I recently replaced some FET's, caps and a smt fuse in a lcd monitor to get it working again. Everything checked out but it wouldn't stay on for more than a second. I checked and rechecked everything many times and couldn't find anything wrong except that it wouldn't work! Finally I was messing around plugging and unplugging the power cord and POW a cap I had replaced blew up in my face! Due to some glue on the board covering part of the polarity marks I installed an electrolytic backwards. Oops
I blew up a 7805 by wiring it the wrong way round because I didn't use different colour wires for the input and the gnd wire. It was pretty spectecular. It made a loud bang. It was connected to 12v line of pc psu. My engineer friend wasn't impressed. Although I was upset with myself I didn't let that stop me. That was just two - three weeks ago.
good for you. I just like to share my failures. Basically when I learn a new skill I tend to try to run before I can walk. I barely knew much more than ohmslaw and some other bits and pieces I learn't from my electricians course. I built my own arduino. My mate whos a professional engineer though I was crazy and didn't think I get it working. After destroying 2 FTDI ft232rl chips I had it working. But then few days later it failed. I started all over on a new stripboard. AFAIK it still works.
The only experiments that are failures are the ones that you learn nothing from. As long as you can take away some new knowledge, the experiment succeeded at its purpose: Teaching.
no offense, but if you make more research and study the schematics very, very carefully, you will spend less money and be safer on what you will do...
maybe the mistakes that you will do is that the placing, lets say capacitor, that will be the only time you may learn from your mistakes.
and TINA pro or any simulation software will help a lot...
I'm looking at the sidebar to the right and seeing these boobs coming out of some girls shirt in a video that has 32 million views, and for the very first time I get this wave of disgust that fills me looking at this kind of picture. Between looking to the left a pretty and smart woman that inspires us, and looking to the right and seeing a failure of society.
YOUR HOT, COOL, CLEVER AND MY KINDA GAL...YES...GOOD QUESTION...WHERE CAN I FIND A WOMAN LIKE YOU...GREAT VIDEO AND VERY VERY TRUE...KEEP ON KEEPING ON! GOD BLESS
Not sure where I heard it (it was probably one of your lectures), but you should have mentioned how you cloned an Atari on FPGA and all the experiences manufacturing it.
I find it sad so many people give up after one or two failures. Even if the results aren't what you expected or wanted, you still gain knowledge from the situation. The hardest part of doing anything new is sticking with it. Just encouraging words from Galaxy Quest. Never give up, never surrender.
I entered the fascinating world of electronics through projects and experiments such as those highlighted in this program. I agree 100% with everything presented here. However, in my opinion, nothing is more instructive than repair. By working with REAL electronics, designed and constructed by professional engineers, you develop a good sense of the real world of modern electronics. IMHO, all engineers should try their hand at repair first. I have learned a great deal about electronics as a tech.
this video i shall play to my 2 kids when they're next 'round...
and yeah; the serendipity of the unexpected wonder within failure, is one of the best serendipities there is :) across the whole of history, there is a litter of such "failures" which led to the modern era of physics and chemistry... and much more.
and now, as a beginner... i shall go back to poking wires in this circuit i'm building, until magic comes out; in whatever way that may be :)
@cyclenut No, no, trust me you wont. People seem to wallow in ignorance like a pig does in the mud. Being intelligent requires you to put forth effort, effort means work and well that's just too much for most. :(
I'm in love after watching this, don't tell my wife she wouldn't understand. I tear up more than I fix but I learn something every time. Thank's for the encouragement, I'm 54 so it's never to late to learn.
Thanks for this video can't tell you how much it means to me. Just picked up my "digital fundamentals" by Floyd, now I have a personal goal to finish it by the end of Feb.
That ending sums things up. Even when you fail, put the project down and come back to it later. Sleep on it. Take some time & you may find the answer later. Waiting also helps calm down emotion. Can't say how many times I've made something worse because I was either frustrated or in a hurry. Great Vid!!!
Nice and very inspirational video, and as a dude who just plays around with anything that catches his interest, I have to agree, experiment, make mistakes, try to learn from them, and most important; Have fun! :)
The same thing goes for writing software, playing music or just about anything else in the universe :)
LOL I have a scar from a rooster on my lip too... and there I thought it was unique :'( gut it at age 2 or 3 -- I was asking for it -- but what are the statistics for such injury any way?
I absolutely hate failure! I guess that's why I program computers instead of doing electronics. Jeri has reinvigorated my interest in electronics and this video makes me feel better about my failures since I consider Jeri to be a huge success.
I hope that new glow powder shows up in some of her future videos.
Jeri, I needed this video. I am trying to restore my first TV - a Motorola VT-73 from the early 50's. I changed out all the bad parts and now have a short - or near short on the power input side. Its been one thing after another on this TV. It was in bad shape to start with but, you are right; the more I screw up on it , the more I have to dig and learn about the circuit, the better I understand it. Thanks. And by the way, you seem to be a lovely and caring person. All the best! George
i remembr when i didnt have much money and i made a 12 vdc 5 watt power supply from parts from broken tv's. i still have it. i just cant throw it away.
