The electronics instructional laboratory offers an opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience with practical aspects of doing experimental physics. In particular, the electronics course is critical for learning the process of converting physical variables into measurable and useful electronic signals, and for turning electronic signals into desired physical behaviors. 

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• Course syllabus
• Making circuit diagrams

• All About Circuits: Free online textbook, lots of other resources about electronic design.  Presented in engineering terminology, which may differ somewhat from language used in physics.
• Fundamental Analog Electronics by Brian Lawless: Previously published textbook, now out of print.  Author is hosting it in its entirety on his website here, the former link is a direct download.
• Jameco Learning Center: Numerous tips, guides, and projects.
• Talking Electronics: Expansive hobbyist site, terrible web design.  May be good inspiration for starting projects.
• Sparkfun: Tutorials and parts vendor.
  • Tutorial: How to read a schematic
• Adafruit: Tutorials and parts vendor.
• Hackaday: Miscellaneous articles with many electronics projects.
  • https://hackaday.io/list/160076-fpga-tutorials Tutorials specific to FPGAs
• Music From Outer Space: Tutorials specific to making analog synthesizers.
• Bob Pease's articles: Old timer talks about circuits and whatever else crosses his mind.  More likely entertaining than educational; Bob was one of the pioneers of analog circuit design in the 60s and 70s.
• Hackster.io: General hobbyist project sharing site. Likely to have ideas both great and terrible.
• Van Hunter Adams's website: Cornell ECE prof, has some useful ideas for projects and info on digital devices.

• Tektronix Oscilloscopes
• Voltage Divider Examples
• Thevenin Equivalence
• RC Differentiators
• RC Integrators
• Introduction to Diodes
• Introduction to 555 Timers
• University of Colorado's Dr. Newhall, includes full lectures and specific topics
• EEVBlog (Presented from an engineering standpoint, so terminology may vary)
  • Introduction to Oscilloscopes
  • Operational Amplifiers (~1hr long, first 30 minutes is most relevant)

• Device Orchestra Making music with motorized household objects
• Simone Giertz Previously the self-proclaimed queen of sh*tty robots, now does more meaningful projects
• Chip Art Album Collection of photos from art that engineers snuck into the designs of their chips.
• https://nandgame.com/ Has you build up the circuity to make a digital computer from the ground up. You start with logic gates and end with a processor that can be programmed

• Falstad Circuit Simulator: Online circuit simulator with good visual interface.
• Micro-cap Circuit Simulator: Free professional grade circuit simulation software for Windows.  
• Autodesk Eagle: Professional Printed Circuit Board(PCB) design software, free if you create a student account.
• Diagrams.net: Free flowchart making tool, includes circuit elements if you use the “More Shapes” button in the bottom left and add “Electrical” from the Other category.

• Sparkfun and Adafruit: Hobbyist suppliers, in addition to useful tutorials.
• Digikey: Daunting to learn, but massive component database.  More focused on industrial-scale applications. Also offers Printed Circuit Board(PCB) manufacturing now.
• Mouser: Similar to Digikey, the other industry standard website.
• DFRobot: Hobbyist site focusing on robots, sensors, and motors.
• Banggood: Larger focus on modules than individual parts, also offers many options for working with robotics/drones.  Generally more affordable, but may have longer shipping times
• Tayda Electronics: Hobbyist focus, less selection but more reasonable prices on small orders than other sites.  Affordable with generally quick shipping.
• OSHPark: Service for fabricating PCBs from files, costs ~ 1.70 per square inch. Done in the USA, so may be both faster and more expensive than some services.
• Aisler: Another service for fabricating PBCs, housed in Germany.
• Seeed Studio: Parts supplier, also fabricates PCBs
• Elecrow: Sell parts, fabricate PCBs, and partner with folks to sell useful modules. Look promising but I haven't worked with them personally.
• Stepper Online: Specialty store for stepper motors and drivers, but a great place to go if you need to move something.
• The Electronic Gold Mine: Designs are a bit retro, but they have many decent kits for small projects.
• Digilent: Focus on test & measurement equipment. Their Analog Discovery unit isn't exactly cheap, but it is a scope, power supply, and function generator all in one. Make sure to get the Academic pricing.
• Cheap FPGA Development Boards blog post: Not a vendor, but rather a listing of many devices with links to vendors. Last updated 2023.

• Mad Lab: Misc kits, might be a good intro to soldering.  Jameco is American vendor.
• Boldport Club: Cool and strange physical implementations of circuits.

The instructional laboratory staff is always interested in feedback. Let us know if you find typos or mistakes, or let us know if you have comments about what you like or don't like about the lab experience.