awesome-electronics
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A curated collection of resources and tools for designing, building, and learning about electronic circuits.
A curated list of awesome resources for Electronic Engineers and hobbyists
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Awesome Electronics / 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 | ||
| Uses of Different Soldering Iron Tips | Covers what all those different soldering iron tips are good for | ||
| How to design a motherboard for your electronics project | Introductory tutorial on Schematic & PCB design | ||
Awesome Electronics / Learning / Courses | |||
| Khan Academy - Electrical Engineering | Non-profit learning platform with a full course on electrical engineering and related topics | ||
| NEETS (Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series) | U.S. Navy Non-Resident Training Course Material | ||
| NPTEL | Has all free engineering courses including electronics, electrical and communcation engineering | ||
| Udemy courses related to Electronics | Top paid courses available on Udemy | ||
| Coursera courses related to Electronics | Includes some free courses that provide e-certificates on completion | ||
Awesome Electronics / Learning / Theory | |||
| Basic Electronics PPT | Contains conceptual explaination of diode, BJT, J/MOS-FET, LED, 7 seg display, photo-resistor/diode/transistor | ||
| Electronics textbook | Text covers design and function of electronic circuits and components, DC analysis, and AC analysis | ||
| Student Handbook | Language used in this book easily understandable covers evolution, fundamentals, diode, rectifiers, transistors and its applications, SCR, DIAC and TRIAC | ||
| Electronics circuits and systems | Quality free e-book covering all topics under circuits and systems, highly recommended for conceptual understanding | ||
| 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) | ||
Awesome Electronics / 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 | , , and - Courses materials, professors at UT Austin | ||
Awesome Electronics / Documentation | |||
| Inkscape Electric Symbols | 395 | about 2 months ago | Circuit Drawing Symbols for Inkscape |
| Tabula | Extract tabular data from a pdf, very useful for extracting pin tables or part characteristics from datasheets | ||
| WebPlotDigitizer | Extract data from plots, charts, etc., very useful for getting part performance curves from datasheets | ||
| WaveDrom | Create waveforms and timing diagrams from a JSON description file | ||
| tscircuit | Open source EDA package for schematic and PCB design using React | ||
Awesome Electronics / Simulators / Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Simulators | |||
| LTspice | The industry standard free SPICE circuit simulator from Linear Technologies. Also see the unofficial and | ||
| 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 | ||
| Qucs | Open source, cross-platform, non-SPICE-based circuit simulator, with with S-parameter and Harmonic Balance capability | ||
| Qucs-S | Open source fork of Qucs using SPICE for simulation | ||
| QucsStudio | Free, closed-source, Windows-only fork of Qucs with a similar interface, new engine, and more features | ||
| Open Circuit Design Software | Open Source, full EDA suite chip design suite, focused on keeping up with commercial tools | ||
| TINA-TI | Exclusive 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| GeckoCIRCUITS | Open Source Power Electronic Circuit Simulator. . Direct due to broken website | ||
| Proteus | PCB Design and Circuit Simulator Software | ||
Awesome Electronics / 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 | ||
Awesome Electronics / 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 | ||
| Mayhew Labs 3dpcb | 3D Gerber viewer | ||
| CircuitPeople | No frills 2D layer viewer for Gerbers, without the excessive processing | ||
| Stackrate Viewer | Easy to use online gerber viewer with trace hovering and measurement tools | ||
Awesome Electronics / Gerber Viewers / Installable | |||
| Gerbv | Excellent Gerber viewer for Linux and BSD | ||
| KiCAD Gerbview | The KiCAD gerber viewer | ||
| GC-Prevue | Commercial with free version. Can handle some gerbers better than Gerbv and KiCAD | ||
| ZofZPCB | FREE 3D Gerber Viewer | ||
Awesome Electronics / Free EDA Packages | |||
