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awesome-electronics
A curated list of awesome resources for electronic engineers and hobbyists
https://github.com/eric-erki/awesome-electronics
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Miscellaneous Web Services
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Eagle
- Eyrie.io - For viewing Eagle and KiCAD designs online.
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Videos
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Help
- Afrotechmods - Tutorials on electronics projects, often suitable for beginners as well.
- The Signal Path - Very in depth teardowns, repairs and reviews of lab equipment and prototyping products.
- Julian Ilett - Buys cheapest electronic modules he can find and tries to do useful things with them.
- MikesElectricStuff - Teardowns, large lighting projects, xrays and more.
- Micah Scott - Video logs of reverse engineering and re-purposing consumer electronics hardware in creative ways.
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Gerber Viewers
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Online
- Tracespace Viewer - Gerber viewer that lets you inspect the individual layers as well as the board preview.
- Gerblook - Online Gerber viewer powered by Gerbv.
- Mayhew Labs 3dpcb - 3D Gerber viewer.
- CircuitPeople - No frills 2D layer viewer for Gerbers, without the excessive processing.
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Installable
- Gerbv - Excellent Gerber viewer for Linux and BSD.
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Learning
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Technical Tutorials
- "skill" tag on learn.sparkfun.com - A wide variety of technical tutorials on various EE related skills.
- Soldering is Easy - Comic book that goes over the basics of soldering that has been translated into quite a few languages.
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Theory and Courses
- Electrical Engineering - Khan Academy - Online learning platform with lots of topics, including a full course on electrical engineering, circuits, semiconductors, signals, robots, and even reverse engineering electronic devices.
- All About Circuits - Online textbook for learning theory with clear diagrams and explanations.
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Simulators
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Theory and Courses
- LTSpice - The industry standard free SPICE circuit simulator from Linear Technologies.
- Circuit JS - Open source online simulator for simpler circuits with live interactivity and visualization.
- iCircuit - Easy to use electronic circuit simulator, its advanced simulation engine can handle both analog and digital circuits and features realtime always-on analysis.
- Micro-Cap - Professional-grade mixed signal simulator with wide variety of interactive simulation types.
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Free EDA Packages
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Installable
- KiCAD - Open source EDA package with push and shove router, differential pairs and much more.
- Eagle - One of the most popular EDA packages due to it's (board size restricted) free version.
- Design Spark PCB - Gratis EDA package without restrictions, sponserd by RS Components.
- Altium Circuit Maker - Free package from the maker of the go to pro software.
- LibrePCB - A new, powerful and intuitive EDA tool for everyone, cross-platform and GNU GPLv3.
- Caneda - Caneda is an open source EDA software suite focused on ease of use and portability.
- KiCAD - Open source EDA package with push and shove router, differential pairs and much more.
- KiCAD - Open source EDA package with push and shove router, differential pairs and much more.
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CAD Specific
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KiCAD
- Contextual Electronics' Shine on You Crazy KiCad - Beginner video tutorial that gets you to a manufactured board as quickly as possible.
- Cheatsheet - cheatsheet-landscape.pdf)) - Short PDF that goes over the menus and keyboard shortcuts for the most common operations.
- KiCAD.info Forums - User discussion and help forum.
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PCB Batching Services
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Eagle
- PCB Shopper - Comparison service for quite a lot of different PCB batching and assembly services.
- Dirty PCBs - Low cost PCB batching service that prides itself on its "dirty" quality.
- JLCPCB - Low cost PCB batching service with inhouse low cost SMT service.
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Part Search Engines
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Eagle
- Octopart - Probably the most well known part search engine.
- Findchips - Part search from Supply Frame.
- Buyparts.io - A new contender from the creator of the datasheetarchive.com. Is aimed at hobbyists and seems to be better at incorporating sources such as Ebay and Aliexpress.
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Inventory Management and Purchasing
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Eagle
- 1-click BOM - Browser extensions that automates purchasing and part searching.
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Development Board Retailers
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Eagle
- Sparkfun - Retailer and designer of open source electronics development boards and other equipment and materials with excellent accompanying tutorials.
- Adafruit - Another retailer and designer with excellent selection and tutorials.
- Tindie - Marketplace for electronics makers to sell low volume batches of their own designs.
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Blogs
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Eagle
- Dangerous Prototypes - Blog about open source hardware projects and interesting app notes.
- Bald Engineer - Project logs, tutorials and articles about electronics and embedded software by James Lewis.
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Forums
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Discussion
- EEVBlog forum - Probably the largest and most active forum to discuss electronic engineering topics.
- /r/electronics - reddits for EE topics.
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Help
- /r/askelectronics - Sub-reddit dedicated to help on electronics topics.
- EEVBlog beginners forum - Good place for beginner questions, other sub-forums on EEVblog should be suitable for questions on more advanced topics.
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Podcasts
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Help
- The Amp Hour - Off-the-cuff chat about electronics with Chris Gammel and Dave Jones (EEVBlog), often with guests
- MacroFab Engineering Podcast - Weekly podcast where Parker and Stephen from MacroFab discuss EE topics and industry news
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Subscription Kit Services
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Help
- Boldport Club - Electronic projects for the curious. As a member of the Boldport Club you’ll receive an electronics project once a month.
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3D Part Models
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Help
- GrabCad - Community supported database of 3D models with a large number of electronic component models
- 3D ContentCentral - Website dedicated to 3D models of parts (requires login)
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Categories
Free EDA Packages
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Videos
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Gerber Viewers
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Learning
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Forums
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Simulators
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Part Search Engines
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Development Board Retailers
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CAD Specific
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PCB Batching Services
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Podcasts
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Blogs
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3D Part Models
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Subscription Kit Services
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Inventory Management and Purchasing
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Miscellaneous Web Services
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