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This guide is for electrical engineers, electronic hobbies, and anyone else who needs help with electricity and electronics.

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Contents 1 Tutorials 2 Equipment 2.1 Software 2.2 Solder Iron 2.3 Oscilloscope 2.4 Multimeter 3 Integrated Circuits 4 Printed circuit boards (PCB) 5 Electronic Projects 5.1 Small projects 5.2 Large projects 6 Information, Identification, and Definitions

[edit] Tutorials

• wikibooks:Electronics: A very good book for learning the basics of electricity. It starts with an basic electron and can take you all the way up to computer architecture

• Howto build an oscillator circuit (stub)

[edit] Equipment

[edit] Software

Cadence: professional circuit simulator, and layout tool

• Howto interpret Cadence errors

[edit] Solder Iron

• Howto select a soldering iron
• Howto solder
• Howto solder surface-mount components

[edit] Oscilloscope

[edit] Multimeter

[edit] Integrated Circuits

Integrated circuit identification

• Howto identify computer chips or integrated circuits on circuit boards
• Howto indentify integrated circuit(IC) chip packages
• Howto identify integrated circuit (chip) manufacturers by their logos
  • Howto identify integrated circuit (IC) functions from their Hewlett Packard (HP) number
  • Howto identify integrated circuit (IC) functions from their Xerox number
  • Howto identify integrated circuits (IC) from their Sun Part number

[edit] Printed circuit boards (PCB)

• Howto import FreePCB gerber (CAM) files into CircuitCam for use with a LPKF milling machine

[edit] Electronic Projects

[edit] Small projects

• Howto build a simple device that turns off external appliances when your computer shuts down, This project uses the USB port to turn on/off external components. It is very easy. Requires only 3 components

[edit] Large projects

• Howto creating a wind generator (stub)

[edit] Information, Identification, and Definitions

Integrated circuit identification

• Identifying Chip Packages
• Identifying IC manufacturer logos
• Hewlett Packard part numbers
• Xerox IC part numbers
• Sun IC and circuit board part numbers

Definitions

• Electronic and computer acronyms
• Solar energy acronyms, not all electrical