Coming soon to iPad

Learn electronics by building it

Each Bench game hands you a workbench, a goal and a live simulator. You build. It measures what you built. Nothing passes because it looks right; it passes because it works.

Analog, DSP and Digital Bench on three iPads: lit LEDs, a guitar pedal board patch, and a ring oscillator built from 74HC chips
3games, one per field
189graded exercises
10levels free in each game
0subscriptions, ads or accounts

Pick your bench

Three games are coming to iPad first. Each is its own app with its own course, and each starts free.

Every level

It teaches first

Each level opens with a short brief: why it matters, the one idea, the one formula. A Learn page goes deeper with a worked example and bench tips. Hints come one at a time, a glossary opens any term in place, and every chapter ends with a recap.

The brief for the full-wave bridge exercise: why it matters, the idea, the formula
Measured, not matched

Then it grades what you built

Goals are measurements on your circuit or patch: a current, a frequency, a voltage band, a timing margin. Any design that meets them passes, including the one nobody expected, and the result card shows what it measured beside what it wanted.

A relaxation oscillator and its square wave at 442 Hz on the scope, every goal checked
On every bench

Real instruments

Scopes with up to four probes, a multimeter, a spectrum and a spectrogram, logic probes and a timing view. The same tools you would reach for on a real bench, reading the same numbers.

DSP Bench's spectrum view of a plucked string's harmonics

Free to start, yours for good

In each game the first five levels are free, plus five previews from later chapters, so you can see where the course goes before you pay anything. One purchase unlocks that game's whole course for good, on every iPad signed in to your Apple Account.

No subscription. No ads. No account. Nothing collected.

Coming next

The bench keeps growing. Three more games are on it now.

Micro Bench: a logic analyzer decoding a serial lineIn development

Micro Bench

Write assembly for a small microcontroller sitting on a real circuit. Blink, read a sensor, dim a lamp with PWM, then catch your own bug in the debugger.

Control Bench: cruise control on a car climbing a hillIn development

Control Bench

Feedback control you can watch. Wire a controller to an oven, a motor, a car on a hill or a robot that falls over unless the loop is right.

Power Bench: a 12 V to 5 V buck converter and its efficiencyIn development

Power Bench

Where every watt goes. Buck and boost converters, chargers, solar trackers and motor drives, graded on efficiency and heat.

Support

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