This video is almost 12 years old... and I still find myself coming back here, to the almighty Jeri whenever I feel discourage after a failure ... or series of failures. I don't think I'm the only one that gets fixated by an idea, a solution or an specific procedure, yet I find it extremely hard to accept failure sometimes, specially when I'm in love with that idea, failing in those situations makes me feel unprepared, lousy, inexperienced and perhaps sometimes I might qualify in those categories, but I'm not where I am by being those things or achieved the things that I have by portraying those qualities...but for some nonsensical reason remembering that (one's value) is so damn hard in those moments. Thank you Jeri Ellsworth, you are a giant whose shoulders I aim to be worthy enough one day to step on and continue climbing.
You may want to do an image search google image :: Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset F.A.I.L. First Attempt at Learning N.O. Next Opportunity Not Yet Still working on it Keep Going E.N.D. Effort Never Dies there are many sayings that help us grow individually and especially any kids that we know.
+kaxitaksi There are several factors in studying circuits. One plan I discovered that successfully combines these is the Gregs Electro Blog (google it if you're interested) without a doubt the most useful course that I've seen. Check out this extraordinary resource.
I'm in my 50's, disabled, and usually in pain...but that didn't stop me from enlisting my partner's aid in turning the dining room that has never been dined in into an electronics lab. It's the most fun we've had together in years, and I've already put together an antenna autotuner for our Elecraft K2.
Gwen/ you have a name, the terrier didn't, it was your elusion distress not eustress . . . which were the you? A question asked well within the bounds of civility. Yes I can spell, but I may creat in, if you are lucky.
what an inspiring video. you see lots of cool projects accomplished by amateurs online, but you rarely see the failures that lead up to a successful product.
If you is interested in electronics the greatest success that ive had was by following the Gregs Electro Blog (i found it on google) definately the no.1 course i've followed.
There are many components to learning circuits. One resource I found that succeeds in merging these is the Gregs Electro Blog (google it if you're interested) definately the no.1 course that I have ever heard of. look at this amazing website.
hi guys, the greatest success that I have ever had was by following the Gregs Electro Blog (just google it) without a doubt the no.1 info that I've followed.
@@rafaelbejarano3422 She is very inspiring. I keep coming back to her vids. Ans she sounds enthusiastic as well as being clued up on everything electronic.
I'm in love after watching this, don't tell my wife she wouldn't understand. I tear up more than I fix but I learn something every time. Thank's for the encouragement, I'm 54 so it's never to late to learn.
""Start making mistakes if you want to learn electronics." Note: this advice does not apply to persons learning neurosurgery. (Veteran of a hundred smoking CPU chips.)
+Dangerous Bill Actually it does. You practice in simulations and on cadavers, and the more time you put in to those and fail the more likely you'll be successful when you are in the actual operating theater.
Neurosurgeons practice on dead cadavers of people and with time progressing to live lab animals mice / rats before they even touch a live person ...and during their learning they also make mistakes ...
I find it sad so many people give up after one or two failures. Even if the results aren't what you expected or wanted, you still gain knowledge from the situation. The hardest part of doing anything new is sticking with it. Just encouraging words from Galaxy Quest. Never give up, never surrender.
Hi Jeri - Thank you. I'm an amateur hobbyist who messes up regularly and it's inspiring to hear that someone as experienced and expert as you are, still has things that got wrong.
9 years later she is instrumental in developing, and selling the first AR glasses/board system on the market, that looks amazing - Tilt Five! Cant wait for this product!
Great video 👍 I didn't even noticed you had a scar on your lip. My dad fixed electronics but mostly TVs that's how I started. Now I'm teaching my kids how to fix electronics.
I took my first radio apart at the age of five- it never worked again. My first electronics experiment also failed- Since a microphone converts sound energy into electrical energy and a speaker converts electrical energy into sound, I put the two together, but it did nothing… :) I love your love for electronics. Not that you need any encouragement (we do what we do because it’s IN us) but I encourage you to tread on with all your heart. We are behind you all the way. Thank you for taking us along with you. You are amazing.
Love her attitude on life. Had similar experiences in my life, being picked on in high school and told I would amount to nothing and my ideas laughed at. Now I'm one of the top techs at my company fixing aircraft test sets and the reverse engineering of equipment with no schematics or test procedures. As it's said in Galaxy Quest, "Never give up, never surrender". I also like few other sayings I've heard somewhere, "Never let them see you sweat", and "Don't give the B-Stards the Pleasure"! Best Wishes n Blessings Jeri, Mr. Keith
Was skipping through UA-cam recommendations after a day of soldering failures one after another. This decade old video really hit home and gave me second wind to continue. Today we rarely see people upload a video of their failure but just the finished product (from movies to UA-cam). Thank you for reminding that we are all human and mistakes are part of learning
The truer words rarely uttered. I have learned to accept Epic Fails as an opportunity to learn how to assemble the working electronics when I was quite young, as well as diagnosing them when they don't work. Failure is a privilege to learn from one's mistakes.
This is still my favorite youtube video. As someone who was brought up to believe that most things are achievable with hard work and perseverance, this video inspires and reminds me to keep trusting my instinct, pursuing my ideas and following my dreams. Thanks Jeri! Gerry
I like how you touch on kids electronics starter kits. I used to always want one when I was growing up. I think they're relevant for learning electronics.
I had my first electronics kit when I was around 5. It did learn the basics with it (and the following ones) and it finally inspired my to become an engineer. Fun side story: My mother at some point refused to read me the manual, which inspired me to learn to read myself, before I even went to school. I was then bored of learning the letter "A" and instead of finishing the worksheet we got for it, so instead of writing 100 (cursive) A's in various sizes I wrote a complete, correctly spelled sentence in perfect grammar onto it. For some reason, the teacher wasn't pleased at all and flipped out about it. It may have had something to do with the sentence being: "This worksheet is extremely dumb." (It was in German, but I translated it)
Yep, I had one by Heathkit. My favorite setups were electric eye and intercom. If I knew then what I know now, I would have combined them and made an optical intercom.
