1 MAKE presents: The Transistor
Part of the MAKE Presents component series, suggested to beginners who want an approachable first explanation of what a transistor does.
Topic
basics
13 videos. Ranked by independent recommendations, not by views.
2 How to Use a Breadboard
A plain introduction to what a breadboard is and how to use one, offered to complete beginners before their first circuit.
3 Collin's Lab: Soldering
A five minute soldering primer from Adafruit, widely offered to beginners as a good first overview before picking up an iron.
4 How to Solder Electronics
A short, older introduction to soldering that beginners are pointed to repeatedly as a quick way to learn the basics before picking up an iron.
5 How to Do It: Basic Soldering
A basic soldering lesson, praised as excellent and linked by others as the how-to for joining wires and soldering through hole pins.
Hidden gem6 How to Use a Multimeter: Measuring Current
Linked to explain measuring current with a multimeter, covering why the meter sits in series and why the red probe moves socket; one viewer rated it only adequate.
7 MAKE presents: The Capacitor
A beginner explainer on what a capacitor is and does, usually linked alongside the companion Make videos on resistors, inductors and transistors.
8 Measuring Current with a Digital Multimeter
Posted repeatedly to show beginners how a multimeter must sit in series, not across the load, when reading current.
9 How To Test Amperage / Amp Draw and properly measure and fuse a circuit
Pointed to as a basic demonstration of measuring current with a multimeter, placing the meter in series so you can read a load's actual draw.
10 Electronics 201: Pull-Up and Pull-Down Resistors
Recommended as an eleven minute explainer on pull-up and pull-down resistors, though one viewer felt the usual framing still leaves the concept hard to grasp.
11 How to use a BreadBoard - Electronics Basics 10
Offered as an introduction to solderless breadboards for anyone starting to build prototype circuits without soldering.
12 Arduino Tutorial #1 - Digital Inputs and Outputs - Button & LED
Offered to newcomers as a first Arduino exercise, wiring a simple LED circuit on a breadboard with jumper leads from an Uno.
13 eevBLAB #10 - Why Learn Basic Electronics?
A case for learning electronics fundamentals properly before diving in, recommended to reset a newcomer's outlook on the basics.
