Crash Course Electronics and PCB Design (Udemy.com)

Learn Electronics and PCB Design from the Ground up with Altium CircuitMaker and Labcenter Proteus

Created by: Andre LaMothe

Produced in 2021

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What you will learn

  • Students will be able to analyze and construct basic analog and digital circuits. Everything from filters and amplifiers to clocked and combinatorial digital circuits. As well as completely design printed circuit boards, assemble and get them up and running.
  • Students will be able to leverage this knowledge to build and produce electronic products completely themselves.
  • Students will be able to use numerous CAD and design tools such as schematic entry, PCB layout and routing, circuit simulators, MATLAB, and more.
  • Students will learn how to use basic electronics lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal generators, and more.
  • Students will learn hands on techniques such as circuit construction with solderless breadboards, wire wrapping, and soldering.

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Overall Score : 94 / 100

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Course Description

Crash Course Electronics was designed for one thing -- to take you from mystery to mastery in Electronics and PCB Design. This massive course was custom made for those interested in learning electronics from the ground up that wish to leverage that knowledge to build actual printed circuit boards (PCBs). There is no other course like this in existence that has the depth and breadth of Crash Course Electronics. The course starts with atomic physics and the electron, before you know it you are learning Ohm's Law, circuit analysis, AC, DC, complex impedance, RC andRL circuits,filters, amplifiers, transistors, FETs,analog and digital theory -- too much to list here!
But, unlike other courses that are highly technical and math based. Crash Course Electronics was designed to be taken as a journey with the instructor. Each lecture building on the last, each new concept like a new puzzle approached in many different ways. The most complex topics and mathematical concepts are distilled down into understandable lectures and we have a lot of fun doing it! I had to learn this stuff at one point and remember how hard it was, so I approach each lecture as if we are both learning for the first time and make no assumptions about what you know or don't know.

As we progress through the lectures, expect to see every circuit and idea worked out on the black board, virtuallysimulated (with LabcenterProteus), and built by hand right in front of your eyes in high def, ultra clean video and audio. Not only will you learn all the theory and practical aspects of Electrical Engineering, but my 35+ years of experience with electronics will be downloaded to your brain with countless real-world tips and tricks that will take you from a hobbyist to a deep understanding of the subject matter.

Then when we have all the basic electronictheory under our belts, buckle in for something you have never seen -- we will build, not one, not two, but three complete products! We will talk about the design, the motivation, look up parts, background information, and then design the circuits together like colleagues, lay them out in AltiumCircuitMaker, route them, verify and produce manufacturing files. If that wasn't enough, we will take those files and go out on internet and send them to a number of online manufactures and get them ready for production, all you have to do is hit SUBMIT!

Last, but not least -- the course is based on my college textbook "Design Your Own Video Game Console" aka"The Black Art of Video Game Console Design"-- this 800+ page book is includedfree of charge (the PDF version) with the course. Although, we won't be talking about game consoles in this course, we will be using the text for its theory,electrical engineering and PCB design chapters.
Who this course is for:
Anyone interested in learning electronics and/or printed circuit board design.
Programmers interested in learning about how the machines they code with actually work and the electronics inside them.
Electrical or Computer Engineering students that would like to see what the major is all about end to end as a head start in their degree.
Someone that is a hacker/hobbyist that has some experience with electronics, but wants to take it to the next level and obtain a much deeper understanding of electronics and circuit analysis/design.

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Instructor Details

Andre LaMothe

I hold degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University. Iama Computer Scientist, Electrical and Embedded Engineer that specializes in hardware design, gaming, AI, and robotics. I have written many books, articles and papers on the aforementioned subjects and taught Computer Science and Electrical Engineering courses atUC Santa Cruz as well as online for many years.

I am currently the CEOof Nurve Networks LLC, a full stackembedded development company in Austin, Texas, USA. Before that I was CEOof Xtreme Games LLC, a PCgame development company in Silicon Valley.

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By Sayed Imtiaz Tamim on 11/14/2020

The instructor speaks fluently without so many fillers and in my opinion his lectures are easier to understand because of his choice of vocabulary not going crazy with complex words to make himself sound like a pro.

By Raed Hosny Mohammed on 11/14/2020

I supposed I know some on electricity and basic electronic component, but even after 20% i discover that i know nothing, the course is very advanced for me and it is hard to understand in many circumstance, i believe for those beginners you need to know some basics first at least for electricity before applying for this one.

By Olivier Djatchue-Tchokothe on 11/7/2020

I've complete only 5% of the course. but I learned a lot about electronic

By Raphael on 11/7/2020

Andre does a great job with a lot of passion and experience

By Bruno-Pierre on 11/7/2020

This course is awesome ! It shows very practical knowledge of how to build things and design circuits. I am only at 20% of the course and enjoy it a lot. Andrew is a very good teacher. Even if I my native language is french, I can understand very well the explanation of everything.

By Charles W Carson on 11/1/2020

I enjoy the crash course! It is all thumbs up!!! thx

By Tafara Ernest Mapuranga on 10/27/2020

Awesome, he starts from the beginning. It's amazing, even though I have to skip the first lectures. I love everything about this course.

By Wolfgang Bischoff on 10/23/2020

It is awesome that someone takes the time to share their excellent knowledge in a easy to understand way. This is a very, very good course!

By Arul Kumaran R on 10/19/2020

Very insightful and practical approach.

By Crystal Bell on 10/18/2020

This course was absolutely Amazing!!! It was also extremely informative and very well structured!!!

By Luis Madrigal Partida on 10/10/2020

Excellent teacher.

By Jay Edwards on 10/6/2020

very clear, nicely presented, excellent resources. It's early days but if it keeps being this good I'd say this is one of the best courses I've found on Udemy thus far.