Cool uplifting vid! I just started experimenting in electronics from when I was 12 years old...that's about 36 years ago! I picked up where I left off! There is a lot of help here on UA-cam! Cheers, thanks for the advice.
Wow how did this pop up today, I actually was successful today, on an electronics project I subscribed 5 years ago, and you were the first person in my life that told me failing was part of learning. I wish I was ten years old instead of 45 when I heard that. Thanks Jeri. it's been fun.
Absolutely brilliant! I started off in the 1950s dismantling leftover WW2 electronics with a lot of help from my dad. Some of the things I made worked, some didn't. The homebrew oscilloscope which started as the display of an airborne interception radar was one of the better ones. Then I went on to study engineering properly in Cambridge and now am a consulting software engineer. Keep up the good work, I'll be following the videos.
I love your mind. And persistence! Quick note re the solenoid.... by now, you must have heard the old saw about how electronic devices and coils run on smoke? Because, when you let the smoke out, they stop working! (I grew up with my dad's electronics lab downstairs, in easy reach, and learned the above real early. Kinda miss the days when an idea occurred and I could just run downstairs and build it, or experiment. Keep encouraging kids to work with this stuff!)
***** That would be, of course, "magic smoke". There are lots of other good terms one can find by a diligent and fun search. www.netlingo.com/word/magic-smoke.php
This was a very touching video. Thank-you for posting it. This video reminded me of a quote I half remember from when I was a kid. It went something like: "Errors are never failures until you quit."
This has been my story with electronics. It took me years before I made a circuit that wasn't in some home learner kit that actually worked. I've spent the last 3 years off and on, on a lego pinball machine. Why off and on? A failure has always put a stop to it. So I put it away until I get motivated again and come up with something to solve the problem. Several years ago I tried making a 6502 homebrew computer and it didn't work. Just recently I'm trying it again, and now with the knowledge that I have, I think I can actually make it work this time.
I have been taught that failure is a progress... when you fail you learn something new - something how not to try to solve your problem... and if you fail enough, you will eventually find a way how it goes...
+Flankymanga hey ,if anyone else trying to find out introduction to electronics courses try Elumpa Circuits Expert Alchemist (do a google search ) ? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my buddy got cool results with it.
I have seen your secrets video before and it made my day. I can get quite frustrated some times with what would appear to be failure after failure, but after a while you do figure out that it is just a part of the process. I stumbled upon your secrets video again and it just reinforced that lesson again. Well done m'lady.
Thank you for sharing personal feelings about failure. I was becoming more sure I would never make my own business work (I'm in Electronics Engineering Technology and software engineering but no solid employment). The only fact however is that I haven't done it yet, and mostly because I'm afraid. I also felt like I failed in marriage, twice (funny someone says they want you to merry them), but hey I just got to be confident and the rest will come. I'm over 40 but the day is still new.
Early experimenters in electric and electronic gadgetry way back didn't get "it" right the first time. They learned from mistakes and kept trying till they accomplished their ideas. Sometimes discoveries are made from experiments gone wrong. Look what man has accomplished in just over roughly 120 years in communications alone. Amazing, great video Jeri.
Lotta cool stuff on your channel! I took apart a birthday card that plays music to make a crude bone conducting headphone. I got the positive and negative mixed up and POP! I short circuited it. I learned a little bit that day by messing with something most people would have thrown out.
As I am about to start my electronics hobby journey, I find this to be the most inspiring video I have viewed yet. I'll retire in a few years and now I'm looking forward to many fails and even more fun. But first I'll make sure my first aid kit and fire extinguisher are up to date.
@@jonnamechange6854 that saying is true but not great safety advice. You need a high voltage to get a high current through a human body. That’s why electrical substations, etc. are labeled ‘High Voltage’. The energy companies don’t have it wrong. If there is a high voltage between two wires and you put your hand between them, you provide a path for current to flow, and so a current will run through your hand. This might only damage your hand if you’re lucky. If you touched one wire with your left hand and the other with your right, however, the current might pass through your major organs, and you might be not so lucky. So that’s what the phrase was getting at, but it really needs to be explained to be useful to people. Anyway, yeah, Alexander is right. Be careful and knowledgeable when working with high voltage.
Thanks a bunch. Exactly what you said needed to be said and be heard by all of us who are eager to, full of scientific curiosity, and are struggling to put to practical use the tons of physics and engineering laws and principles that makes electronics and mechanics work. I started out with a 10 chemical chemistry set when I was 9 years old and had my own working chemistry lab by age 12...back in those days you could get the chemicals and lab equipment. I did countless experiments. My father was behind me... He got me the chemistry set, a microscope and a book on human phisiology and anatomy. I turned out o be a chermist and an engineer. He just got me these things and waited to see what I would do with them...I discovered Thomas Edison who became my hero... Edison set my life goals and my work ethic for the rest off my life. I read and re-read books on his life and his labs, his tireless work, his absolute convictions to create a light bulb... Having failed over and over and over and over again... Running out of money... Unable to pay his employees... They believed in him so much they worked without pay until he was able to scratch up venture capital...and even until he achieved frame and success..he never stopped working... He punched into a time clock like all his employees and he worked 20 hour days just about until the day he died. I wanted to write all of this in memory of Thomas Edison and everyone who loves science , electricity and experimentation. Never give up. Never give in. Never sit down and do nothing. And never give in to failure. Just remember..failure is your next best opportunity to try again and do it different. Thank you for making this viudeo.
You are one of the very few people I have heard them admit to making mistakes, I make a lot of things like furniture etc etc and some timesI have to do things twice before I am happy with a professional job and I sometimes I get very frustrated in the process but feel really great when unsoliceted comments on my professional job.Thanks for uploading the video
This brings back the memories of when I was young and playing with electronics. I traded my bike away at the age of 8 for a surpluse ARC5, this was in 1962. Scars from an rf burn and dripping solder are still there. I still play and fail and take chances with my designs. Love your videos.
