What's the starting level? My electronics knowledge is very basic and I'd like to start "designing" some simple power circuits.
I know the basics of resistors, diodes, capacitors, transistors... And I could explain the most simple classic power supply: transformer, full wave rectification, capacitors and so on. I've built basic digital circuits (LDO + arduino/ESP + leds and stuff) and know some basic physics. I'm good soldering, though :D
Checkout bigclivedotcom on youtube - he reverse engineers circuits all the time in entertaining and accessible ways; a great way to learn through practical applications.
Big Clive is is one of my favorite people but I feel like it would be pretty frustrating (and possibly even dangerous) to try to learn electronics from weatching random chinesium product teardowns.
Ha! It's true Big Clive is always testing dangerous things. I sometimes watch it when YouTube recommends it, and I take it as a lesson of things I shouldn't do. Also, I think it might help to notice badly engineering things in cheap (or not that cheap) products. And I like his hand-drawn diagrams.
MIT I think always starts from first principals. If one can understand and not do math that is generally enough. I have taken many MIT OCW classes and I’m completely uneducated.
I know the basics of resistors, diodes, capacitors, transistors... And I could explain the most simple classic power supply: transformer, full wave rectification, capacitors and so on. I've built basic digital circuits (LDO + arduino/ESP + leds and stuff) and know some basic physics. I'm good soldering, though :D