This is for beginners and very much by a beginner / hobbyist.
It's intended to get an intuitive overview for hobbyist needs. It may get you started, but to be able to do anything remotely clever, follow a proper course or read a good book.
Some basics and reference:
Volts, amps, energy, power · batteries · resistors · transistors · fuses · diodes ·
capacitors · inductors and transformers ·
ground
Slightly less basic: amplifier notes · varistors ·
changing voltage · baluns ·
frequency generation ·
Transmission lines · skin effect
And some more applied stuff:
IO:
Input and output pins · wired local IO · wired local-ish IO · · Various wireless · 802.11 (WiFi) · cell phone
Sensors: General sensor notes, voltage and current sensing ·
Knobs and dials ·
Pressure sensing ·
Temperature sensing ·
humidity sensing ·
Light sensing ·
Movement sensing ·
Capacitive sensing ·
Touch screen notes
Actuators: General actuator notes, circuit protection ·
Motors and servos ·
Solenoids
Noise stuff: Stray signals and noise · sound-related noise names · electronic non-coupled noise names · electronic coupled noise · ground loop · strategies to avoid coupled noise · Sampling, reproduction, and transmission distortions
Audio notes: See avnotes
Platform specific
- Arduino and AVR notes · (Ethernet)
- Microcontroller and computer platforms ··· ESP series notes · STM32 series notes
Less sorted: Ground ·
device voltage and impedance (+ audio-specific) · electricity and humans ·
power supply considerations ·
Common terms, useful basics, soldering ·
landline phones ·
pulse modulation ·
signal reflection ·
Project boxes ·
resource metering ·
SDR ·
PLL ·
vacuum tubes ·
Multimeter notes
Unsorted stuff
Some stuff I've messed with: Avrusb500v2 ·
GPS ·
Hilo GPRS ·
JY-MCU ·
DMX ·
Thermal printer ·
See also Category:Electronics.
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Types
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#Technologies
Resistive
Capacitive
This article/section is a stub — probably a pile of half-sorted notes and is probably a first version, is not well-checked, so may have incorrect bits.
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Capacitive sensing can sense anything that is capacitive (or somehow influences capacitance), which includes fingers or anything with a conductive tip - from specific styluses to sausages in latex gloves.
Designs usually try to only be sensitive to very nearby things (not far beyond a protective plastic/glass layer.
Has a few subtypes -- see capacitive sensing.
One of them can be multi-touch, and multi-touch tablets are very usually capacitive.
Capacitive touch can be faster and more responsive than resistive.
Some of the simpler/cheaper designs are less accurate than resistive, though; some handwriting recognition stuck with resisitive).
The screen itself can be built in a more robust way than resistive (sensors are under the top glass, not part of the top layer as in resistive).
Went from there-but-specific (e.g. in trackpads) in the nineties to pretty common (in MP3 players, and phone touchscreens) in the late noughties.
Optical
Acoustic
Temperature sensing
Brand-specific notes
Elo notes
Protocol notes
eGalax notes