Looking for a good Electronics tutorial

[Josh]

I am looking for a good website or package that will give you a good tutorial or introduction into basic electronics and electronics theory. Does anyone have any good recommendations? I work around a lot of electrical equipment in the satellite communications industry, and I think that I should have some sort of a clue when it comes to electricity.

Anyways, thanks in advance!

[Veign]

Just missed the boat with me.  I just gave away most of my EE books from college.  I kept a few but felt I would never go back to an EE job again so keeping 10's of books that weighed a ton made no sense.

Maybe start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_engineering

Then here:
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/
(looking through quickly seems like a good source and brings back a lot of memories)

[tinjaw]

I have never looked for such a website, so I cannot recommend one. However, I learned electronics from the books and kits and Radio Shack. The Forrest Mims books are great and you can get them there. I learned enough from those to know all of the electronics stuff when I go my amateur radio license.

[Veign]

The kits, as a kid, were so much fun.  I remember making my own logic probe, which I thought was so cool

Here's a game that taught me about logic gates when I was a kid:
http://www.warrenrobinett.com/rockysboots/

Funny thing is when I was a kid I wrote an application, for the Apple IIc, to do various  calculations like ohms law, power law, and some AC formulas.  Who would have thought that I would come full circle and end up programming.  That was my first and last application I ever wrote until I started programming some years back.

[lanux128]

i too have given away my books.. but earlier this year i had planned to build a baby monitor therefore i googled and found these websites. they are more of a hobbyist electronics but maybe it would be of help to you..

• http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/circuits.htm
• http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/g_knott/index1.htm
• http://www.discovercircuits.com/