/learn/publications/b/blog/posts/dechac-lecture-series---3-electronic-test-equipmentAfter giving the first two lectures at Denhac , we decided that it would be fun to keep it going with more talks on electronics! While everyone seemed to dig what I had to say, I think there was probably too much talking/drawing and too little s...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/learn/publications/b/blog/posts/dechac-lecture-series---3-electronic-test-equipmentFri, 27 Apr 2012 21:23:16 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:3dfd2ff3-3bb7-43d6-9f4b-8d5a3816d162DAB1<p>Hi Dave,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I had a wild thought.&nbsp; You might want to have exercises with the test equipment and then have the students try to describe how each of them work.&nbsp; It would give you a venue to go deeper into the basic components, verify theory with measurements and begin to introduce them to the 555 as a way to generate test waveforms for future testing.&nbsp; That way you get them &quot;doing&quot; electronics instead of just learning.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We used this approach back in my Tech School days and it proved to be very effective.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just a thought,</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=14102&AppID=45&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">