Electronic Components are the basic building blocks of the most complex electronic machinery in the world. The basic electronic components that you need for most building projects are inexpensive and, if you are good at electronic engineering, you can build devices that would otherwise be a very expensive purchase for a very low cost.

Electronic Components & Home Audio

All electrical components play specific roles in circuitry and have specific attributes that dictate whether they are appropriate for use in any given role. For example, a resistor, whose resistance is measured in ohms, will not be appropriate for use in a specific circuit if it fails to inhibit enough current from flowing to keep the other components in that circuitry safe.

Introduction to Electronic Components

Electronic components are, taken by themselves, generally very simple. Excepting the cases of integrated circuits, which constitute a combination of several different electronic components in one device, electronic components are generally not at all hard to understand. Some of them are amazing in terms of what a simple configuration can do.

For example, a transformer, at the root of it, is only a core with wire windings around opposite sides of it. The complex interaction of magnetism and electricity allow transformers to be created that can precisely transform voltage is down or alter current. Likewise, simple logic gates, when combined into devices that contain literally hundreds of millions of them can turn into your desktop computer.

Electronic components are generally affixed together in a circuit on a printed circuit board or on a breadboard, which is a circuit board that allows components to be passed through holes and soldered into place. Creating printed circuit boards is a very complex process. For most hobbyists, breadboard type circuit boards are preferred and soldering is a necessary skill