Hello Everyone,
I just joined and I'm hoping to learn a lot. I'm currently studying Computer Science and upon learning I got interested in the Hardware side of computers which lead me to electronics which eventually lead me here. I have REAL no idea where to start and I want to know where I should start? I already have a soldering kit with a book on soldering. I've read up about a lot of things about electronics on the internet.
So far this is all I know:
- Flux is the chemical inside the solder, that removes oxidation from the metals. Letting the user to easily fuse the solder to the component on the printed circuit board.
- Solder, usually made of tin or lead and it is used to fuse the PCB(Printed Circuit Boards) and the components together.
- De-solder pump, it sucks away the solder but you must heat up the solder around the component before sucking it in. There are many other ways to de-solder, including solder wick, desoldering resin I think it's called.
- ROM Chips, Read Only Memory my guess from what I know from Computer Science is that these store data that cannot be erased or modified and I only know that these can be found in Game Boy Game Cartridges.
- Microchips are just integrated circuits, correct me if I'm wrong. Microchips come in many forms, such as Memory Controllers, CPUs, RAM, ROM and etc.
- EPROM, Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory, this is similar to the ROM but it's just that it's a microchip that keeps it's data when it's power is turned off.
I also have little knowledge of components like resistors and transistors. It's not much but I have been looking in to electronics little by little over the few weeks.