Coming soon to iPad

Analog Bench

Build circuits that work. Under every level is a circuit solver that computes what your parts actually do. The LED glows brighter as the current rises, the resistor heats up past its rating, the capacitor fills and the scope trace moves.

Analog Bench on iPad: a relaxation oscillator and its square wave, with callouts of three lit LEDs and a level complete card reading 14.4 mA
55graded levels
4chapters
4scope channels
10levels free
A live simulator

Nothing is drawn. Everything is computed.

You are not matching a picture. Every wire carries a real current and every part has a real rating, so a lamp lights because the circuit you built drives it. Push a resistor too hard and it overheats; wire a diode backwards and nothing happens, exactly as on a real bench.

A light switch with hysteresis: the lamp lit and the level complete card
The course

From one LED to a motor driver

You start with a battery, a resistor and an LED. Fifty-five levels later you have built:

  • Dividers, bridges and heaters, and learned why a resistor has a power rating.
  • RC timing and filters: debounce, PWM to DC, a resonant tank, a notch.
  • Diodes and transistors: rectifiers, a zener reference, MOSFET switches, a current mirror.
  • Op-amps: a comparator, amplifiers, an integrator, a Schmitt trigger, an oscillator.
  • Practical circuits: a regulator, an LED driver, a motor driver, an audio preamp.
A MOSFET motor driver with its flyback diode and the drain voltage on the scope
Brief, Learn, hints

Every level teaches first

Each level opens with a short brief: why the circuit matters, the one idea you need, the one formula. A Learn page goes deeper with a worked example and bench tips. Hints come one at a time when you ask, and a glossary explains every term right where it appears.

The brief for the full-wave bridge: why it matters, the idea and the formula
Scope and meter

Real instruments, real numbers

A scope with up to four probes reads peak-to-peak, average and frequency. A multimeter reads volts with red and black leads and amps on any wire. A parts page carries datasheet numbers, so a 1N4148 behaves like a 1N4148. Goals are measurements, and the result card shows what it measured beside what it wanted.

Two LC tanks tuned to resonance, with the output sine on the scope

Free to start

The first five levels are free, plus five previews from later chapters: a low-pass filter, a transistor switch, a comparator night light, an oscillator and a 440 Hz tone. One in-app purchase unlocks the full course for good. No subscription, no ads, no account.

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