2021-08-29 - Analog
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I'm currently picking up my old hobby of playing around with 
electronics again. This time i want to do things a bit different 
though. In earlier years i have always tended to quickly move 
towards the binary side; boolean logic, microcontrollers, hooking 
chips to other chips, i.e. only digital things.

This time i would like to focus on really improving my knowledge on 
the fundamentals of electronics, and focus solely on analog 
circuits. Furthermore, i would very much like to stay away from 
integrated circuits completely, and only focus on discrete 
components.

I think now i have a huge knowledge gap to cover in this area of 
analog circuits, so i am now really starting from scratch again.

The knowledge gap - i think - has been caused by the fact that 
integrated circuits and 'digital' logic, were all the hype when i 
started electronics. So all the 'starter' books i owned as a kid 
glanced relatively quickly over the boring components such as 
resistors, capacitors and inductors; then moved quickly to using 
transistors as switches, and then went on with boolean logic and 
the TTL 74xx and CMOS 40xx series. 

Or perhaps... maybe i glanced over the 'boring' topics rather 
quickly, and moved on towards building cool things with chips ;)

Later, microcontrollers came more obtainable and before i knew it, 
i was again sitting behind my computer, programming these nifty 
little chips. 

This time, i intend to stay away from the computer, and stay away 
from integrated circuits if i can. Funnily, i notice that starter 
books nowadays also do the same thing as in the past; They explain; 
a resistor resists current, a transistor switches stuff, and here's 
an arduino to do cool stuff with. 

I would like to read a starter book focusing only on 5 components; 
resistors, condensators, inductors, diodes and transistors.

Don't know if that book exists; Perhaps it is time to finally get a 
copy of the book of Horrowitz and Hill. Apart from that i should 
also be picking up a fresh multimeter, because the one i've had for 
the last 20 years, can currently only be used as a voltmeter.

And of course, an oscilloscope... That would be very nice as well. 
I used to have a PM3233 in the past; which i sold off at some point 
as it took a lot of space and wasn't used a lot due to my digital 
oriented hobbying.  However, going analog, an oscilloscope becomes 
pretty relevant equipment again all of a sudden.