A short history of my web work (circuit-fantasia.com)
I wrote this personal story in 2001 when I began creating the site of circuit-fantasia.com ( archived version ) with great enthusiasm, under the title How to understand, present and invent electronic circuits. With this story I begin uploading my materials from circuit-fantasia to this blog. Story 1. Feeling Dissatisfaction If I have to describe myself as a teacher I don’t think the word "ordinary" would apply. That is so because I do not accept the traditional abstract approach favored in technical education: formal analysis of ready-made circuit solutions. As far back as I can remember -- as a pupil, an undergraduate and a beginning teacher -- I was trying with no success to penetrate into popular electronic circuit operation using classical textbooks on electronics. With time I have reached the conclusion that formal methods do not explain circuits. The mathematical models they use cannot reveal the basic ideas circuits are grounded on: these models hide structure,...