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 messed around with Fusion, but didn't make anything that was even remotely parametric. Most of my experience was with Blender.
It took me about 2 weeks to get to the point where I could copy just about any real world object (that wasn't crazy organic) in FreeCAD.
I'm also a pizza delivery driver who was unemployed for a year and just bullshitted my way into a drafting job with no college education so I don't think theory is super necessary for learning it lol