Thank you for that. I build homemade animatronics for Halloween. I spent weeks and weeks on one prop, and I bet I had 80-90 hours into one prop, I had 40 into just one aspect of it (that still doesn't work). And after all was said and done, I learned more from all the struggles I had with it, than if it had gone together smoothly.
Curiosity might have killed the cat, but it made the engineer. In one of my uni labs there hung a notice : "In theory, things don't always work, but we know why. In practice, things work, but we don't always know why. Here we put theory into practice - nothing works, and no one knows why." So keep on making those mistakes! How else are you going to learn? =)
Jeri. Hi I finally bought a lab (scope, function gen, power supply, mmeter) I am going through Grob Electronics and I am just unsure what to do. I think I need a good lab book. I would really like to learn how to calculate with capacitors and transistors. What should I do? Know of a college level lab book?
Jeri! you learned the proper way just by being curious. THAT is what you makes you a professional and not some paper that says you are certified. You are worth more than any paper telling you what you are worth. That goes for PC certifications also.
Totally agree with this sentiment! My uncle applied to a College / University for a senior job teaching electronics and computing in the early 1980s. When he arrived for the interview, there was another person FAR more qualified on paper and my uncle thought he had better go home. The college gave the job to my uncle because they said they could not teach the other applicant the 30+ years of practical experience and knowledge that my uncle had.
we need to clone Jeri ! :-x (problem is Jeri, I've lost all of my friends since I have been tinkering with electronics..its difficult finding anyone who shares this interest or even someone who finds what you are doing interesting) I should have just stuck with fishing.
Great stuff, Jeri. Wish you could talk to every school class. How many future engineers are there out there who are just waiting to find out that's what they want to do?
Completely stumbled onto this video. I was looking for a video on some schematic reading how-to and was surprised to find this. Really inspiring video. Thanks.
great message!! My son and I have just started on a journey to learn digital electronics. we spent 7 hours working on a small op amp harvested from old parts. our success was limited but, every time i looked over at him i could see the gears in his 14 yo brain going. If you can spend that much time with a kid that age and video games are not envolved that is a win in my book. I will show him this video also...thank you
I been searching YouTube on how to make circuits and must say YouTube is amazing but more so the people who take time to make tutorials for people around the world. Great videos, I subscribed. I am trying to teach myself about electronics and how to make stuff. Look forward for more videos.
Cool Cool Supercool. Experimenting is Life! Figuring out HOW something works....or doesn't is more satisfying than operating it. Go forth and Learn! It is it's own reward.
Hey girl, I love you!! Are you married? Your are amazing We can talk about electronics, late in the night after love!!!! My god this woman is amazing :o
Inspiring stuff Jeri. At the first physics class of my last year at school the teacher gave each of the students in the class a printed copy of a set of quotes. The best one said "Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.".
Soichiro Honda, founder of the greatest engine company (Honda) made failure an acceptable occurrence. It was a path to winning! Thanks for the video, and your cute too!
just came across this video, would wish some of the apprentices i have at work would see this and learn from it, you are absolutely right, to learn the right way you gotta make mistakes sometimes :-) were's the fun if everything works the first time :)
Cool! I used to play with those kits with springs! I live in Mexico, and when I was a kid, in every trip we had to the states, the first place I wanted to go to was Radio Shack. Back then they had more interesting things than phones and toys. My dad always supported me in my interest in electronics and got me those kits. I learnt a lot on my own, mostly from trial and error and from electronics magazines (those are really great for learning)... then I grew up and studied electronics engineering
I'm no stranger to teeth accidents, I knocked my top left incisor out two weeks after my adult tooth came through! :(
My dentist replaced it with a plastic one (and later a porcelain one after I turned 18), but I managed to break it several times (the porcelain one I broke after 4 years). I just have the old adult tooth remains there now - I don't wish to spend money on a tooth I know I'll break somehow :)
I am extremely interested in mechatronics, but I can't do shit even after I got my bachelor degree on ME. So I applied to berkeley hoping to learn more, but got rejected unfortunately. I was quite depressed until I saw your video. It is tremendously inspiring to me, I will not give up and probably start learning by myself like you while working. Thanks
This find was cute: "Alan Turing proposed the use of gin as an ultrasonic delay medium, claiming that it had the necessary acoustic properties." --wikipedia - Delay_line_memory
The generosity of your words says a lot about the kind of person that you are, you are certainly one of the persons that is using the internet for making the world a better place! THANK YOU! YOU ARE THE BEST ;)
Truly great video. Were would we all be if it wasn't for those few that weren't scared to try & fail? There is a lot of chaff on YouTube, but this definitely whole grain wheat, the good stuff! Thank you Jeri, I think you are great. Anil xxx Italy.
really the video was gr8 and inspirational ..............but i liked ur laborarty th most really it seeems einstein has now started research in electroins...........
I just want to say that I really admire your video clip, (Learning Electronics - Fail and Fail Often) and all the other ones you did. I started with electronics when I was 9. I would take electronic things apart and see how it worked or I would try to fix it, the majority of the time I would save the electronic parts to build other electronic projects. Now I have my own electronic repair shop called Last Chance Electronics.
