Comments on: Is there a software game that teaches how to create electronic circuits? http://electropart.info/schematic-diagrams/is-there-a-software-game-that-teaches-how-to-create-electronic-circuits.html Electronics lesson: electronic parts, electronic components, electronic projects, circuit diagram and more Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: amansscientiae http://electropart.info/schematic-diagrams/is-there-a-software-game-that-teaches-how-to-create-electronic-circuits.html/comment-page-1#comment-5654 amansscientiae Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:12:14 +0000 http://electropart.info/schematic-diagrams/is-there-a-software-game-that-teaches-how-to-create-electronic-circuits.html#comment-5654 Hmmm. . . so the average time to learn electronics is 5-15 years. 5 if you learn EE in a good university, 15 if you fiddle around at home and are really serious about it. One wonders why you spend money on stuff you don't understand, though? It sounds like a bad deal. If your circuits contain a dead microprocessor and you don't have the source code or at least the binaries to load into a replacement chip, there is nothing to fix, anyway. It's just a piece of garbage and would stay garbage even if you had a EE PhD. Can you ask the person who sold this crap to you where it came from and what was wrong with it? Can you get your money back? Just my two cents. If you want to learn electronics, the best thing for analog circuit design (apart from a good textbook) is a Spice simulator: http://www. linear. com/designtools/software/switchercad. jsp If you are interested in digital design, get yourself the free tools from Xilinx and/or Altera and a book or two on VHDL and/or Verilog and half a dozen on digital design: http://www. xilinx. com http://www. altera. com For microprocessors, the easiest way is to start with a design kit for a small micro. You can pick up tons of these things for between $20 and $1000. http://focus. ti. com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/ez430-f2013. html http://search. digikey. com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus. dll?Cat=2621773;keywords=microcontroller None of this stuff will help you with your animatronics, but its fun, anyway. Hmmm. . . so the average time to learn electronics is 5-15 years. 5 if you learn EE in a good university, 15 if you fiddle around at home and are really serious about it.

One wonders why you spend money on stuff you don’t understand, though? It sounds like a bad deal. If your circuits contain a dead microprocessor and you don’t have the source code or at least the binaries to load into a replacement chip, there is nothing to fix, anyway. It’s just a piece of garbage and would stay garbage even if you had a EE PhD.

Can you ask the person who sold this crap to you where it came from and what was wrong with it? Can you get your money back?

Just my two cents.

If you want to learn electronics, the best thing for analog circuit design (apart from a good textbook) is a Spice simulator:

http://www. linear. com/designtools/software/switchercad. jsp

If you are interested in digital design, get yourself the free tools from Xilinx and/or Altera and a book or two on VHDL and/or Verilog and half a dozen on digital design:

http://www. xilinx. com

http://www. altera. com

For microprocessors, the easiest way is to start with a design kit for a small micro. You can pick up tons of these things for between $20 and $1000.

http://focus. ti. com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/ez430-f2013. html
http://search. digikey. com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus. dll?Cat=2621773;keywords=microcontroller

None of this stuff will help you with your animatronics, but its fun, anyway.

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and 3d lab but I think its a file of circuit logix.

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