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A curated list of awesome resources for electronic engineers and hobbyists

Jan 3rd - Jan 9th, 2022

Simulators

Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Simulators

GeckoCIRCUITS - Open Source Power Electronic Circuit Simulator. GitHub Project stars16. Direct download link due to broken website.

Dec 13th - Dec 19th, 2021

Documentation

Inkscape Electric Symbols stars37 - Circuit Drawing Symbols for Inkscape

Nov 1st - Nov 7th, 2021

Gerber Viewers

Installable

KiCad GerbView - The KiCad gerber viewer.

Free EDA Packages

KiCad - Open source EDA package with push and shove router, differential pairs and much more.

Jul 12th - Jul 18th, 2021

Other Lists

Awesome Lattice FPGAs stars196 - A curated list of awesome open-source FPGA boards.

TM90/awesome-hwd-tools stars25 - A curated list of hardware design tools with a focus on chip design.

Jun 21st - Jun 27th, 2021

Learning

Theory and Courses

NEETS (Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series) (alternative link)- U.S. Navy Non-Resident Training Course Material.

Mar 1st - Mar 7th, 2021

Subscription Kit Services

HackerBoxes - A monthly surprise box which includes projects, components, modules and tools.

Feb 22nd - Feb 28th, 2021

Learning

Technical Tutorials

How to design a motherboard for your electronics project - Introductory tutorial on Schematic & PCB design

Nov 30th - Dec 6th, 2020

CAD Specific

KiCad

kicad-exports stars69 - Auto generate files (schematics, gerbers, BoM, plots, 3D model) for any KiCAD project. Run it locally or on every git push with a CI like Github Actions.

Sep 28th - Oct 4th, 2020

Blogs

N-O-D-E - Blog about DIY electronics, hardware, and technology.

Jun 29th - Jul 5th, 2020

Videos

Strange Parts - YouTube channel about electronics, manufacturing, making, world travel, living in and making things in China.

BigClive - YouTube channel about teardowns (including dangerous products), circuit reverse-engineering and tutorials.

May 18th - May 24th, 2020

Simulators

Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Simulators

QucsStudio - Free, closed-source, Windows-only fork of Qucs with a similar interface, new engine, and more features.

ngspice - Open source SPICE circuit simulator.

Circuit JS/Falstad - Free, open source online simulator with electron flow visualization (rewrite of original Java applet by Paul Falstad).

EveryCircuit - Free to try online, visual, interactive circuit simulator for simpler circuits.

PCB Batching Services

PCBShopper - Comparison service for quite a lot of different PCB batching and assembly services.

Project Sharing Platforms

Kitspace - Project sharing site that helps you buy parts and re-build projects. Open source and developed by yours truly.

CADLAB - Another Git-based project hosting and collaboration platform for hardware development.

Hackster.io - Another social site for sharing projects. Is well organised by platform, topic and product.

InventHub - Git-based project hosting and collaboration platform for hardware development.

Inventory Management and Purchasing

PartsBox - Web service to manage your part inventory with a nice user interface and Octopart integration.

PartKeepr - Open source web service for managing your part inventory with parametric search and automatic datasheet import.

Miscellaneous Web Services

Eyrie - For viewing Eagle and KiCad designs online.

SnapEDA - Parts library with free symbols & footprints. (Compatible with Eagle, KiCad, Altium, OrCad, Allegro, etc.)

Podcasts

Embedded.fm - Christopher and Elecia White discuss embedded systems development and much more, often with guests.

The Spark Gap Podcast - Covers a specific EE topic each episode, sometimes with guests.

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.

The Engineering Commons Podcast - Covers general engineering topics from mechanical to electrical.

Learning

Theory and Courses

Lessons In Electric Circuits - Free high quality textbooks and worksheets with emphasis on theory, simulation, and the socratic method.

Ultimate Electronics: Practical Circuit Design and Analysis - Free online book with interactive schematics & simulations by CircuitLab (under development).

Khan Academy - Electrical Engineering - Non-profit learning platform with a full course on electrical engineering and related topics.

Free EDA Packages

DesignSpark PCB - Gratis EDA package without restrictions, sponserd by RS Components.

Altium CircuitMaker - Free package from the maker of the go to pro software.

CAD Specific

KiCad

Xesscorp's list of KiCad 3rd party tools stars581

KiCad.info Forums - User discussion and help forum.

Footprint Collection stars256 - Collection of all the KiCad footprints available online and some scripts to manage them.