I just dismantled two photocopiers a flat screen tv and found three puresine wave ups's last week... It's funny my kitchen table is covered in goodies and my shop looks like.... Full of creations and today I failed at IR heated plastic because I pulled on too much and I got to thin. No I need to get 5 tubes of epoxy
I got plenty of fail projects, I just re-harvest what parts can be used, and say bye to what is bad. Failed projects are good for any future "circuit fry" event ( a 4,000 volt microwave oven power supply and great weather would be the cause). LOL
really needed to hear this advice. been beating myself up for smoking a chip on an amp board . i looked online and this chip is not available anymore. the board was TINY , really loud amp , good tone for guitar , and i had modded the echo . i threw together a completely different , much larger unit the next day , to make myself feel better . if i spend 30 i can get a circuit to replace that one , it'll have trem , and echo. i have a terrible time with failure though, i will book mark this .
if everyone listened to naysayers, we would still be sitting on a flat earth, with no pens, to write in our missing books, that just as well they'd be missing for the shelf's are too,... think you get the idea, LOL... wish i had a ££££ for every time i got told... you'll never do that. LOL
One of the very first computers had mercury delay lines that put data into a stream of ripples, so the idea should work if the density/viscosity of oil doesn't screw it up.
Great video! Thomas Watson said "The way to succeed is to double your error rate." Winston Churchill said "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." And Buckminster Fuller said something to the effect that we always and only learn by trial and error. Deep, against everything I was brainwashed in school to believe, and more true the more I think about it.
Jeri, thx for all your videos, you're awesome! Most of the useful things that I know I have learned through trial & error, as well. However, I was wondering what you do about cost. You mentioned that if you can spend on entertainment, why not spend on parts as well, which makes sense, but even still sometimes these things can get really pricey. It just seems like it's harder to make mistakes if you are limited by a small budget. Can you recommend anything 4 experimenting on a tight budget? Thx!
@yosstek Many of my projects are based off of salvaged parts. I think keeping a "junk" bin or twenty is critical. I find that the junk bin helps me finish projects faster, because I don't have to wait on shipment of parts.
@jeriellsworth Thanks! One last Q: Where do you usually get "junk" parts from, just from old things that stop working correctly or do you actively look elsewhere for useful "junk"?
I can sympathize with the radio receiver woes. Tried several times over the years and still have not been able to get one of my own design to work right. I have learned a little more rf circuit design theory since my last attempt, so maybe the next time I get around to trying I can get it right.
Thank you for sharing. It's easy to forget that everyone is just human sometimes. And it's very easy to get discouraged. After watching your video, I did a very simple project today that I've been procrastinating on for months (and months). I'm really happy I broke out the soldering iron. Thanks again!
You are such a babe! I wish I knew electronics and general making abilities like you did. I think most people have to deal with 1 computer. And it's bought retail and very expensive. There is great risk there hacking with it. It's when we get a few spare parts that we can ease up and start experimenting. And there is also interest. I've paid for expensive parts and make a project and it failed. Most would not be ready for that.
Thomas Edison once said something along the lines of 'i haven't failed, i have merely found out 10,000 ways it won't work'. This was related to his invention of the light bulb, where he went through 3000 types of filament before he discovered one that did work. As an example (and an embodiment of this video) it doesn't get better than this.
jeri ellsworth, I love you! This video is awesome. If only more people thought like you. Our education system would actually be better. Instead of telling everybody they our winners, lets go with its ok to fail and fail often. There is no shame in trying something new. We learn from our mistakes!
Jeri? Oh, bad girl Jeri. I'm not going to start an argument with you. But I would like to say, for my own benefit, that you are really not the person you appear to be! Savy business woman, if you will. Not very nice person.....
It's amazing how many things you try in such a short period of time. How many hours daily do you spend fiddling with electronics, chemistry, metalwork? And what do you do for a living?
this video nearly brought me to tears, it's so beautiful. You hear this phrase all the time "failure is good", but it helps so much to see examples of it. I'm a mechanical engineer, and even if 10 things go right during a product release, if one thing doesn't I feel like a failure, and not in the learning way. I truly feel like I either don't know what I'm doing, or I didn't work hard enough to check my work. Tinkering is the best education you can get.
I recently replaced some FET's, caps and a smt fuse in a lcd monitor to get it working again. Everything checked out but it wouldn't stay on for more than a second. I checked and rechecked everything many times and couldn't find anything wrong except that it wouldn't work! Finally I was messing around plugging and unplugging the power cord and POW a cap I had replaced blew up in my face! Due to some glue on the board covering part of the polarity marks I installed an electrolytic backwards. Oops
scottswan 1 day ago
fair play 2 ya. its not easy but u try
hackerhenry31 2 days ago
inspiring
Urstruktur 3 days ago
I blew up a 7805 by wiring it the wrong way round because I didn't use different colour wires for the input and the gnd wire. It was pretty spectecular. It made a loud bang. It was connected to 12v line of pc psu. My engineer friend wasn't impressed. Although I was upset with myself I didn't let that stop me. That was just two - three weeks ago.
chineseprogrammer 4 days ago
good for you. I just like to share my failures. Basically when I learn a new skill I tend to try to run before I can walk. I barely knew much more than ohmslaw and some other bits and pieces I learn't from my electricians course. I built my own arduino. My mate whos a professional engineer though I was crazy and didn't think I get it working. After destroying 2 FTDI ft232rl chips I had it working. But then few days later it failed. I started all over on a new stripboard. AFAIK it still works.
chineseprogrammer 4 days ago
Marry.. me... O_O.. please..
orioncheung 4 days ago
The only experiments that are failures are the ones that you learn nothing from. As long as you can take away some new knowledge, the experiment succeeded at its purpose: Teaching.
