<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body >I love the water flowing through channels analogy for current and voltage! I still think of them that way, and I even have imaginary contraptions thought up that could behave like diodes, caps, and coils, and even transistors, though I doubt they would physically work ;)<div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Ryan Schuster via TriEmbed <triembed@triembed.org> </div><div>Date:07/23/2015 6:43 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: triembed@triembed.org </div><div>Subject: [TriEmbed] EE tutorial talks </div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Has there been much more talk about doing talks on basic EE stuff?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm buying a small water pump and some plastic tubing to demonstrate current, voltage, resistance, capacitance, and inductance with water for a computer camp that I teach at. It might be a good visual aid for a talk at the next meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Other than basics, there are some other things that I think might be especially relevant to embedded stuff that I could talk about at future meetings, if anyone's interested:</div><div><br></div><div>- input/output/power supply protection/isolation/decoupling</div><div>- making good measurements (types of measurement equipment, how to drive them, handling ground loops, proper setup, etc.)</div><div>- signal conditioning (filtering, amplification, attenuation)</div><div>- considerations for driving inputs/outputs (fan-in/fan-out, current limits, inductive/capacitive loads, and related problems)</div></div>
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