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Good video series (in no particular order):

Electricity videos. Audio can be annoying, but the visualizations (although corny at times) are outstanding for developing intuition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiHVe8U5PhU&list=PLkyBCj4JhH...

GreatScott! - building projects

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6mIxFTvXkWQVEHPsEdflzQ

bigclivedotcom - does A LOT of teardowns, and you learn A LOT by seeing what designers have done wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtM5z2gkrGRuWd0JQMx76qA

EEVblog - Dave talks (sometimes a bit long-winded, but I like him anyway) about various electronics topics. His explanations are outstanding.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DjFE7Xf11URZqWBigcVOQ

Afrotechmods - Both good for explanations as well as building stuff

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCosnWgi3eorc1klEQ8pIgJQ

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Ben Eater - Builds his own 8 bit computer and walks you through all the steps

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA

Ben Krasnow's Applied Science - Teaches a lot more than electronics, but will also help you get some ideas (don't underestimate watching people do cool stuff to inspire you)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCivA7_KLKWo43tFcCkFvydw

Jeri Ellsworth - Lots of random electronics stuff

https://www.youtube.com/user/jeriellsworth

AND DO NOT FORGET TO BUY THE BIBLE

https://smile.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/05...

+1 for Ben Eater - super solid explanations, really enlightening even right at an early level.

Thanks to this comment, I've now spent this past weekend binging the entire Ben Eater 8-bit computer series this far. Very entertaining, and I certainly learned a few things about computer architecture. I'm very tempted to do the project myself.

There is a very, very base level of electronics understanding for a couple things that are below the scope of what he covers. You're expected to understand what a pull-up resistor is, for example, and he briefly touches on RC circuits but I don't think his explanation would be sufficient for grokking the concept from scratch. Overall though, he is an excellent teacher and I think he makes concepts quite clear.

I personally ran a few parts at 2x speed, and skipped the Turing machine discussion entirely, but I'm sure the info is quite necessary to some people, so I'm glad he included it all.

Also AvE.

Not sure you learn a lot, but he's a knowledgeable guy having fun ripping shit apart in his garage with an adorable Canadian accent.

https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil

AvE is so great! completely changed how i see tools! plus his gift of gab is amazing

We have accents up here??? Why did my mother never tell me this?!? I thought you guys had accents!

I love his tone and personality, he's also a neverending stream of stupid puns, at that level, it's gold.

I like his channel because it involves scales that don't play in. Like testing very high torque motors (over bolts bigger than my thumbs).

vice: check

Marco Reps https://www.youtube.com/user/reppesis/videos

Julian Ilett - especially if you want to learn about solar https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmHvGf00GDuPYG9DZqQKd9A

Andreas Spiess https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu7_D0o48KbfhpEohoP7YSQ

Mr. Carlson's Lab is one of my favorites. Long form videos of custom devices, repairs and restorations of old, simple instruments are really interesting. On Patreon he details his designs and provides complete schematics and parts lists.

https://www.youtube.com/user/MrCarlsonsLab/videos

Mr. Carlson is a brilliant and thorough guy. Despite my lifelong experience with electronics, I always find something new to learn from him.

I would also recommend 8-Bit Guy who dives into electronics in some videos.

If you want to learn how to design circuits in a structured, analytical way (i.e., without heuristics and black magic), I can recommend this course: [1]. Note that this is really a more advanced course.

[1] https://ocw.tudelft.nl/course-lectures/sed-l1-intro/?course_...

There is a fantastic YouTube speed control extension for chrome that also does pitch correction. Perfect for EEVblog. Not joking.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-playback-s...

Personally I've been using Video Speed Controller, which seems more popular. One of the things that revolutionizes your viewing experience - learn the default keybindings (s -slower, d - faster, g - toggle fast (1.8x speed)) and never be bored again.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...

Always nice to know of other options. (The keyboard shortcuts for the extension I linked are + and -, with * being reset to default speed.)

Does the extension you linked do pitch correction as well? I wish I could find one that does for Firefox, too, if you happen to know of one. The only playback speed control extension I've found for FF doesn't.

I think these extensions set the standard playbackRate property on the HTML5 video element: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaEl...

Try setting the property manually using the JavaScript console and see if you get pitch correction. If not, maybe make sure you're on the latest version of Firefox?

I'll give that a shot. Thanks.

> EEV Blog

low signal to noise ratio. The video log has 400 hour long parts in the series now, it's hard to pull valuable information quickly. It's not structured at all. "all over the shop", to use Dave's words.

> Afrotechmods

Nice introductions, but not very deep. "It's not the Volts that kill you, it's the Amps".

+1 for EEVBlog, he's an ex-EE who brings a ton of experience to a bunch of interesting areas.

As someone who's self-taught I found that the Art of Electronics was fantastic once I had enough basics. It may require a couple reads as it's quite dense but everything in there is solid gold.

I don't like most of his device review videos, too whiney. That said, his talk on op amps was very very good.

The Signal Path - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSignalPathBlog A mix of relatively advanced and relatively simple videos, no rambling all content with great demos. If you have a test gear fetish this is your channel.

tips fedora

Thank you so much for this - SUPER helpful!

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