ArtemiaSalina 5 days ago
NEVER GIVE UP. Thats twice I typed this in a comment on YT. Love it.
marcjacobi 6 days ago
You are making the world a better place by sharing your knowledge, you are awesome!
jrbloom 1 week ago
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MataanStudio 1 week ago
I fail all the time but the successes make up for it
MrROTD 1 week ago
no offense, but if you make more research and study the schematics very, very carefully, you will spend less money and be safer on what you will do...
maybe the mistakes that you will do is that the placing, lets say capacitor, that will be the only time you may learn from your mistakes.
and TINA pro or any simulation software will help a lot...
thanks for reading my opinion =)
darwyn13 1 week ago
@NotSoLiberal Societies are failures. They also 'need' enemy images.
BugsWisely 1 week ago
I'm looking at the sidebar to the right and seeing these boobs coming out of some girls shirt in a video that has 32 million views, and for the very first time I get this wave of disgust that fills me looking at this kind of picture. Between looking to the left a pretty and smart woman that inspires us, and looking to the right and seeing a failure of society.
NotSoLiberal 2 weeks ago 5
I don't say that very often to people, but you are truly inspirational to me, saying this and I'm probably a decade older than you. Best of luck.
NotSoLiberal 2 weeks ago
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NotSoLiberal 2 weeks ago
you are heartbreakingly amazing <3
n0n570p 2 weeks ago
YOUR HOT, COOL, CLEVER AND MY KINDA GAL...YES...GOOD QUESTION...WHERE CAN I FIND A WOMAN LIKE YOU...GREAT VIDEO AND VERY VERY TRUE...KEEP ON KEEPING ON! GOD BLESS
versatec1 3 weeks ago
Not sure where I heard it (it was probably one of your lectures), but you should have mentioned how you cloned an Atari on FPGA and all the experiences manufacturing it.
benjaminshinobi 3 weeks ago
If I started recording my failures I'd have unlimited material :)
adisharr 3 weeks ago
I find it sad so many people give up after one or two failures. Even if the results aren't what you expected or wanted, you still gain knowledge from the situation. The hardest part of doing anything new is sticking with it. Just encouraging words from Galaxy Quest. Never give up, never surrender.
TheChikyChiky 3 weeks ago
@TheChikyChiky Wise words and my favorite movie :)
adisharr 3 weeks ago
I'm so in love with you. I hope your significant other knows what a treasure he "or she" has.
wendal2020 3 weeks ago
I entered the fascinating world of electronics through projects and experiments such as those highlighted in this program. I agree 100% with everything presented here. However, in my opinion, nothing is more instructive than repair. By working with REAL electronics, designed and constructed by professional engineers, you develop a good sense of the real world of modern electronics. IMHO, all engineers should try their hand at repair first. I have learned a great deal about electronics as a tech.
randyfromm 3 weeks ago
Trying thousands of things, using brute force experimentation.........She's like a female Edison.
kdc43 3 weeks ago
You are inspiring :-)
HakkoSoldering 3 weeks ago
dork
crafter2u 3 weeks ago
this video i shall play to my 2 kids when they're next 'round...
and yeah; the serendipity of the unexpected wonder within failure, is one of the best serendipities there is :) across the whole of history, there is a litter of such "failures" which led to the modern era of physics and chemistry... and much more.
and now, as a beginner... i shall go back to poking wires in this circuit i'm building, until magic comes out; in whatever way that may be :)
ingiethingie 4 weeks ago
If you like Drinkin Beer and farting just to get a laugh I'd like to ask for your hand in marriage.
BTW-I just had a few brewski's and wondered if you heard the one about the Gay electron...It kept blowing the fuse.
handsupbud 1 month ago
haha, awesome!! Making race car at high school!!! Like your vid, parts n parts n more parts .... Seen your link from Entp group:) Cool!
palpal2011 1 month ago
You just rock. If you get anywhere near Austin please look us up at THEROBOTGROUP(dot)ORG we would love to have you!
askjerry 1 month ago
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Jeriellsworth you are amazing person.
anway1953 1 month ago
People like you Jeriellsworth are a genuine treasure. :0)
youfrancis 1 month ago 2
You are telling the secrets of being smart... Keep telling everyone and soon I'll just be another peroson...
: /
cyclenut 1 month ago
@cyclenut No, no, trust me you wont. People seem to wallow in ignorance like a pig does in the mud. Being intelligent requires you to put forth effort, effort means work and well that's just too much for most. :(
jarredsutherland 1 month ago 2
wow.. the romance here is kind of creepy.
Witnaaay 1 month ago
I'm in love after watching this, don't tell my wife she wouldn't understand. I tear up more than I fix but I learn something every time. Thank's for the encouragement, I'm 54 so it's never to late to learn.
