How to Start Learning Electronics (The Intuitive Way) Step-by-Step
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If you’re new to electronics or have been struggling with where to start, I’ve put together a step-by-step system to make learning simple and frustration-free.
Most people get stuck because they either:
❌ Get overwhelmed with too much theory.
❌ Don’t know which projects to start with.
❌ Struggle to connect theory to real circuits.
So I recommend learning it a different way, I refined it over years of learning the wrong way and staying slow and stuck. Until I moved in the prototyping direction.
Step 1: Learn the Basics (But Don’t Get Stuck Here)
Before you build, you want to learn a few key concepts:
🔹 Voltage, Current, Resistance – The building blocks of electricity. (Learn Ohm’s Law)
🔹 Basic Components – Resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, and LEDs.
🔹 How a Continuity in Circuits Works – This will be your playground for experimenting (breadboards, perf-boards, whatever connects).
But most people get lost in the weeds here! They read and read and watch infinite tutorials, if you want to do the thing, you just have to do the thing and the learning will come.
👉 Action Step: Get your hands on some parts and wire something up with power. I suggest picking up a basic electronics kit online for like $20-$30 (anything more expensive would likely be gold plating for your current needs).
To suit this need for initiation we developed the monthly Prototyping Pack subscription: every month we send members two box sets of 3 circuits with components, schematics, and easy instructions to get building as quickly as possible (as demonstrated in the next step).
Step 2: Follow the 3-Step Prototyping Method
So you have your components in a big plastic box and you have youtube open with infinite videos of old men soldering and building and talking and talking, what do you actually do now? This is where a lot of people get stuck— so I made a super intuitive system to make circuit-building EASY.
1️⃣ Attach the schematic to the breadboard→
No more messy, hard-to-read wiring!
2️⃣ Place components through the schematic → You’ll instantly see where everything goes.
3️⃣ Test & analyze operation→
Learn from real-time feedback and troubleshooting.
It’s so easy that what once required college level capability can now be done seamlessly by ages 10 years old and up. 🤯🤯🤯
This method eliminates confusion and helps you start building immediately. It’s like LEGO for electronics—no guessing, no stress.
Step 3: Start Troubleshooting Early (It’s a Skill!)
Every electronics learner runs into non-working circuits—this is NORMAL! The whole point is to learn how to think critically and fix stuff. But what should you pay attention to?:
🔍 Check power first (is voltage correct?)
🔍 Inspect wiring & connections (are they secure?)
🔍 Test one component at a time (swap them out to find faults)
🔍 Use a multimeter (measure voltage, continuity, and health of each component)
This will get you thinking critically and allow you to enter the emotionally-rewarding investigation process that all clever engineers crave.
Bonus: you will become way more confident and feel like you genuinely know stuff, which is way more pleasant than worrying and hoping that you know stuff
Step 4: Build Personal Projects & Expand 🧠🧠🧠
Once you’re comfortable with basic circuits, start experimenting with your own projects and areas of interest:
📟 LED Blinkers & Light Sensors
📻 Basic Audio Circuits
⚙️ Motor Controls & Relays
🤖 Microcontrollers (Arduino, Raspberry Pi)
This is where you go from just following instructions to actually inventing things.
The bigger the objective the more you’ll learn. Write down a goal, work backward, and you’ll find a way to make it happen. In the process you’ll become the person who can make it happen.
Who we become through the process of learning is the most important part, more important than what we get, what we build, or any information we download into our brains.