awesome-electronics
github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics ↗A curated list of awesome resources for Electronic Engineers and hobbyists
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3D Part Models
- 3D ContentCentral
Website dedicated to 3D models of parts (requires login).
- GrabCad
Community supported database of 3D models with a large number of electronic component models.
Subscription Kit Services
- AdaBox
Curated Adafruit products, unique collectibles, and exclusive discounts. All delivered quarterly.
- HackerBoxes
A monthly surprise box which includes projects, components, modules and tools.
Development Board Retailers
- Adafruit
Another retailer and designer with excellent selection and tutorials.
- Sparkfun
Retailer and designer of open source electronics development boards and other equipment and materials with excellent accompanying tutorials.
- Tindie
Marketplace for electronics makers to sell low volume batches of their own designs.
CAD Specific
- Adafruit Eagle LibraryEagle
- Altium Designer LibrariesAltium
- CheatsheetKiCad
Short PDF that goes over the menus and keyboard shortcuts for the most common operations.
- Contextual Electronics' Getting to Blinky TutorialKiCad
A more comprehensive beginner to intermediate video tutorial.
- Contextual Electronics' Shine on You Crazy KiCadKiCad
Beginner video tutorial that gets you to a manufactured board as quickly as possible.
- Footprint CollectionKiCad
Collection of all the KiCad footprints available online and some scripts to manage them.
Videos
- Afrotechmods
Tutorials on electronics projects, often suitable for beginners as well.
- Analog Circuit Design
Analog Circuit Design by Prof. Ali Hajimiri, Caltech.
- Ben Eater
Series of videos on building an 8-bit computer on breadboards with excellent explanations of all the sub-circuits.
- BigClive
- EEVblog
One of the earliest and most successful YouTube channels where Dave Jones does teardowns, tutorials and more.
- ElectroBOOM
YouTube channel that debunks and explains EE topics with a lot of comedy thrown in.
PCB Batching Services
- Aisler
Affordable quality circuit boards made in and shipped from Europe (Germany).
- 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.
- OSH Park
Low cost PCB batching service with high quality boards with a signature purple silkscreen.
- PCBShopper
Comparison service for quite a lot of different PCB batching and assembly services.
- PCBWay
Low cost PCB batching service with PCBA, CNC and 3D-Printing services.
Paid EDA Packages
Free EDA Packages
- Altium CircuitMaker
Free package from the maker of the go to pro software.
- DesignSpark PCB
Gratis EDA package without restrictions, sponserd by RS Components.
- DipTrace
Quality Schematic Capture and PCB Design software with (pin and signal layer restricted) free version.
- Eagle
One of the most popular EDA packages due to it's (board size restricted) free version.
- EasyEDA
Easy to use with both browser based and cross platform app versions. Integrates
- gEDA
Another open source package, good for people that like scripting and makefiles, Linux and BSD only.
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