Blogs

Hackster.io - Another blog covering electronics.

Forums

Help

/r/askelectronics - Sub-reddit dedicated to help on electronics topics.

Electronics Stack Exchange - Question and answer site for electronics running on the popular Stack Overflow service.

EEVBlog beginners forum - Good place for beginner questions, other sub-forums on EEVblog should be suitable for questions on more advanced topics.

3D Part Models

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).

Other Lists

PwnKitteh/InsanelyCheapElectronics stars247 - A list of cheap electronics from China, that you can use in your projects.

intajay/open-electronics stars317 - Another GitHub list: resources for Electronics Enthusiasts and Hardware Hackers.

Vitorian/awesome-fpga stars226 - Awesome list of FPGA resources.

cajt/list_of_robot_electronics stars211 - A GitHub list of resources, projects and products for robot electronics.

embedded-boston/awesome-embedded-systems stars546 - Awesome list of embedded programming resources.

TCAD Central - List of Technology CAD (TCAD) software and resources from the maker of DEVSIM.

May 11th - May 17th, 2020

Videos

Robert Feranec - 100+ Hardware design tips and tricks. Videos about Schematic design and PCB layout.

Learning

University Course Archives

Berkeley EECS - Comprehensive EE & CS course website archives.

Dr. Jacob Baker - Courses and tutorials, professor at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Dr. Abraham, Dr. McDermot, and Dr. Valvano - Courses materials, professors at UT Austin

Simulators

Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Simulators

LTspice - The industry standard free SPICE circuit simulator from Linear Technologies. Also see the unofficial LTwiki and Group.

Qucs - Open source, cross-platform, non-SPICE-based circuit simulator, with with S-parameter and Harmonic Balance capability.

Open Circuit Design Software - Open Source, full EDA suite chip design suite, focused on keeping up with commercial tools.

TINA-TI - Exclusive DesignSoft-TINA build for Texas Instruments, bundled with Texas Instruments Models.

CppSim - Free, open source circuit simulator that leverages the C++ language to achieve very fast simulation times.

Scilab with Xcos - Free, open source numerical computing alternative to MATLAB. Xcos provides Electrical System modeling capability similar to Simulink.

Simulators

Verilog HDL Simulators

Verilator - Free, open source Verilog compiler. Test benches are in C++ or SystemC. Very fast, but limted to 2-state, cycle-based simulation, and synthesizeable code only.

Icarus Verilog - Free, open source verilog interpreter. Test benches are in behavioral verilog. Simulation is 4-state, and event-based.

May 4th - May 10th, 2020

Learning

Technical Tutorials

Uses of Different Soldering Iron Tips - Covers what all those different soldering iron tips are good for.

Gerber Viewers

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.

Stackrate Viewer - Easy to use online gerber viewer with trace hovering and measurement tools.

CAD Specific

KiCad

Cheatsheet (also in landscape) - Short PDF that goes over the menus and keyboard shortcuts for the most common operations.

CAD Specific

Eagle

List of ULPs everyone should know

Inventory Management and Purchasing

1-click BOM - Browser extensions that automates purchasing and part searching.

Other Lists

PCB/EDA software list on the EEVblog forums - A much more comprehensive list of all the software tools available.

Apr 6th - Apr 12th, 2020

Simulators

Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Simulators

Micro-Cap - Professional-grade mixed signal simulator with wide variety of interactive simulation types.

Oct 21st - Oct 27th, 2019

PCB Syntax Highlighting

Language PCB stars15 - Syntax highlighting for various PCB formats.

Sep 23rd - Sep 29th, 2019

Free EDA Packages

Eagle - One of the most popular EDA packages due to it's (board size restricted) free version.

Horizon EDA stars743 - A free and open source EDA tool with the focus on shortcut operation.

CAD Specific

KiCad

InteractiveHtmlBom stars2.3k - A html BOM generation tool for manual pick and place.

Blogs

Dangerous Prototypes - Blog about open source hardware projects and interesting app notes.

PCB Batching Services

JLCPCB - Low cost PCB batching service with inhouse low cost SMT service.

Jan 21st - Jan 27th, 2019

Free EDA Packages

LibrePCB - A new, powerful and intuitive EDA tool for everyone, cross-platform and GNU GPLv3.

Aug 13th - Aug 19th, 2018

Learning

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.

Apr 23rd - Apr 29th, 2018

CAD Specific

KiCad

Contextual Electronics' Shine on You Crazy KiCad - Beginner video tutorial that gets you to a manufactured board as quickly as possible.