A lot of Idiot's talking on here. If you have the motivation and drive you can learn the "majority" of what you need to know about electronics with the internet, and a few other tools. When you run into hard problem you can reach out and there and hundreds of people who are willing to help on various forums. As far as getting a job, today you can MAKE your own job. To the people talking about getting past HR thats part of your problem. Your thinking about the past of how things were done. You can start with Arduino, raspberry PI and so on, then move onto other micro controllers and products and bid for work on sites like freelancer once you get some skills. The future is what you make it. You can make it with or without a degree you just have to choose what works best for you. Respect to Jeri for doing it her way.
"People tell you it can't be done but try it anyway" is a very, very good start because there can be allot of difference between practice and theory and also outdated theory. I know some programmers (do also electronics) that don't want to try anything different because the teacher told you to do it that way. Really hate it, because technology change in time, vision changes, in a rapid way and there are many people forget to think for themselfs (they think between boundaries, it is just a learned trick). In fact this is a safe way get into technology by doing what you have learned in the past. To adapt changes and think yourself, being straight forward, what is changed and what you can do to get better results, you must have some heavy balls (maybe very Dutch haha), in a conceited way, to try something new. I really like this, it is the best way to test your passion and (develop) creativity and you are a real developer or a real inventor. In practice, many companies don't want these kind of self thought people because it could be a danger to continituity of commercial activities. Does not stimulate being out-of-the-box curiosity. You must know the trick and nothing else. It is really sad to see that most of the people don't get a chance to develop themselfs by trying new thoughts or things (no room for trial and error in a practicle way). There are so many smart people around but can't use there smartness because the environment forced to don't apply it. This really frustrates me allot, being smart but not able to use it, it makes life more complicated because every single time you have to deal with compromises. You got some experiences other don't have because they don't tried the same, got the same experience to get to a solution by trying yourself. Besides, I don't want to be a negative fool and I want to stimulate experiments yourself, it's good (I am one of them), but can make a (commercial) life more complicated (like described before). Just because of this, I want to stimulate this, the environment needs to change, today, quick!
Yeah I do fail often. I have a "graveyard" of transistors on my shelf ;) P.S. Most of 'em (95%) are mje13003&13007 from my homemade SMPS's I don't have that much new parts, but quite a few :) But when it comes to junk, I tear apart almost everything I come across, even CFL's (there's choke, small toroid ferrite + I reuse shell to make LED lamps)
LTSpice (free) is a real time saver, and you can learn a lot from it. But building the real thing is important too. Just saying, we didn't always have the computing power at our fingertips to run spice in bed or wherever.
Great points Jeri. I started learning Electronics at 12 years old from kits at Radio Shack and Heathkit courses and kits to build including a 25" color TV. After high school was college then 25 years working for the Navy repairing Avionic Systems for Navy jets. Now at 55 yrs old still working and doing design and repair at home, also a lot of failed projects but you learn from them as you mentioned in your video. Thanks for sharing.
My first of two years of electronics training in high school (90s), I fucked off. It was always my interest, but life at home sucked. Second year, I applied myself. My teacher asked to see me when I had missed a day. My friends told me, I was nervous because I wondered what was wrong. I catch up with him back when I returned the next day and he had a heart to heart with me, "I am amazed by your performance this year, you took that whole last year and blew it, but this year you have really turned it around and I'm very proud of you," I'll never forget that guy.
nienawidzeloginu The world doesn't revolve around you either so don't presume to tell me to stop doing anything on your account. It's pretty obvious that I'm trying to show my respect for Jeri. If you want to interpret my comment as me reducing her to an object, knock yourself out (quite literally, please do). Just realise that there's better things and greater injustices in the world for you to stand up against than Raymus Munt's crush on Jeri Ellsworth.
Hey Jerie, I think you are doing a awesome job at helping the community. And I totally agree with you on everything you said in this video. I really wish lot of companies out there understood that self teaching is the best way to learn. Really, keep it up. Thanks!
@14598175...I do not any have any kind of degree in electronics or certifications in engineering .( My sheep skin is in fashion, but that's a story for another day) But I sure make the money like they do, and feel I have a better working life than any engineer working for a company. Self taught from Jr High School Days until now, in fact I only jumped into electronics about 10 years ago again after setting it aside for 10 years or so before that, got a little burned out on it needed a break. Anyway my way pass H.R. is companies they hire me, they call me, as contractor I go in, fix electronics, or work on a project for them, then go on my merry way, kind of a repair man style in & out, bring my own tools, computers ect. And I set ground rules before I agree to take a job, like I tell them right off the bat, to many cooks spoil the soup, and their people can not be around trying to help, ect. but I will call them to look and check things over when I am done...I also tell them I may have to come and go on my time. Because sometimes I have no idea what I am getting into, and I have to go do some research after I look things over, figure it out on the fly, now I do not tell them that part. I also tell them when working on things, nobody can touch anything in the area I am working in if I am their or not, because I lay the parts in a order that can not be mixed up. I make it very clear if they hire me they have to go by these rules or I will pack my stuff up or leave job done or not...and guess what...I have more work than I can handle and get hired by companies all over the USA. Because these business tell other business about the good work I do. The 2 things I find they really care about is if I am insured & if I get the job done and done right in a timely manner. Yes having my own business is my way pass H.R. into their business. And it is VERY RARE when some asks about my degree and when they do, I tell them about my 'sheep skin in fashion design' in a light hearted way and kind of make a joke about someone who trained in fashion working on their stuff....and that works people do not ask farther. So what if I can not have the title engineer I am still doing pretty good being paid like one.
Certainly the value we give off tells who we are, not the rating we get from others, i.e. college degree. I almost forgot to mention, I don't have an engineering degree; I just do engineering and technician work together. I also have a certain way to work and had trouble when others try to mix in. My greatest inventions are the ones that just came to me and nobody else understood them.
Books from seventies and through today. When I go to book stores I always dig through the stacks and ham radio books. As far as building ic and transistors this was way beyond what I ever tried. Keep going, I was educated in Marines in electronics and in university in physics and math. Yet you are still way beyond me.
Failing..fear.. That lesson about overcoming that.. ..not about electronics. It's universal to everything you want to do..and often overlooked..so true :) ..thanks
Great videos and terrific information, Jeri. Thanks so much. Your lesson on failure reiterates my favourite quote by Amelia Earhart: "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." In "the process" you will find failure but that is something to be celebrated as it brings you ultimately to success. Success therefore is "merely tenacity".