MrMark4423 1 month ago
Thanks for this video can't tell you how much it means to me. Just picked up my "digital fundamentals" by Floyd, now I have a personal goal to finish it by the end of Feb.
ElectricalNick 1 month ago
its ok you took claw to face i took arrow in knee
pilottoaster323 1 month ago 2
I cannot wait to share this with my daughters. Thanks!
JStandlee5150 1 month ago
That ending sums things up. Even when you fail, put the project down and come back to it later. Sleep on it. Take some time & you may find the answer later. Waiting also helps calm down emotion. Can't say how many times I've made something worse because I was either frustrated or in a hurry. Great Vid!!!
johnkc8jzo 1 month ago
Nice and very inspirational video, and as a dude who just plays around with anything that catches his interest, I have to agree, experiment, make mistakes, try to learn from them, and most important; Have fun! :)
The same thing goes for writing software, playing music or just about anything else in the universe :)
DusteDdekay 1 month ago
Just static? If you get static... that's a successful radio right there! you just didn't have it set to the right frequency :P
htfkid2000 1 month ago 2
2:05 Ugly... NOT
I heard that quite a lot of good lookers get called this because others cannot match them so they want power back
Films4You 1 month ago
Thumbs up for really honest video
insanegeniuses 1 month ago 16
I am very happy to see the vidoe Secret to Learning Electronics - Fail and Fail Often from you, hopefully the others also are happy for You
NganaJHone 1 month ago
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NganaJHone 1 month ago
Steady I Really Like This Video Start making mistakes if you want to learn electronics
Ondelendo 1 month ago
Good, I like that you share this video Start making mistakes if you want to learn electronics., I wish success always
bebeheuy 1 month ago
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Edison
ArcadeGames 1 month ago 2
Geez lady, my house isn't a junkyard to store all those parts O.o
mebossyounothing 1 month ago
LOL I have a scar from a rooster on my lip too... and there I thought it was unique :'( gut it at age 2 or 3 -- I was asking for it -- but what are the statistics for such injury any way?
2 in <7 000 000 000?
warlored333 1 month ago
I recommend wearing protective eyewear while learning electronics. Some of those components can really explode with a lot of force.
JLConawayII 1 month ago
where can I find a wife like you?
Andy205ro 2 months ago 78
@Andy205ro me too i need a wife like her so i can find a real subject to talk about lol she is very smart and very very very straight to goal
TiMe2NothinG 1 month ago
@Andy205ro
Especially when Im is bit more Scientific and Electronic focused than others.
mikado387 1 month ago
@Andy205ro Goto a electronics store, some sell them... they cost about $800
iToasterman 1 month ago
@Andy205ro I'd rather get a daughter like this little girl:
youtube . com / watch? v = 3xCY2K9kQz4
(remove spaces)
fede142857 2 days ago
you are amazing! Thanks for the tips... I love you!
gabrielfinol 2 months ago
I absolutely hate failure! I guess that's why I program computers instead of doing electronics. Jeri has reinvigorated my interest in electronics and this video makes me feel better about my failures since I consider Jeri to be a huge success.
I hope that new glow powder shows up in some of her future videos.
mocatz187 2 months ago
wowowwwwww, I have been searching for this for a long time, I do need these lessons.
twanawb29 2 months ago
never seen a fem like you
schtals 2 months ago
A good philosophy.... not only for engineering, but for any human endeavor. Thanks.
fliegeroh 2 months ago 2
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Ucceah 2 months ago
Genius .Failures are pillers of sucess.
vjpillay 2 months ago
u r an inspiration
egikes 2 months ago
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thenaimis 2 months ago
Bravo!
sciencetoymaker 2 months ago
Jeri, I needed this video. I am trying to restore my first TV - a Motorola VT-73 from the early 50's. I changed out all the bad parts and now have a short - or near short on the power input side. Its been one thing after another on this TV. It was in bad shape to start with but, you are right; the more I screw up on it , the more I have to dig and learn about the circuit, the better I understand it. Thanks. And by the way, you seem to be a lovely and caring person. All the best! George
GeoN0JRJ 2 months ago
i think your a beautiful genius
richard33043 2 months ago
my God you're beautiful
DracoRenaissance 2 months ago
I failed at a class because I failed to make a UART. :/
Tsoliassssssssssssss 2 months ago
I learned that chips and transistors work on green smoke. And when green smoke escapes out, it don't work any more.
dblitroot 3 months ago
i remembr when i didnt have much money and i made a 12 vdc 5 watt power supply from parts from broken tv's. i still have it. i just cant throw it away.
eogg25 3 months ago
Thank you for that. I build homemade animatronics for Halloween. I spent weeks and weeks on one prop, and I bet I had 80-90 hours into one prop, I had 40 into just one aspect of it (that still doesn't work). And after all was said and done, I learned more from all the struggles I had with it, than if it had gone together smoothly.
