newbie digital circuit help

[ed]

im interested in small robotics, starting my electrical engineering
class next semester - im wondering about microcontrollers, and circuit
design together. where can i learn the basics of digital circuit
design? and whats a good first step. a book suggested "getting started
in electronics" the radioshack book, it comes soon but i think its
analogue? i dont know, how can i learn how to deisign simple circuits
at first!

 

[Dennis Mchenney]

Electronic's Workbench Demo from EDA

http://www.electronicsworkbench.com/edu/eduhom.html

PIC micro's are low cost to get onto and lots of robotic groups use
them, sure some newsgroups on both

ed wrote:

im interested in small robotics, starting my electrical engineering
class next semester - im wondering about microcontrollers, and circuit
design together. where can i learn the basics of digital circuit
design? and whats a good first step. a book suggested "getting started
in electronics" the radioshack book, it comes soon but i think its
analogue? i dont know, how can i learn how to deisign simple circuits
at first!

 

[ed]

dennis you rock man - i appreciate that, ALOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
week of paid vacation from the restaurant i work at in 3 weeks, im
going to get reading in 3 weeks, thanks alot!!

 

[Ol' Duffer]

In article <1108605363.663712.276020@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
edhotchkiss@gmail.com says...

im interested in small robotics, starting my electrical engineering
class next semester - im wondering about microcontrollers, and circuit
design together. where can i learn the basics of digital circuit
design? and whats a good first step. a book suggested "getting started
in electronics" the radioshack book, it comes soon but i think its
analogue? i dont know, how can i learn how to deisign simple circuits
at first!

How about visiting your school's bookstore to find out what
textbooks they are using? That way you might be ahead of
the game when those classes show up on your schedule.

 

[kmaryan@gmail.com]

Start with a PIC microcontroller. For less than $50 you can be up and
running with a programmer and everything else you need to use them.
Resources abound, www.microchip.com, www.piclist.com, google for more.

My suggestion is "start small". Get one of the smaller chips (16F628 is
a handy one) and see if you can get some LEDs blinking or something
like that. Then work your way up.