Hey Jeri, I only just discovered your videos. I have been balls deep in electronics for the past year, after dropping out of school, trying to not fail the horrific world of university. They teach electronics in such a way where you feel like failure will make your world implode. I genuinely hate it. I've come across so many youtubers that demonstrate how easy it is to do backyard experiments. But I feel like I resonate with your way of teaching. This may in part be due to you being the first woman I've seen in electronics. I am also. It's so isolating. My failures have been expensive, significant, but invaluable to improving my understanding of the world around me. But I have a saying "You will fail, so fail fast" This meaning failure is inevitable, so hurry up and get it over with! I do wonder though, when will one failure be my last. When will playing with HV-DC, microwave transformers and HVAC units get the best of me. Will my landlord ever evict me from the sheer amount of 'junk' I have? Who knows!
Your an inspiration to me I've watched this video a number of times I have just started investigating how electronic's work and I'm 55 it's never to late to try things that interest you. Thank You
That ending sums things up. Even when you fail, put the project down and come back to it later. Sleep on it. Take some time & you may find the answer later. Waiting also helps calm down emotion. Can't say how many times I've made something worse because I was either frustrated or in a hurry. Great Vid!!!
I know about fear of failure. It is the windmill I've tilted with all my life. I find your story inspirational and it has encourage me to do what I've wanted to do for such a long time and that is learn a bit about electronics. Oh and this is my favourite of all your videos. It is great to re-watch everyone now and then when those windmills get too big and scary.
Very inspiring message. I can relate. I see how much fear of failure controls my life and almost have become an integrated part of my personality. Guess i'd have to do a lot of failing to get rid of it
What an honest, straightforward and intelligent presentation. Concise but inspiring and down to Earth. Her determination is a force of nature. Obviously thumbs up for this and many of Jeri's videos.
Great video! If you never try anything because you're terrified of failure you'll probably never truly learn or accomplish anything. Sure you will mess up and things won't go as planned but the feeling of trying something, figuring it out, and succeeding is worth it.
I hope you share that passion with some middle school kids, especially girls and poor kids in general. I was poor kid that found technology, and it saved me.
Thankyou for this, it's very wise. I just today saw this, and also had a pretty epic failure at an idea that I'd been wanting to try for months, and just got all the parts together for. I like the line about celebrating failures. It makes sense, and is a great way to look at things. Thankyou for taking time and helping the community
Start making mistakes if you want to learn electronics. After making lots and lots of mistakes lately with expensive arcade hardware, believe me that I needed to read something like this - Thanks Jeri!! Just subscribed to your channel, I'm looking forward to learn more and more about electronics
Thanks Jeri , you've inspired me alot I can't wait to explain it, Am in love with electronics and would one day want to be ascientist in it,,thanks once again❤
thank you very much for sharing your experience in electronics, I think many (if not all) we pass through this stage of "uncertainty" when you start working with circuits, the secret is not to give up, thank you very much again and until soon.
I love your attitude, I was told three times today I should stop trying to build tube amps even though my first after 40 years needed two wires moved to different parts then it worked. I know you need books for reference and some books can be in pdf on line so you don't have to buy them but you do have to pay sometimes to download them. Some one was trying hard to impress me and did not, but I was with your simplicity although I did not understand everything you said in other videos.
Awesome message Jeri. Too often we feel the pressure to get it right 1st time which can cause procrastination and a failure for not trying it quickly in the 1st place!
This video is almost 12 years old... and I still find myself coming back here, to the almighty Jeri whenever I feel discourage after a failure ... or series of failures. I don't think I'm the only one that gets fixated by an idea, a solution or an specific procedure, yet I find it extremely hard to accept failure sometimes, specially when I'm in love with that idea, failing in those situations makes me feel unprepared, lousy, inexperienced and perhaps sometimes I might qualify in those categories, but I'm not where I am by being those things or achieved the things that I have by portraying those qualities...but for some nonsensical reason remembering that (one's value) is so damn hard in those moments.
Thank you Jeri Ellsworth, you are a giant whose shoulders I aim to be worthy enough one day to step on and continue climbing.
F.A.I.L = First Attempt In Learning :)
+kaxitaksi
I like that acronym for F.A.I.L.
I wonder if you believe that we should have grades in school as
Not Yet
Keep Trying
Good Going
You Got It
Nice
You may want to do an image search
google image :: Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset
F.A.I.L. First Attempt at Learning
N.O. Next Opportunity
Not Yet Still working on it
Keep Going
E.N.D. Effort Never Dies
there are many sayings that help us grow individually and especially any kids that we know.
+kaxitaksi There are several factors in studying circuits. One plan I discovered that successfully combines these is the Gregs Electro Blog (google it if you're interested) without a doubt the most useful course that I've seen. Check out this extraordinary resource.
Thanks!
www.gregselectroblog.com/
Do you know if there is a 3d simulator for EM circuits?
I'm in my 50's, disabled, and usually in pain...but that didn't stop me from enlisting my partner's aid in turning the dining room that has never been dined in into an electronics lab. It's the most fun we've had together in years, and I've already put together an antenna autotuner for our Elecraft K2.
Outstanding. Good for you!
May God Bless you
Gwen/ you have a name, the terrier didn't, it was your elusion distress not eustress . . . which were the you? A question asked well within the bounds of civility. Yes I can spell, but I may creat in, if you are lucky.
eat right and don't eat garbage toxic "food"
Now you're dining on knowledge and experience my friend, good choice
what an inspiring video. you see lots of cool projects accomplished by amateurs online, but you rarely see the failures that lead up to a successful product.
@styropyro I watched all of your videos, and have never seen you fail.
If you is interested in electronics the greatest success that ive had was by following the Gregs Electro Blog (i found it on google) definately the no.1 course i've followed.
There are many components to learning circuits. One resource I found that succeeds in merging these is the Gregs Electro Blog (google it if you're interested) definately the no.1 course that I have ever heard of. look at this amazing website.
hi guys, the greatest success that I have ever had was by following the Gregs Electro Blog (just google it) without a doubt the no.1 info that I've followed.