DeadThingsYardhaunt 3 months ago
The next time someone tells me that Steve Jobs was the "Thomas Edison of our time," I'm going to show them this video.
amorsel 3 months ago
Curiosity might have killed the cat, but it made the engineer. In one of my uni labs there hung a notice : "In theory, things don't always work, but we know why. In practice, things work, but we don't always know why. Here we put theory into practice - nothing works, and no one knows why." So keep on making those mistakes! How else are you going to learn? =)
MatrixCat3D 3 months ago
popa chicken was a dick
ihateniggersfaggggg 3 months ago
i began to sense a troll right around the time "papa chicken" appeared.
ChibDibs 3 months ago
Inspirational. :)
Nr37124 3 months ago
Jeri. Hi I finally bought a lab (scope, function gen, power supply, mmeter) I am going through Grob Electronics and I am just unsure what to do. I think I need a good lab book. I would really like to learn how to calculate with capacitors and transistors. What should I do? Know of a college level lab book?
AcousticBruce 4 months ago
Jeri, wtf? I am in love with you now !
cxpm777 4 months ago
Jeri! you learned the proper way just by being curious. THAT is what you makes you a professional and not some paper that says you are certified. You are worth more than any paper telling you what you are worth. That goes for PC certifications also.
inachu 4 months ago
@inachu
Totally agree with this sentiment! My uncle applied to a College / University for a senior job teaching electronics and computing in the early 1980s. When he arrived for the interview, there was another person FAR more qualified on paper and my uncle thought he had better go home. The college gave the job to my uncle because they said they could not teach the other applicant the 30+ years of practical experience and knowledge that my uncle had.
EgoShredder 1 month ago
really good video.
tasilbhurn 4 months ago
you got electronic paradise.My girlfriend thinks it's a trash.I wish I had wife like you!
otamanlvhs 4 months ago
we need to clone Jeri ! :-x (problem is Jeri, I've lost all of my friends since I have been tinkering with electronics..its difficult finding anyone who shares this interest or even someone who finds what you are doing interesting) I should have just stuck with fishing.
andywalkerplumber 5 months ago
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andywalkerplumber 5 months ago
Great stuff, Jeri. Wish you could talk to every school class. How many future engineers are there out there who are just waiting to find out that's what they want to do?
BiteMSMA 6 months ago
are you all self taught?
MatrixOfDynamism 6 months ago
Great Lesson!
You remind me of this quote:
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. -- GK Chesterton
blaisemibeck 6 months ago
scavenging is really fun, is'nt it :-)
nikwalnikwal 6 months ago
Completely stumbled onto this video. I was looking for a video on some schematic reading how-to and was surprised to find this. Really inspiring video. Thanks.
bewaretheintertubes 6 months ago
I want to have a sleepover at your house.
Technoguy3 7 months ago 47
great message!! My son and I have just started on a journey to learn digital electronics. we spent 7 hours working on a small op amp harvested from old parts. our success was limited but, every time i looked over at him i could see the gears in his 14 yo brain going. If you can spend that much time with a kid that age and video games are not envolved that is a win in my book. I will show him this video also...thank you
xspert1970 7 months ago
Thanks Jeri.
mangoprojects 7 months ago
A woman teaching electronics.This is refreshing.
No more empty formulas on a blackboard just hands on training.
Because practice beats theory every time.
ElectricSparq 7 months ago 2
I been searching YouTube on how to make circuits and must say YouTube is amazing but more so the people who take time to make tutorials for people around the world. Great videos, I subscribed. I am trying to teach myself about electronics and how to make stuff. Look forward for more videos.
Zyonic420 7 months ago
Cool Cool Supercool. Experimenting is Life! Figuring out HOW something works....or doesn't is more satisfying than operating it. Go forth and Learn! It is it's own reward.
davidnorton8 7 months ago
So Wise!
GTXAbunada 7 months ago
can u give me some tips in repiring in electronics equipment
wharz25 8 months ago
Jerry...Hi and ty for making vids :) . Sorry teeth got knocked out I think you are very pretty hehe and I love electronics so keep up good work :)
McGavel 8 months ago
Def one hot nerd
scout6686 8 months ago
Hey girl, I love you!! Are you married? Your are amazing We can talk about electronics, late in the night after love!!!! My god this woman is amazing :o
AIexanderHartdegen 8 months ago 2
I absolutely adore you.
I love what you're all about.
wavsyntax 8 months ago
I guess I could have written that as "The only failure is failure to fail.".
LaurieWilliams5066 9 months ago
Failing to fail is failure.
LaurieWilliams5066 9 months ago
Inspiring stuff Jeri. At the first physics class of my last year at school the teacher gave each of the students in the class a printed copy of a set of quotes. The best one said "Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.".
LaurieWilliams5066 9 months ago
Did the DLM work?
tvolala1976 9 months ago
Soichiro Honda, founder of the greatest engine company (Honda) made failure an acceptable occurrence. It was a path to winning! Thanks for the video, and your cute too!
getbusy21 9 months ago in playlist Amateur Science
Where is the fun if there isn't a chance of blowing something up? You are an inspiration. Thanks.
robprebil 9 months ago
just came across this video, would wish some of the apprentices i have at work would see this and learn from it, you are absolutely right, to learn the right way you gotta make mistakes sometimes :-) were's the fun if everything works the first time :)
travellar 9 months ago
Cool! I used to play with those kits with springs! I live in Mexico, and when I was a kid, in every trip we had to the states, the first place I wanted to go to was Radio Shack. Back then they had more interesting things than phones and toys. My dad always supported me in my interest in electronics and got me those kits. I learnt a lot on my own, mostly from trial and error and from electronics magazines (those are really great for learning)... then I grew up and studied electronics engineering
felineboy 9 months ago
You played croquet?!