| 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 | ||
| DesignSpark PCB | Gratis EDA package without restrictions, sponserd by RS Components | ||
| Altium CircuitMaker | Free package from the maker of the go to pro software | ||
| gEDA | Another open source package, good for people that like scripting and makefiles, Linux and BSD only | ||
| DipTrace | Quality Schematic Capture and PCB Design software with (pin and signal layer restricted) free version | ||
| LibrePCB | A new, powerful and intuitive EDA tool for everyone, cross-platform and GNU GPLv3 | ||
| Horizon EDA | 1,125 | 8 days ago | A free and open source EDA tool with the focus on shortcut operation |
| EasyEDA | Easy to use with both browser based and cross platform app versions. Integrates and component catalogs with 3D models | ||
Awesome Electronics / Paid EDA Packages | |||
| Altium | PCB Design Software & Tools | ||
| Proteus | PCB Design and Circuit Simulator Software | ||
Awesome Electronics / CAD Specific / KiCad | |||
| Xesscorp's list of KiCad 3rd party tools | 751 | about 1 month ago | |
| 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 | ||
| KiCad.info Forums | User discussion and help forum | ||
| Keyboard PCB Guide | 4,375 | 5 months ago | Comprehensive written tutorial that takes you through creating a keyboard PCB |
| Cheatsheet | (also ) - Short PDF that goes over the menus and keyboard shortcuts for the most common operations | ||
| Footprint Collection | 319 | almost 2 years ago | Collection of all the KiCad footprints available online and some scripts to manage them |
| InteractiveHtmlBom | 3,771 | 19 days ago | A html BOM generation tool for manual pick and place |
| KiBot | 573 | 7 days ago | Generate the fabrication and documentation files for your KiCad projects easily, repeatable, and most of all, scriptably |
Awesome Electronics / CAD Specific / Eagle | |||
| List of ULPs everyone should know | |||
| Adafruit Eagle Library | 1,023 | over 4 years ago | |
| SparkFun Electronics Eagle Libraries | 1,750 | 3 months ago | |
Awesome Electronics / CAD Specific / Altium | |||
| Altium Designer Libraries | and of electronic components from different manufacturers | ||
Awesome Electronics / PCB Batching Services | |||
| PCBShopper | Comparison service for quite a lot of different PCB batching and assembly services | ||
| OSH Park | Low cost PCB batching service with high quality boards with a signature purple silkscreen | ||
| 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 | ||
| PCBWay | Low cost PCB batching service with PCBA, CNC and 3D-Printing services | ||
Awesome Electronics / Part Search Engines | |||
| Octopart | Probably the most well known part search engine | ||
| Findchips | Part search from Supply Frame | ||
| Parts.io | Another search engine from Supply Frame geared towards discovering new parts | ||
| Electronic Component Search Engine | Free access to schematic symbols, PCB footprints and 3D models | ||
| Yoo Need One - SMD Marking Database | Surface Mount Device (SMD) component marking database | ||
Awesome Electronics / Project Sharing Platforms | |||
| Kitspace | Project sharing site that helps you buy parts and re-build projects. Open source and developed by yours truly | ||
| Hackaday.io | Social site for sharing projects from the popular blog | ||
| 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 | ||
| CADLAB | Another Git-based project hosting and collaboration platform for hardware development | ||
| Eyrie | For viewing Eagle and KiCad designs online | ||
| WikiFactory | A project hosting and collaboration platform for product development. Filter for "electronics" for more electronics related projects | ||
| Instructables | A social site for sharing projects. Filter for "circuits" for more electronics related projects | ||
Awesome Electronics / Inventory Management and Purchasing | |||
| 1-click BOM | Browser extensions that automates purchasing and part searching | ||
| 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 | ||
| Part-DB | 158 | 7 months ago | Another open source web service for managing part inventory with a permission system and a good barcode generator |
Awesome Electronics / Miscellaneous Software Projects | |||
| SnapEDA | Parts library with free symbols & footprints. (Compatible with Eagle, KiCad, Altium, OrCad, Allegro, etc.) | ||