Contextual Electronics' Getting to Blinky Tutorial - A more comprehensive beginner to intermediate video tutorial.

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.

Videos

EEVblog - One of the earliest and most successful YouTube channels where Dave Jones does teardowns, tutorials and more.

Free EDA Packages

DipTrace - Quality Schematic Capture and PCB Design software with (pin and signal layer restricted) free version.

Subscription Kit Services

AdaBox - Curated Adafruit products, unique collectibles, and exclusive discounts. All delivered quarterly.

Gerber Viewers

Online

CircuitPeople - No frills 2D layer viewer for Gerbers, without the excessive processing.

PCB Batching Services

Dirty PCBs - Low cost PCB batching service that prides itself on its "dirty" quality.

Part Search Engines

Findchips - Part search from Supply Frame.

Forums

Discussion

EEVBlog forum - Probably the largest and most active forum to discuss electronic engineering topics.

/r/electronics and /r/ECE are the two most active sub-reddits for EE topics.

Feb 26th - Mar 4th, 2018

Simulators

Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Simulators

iCircuit - Easy to use electronic circuit simulator, its advanced simulation engine can handle both analog and digital circuits and features realtime always-on analysis.

Feb 5th - Feb 11th, 2018

Inventory Management and Purchasing

Part-DB stars138 - Another open source web service for managing part inventory with a permission system and a good barcode generator.

Nov 13th - Nov 19th, 2017

PCB Batching Services

Aisler - Affordable quality circuit boards made in and shipped from Europe (Germany).

May 29th - Jun 4th, 2017

Blogs

Hackaday - Probably the most popular blog covering electronics and hardware hacking with a whole staff of writers.

Bald Engineer - Project logs, tutorials and articles about electronics and embedded software by James Lewis.

Rheingold Heavy - More project logs, tutorials and articles about electronics and embedded software, these ones by Dan Hienzsch.

Mar 6th - Mar 12th, 2017

Videos

Ben Eater - Series of videos on building an 8-bit computer on breadboards with excellent explanations of all the sub-circuits.

Feb 6th - Feb 12th, 2017

Development Board Retailers

Tindie - Marketplace for electronics makers to sell low volume batches of their own designs.

Part Search Engines

Octopart - Probably the most well known part search engine.

Parts.io - Another search engine from Supply Frame geared towards discovering new parts.

Project Sharing Platforms

Hackaday.io - Social site for sharing projects from the popular blog.

Jan 30th - Feb 5th, 2017

Videos

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.

Mr. Carlson's Lab - Teardowns, repairs and restorations with an emphasis on classic electronics gear.

GreatScott - Electronics tutorials, projects and how to's.

CAD Specific

Eagle

Adafruit Eagle Library stars985

SparkFun Electronics Eagle Libraries stars1.6k

PCB Batching Services

OSH Park - Low cost PCB batching service with high quality boards with a signature purple silkscreen.

Jan 23rd - Jan 29th, 2017

Videos

w2aew - Excellent tutorials about basic and complex analog hardware.

Jan 16th - Jan 22nd, 2017

CAD Specific

KiCad

Keyboard PCB Guide stars3.3k - Comprehensive written tutorial that takes you through creating a keyboard PCB.

Gerber Viewers

Online

Mayhew Labs 3dpcb - 3D Gerber viewer.

Blogs

bunniestudios.com - Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang covers hardware hacking, open hardware, manufacturing and more.

Gerber Viewers

Installable

Gerbv - Excellent Gerber viewer for Linux and BSD.

Videos

ElectroBOOM - YouTube channel that debunks and explains EE topics with a lot of comedy thrown in.

Micah Scott - Video logs of reverse engineering and re-purposing consumer electronics hardware in creative ways.

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.

Free EDA Packages

gEDA - Another open source package, good for people that like scripting and makefiles, Linux and BSD only.

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kitspace/awesome-electronics

Simulators

Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Simulators

Dec 13th - Dec 19th, 2021

Documentation

Nov 1st - Nov 7th, 2021

Gerber Viewers

Installable

Free EDA Packages

Jul 12th - Jul 18th, 2021

Other Lists

Jun 21st - Jun 27th, 2021

Learning

Theory and Courses

Mar 1st - Mar 7th, 2021

Subscription Kit Services

Feb 22nd - Feb 28th, 2021

Learning

Technical Tutorials

Nov 30th - Dec 6th, 2020