I'm no stranger to teeth accidents, I knocked my top left incisor out two weeks after my adult tooth came through! :(
My dentist replaced it with a plastic one (and later a porcelain one after I turned 18), but I managed to break it several times (the porcelain one I broke after 4 years). I just have the old adult tooth remains there now - I don't wish to spend money on a tooth I know I'll break somehow :)
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kinglonewolf104 9 months ago
Awesome! You're one of the most inspiring persons ever!
uriituw 10 months ago
I am extremely interested in mechatronics, but I can't do shit even after I got my bachelor degree on ME. So I applied to berkeley hoping to learn more, but got rejected unfortunately. I was quite depressed until I saw your video. It is tremendously inspiring to me, I will not give up and probably start learning by myself like you while working. Thanks
brianxia 10 months ago
re: Mineral Oil.
This find was cute: "Alan Turing proposed the use of gin as an ultrasonic delay medium, claiming that it had the necessary acoustic properties." --wikipedia - Delay_line_memory
WrongTimeline 10 months ago
The generosity of your words says a lot about the kind of person that you are, you are certainly one of the persons that is using the internet for making the world a better place! THANK YOU! YOU ARE THE BEST ;)
jrbloom2 10 months ago
i like positive ppl like you :)
eltipoboricua 10 months ago
Truly great video. Were would we all be if it wasn't for those few that weren't scared to try & fail? There is a lot of chaff on YouTube, but this definitely whole grain wheat, the good stuff! Thank you Jeri, I think you are great. Anil xxx Italy.
anilksolanki 10 months ago
:( too amazing, I can't watch anymore... starting to depress me
anagennao 10 months ago
Your awesome
superdannyj 10 months ago
really the video was gr8 and inspirational ..............but i liked ur laborarty th most really it seeems einstein has now started research in electroins...........
utkarshpatel143 10 months ago
You're an Inspiration To Us All.Thank You For This Video.
AeroDurbanite 10 months ago 4
I enjoy your videos. If I had a mentor like you in my youth, I would have pursued electronics & electrical engineering much sooner in life.
TheatreRoom 11 months ago
Hi, I just started watching your videos. I am interested, what is your day job? :-)
linagee 11 months ago 3
@linagee I do chip design for a day job. Digital.
jeriellsworth 11 months ago 7
@jeriellsworth Jerri not trying to be any way offensive, but do you use computerised voice for your videos ?
stewartdahamman 7 months ago
@stewartdahamman Just my monotone voice in this one. I have used a synth voice for effect in other videos.
jeriellsworth 7 months ago
@jeriellsworth LOL
findvoltage 6 months ago
@linagee here is a good way to learn electronics : google for theelectronicsbook
raztikochinski 2 months ago
Inspirational!
Thank you for all your video uploads.
DJSvenNo1 1 year ago
Inspirational!
Thank you for all your video uploads.
DJSvenNo1 1 year ago
I am guessing 3 people who downvoted the video have never failed :-)
Jeri, thanks for this video, it's excellent and full of truthiness... LOL
TheChipmunk2008 1 year ago
Ugly?! What the hell? You are GORGEOUS!
CalicoatMaker 1 year ago 2
I just want to say that I really admire your video clip, (Learning Electronics - Fail and Fail Often) and all the other ones you did. I started with electronics when I was 9. I would take electronic things apart and see how it worked or I would try to fix it, the majority of the time I would save the electronic parts to build other electronic projects. Now I have my own electronic repair shop called Last Chance Electronics.
lce439 1 year ago
K, so where is the video that talks about all the stuff you were going to talk about? Books, kits, websites, etc?
typedeaf 1 year ago
Some of the best advice possible.
resitorfly 1 year ago
I just dismantled two photocopiers a flat screen tv and found three puresine wave ups's last week... It's funny my kitchen table is covered in goodies and my shop looks like.... Full of creations and today I failed at IR heated plastic because I pulled on too much and I got to thin. No I need to get 5 tubes of epoxy
TheSolarmike 1 year ago
YOU are the one i would marry
Alfredo1987a 1 year ago
I got plenty of fail projects, I just re-harvest what parts can be used, and say bye to what is bad. Failed projects are good for any future "circuit fry" event ( a 4,000 volt microwave oven power supply and great weather would be the cause). LOL
grodenbarg 1 year ago
really needed to hear this advice. been beating myself up for smoking a chip on an amp board . i looked online and this chip is not available anymore. the board was TINY , really loud amp , good tone for guitar , and i had modded the echo . i threw together a completely different , much larger unit the next day , to make myself feel better . if i spend 30 i can get a circuit to replace that one , it'll have trem , and echo. i have a terrible time with failure though, i will book mark this .
