awesome-electronics

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 378 19 days 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 1,109 9 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 746 3 months 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 4,327 3 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 316 over 1 year ago Collection of all the KiCad footprints available online and some scripts to manage them
InteractiveHtmlBom 3,711 about 2 months ago A html BOM generation tool for manual pick and place
KiBot 554 8 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 1,019 about 4 years ago
SparkFun Electronics Eagle Libraries 1,747 about 1 month 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 6 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 over 2 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 348 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 534 almost 3 years ago Another GitHub list: resources for Electronics Enthusiasts and Hardware Hackers
Vitorian/awesome-fpga 322 over 7 years ago Awesome list of FPGA resources
cajt/list_of_robot_electronics 322 28 days ago A GitHub list of resources, projects and products for robot electronics
embedded-boston/awesome-embedded-systems 774 9 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 304 7 months ago A curated list of awesome open-source FPGA boards
TM90/awesome-hwd-tools 67 8 months ago A curated list of hardware design tools with a focus on chip design
delftopenhardware/awesome-open-hardware 439 9 months ago Helpful items for making and learning about open source hardware projects
upb-lea/awesome-open-source-power-electronics 183 3 months 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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