"Solutions for Education"

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This Site is dedicated to those individuals who are seeking ways to better their understanding of the Electronics, Digital, Microprocessor, and Microcontroller Technologies.

Having recently retired from over 40 years of teaching, and a considerable variety of industrial experience, I would like to pass on some of the methods that have proven to be very successful in the classroom.

Some of the methods presented here may even seem somewhat unusual, but they have proven to be effective. There are some that I have used in the classroom for many years, that are still not found in the textbooks.

"What one fool can do, another can"

The "Theory Problems" presented are deviations from the normal "Cookbook" concepts. The normal "Cookbook" methods tend to lead the individual into a false sense of "understanding" the concepts. These "deviations" bring the individual to grips with whether they really do understand.

The "Tests" are real, and have proven to be a fair evaluation of a student's understanding of the material.   However, no test answers are given - you will have to research them.

The "Labs" are in like manner, in that some are very straight forward. Where others may have subtle "snafus", requiring the individual to properly study the situation, not just do a "monkey-see monkey-do".  Whereas in the classroom the only warning the student had was to "Don't trust any of the labs as given", there will be ample warning given here for these labs.  In that respect, most of the labs given here will be very normal, with good lessons to be learned.

I do not intend to present myself as any more than any other ordinary individual, who has had their share of difficulty in learning certain material.  I only wish to share some of the simple methods that really work, to make certain areas of what might be complicated, become perhaps actually "understandable".

Theory
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Hardware
Breadboarding Aids     MicroProcesssors         MicroControllers      Embedded Control

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