@@rafaelbejarano3422 She is very inspiring. I keep coming back to her vids. Ans she sounds enthusiastic as well as being clued up on everything electronic.
UA-cam needs a wow button for videos like these. Thank u.
the best results that i've had was with the Gregs Electro Blog (just google it) definately the most useful info that I have ever followed.
I'm in love after watching this, don't tell my wife she wouldn't understand. I tear up more than I fix but I learn something every time. Thank's for the encouragement, I'm 54 so it's never to late to learn.
""Start making mistakes if you want to learn electronics."
Note: this advice does not apply to persons learning neurosurgery.
(Veteran of a hundred smoking CPU chips.)
+Dangerous Bill Actually it does. You practice in simulations and on cadavers, and the more time you put in to those and fail the more likely you'll be successful when you are in the actual operating theater.
Neurosurgeons practice on dead cadavers of people and with time progressing to live lab animals mice / rats before they even touch a live person ...and during their learning they also make mistakes ...
Guess what lobotomy and other disastrous practices were.
I find it sad so many people give up after one or two failures. Even if the results aren't what you expected or wanted, you still gain knowledge from the situation. The hardest part of doing anything new is sticking with it. Just encouraging words from Galaxy Quest. Never give up, never surrender.
Hi Jeri - Thank you. I'm an amateur hobbyist who messes up regularly and it's inspiring to hear that someone as experienced and expert as you are, still has things that got wrong.
9 years later she is instrumental in developing, and selling the first AR glasses/board system on the market, that looks amazing - Tilt Five! Cant wait for this product!
Great video 👍 I didn't even noticed you had a scar on your lip. My dad fixed electronics but mostly TVs that's how I started. Now I'm teaching my kids how to fix electronics.
I took my first radio apart at the age of five- it never worked again. My first electronics experiment also failed- Since a microphone converts sound energy into electrical energy and a speaker converts electrical energy into sound, I put the two together, but it did nothing… :) I love your love for electronics. Not that you need any encouragement (we do what we do because it’s IN us) but I encourage you to tread on with all your heart. We are behind you all the way. Thank you for taking us along with you. You are amazing.
Love her attitude on life. Had similar experiences in my life, being picked on in high school and told I would amount to nothing and my ideas laughed at. Now I'm one of the top techs at my company fixing aircraft test sets and the reverse engineering of equipment with no schematics or test procedures. As it's said in Galaxy Quest, "Never give up, never surrender". I also like few other sayings I've heard somewhere, "Never let them see you sweat", and "Don't give the B-Stards the Pleasure"!
Best Wishes n Blessings Jeri, Mr. Keith
Was skipping through UA-cam recommendations after a day of soldering failures one after another. This decade old video really hit home and gave me second wind to continue. Today we rarely see people upload a video of their failure but just the finished product (from movies to UA-cam). Thank you for reminding that we are all human and mistakes are part of learning
The truer words rarely uttered. I have learned to accept Epic Fails as an opportunity to learn how to assemble the working electronics when I was quite young, as well as diagnosing them when they don't work. Failure is a privilege to learn from one's mistakes.
In that case, I feel VERY privileged... 🙄 👑 🤷♂️
This is still my favorite youtube video. As someone who was brought up to believe that most things are achievable with hard work and perseverance, this video inspires and reminds me to keep trusting my instinct, pursuing my ideas and following my dreams. Thanks Jeri!
Gerry
I like how you touch on kids electronics starter kits.
I used to always want one when I was growing up. I think they're relevant for learning electronics.
I had my first electronics kit when I was around 5. It did learn the basics with it (and the following ones) and it finally inspired my to become an engineer.
Fun side story:
My mother at some point refused to read me the manual, which inspired me to learn to read myself, before I even went to school.
I was then bored of learning the letter "A" and instead of finishing the worksheet we got for it, so instead of writing 100 (cursive) A's in various sizes I wrote a complete, correctly spelled sentence in perfect grammar onto it. For some reason, the teacher wasn't pleased at all and flipped out about it.
It may have had something to do with the sentence being: "This worksheet is extremely dumb." (It was in German, but I translated it)
Yep, I had one by Heathkit. My favorite setups were electric eye and intercom. If I knew then what I know now, I would have combined them and made an optical intercom.
Jeri, you make a great role model for young people who struggle to find acceptance among their peers. Keep up the great work!
Cool uplifting vid! I just started experimenting in electronics from when I was 12 years old...that's about 36 years ago! I picked up where I left off! There is a lot of help here on UA-cam! Cheers, thanks for the advice.
So close to my own story while discovering electronics and radio 48 years ago... And still ongoing too !
You are the Tori Amos of electronic engineering.
Your my idol.
Just wanted to share that every now and again I come back to this video over and over again and it's always an inspiration, thank you!
This was amazing. Such a great introduction to a novice who's destined to become an ER regular. Following and looking forward to learning!
Wow how did this pop up today, I actually was successful today, on an electronics project
I subscribed 5 years ago, and you were the first person in my life that told me failing
was part of learning. I wish I was ten years old instead of 45 when I heard that.
Thanks Jeri. it's been fun.
Thank you for saying what is painfully obvious. Failure is a requisite in learning.
Absolutely brilliant! I started off in the 1950s dismantling leftover WW2 electronics with a lot of help from my dad. Some of the things I made worked, some didn't. The homebrew oscilloscope which started as the display of an airborne interception radar was one of the better ones. Then I went on to study engineering properly in Cambridge and now am a consulting software engineer. Keep up the good work, I'll be following the videos.
I love your mind. And persistence!
Quick note re the solenoid.... by now, you must have heard the old saw about how electronic devices and coils run on smoke? Because, when you let the smoke out, they stop working!
(I grew up with my dad's electronics lab downstairs, in easy reach, and learned the above real early. Kinda miss the days when an idea occurred and I could just run downstairs and build it, or experiment. Keep encouraging kids to work with this stuff!)
