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Related: many, many years ago, when Facebook didn't exist yet, Google still passed as a "good" …

… Related: many, many years ago, when Facebook didn't exist yet, Google still passed as a "good" company, and hobbyist electronic geeks had almost only PICs to choose from, I found online a very long and complete electronic course that went from 0 to basic R/C concepts, to transistors, up to pretty advanced topics like magnets/transformers and IIRC radio too. It was made of pretty raw HTML pages and images, and what was most peculiar about it was that it managed to explain a lot of concepts up to an applicable level (as in, actually designing analog circuits) without (any?) calculus at all. Some of those may be false memories, but if I remember correctly: * Its HTML style had a yellowy background * It was taken from an old-ish (US?) navy electric engineer-focused applied electronics course for training naval engineers. * It was more focused on analog circuits I remember I downloaded it all but after all those years who knows where it could be. Maybe in some 1GB disk of my first Pentium PC, so it's basically lost. Does anyone in HN knows what I'm talking about? …

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I guess the original "NEETS" content is this: http://compatt.com/Tutorials/NEETS/NEETS.html Content updated in 2011.

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>flawed hydraulic analogies I want to say that’s cool, avoid common pitfalls in explanations, but I want to to point out that all analogies fall short, otherwise they would be the same thing, and not an analogy. That is, if the hydraulic analogy were perfect, then that would mean that electronics would just behave as a fluid and we could teach it an a part of fluid dynamics. But instead it is an analogy, electronics is not a part of fluid dynamics, there’s just a few similarities that can be used for teaching. It’s not unusual to teach an imperfect simplistic model at first that you intend to supplement later with more details that break the analogy.

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