On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Karthikeyan A.K <mindas...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello People, > > Just want to know is there any group for Indian Electronic Hobbyist. I see > that people are greeting more interested in software and are quiet > forgetting what makes software really run. > > I am also quiet ashamed that many electronic engineers (including me) > haven't soldered a single component to a PCB :( > > Is there way to turn things around. > What do you want to achieve? Do "you" want to get in to soldering stuff? or every electronics engineer? If you want to, then buy the following. Soldering Iron, Lead, Flux, multimeter, perf board. Buy some basic self assembly kits from Richie street to play around, something like LED blink, or running some motor or sensor etc. You can also buy some Arduino or any other eval board in the market and use online community to assist you. Arduino has cover most of the application which you might want to do. If you want to learn basics then get this book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Electronics. Or if you want to create your own circuit board and solder, then I would actually recommend Eagle CAD software, but KiCAD is the open source alternative, although its in development, I hear that its getting better. If you have an arduino you can buy ATtiny controllers, These are 8 pin programmable devices and you can flash them using Arduino. Note that I am not a electronics guy by academics, if you have interest thats enough. If you compare software and hardware, the major issue is the cost, every new thing you want to try in hardware needs money and it may fail to work ;), the rest is self explanatory. Krishna _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