***** That would be, of course, "magic smoke". There are lots of other good terms one can find by a diligent and fun search. www.netlingo.com/word/magic-smoke.php
This was a very touching video. Thank-you for posting it. This video reminded me of a quote I half remember from when I was a kid. It went something like: "Errors are never failures until you quit."
This has been my story with electronics. It took me years before I made a circuit that wasn't in some home learner kit that actually worked. I've spent the last 3 years off and on, on a lego pinball machine. Why off and on? A failure has always put a stop to it. So I put it away until I get motivated again and come up with something to solve the problem. Several years ago I tried making a 6502 homebrew computer and it didn't work. Just recently I'm trying it again, and now with the knowledge that I have, I think I can actually make it work this time.
Amazing
man i watched this video YEARS AGO! and i still came back because it's such an important message. thank you Jeri!
I have been taught that failure is a progress... when you fail you learn something new - something how not to try to solve your problem... and if you fail enough, you will eventually find a way how it goes...
The problem is that sometimes mistakes have huge prices.
Тайный Я Well thats why it is advised to start in small so that these mistakes wont have huge prices....
+Flankymanga hey ,if anyone else trying to find out introduction to electronics courses try Elumpa Circuits Expert Alchemist (do a google search ) ? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my buddy got cool results with it.
+Flankymanga Or work with junk so that if you fail at something big it will have little cost.
Linuxtarian Socialist yep...
I have seen your secrets video before and it made my day. I can get quite frustrated some times with what would appear to be failure after failure, but after a while you do figure out that it is just a part of the process. I stumbled upon your secrets video again and it just reinforced that lesson again. Well done m'lady.
Thank you for sharing personal feelings about failure. I was becoming more sure I would never make my own business work (I'm in Electronics Engineering Technology and software engineering but no solid employment). The only fact however is that I haven't done it yet, and mostly because I'm afraid.
I also felt like I failed in marriage, twice (funny someone says they want you to merry them), but hey I just got to be confident and the rest will come. I'm over 40 but the day is still new.
Early experimenters in electric and electronic gadgetry way back didn't get "it" right the first time. They learned from mistakes and kept trying till they accomplished their ideas. Sometimes discoveries are made from experiments gone wrong. Look what man has accomplished in just over roughly 120 years in communications alone. Amazing, great video Jeri.
you ought to expand this into a TED talk. Seriously.
I love your videos because you are a brilliant adventurer willing to fail in order to learn. We need your work, Jeri.
Lotta cool stuff on your channel! I took apart a birthday card that plays music to make a crude bone conducting headphone. I got the positive and negative mixed up and POP! I short circuited it. I learned a little bit that day by messing with something most people would have thrown out.
For me, this is possibly the single most valuable video you could have made. Thank you Jeri, for sharing so much of yourself with us!
This video made my day and gives me hope to face all the challenges each day :)
Thanks Jeri!
As I am about to start my electronics hobby journey, I find this to be the most inspiring video I have viewed yet. I'll retire in a few years and now I'm looking forward to many fails and even more fun. But first I'll make sure my first aid kit and fire extinguisher are up to date.
Love the technical and reference book collection. My wife complains about mine!
I'm a producer/audio engineer and musician looking to learn how to build my own preamps.
Thanks for your time and efforts!
Nice video! One comment: Be Scared and CAREFUL if working with high voltage
I always thought that until I heard its the amps that kill you, not the volts. (I gonna leave it all well alone)
@@jonnamechange6854 that saying is true but not great safety advice.
You need a high voltage to get a high current through a human body. That’s why electrical substations, etc. are labeled ‘High Voltage’. The energy companies don’t have it wrong.
If there is a high voltage between two wires and you put your hand between them, you provide a path for current to flow, and so a current will run through your hand. This might only damage your hand if you’re lucky.
If you touched one wire with your left hand and the other with your right, however, the current might pass through your major organs, and you might be not so lucky.
So that’s what the phrase was getting at, but it really needs to be explained to be useful to people. Anyway, yeah, Alexander is right. Be careful and knowledgeable when working with high voltage.
Thanks a bunch. Exactly what you said needed to be said and be heard by all of us who are eager to, full of scientific curiosity, and are struggling to put to practical use the tons of physics and engineering laws and principles that makes electronics and mechanics work. I started out with a 10 chemical chemistry set when I was 9 years old and had my own working chemistry lab by age 12...back in those days you could get the chemicals and lab equipment. I did countless experiments. My father was behind me... He got me the chemistry set, a microscope and a book on human phisiology and anatomy. I turned out o be a chermist and an engineer. He just got me these things and waited to see what I would do with them...I discovered Thomas Edison who became my hero... Edison set my life goals and my work ethic for the rest off my life. I read and re-read books on his life and his labs, his tireless work, his absolute convictions to create a light bulb... Having failed over and over and over and over again... Running out of money... Unable to pay his employees... They believed in him so much they worked without pay until he was able to scratch up venture capital...and even until he achieved frame and success..he never stopped working... He punched into a time clock like all his employees and he worked 20 hour days just about until the day he died. I wanted to write all of this in memory of Thomas Edison and everyone who loves science , electricity and experimentation. Never give up. Never give in. Never sit down and do nothing. And never give in to failure. Just remember..failure is your next best opportunity to try again and do it different. Thank you for making this viudeo.
You've really inspired and encouraged me. Thank you, I needed that :)
You are one of the very few people I have heard them admit to making mistakes, I make a lot of things like furniture
etc etc and some timesI have to do things twice before I am happy with a professional job and I sometimes I get very frustrated in the process but feel really great when unsoliceted comments on my professional job.Thanks for uploading the video
You're awesome! When I was a kid, i was a weird outcast too.... and i read books about op amps :) You're right, it gets better. Thx
Same
This brings back the memories of when I was young and playing with electronics. I traded my bike away at the age of 8 for a surpluse ARC5, this was in 1962. Scars from an rf burn and dripping solder are still there. I still play and fail and take chances with my designs. Love your videos.
