriculums you can follow at the link below, including Basic Analog And Digital...I hope this helps.

http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/edu/curriculum/sic_curriculum.asp

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Chris Savage
Parallax Tech Support
csavage@parallax.com

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Will:

I'm in pretty much the same boat as you. I have a programming background but I'm just getting into electronics. In addition to the Stamps in Class curriculum, you might want to look at The Microcontroller Application Cookbook (vols 1 & 2) by Matt Gilliland. It doesn't go into the theory of figuring out voltages and currents so much, but it has lots of example circuits and doesn't waste time or space explaining the programming.

FWIW, I'm finding The Art of Electronics slow going also.

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