I’m new to electronics and looking to assemble an array of components and tools for working on and designing electronics & circuits. Something immediately apparent is that all of the widely available kits orient you towards working with microcontrollers and SBCs; these kits are cool, but I want to have a halfway decent understanding of the underlying analog components and circuit design before I go digital.

With that in mind, what should I get? If anyone could specify specifics to look into, I’d really appreciate that! Thanks for the help.

Current list

• A decent breadboard
• Jumper wires
• Multimeter
• Batteries
• Variable Power Supply?
• Assorted resistors (1Ω-?)
• Capacitors (Electrolytic and ceramic?)
• Various ICs?
• Transistors?
• Diodes, probably?
• Potentiometers