I recently took up a new hobby. Electronics. As I mentioned before in another post, I am not really good with real world physical things. That’s why I’m, luckily, a software engineer. I do, however, like the challenge of writing software that controls real world things.

Electricity astounds me in the fact that I have absolutely no knowledge of how it works. Until I bought the book Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery), which is a wonderful guide that really assumes you know nothing about electricity and teaches the theory behind it, if you care to read it, which I do, along with examples that reinforce the theories. Today I did the first experiment which was tasting the power of a 9-volt battery (ouch!) and learning how to use a strange device called a multimeter. I can finally measure the resistance between two points. And the measurement is ohms. Wow, look at me.

Anyone scared or fascinated by electronics should really pick up a copy of this expertly crafted workbook.

Now, on  to Experiment 2. Here’s hoping I’m not sticking a fork into a toaster, and tasting the power of AC current.