A lot of Idiot's talking on here. If you have the motivation and drive you can learn the "majority" of what you need to know about electronics with the internet, and a few other tools. When you run into hard problem you can reach out and there and hundreds of people who are willing to help on various forums. As far as getting a job, today you can MAKE your own job. To the people talking about getting past HR thats part of your problem. Your thinking about the past of how things were done. You can start with Arduino, raspberry PI and so on, then move onto other micro controllers and products and bid for work on sites like freelancer once you get some skills. The future is what you make it. You can make it with or without a degree you just have to choose what works best for you. Respect to Jeri for doing it her way.
"People tell you it can't be done but try it anyway" is a very, very good start because there can be allot of difference between practice and theory and also outdated theory. I know some programmers (do also electronics) that don't want to try anything different because the teacher told you to do it that way. Really hate it, because technology change in time, vision changes, in a rapid way and there are many people forget to think for themselfs (they think between boundaries, it is just a learned trick). In fact this is a safe way get into technology by doing what you have learned in the past.
To adapt changes and think yourself, being straight forward, what is changed and what you can do to get better results, you must have some heavy balls (maybe very Dutch haha), in a conceited way, to try something new. I really like this, it is the best way to test your passion and (develop) creativity and you are a real developer or a real inventor.
In practice, many companies don't want these kind of self thought people because it could be a danger to continituity of commercial activities. Does not stimulate being out-of-the-box curiosity. You must know the trick and nothing else. It is really sad to see that most of the people don't get a chance to develop themselfs by trying new thoughts or things (no room for trial and error in a practicle way). There are so many smart people around but can't use there smartness because the environment forced to don't apply it.
This really frustrates me allot, being smart but not able to use it, it makes life more complicated because every single time you have to deal with compromises. You got some experiences other don't have because they don't tried the same, got the same experience to get to a solution by trying yourself.
Besides, I don't want to be a negative fool and I want to stimulate experiments yourself, it's good (I am one of them), but can make a (commercial) life more complicated (like described before). Just because of this, I want to stimulate this, the environment needs to change, today, quick!
This is Awesome.
Programming Electronics Academy, she is awesome!
Very wise words Jerri, as an inventor myself I've always expected myself to fail, but my failures have never stopped me.
Yeah I do fail often. I have a "graveyard" of transistors on my shelf ;)
P.S. Most of 'em (95%) are mje13003&13007 from my homemade SMPS's
I don't have that much new parts, but quite a few :) But when it comes to junk, I tear apart almost everything I come across, even CFL's (there's choke, small toroid ferrite + I reuse shell to make LED lamps)
I think fear of failure has held me back a lot. Thank you for your encouraging words
LTSpice (free) is a real time saver, and you can learn a lot from it. But building the real thing is important too. Just saying, we didn't always have the computing power at our fingertips to run spice in bed or wherever.
I'm as grateful for your heartfelt message as I am sorry that you didn't exist when I was 12. Just shared with my teen niece and nephew. Thank you.
You are the most awesome girl on youtube!!!... I think im in love.. Never had a youtuber crush before lol... your one of a kind, great vid...subbed
I agree with you. We learn from our failures. The key is don't quit. We'll discover something. You're a real scientist. And also beautiful.
You are amazing...
Great points Jeri. I started learning Electronics at 12 years old from kits at Radio Shack and Heathkit courses and kits to build including a 25" color TV. After high school was college then 25 years working for the Navy repairing Avionic Systems for Navy jets. Now at 55 yrs old still working and doing design and repair at home, also a lot of failed projects but you learn from them as you mentioned in your video. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful and clever .
My first of two years of electronics training in high school (90s), I fucked off. It was always my interest, but life at home sucked.
Second year, I applied myself. My teacher asked to see me when I had missed a day. My friends told me, I was nervous because I wondered what was wrong.
I catch up with him back when I returned the next day and he had a heart to heart with me, "I am amazed by your performance this year, you took that whole last year and blew it, but this year you have really turned it around and I'm very proud of you,"
I'll never forget that guy.
From "ugly girl with no teeth" to dream woman for all us geeks.
Raymus Munt stop making it all about you. males need to learn that world doesn't exist for themselves only.
nienawidzeloginu The world doesn't revolve around you either so don't presume to tell me to stop doing anything on your account. It's pretty obvious that I'm trying to show my respect for Jeri. If you want to interpret my comment as me reducing her to an object, knock yourself out (quite literally, please do). Just realise that there's better things and greater injustices in the world for you to stand up against than Raymus Munt's crush on Jeri Ellsworth.
imgur.com/hMIMLVX just sayin'
Jeri you're such an inspiration to everyone , both male and female. Thanks.
wow i just discovered your channel , you gonna have lots of likes from me ;)
Hey Jerie, I think you are doing a awesome job at helping the community. And I totally agree with you on everything you said in this video. I really wish lot of companies out there understood that self teaching is the best way to learn. Really, keep it up. Thanks!
@14598175...I do not any have any kind of degree in electronics or certifications in engineering .( My sheep skin is in fashion, but that's a story for another day) But I sure make the money like they do, and feel I have a better working life than any engineer working for a company. Self taught from Jr High School Days until now, in fact I only jumped into electronics about 10 years ago again after setting it aside for 10 years or so before that, got a little burned out on it needed a break. Anyway my way pass H.R. is companies they hire me, they call me, as contractor I go in, fix electronics, or work on a project for them, then go on my merry way, kind of a repair man style in & out, bring my own tools, computers ect. And I set ground rules before I agree to take a job, like I tell them right off the bat, to many cooks spoil the soup, and their people can not be around trying to help, ect. but I will call them to look and check things over when I am done...I also tell them I may have to come and go on my time. Because sometimes I have no idea what I am getting into, and I have to go do some research after I look things over, figure it out on the fly, now I do not tell them that part. I also tell them when working on things, nobody can touch anything in the area I am working in if I am their or not, because I lay the parts in a order that can not be mixed up. I make it very clear if they hire me they have to go by these rules or I will pack my stuff up or leave job done or not...and guess what...I have more work than I can handle and get hired by companies all over the USA. Because these business tell other business about the good work I do. The 2 things I find they really care about is if I am insured & if I get the job done and done right in a timely manner. Yes having my own business is my way pass H.R. into their business. And it is VERY RARE when some asks about my degree and when they do, I tell them about my 'sheep skin in fashion design' in a light hearted way and kind of make a joke about someone who trained in fashion working on their stuff....and that works people do not ask farther. So what if I can not have the title engineer I am still doing pretty good being paid like one.