| Language PCB | 20 | almost 3 years ago | Syntax highlighting for various PCB formats |
| NinjaCalc | An embedded engineering calculator toolbox for doing calculations in a breeze | ||
| Saturn PCB Design Toolkit | The Saturn PCB Toolkit is the best freeware resource for PCB related calculations you can find | ||
Awesome Electronics / Development Board Retailers | |||
| 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 | ||
Awesome Electronics / Blogs | |||
| Hackaday | Probably the most popular blog covering electronics and hardware hacking with a whole staff of writers | ||
| bunniestudios.com | Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang covers hardware hacking, open hardware, manufacturing and more | ||
| 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 | ||
| Hackster.io | Another blog covering electronics | ||
| Dangerous Prototypes | Blog about open source hardware projects and interesting app notes | ||
| N-O-D-E | Blog about DIY electronics, hardware, and technology | ||
Awesome Electronics / Forums / Discussion | |||
| EEVBlog forum | Probably the largest and most active forum to discuss Electronic Engineering topics | ||
| /r/electronics | and are the two most active sub-reddits for EE topics | ||
Awesome 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 | ||
Awesome Electronics / Podcasts | |||
| The Amp Hour | Off-the-cuff chat about electronics with Chris Gammel and Dave Jones (EEVBlog), often with guests | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
Awesome Electronics / Videos | |||
| EEVblog | One of the earliest and most successful YouTube channels where Dave Jones does teardowns, tutorials and more | ||
| BigClive | about teardowns (including dangerous products), circuit reverse-engineering and tutorials | ||
| 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 | ||
| w2aew | Excellent tutorials about basic and complex analog hardware | ||
| Mr. Carlson's Lab | Teardowns, repairs and restorations with an emphasis on classic electronics gear | ||
| GreatScott | Electronics tutorials, projects and how to's | ||
| 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 | ||
| Ben Eater | Series of videos on building an 8-bit computer on breadboards with excellent explanations of all the sub-circuits | ||
| Robert Feranec | 100+ Hardware design tips and tricks. Videos about Schematic design and PCB layout | ||
| Strange Parts | about electronics, manufacturing, making, world travel, living in and making things in China | ||
Awesome Electronics / 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 | ||
Awesome Electronics / 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) | ||
Awesome Electronics / Other Lists | |||
| PwnKitteh/InsanelyCheapElectronics | 351 | over 3 years ago | A list of cheap electronics from China, that you can use in your projects |
| PCB/EDA software list on the EEVblog forums | A much more comprehensive list of all the software tools available | ||
| intajay/open-electronics | 546 | about 3 years ago | Another GitHub list: resources for Electronics Enthusiasts and Hardware Hackers |
| Vitorian/awesome-fpga | 332 | over 7 years ago | Awesome list of FPGA resources |
| cajt/list_of_robot_electronics | 325 | 2 months ago | A GitHub list of resources, projects and products for robot electronics |
| embedded-boston/awesome-embedded-systems | 788 | 11 months ago | Awesome list of embedded programming resources |
| TCAD Central | List of Technology CAD (TCAD) software and resources from the maker of DEVSIM | ||
| Awesome Lattice FPGAs | 309 | 8 months ago | A curated list of awesome open-source FPGA boards |
| TM90/awesome-hwd-tools | 70 | 9 days ago | A curated list of hardware design tools with a focus on chip design |
| delftopenhardware/awesome-open-hardware | 456 | 10 months ago | Helpful items for making and learning about open source hardware projects |
| upb-lea/awesome-open-source-power-electronics | 196 | about 1 month ago | Open source software list specialized on power electronics |
Awesome Electronics / Arabic Section | |||
| Complete EE Course | دورة الالكترونيات العملية | ||
| Complete Digital Electronics Course | دورة الالكترونيات الرقمية | ||
| professional Electronics Design | دورة التصميم الالكتروني المحترف كاملة | ||
| professional PCB Design | دورة تصميم اللوحات المطبوعة (PCB) | ||
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