This is Not a Datasheet
a work in progress
About
The 17th time I burnt out a transistor and tried to figure out what I’d done wrong by dissecting a datasheet, parsing a physics lesson, and scanning snide comments about someone’s broken circuit,
I decided I had identified a certain lack in the electronics dabbler’s toolkit.
If you're a complete beginner, it’s easy to find instructions for, say, wiring up a switch and an LED. If you’re a trained engineer, you have the background information to make good use of available tools. But if you’ve picked up enough to find your way around a schematic, but not so much that you know the ins and outs of integrated circuits, there’s not much to help you jump the gap from switches and LEDs to op amps and LED drivers.
So I've started playing around with making sheets that aren’t datasheets – short documents that contain the diagrams and technical details that you need to use a given component, along with just enough background information to give you some context and hints on where to look next.
a work in progress
About
The 17th time I burnt out a transistor and tried to figure out what I’d done wrong by dissecting a datasheet, parsing a physics lesson, and scanning snide comments about someone’s broken circuit,
I decided I had identified a certain lack in the electronics dabbler’s toolkit.
If you're a complete beginner, it’s easy to find instructions for, say, wiring up a switch and an LED. If you’re a trained engineer, you have the background information to make good use of available tools. But if you’ve picked up enough to find your way around a schematic, but not so much that you know the ins and outs of integrated circuits, there’s not much to help you jump the gap from switches and LEDs to op amps and LED drivers.
So I've started playing around with making sheets that aren’t datasheets – short documents that contain the diagrams and technical details that you need to use a given component, along with just enough background information to give you some context and hints on where to look next.