I am self thought either and i enjoy it.
Certainly the value we give off tells who we are, not the rating we get from others, i.e. college degree. I almost forgot to mention, I don't have an engineering degree; I just do engineering and technician work together.
I also have a certain way to work and had trouble when others try to mix in. My greatest inventions are the ones that just came to me and nobody else understood them.
ANN ENGLAND Hi, I am John England. If you ever come by north Texas send me a comment. It would be fun to tell SOE tech stories over a lunch!!!
Books from seventies and through today. When I go to book stores I always dig through the stacks and ham radio books. As far as building ic and transistors this was way beyond what I ever tried. Keep going, I was educated in Marines in electronics and in university in physics and math. Yet you are still way beyond me.
Very inspirational!
Failing..fear..
That lesson about overcoming that..
..not about electronics. It's universal to everything you want to do..and often overlooked..so true :) ..thanks
Community should include your local makerspace. online is great, but there's nothing like being in a room with other misfits :-D
Great videos and terrific information, Jeri. Thanks so much. Your lesson on failure reiterates my favourite quote by Amelia Earhart: "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." In "the process" you will find failure but that is something to be celebrated as it brings you ultimately to success. Success therefore is "merely tenacity".
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Hey Jeri, I only just discovered your videos. I have been balls deep in electronics for the past year, after dropping out of school, trying to not fail the horrific world of university. They teach electronics in such a way where you feel like failure will make your world implode. I genuinely hate it.
I've come across so many youtubers that demonstrate how easy it is to do backyard experiments. But I feel like I resonate with your way of teaching. This may in part be due to you being the first woman I've seen in electronics. I am also. It's so isolating.
My failures have been expensive, significant, but invaluable to improving my understanding of the world around me. But I have a saying "You will fail, so fail fast"
This meaning failure is inevitable, so hurry up and get it over with!
I do wonder though, when will one failure be my last. When will playing with HV-DC, microwave transformers and HVAC units get the best of me. Will my landlord ever evict me from the sheer amount of 'junk' I have? Who knows!
something surprising : no stupid-idiots-cheap comments on this vidéo !
Your an inspiration to me I've watched this video a number of times I have just started investigating how electronic's work and I'm 55 it's never to late to try things that interest you. Thank You
That ending sums things up. Even when you fail, put the project down and come back to it later. Sleep on it. Take some time & you may find the answer later. Waiting also helps calm down emotion. Can't say how many times I've made something worse because I was either frustrated or in a hurry. Great Vid!!!
Why o why can't there be more girls like this...
Please merry me :P
Subscribed ;)
lol.. totally agree bro...
Do you have an electronics spare parts bin?
*Throws ps3 in bin*... yup!...
Richard Alexander She can have my electronics spare parts bin anytime.
EyeAmBatman That's good... that's really good... for a beginner!
I know about fear of failure. It is the windmill I've tilted with all my life. I find your story inspirational and it has encourage me to do what I've wanted to do for such a long time and that is learn a bit about electronics.
Oh and this is my favourite of all your videos. It is great to re-watch everyone now and then when those windmills get too big and scary.
great video .I'm just a little distracted on how beautiful you are
Very inspiring message. I can relate. I see how much fear of failure controls my life and almost have become an integrated part of my personality. Guess i'd have to do a lot of failing to get rid of it
What an honest, straightforward and intelligent presentation. Concise but inspiring and down to Earth. Her determination is a force of nature. Obviously thumbs up for this and many of Jeri's videos.
Great video! If you never try anything because you're terrified of failure you'll probably never truly learn or accomplish anything. Sure you will mess up and things won't go as planned but the feeling of trying something, figuring it out, and succeeding is worth it.
I hope you share that passion with some middle school kids, especially girls and poor kids in general. I was poor kid that found technology, and it saved me.
You and your story about how you became a microchip designer and this video are a HUGE inspiration to me.
You're an inspiration and a role model. Keep it up, the world needs it.
1:32 thanks to Papa Chicken, the claw to the face, and the crockett accident for making me awesome.... lol
Thankyou for this, it's very wise. I just today saw this, and also had a pretty epic failure at an idea that I'd been wanting to try for months, and just got all the parts together for. I like the line about celebrating failures. It makes sense, and is a great way to look at things. Thankyou for taking time and helping the community
The value of good advice never dies....on to the next circuit to let the smoke out :)
Start making mistakes if you want to learn electronics.
After making lots and lots of mistakes lately with expensive arcade hardware, believe me that I needed to read something like this - Thanks Jeri!! Just subscribed to your channel, I'm looking forward to learn more and more about electronics
Congrats. You was not weird, you were actually awesome all the way. Rock on.
I like that what you were telling people about Secret to Learning Electronics - Fail and Fail Oftenit was encourage me.
Thanks Jeri , you've inspired me alot I can't wait to explain it,
Am in love with electronics and would one day want to be ascientist in it,,thanks once again❤
thank you very much for sharing your experience in electronics, I think many (if not all) we pass through this stage of "uncertainty" when you start working with circuits, the secret is not to give up, thank you very much again and until soon.
I love your attitude, I was told three times today I should stop trying to build tube amps even though my first after 40 years needed two wires moved to different parts then it worked. I know you need books for reference and some books can be in pdf on line so you don't have to buy them but you do have to pay sometimes to download them. Some one was trying hard to impress me and did not, but I was with your simplicity although I did not understand everything you said in other videos.
A kind and gentle soul, good to hear your perspective.
Awesome message Jeri. Too often we feel the pressure to get it right 1st time which can cause procrastination and a failure for not trying it quickly in the 1st place!
That exact same electronic kit was the very thing that started my interest in electronics when I was 10 years old! Even reading the manual was fun.
You are the most capable person I have ever viewed.
ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS I HAVE SEEN, WILL BE SHARING !!!!.. EVERYONE WANTS THE HOME RUN WITH OUT THE HARD WORK ...