ShrimpyandthePs 1 year ago
if everyone listened to naysayers, we would still be sitting on a flat earth, with no pens, to write in our missing books, that just as well they'd be missing for the shelf's are too,... think you get the idea, LOL... wish i had a ££££ for every time i got told... you'll never do that. LOL
Thom in Scotland..... cool videos by the way.
fuelban 1 year ago
One of the very first computers had mercury delay lines that put data into a stream of ripples, so the idea should work if the density/viscosity of oil doesn't screw it up.
CampKohler 1 year ago
@CampKohler Cool. I'd love to make a delay line memory someday.
jeriellsworth 1 year ago
sexy! and i dont refer to the look.
alder321 1 year ago
your s amazing , as crazy you are
TheBarathbushan 1 year ago
Great video! Thomas Watson said "The way to succeed is to double your error rate." Winston Churchill said "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." And Buckminster Fuller said something to the effect that we always and only learn by trial and error. Deep, against everything I was brainwashed in school to believe, and more true the more I think about it.
SynergeticsCollab 1 year ago
would it be possible to make amp meter from microphone? or lab scope?
zzzlt 1 year ago
A fail is nothing more than knowing one way it want work. It just means that you are one step closer to your goal.
droidclone 1 year ago
Jeri, thx for all your videos, you're awesome! Most of the useful things that I know I have learned through trial & error, as well. However, I was wondering what you do about cost. You mentioned that if you can spend on entertainment, why not spend on parts as well, which makes sense, but even still sometimes these things can get really pricey. It just seems like it's harder to make mistakes if you are limited by a small budget. Can you recommend anything 4 experimenting on a tight budget? Thx!
yosstek 1 year ago
@yosstek Many of my projects are based off of salvaged parts. I think keeping a "junk" bin or twenty is critical. I find that the junk bin helps me finish projects faster, because I don't have to wait on shipment of parts.
jeriellsworth 1 year ago
@jeriellsworth Thanks! One last Q: Where do you usually get "junk" parts from, just from old things that stop working correctly or do you actively look elsewhere for useful "junk"?
yosstek 1 year ago
@yosstek I pick stuff up all over the place. Thrift stores, along side the road......
jeriellsworth 1 year ago
@jeriellsworth Okay, awesome. Just trying to get ideas, I really want to get more serious in electronics.
yosstek 1 year ago
I can sympathize with the radio receiver woes. Tried several times over the years and still have not been able to get one of my own design to work right. I have learned a little more rf circuit design theory since my last attempt, so maybe the next time I get around to trying I can get it right.
googacct 1 year ago
Thanks for all you do Jeri.
xycadium 1 year ago
Fantastic message, Jeri :)
afljoeys 1 year ago
good point.
don't listen to naysayers....
everything can be done with a liltle effort...
sadmorcego 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing. It's easy to forget that everyone is just human sometimes. And it's very easy to get discouraged. After watching your video, I did a very simple project today that I've been procrastinating on for months (and months). I'm really happy I broke out the soldering iron. Thanks again!
awiginton 1 year ago
I feel inspired
qadison 1 year ago
You are such a babe! I wish I knew electronics and general making abilities like you did. I think most people have to deal with 1 computer. And it's bought retail and very expensive. There is great risk there hacking with it. It's when we get a few spare parts that we can ease up and start experimenting. And there is also interest. I've paid for expensive parts and make a project and it failed. Most would not be ready for that.
FreakCitySF 1 year ago
Thomas Edison once said something along the lines of 'i haven't failed, i have merely found out 10,000 ways it won't work'. This was related to his invention of the light bulb, where he went through 3000 types of filament before he discovered one that did work. As an example (and an embodiment of this video) it doesn't get better than this.
miningbruno 1 year ago
jeri ellsworth, I love you! This video is awesome. If only more people thought like you. Our education system would actually be better. Instead of telling everybody they our winners, lets go with its ok to fail and fail often. There is no shame in trying something new. We learn from our mistakes!
nostampneeded 1 year ago
Jeri? Oh, bad girl Jeri. I'm not going to start an argument with you. But I would like to say, for my own benefit, that you are really not the person you appear to be! Savy business woman, if you will. Not very nice person.....
downtownwarfare 1 year ago
@downtownwarfare You're right.
jeriellsworth 1 year ago
@jeriellsworth Stalker?
ka5btr 1 year ago
@jeriellsworth I can't believe you're a nasty person! I refuse to believe!
Wildfox01 1 year ago
It's amazing how many things you try in such a short period of time. How many hours daily do you spend fiddling with electronics, chemistry, metalwork? And what do you do for a living?
davidjereb 1 year ago
@davidjereb I work as a contract EE. I have periods of time when I don't have a paying job, so I have all day to dork around with electronics.
jeriellsworth 1 year ago
this video nearly brought me to tears, it's so beautiful. You hear this phrase all the time "failure is good", but it helps so much to see examples of it. I'm a mechanical engineer, and even if 10 things go right during a product release, if one thing doesn't I feel like a failure, and not in the learning way. I truly feel like I either don't know what I'm doing, or I didn't work hard enough to check my work. Tinkering is the best education you can get.
toyotaboyhatman 1 year ago 7
@toyotaboyhatman I believe school makes us think this way and then it carries over into the job. Throw a dash of ego into the mix too. :) H
jeriellsworth 1 year ago 10 <