That's what I thought. However, I know next to nothing about arduinos, so don't know how to best start.
Besides, I guess my main focus should be to learn basic electronics to be able to create useful circuitry, rather than to just follow all those arduino-tutorials, that explain how to create mostly useless junk, without explaining much about how to create your own circuitry from scratch. You know, the stuff that actually enables you to do more than just follow the instructions. And there I really am at a miss. I watched a few youtube videos, where people explained what capacitors, resistors, and so on are, and showed some basic circuits with transistors n' shit. How do I best start out when I want to learn this topic?
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I got going with Arduino using Youtube and Googling pretty much everything. Have a look around for some ideas for a simple beginner project, and go from there. You'll learn a lot doing it hands-on, even if it's laid out for you step by step. How's your programming knowledge?
Start with Arduino junk so you can get a basic idea of things, then you will slowly begin to make your own stuff. Though, these days with microcontrollers you don't need a lot of analog knowledge to connect useful things to it. I think the best way to learn is find something you want to make and figure out how to make it.
I don't have any suggestions for you on guides or sites, what I know about is many years out of date/out of print.
I would suggest if you want to learn basic electronics, find guides online that talk about these topics:
What is voltage, current, and resistance, and how do they interact with one another. What are the basic components used in electronics, what do they do, and how to read them.
That's really the nuts and bolts, once you've got those items in hand you can pretty much lead yourself anywhere you need to. Start with some simple circuits, don't be afraid to blow stuff up.
I guess to do that, I need some parts to play with.
Where do I get those from? Do I buy one of those starter-packs with a breadboard and some cheap electronics like so that the chinks can dump their broken out-of-spec waste? Or do I salvage parts from some old devices? Or do I make a list and buy them at some local store?
Salvaging parts from old devices is a time-honored tradition.
But if you want electronics first (and not necessarily microcontrollers,) I'd suggest something like this instead:
https://www.amazon.com/Keywish-Electronic-Component-Breadboard-Potentiometer/dp/B071FYS7MF/
It's just parts.
You'll also want to look into a cheap multimeter, don't spend a lot of money to start with. Anything basic that does volts, ohms, current will work.
Literally just look up "getting started with Arduino projects" there are thousands of guides, projects, books, and pages about the topic.
When you are confident you can get you self a little micro-controller and play around.
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