I’m taking some electrical engineering courses, and it’s been suggested I learn some CAD to maybe get some autocad type jobs when I’m in school. When I looked into one of the drafting softwares, it mentioned PCBs and it got me wondering whether I could put my new knowledge to use and fuck around making circuits for shit.
The problem is, I don’t know what kind of stuff is even possible to build/how expensive it is as a hobby (not to mention, I don’t really want any more random shit laying around my house). 3D printing seems a little excessive, I just wanna fuck around with some actual working circuits.
Anyone into this kind of stuff? I think if I could get into hobby electronics it would help me understand things on another level, I just don’t have any clue how I’d even begin to investigate whether it’s something plausible for me
I don't have too much experience with the hobby itself but Arduino and Raspberry Pi are designed to be fairly affordable electronics that you can tinker with. There are loads of project tutorials that guide you through everything so you can start doing things and getting hands on experience even if you don't understand all of the little details yet.
Most of these things are a one time cost as well since you can just reuse many of the components for a different project.