Research Guides: Electricity and Electronics: Websites and RSS

ScienceDaily: Electronics News

Test your Electrical Safety Awareness Knowledge in this quiz, courtesy of Occupational Safety Group

Ideas and instructions for creative projects

Projects from SparkFun
From useful to wacky and wild
Make: Technology
Stuff to build, courtesy of Make magazine
Electronics Projects
Projects and schematics submitted to Electronics InfoLine
Electronics Lab
Ideas, open-source projects, community forum
EEVblog
"An off-the-duff video blog for electronics engineers, hobbyists, hackers and makers" by David L. Jones, electronics design engineer

How to Solder
Aaron Cake offers a step-by-step tutorial
Soldering Is Easy Comic Book
By Jeff Keyzer, Mitch Altman, and Andie Nordgren.
See a description of the comic and versions in other languages.

Online guides and tutorials

Electricity Explained
Introduction to the science and applications of electricity. Presented by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Voltage, Current, Resistance, and Ohm's Law
A series of videos and tutorials, beginning with the fundamentals of electricity.
Basic Concepts of Electricity
Conductors, electron flow, circuits, resistance, current, voltage, more. See also Chapter 2: Ohm's Law, and Chapter 3: The Importance of Electrical Safety.
Hawaiian Electric Company Power Facts
Information from HECO about electrical power, fuel, and lines

Online guides and tutorials

Circuits, resistors, oscillators, semiconductors, power supplies, and more. See the Site Map for a full list of topics. By Eric Coates.

Basic Electronics Online Course
Learn electronics on the Web through 16 main topics, plus related subjects. Lessons include concise explanations, graphics, videos, and links to other Internet sites.
Courtesy of 101science.
Electronics Tutorial
Alex Pounds presents a review of electronics concepts and components.
If the site is busy/won't load, try this alternative.
Electronics Overview
Andrew Zimmerman Jones of About.com offers an introduction to important electronics topics and terms, including current, voltage, and Kirchhoff’s Laws.
SparkFun Electronics Tutorials
Short tutorials about topics such as troubleshooting, resistors, soldering, voltage, power supplies, etc.

Electrical Symbols & Electronic Symbols
Symbols for electrical and electronic components in drawings and schematic diagrams. Courtesy of RapidTables.
All About Circuits
Detailed explanations about electrical concepts, including voltage, Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Laws, circuits, safety, etc. A wealth of information!
Free-Circuits.com
Circuit diagrams for audio devices, lights and LEDs, alarms, computers, power supplies, automobiles, telephones, more
How to Read a Schematic
Explanations and large drawings of schematic symbols plus a tutorial and tips for reading schematics.

EC&M presents the 10 Craziest NEC Violations of 2021. View the photo gallery ... and beware!