Open Source Computer Aided Modeling and Design

Designing Hardware, Journey from Novice to Not Bad

Reflections from the OpenElectronicsLab
The three main contributors to the OpenElectronicsLab projects started out as relative novices. The wealth of online resources and some trial-and-error opens the doors to the world of hardware design. This will reflect on what lowered the barriers, insights gained, what needed to be done to handle things which turned out to be harder than expected, and to encourage hesitant novices to get started designing their own hardware.

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