I’ve started giving a series of basic electronics courses at Makerspace – these are aimed at everyone including complete beginners – I’m avoiding maths as much as possible, the idea is to get an understanding of what’s going on in a circuit without getting bogged down in the details – your goal should be to be able to look at a schematic, ask yourself “what’s that thing for?” and be able to make a reasonable guess
I’m making heavy use of the excellent circuit simulations at http://www.falstad.com/circuit/e-index.html – your browser will need java enabled to use them.
The first session was very basic – the slides are in the PDF file below
– if you couldn’t make it you should be able to follow through the talk – the main goal here is to end up playing with the circuit simulation examples – poke at things, change the values of voltages, resistors, capacitors to see what happens (just click on them)