Advanced

4 tips for teaching kids how to build electronics

Posted by bob on · 1 comment
Opensource.com		Mail this story
Print this story

Kids are naturally curious about how things work, and with a new trend in hardware companies creating open source hardware products, it's a great time to teach kids about electronics. But modern technology can seem too complex to even begin to understand. So where do you start? read more

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story

» Get new stories by e-mail: nightly or as they are published

« Return to the newswire homepage

  Related stories
» More like this

Comments (1)

dotmatrix ·
  1. Introduce wire wrap. This helps to understand circuit board layout and provides for usable semi-permanent circuit construction without the burn danger of soldering.
  2. Include Kirchhoff's Law with Ohm's Law. Both of these are necessary for a strong basic foundation.
  3. Once Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws are covered, sensors and op amps can easily be introduced. Equations for resistors in parallel and series can be easily derived using these two basic concepts.
  4. ... and then you have a good basis for effective GPIO use on the Raspberry Pi... analog signals and digitization can be briefly covered without much technical detail except for bit representation and ranges of stored values during programming.

Post a comment

A free account is needed to post. Write your comment here first: your text is kept in this browser while you sign up or log in, and is waiting for you when you come back.

Your message:
|||||
10
Markdown: **bold**, *italic*, [text](https://link), - lists, > quotes, $x^2$ for math. Formatting help

Sign up and post (it is free)  or  Log in and post