CircuitBench is a new site about learning electronics by building things.

Electronics can feel like two separate hobbies squeezed into one word: on one side there’s the microcontroller world of Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi, where you write code and things happen; on the other there’s the analog world of resistors, transistors, and breadboards, where the circuit itself does the work. Most guides pick a side. CircuitBench won’t — projects here will span both, because understanding one makes the other much easier.

Expect three kinds of posts:

  • Buying guides — honest, hands-on recommendations for tools and components, not exhaustive spec-sheet comparisons.
  • Tutorials — the fundamentals: reading a resistor colour code, using a breadboard, soldering your first joint.
  • Projects — small, buildable things, starting simple and building up.

More to come soon.