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The portal contains 9 courses related to automatics. The most important is the first one–Automatics, i.e. Easy Automatics. The main goal is to understand the principle of “How it works”. That’s why I use intuition as much as possible. Even at the expense of simplifying the math. Understanding the topic is greatly facilitated by the animations, examples of which you can see on the right. Just click the triangle video button. Don’t worry about them for now. They are described in detail in the courses.
All courses are free.

Automatics

That is the flagship of the site. Otherwise, Easy Automatics. The main advantage is the animations of time charts, 2 examples of which I have shown below.I modeled each experiment with SCILAB and then recorded it with ActivePresenter program as an mp4 file. So the problem of knowing, installing SCILAB and its operation with different settings disappears. Just press the video button and watch the experiment. The note also applies to other courses. You will feel like an operator in the control room of the Refinery observing the technological process. Are you worried about the drop in distillate temperature? Fortunately, the temperature soon returned to normal. And this is simply the PID controller that compensates for the temperature drop with additional heating. I guarantee that you will know why the furnace tries to maintain the set temperature, despite the lump of ice thrown inside. Also the P, I, D components of the PID controller will become as obvious as riding a bicycle. 
By clicking the “Automatics” title, you will go to Chapter. 1 -Introduction. All the chapters are roughly discussed here. 
Note:
You don’t have to use Scilab, a Matlab-like program. For some this is an advantage, for others not necessarily. The next course is Scilab. Once you know it, you can program it yourself in the so-called Xcos all the experiments you learned in Automatics.
There is also a version of the course with Scilab -> https://iautomatyka.pl/kurs-regulacji-pid-wstep-cz-1-34 . Unfortunately, only in Polish. There I briefly discussed the Scilab. You can also download ready-made file.zcos with all experiments from the Internet.

Scilab

Vice-flagship of the site. Scilab is a free program for solving various math problems. Equivalent to paid Matlab. Perfect for students of the universities  science departments, polytechnics and even high school smart guys. Running any application, including Scilab, is not easy. It’s hard to describe how to enter to a specific place where you’ll be able to solve your math problems. For example “How much is 2+2?”  The situation is different when I use the animation, an example of which is shown beside. If necessary, you can stop the animation or repeat it. I am an automatics engineer, so I devoted a lot of space to Xcos, which is part of Scilab. It is like a very shortened  “Automatics” course. Here I analyze various block diagrams thanks to Xcos. Instead of tediously programming differential equations describing a given Automatic Control System, you simply draw a block diagram. Then you press the “Start” button and enjoy the viewed time course.

Complex Numbers

as something needed for Fourier Series and Transforms.

Fourier Series Classically

As the title suggests.

Rotating Fourier Series 

That is Fourier Series in a different way. You throw a periodic function f(t) into a centrifuge. And what comes out of it at the appropriate velocities 1ω0…, nω0? Consecutive harmonics of course!… This approach is more intuitive than Fourier Series Classic. On the right side you see 2 animations with “centrifuges“. The first is when the centrifuge has a different pulsation ω than ω of the f(t) function in the “centrifuge”. In the second case, both pulsations ω are the same.

Fourier Transform

Most authors start with this. It does not say what the Fourier Transform is, but how it is calculated. It’s as if someone defined a hammer as a product that needs to be made in a certain way. And it should be. A hammer is a tool for driving nails, and the Fourier Transform is a method for the distribution of harmonics in the f(t) signal.
I’m thinking about the Laplace Transform. All in all, it would be a nice whole.

How does CRC work?

When the 2 networked computers conclude that the information received is not the same as the information sent, they repeat the transmission. That’s how the network works. Okay, but how do they know there’s been an error?* One king send another king a very important letter that decided about war or peace. How can they be sure that the bribed messenger hasn’t changed a few but very important passages in the letter?
* Of course, I am not thinking about the trivial case when the receiver sees only bushes. But, for example, when one dot is missing or changed to another character from 100 uploaded pages.

Cyclic Buffer

A computer that wants to send a larger number of bytes first puts them into some area of memory. This relatively small memory can be, among others, Cyclic Buffer.

Apitor Educational Robot 

How to start playing with the inexpensive educational robot Apitor SuperBot.

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Now you are on the home page with short course descriptions. You can enter each course by clicking the large red Article Title, e.g. Cyclic Buffer. And in the course, to any chapter from the table of contents. You can always return from the course to the home page by clicking “Easy automatics”  or “Back to Courses” in the heading.