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ELECTRONICS CORE :

TECHNICAL :

SOLDERING :

How to Solder: Through-Hole Soldering

Uses of Different Soldering Iron Tips

GETTING STARTED WITH ELECTRONICS SKILL TUTORIALS :

Skill

Theory and Courses

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).
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.
FreeVideoLectures/Electronics - Free Video Lectures from top Universities.

COURSERA

Power Electronics Specialization

Algorithms for Battery Management Systems Specialization

Embedding Sensors and Motors Specialization

Introduction to Systems Engineering

Introduction to Embedded Systems Software and Development Environments

Introduction to FPGA Design for Embedded Systems

Digital Systems: From Logic Gates to Processors

Fundamentals of Digital Image and Video Processing

EdX

Circuits and Electronics MITx

Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering - 電気電子工学入門 -

Electronic Interfaces: Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds

Electric Cars DelftX

MicroMasters® Program in Nanoscience and Technology PurdueX

Computation Structures

Discrete Time Signals and Systems

Signals and Systems

Electronic Materials and Devices

Embedded Systems - Shape The World: Multi-Threaded Interfacing

Embedded Systems - Shape The World: Microcontroller Input/Output

Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials

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, Dr. McDermot, and Dr. Valvano - Courses materials, professors at UT Austin

Books

Getting Started in Electronics by Forrest Mims
The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill
Make: Electronics by Charles Platt
Make: More Electronics by Charles Platt
Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk
The AVR Microcontroller and Embedded Systems: Using Assembly and C by Muhammad Ali Mazidi, Sarmad Naimi and Sepehr Naimi
Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Series by Charles Platt
Forrest Mims Engineer's Mini Notebook Series
Zero to Maker: Learn (Just Enough) to Make (Just About) Anything by David Lang

Video Tutorials and Courses

AddOhms - Electronics Tutorials
Afrotechmods - Straight to the point electronics tutorial videos with practical examples.
All About Circuits - Free video lectures cover everything from basic electronics to semiconductor technolog
Collin's Lab - Collin Cunningham shares his adventures in science, sound, and electronics.
EEVblog - Electronics Engineering Video Blog
FreeVideoLectures/Electronics - Free Video Lectures from top Universities.
GreatScott! - Awesome Electronics Tutorials, Projects and How To´s.
humanHardDrive - Videos on electronics, microcontrollers and programming.
Khan Academy/electrical-engineering - Learn about electricity, circuit theory, and introductory electronics.
MAKE Presents - An in-depth look inside electronics and what makes it work.
Patrick Hood-Daniel - CNC, automated fabrication, electronics and much more.
PyroEDU - Learn to build your own electronics with online courses.

PROJECT AND VIDEO CHANNELS

EEVblog - One of the earliest and most successful YouTube channels where Dave Jones does teardowns, tutorials and more.
BigClive - YouTube channel 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 - YouTube channel about electronics, manufacturing, making, world travel, living in and making things in China.

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

Communities and Blogs

Instructables - Instructables is a place that lets you explore, document, and share your creations.
Hackaday.io - Hackaday.io is the world's largest collaborative hardware development community.
Hackster - Hackster is a community dedicated to learning hardware.
Maker.pro - Maker.pro is a place for makers to design and collaborate with one another, with the goal to take their product to market.
Maker.io - Maker.io is a hardware development community powered by Digi-Key Electronics.
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.

Softwares

Circuit Simulation
- CircuitJS
- CircuitLab
- Circuit Sandbox
- LTspice
- Multisim
- PartSim
- Caneda
For Microcontrollers
- AVRDUDE
- WinAVR
Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Designing
- CircuitMaker
- Eagle
- EasyEDA
- Fritzing
- KiCad
- SnapEDA - Download free symbols & footprints for millions of electronic components
- Upverter

CAD Specific

KiCad

Xesscorp's list of KiCad 3rd party tools
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 - Comprehensive written tutorial that takes you through creating a keyboard PCB.
Cheatsheet (also in landscape) - Short PDF that goes over the menus and keyboard shortcuts for the most common operations.
Footprint Collection - Collection of all the KiCad footprints available online and some scripts to manage them.
InteractiveHtmlBom - A html BOM generation tool for manual pick and place.

Eagle

Miscellaneous Web Services

Eyrie - For viewing Eagle and KiCad designs online.
SnapEDA - Parts library with free symbols & footprints. (Compatible with Eagle, KiCad, Altium, OrCad, Allegro, etc.)

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.

Simulators

Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Simulators

LTspice - The industry standard free SPICE circuit simulator from Linear Technologies. Also see the unofficial LTwiki and Group.
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.
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 DesignSoft-TINA 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.

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.

Websites

Adafruit - Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits.
All About Circuits - This website provides a series of volumes covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for students, makers, and professionals who are looking to refresh or expand their knowledge in this field.
BuildElectronicCircuits - Learn Electronic circuits, PCB Design, Soldering and more.
CircuitsToday - Awesome and useful content in the Electronics Engineering
Crowd Supply - Crowdfunding platform for Hardwares.
DangerousPrototypes - Open Source Hardware Projects.
Electronics For You - If It's Electronics, It's Here.
Electronics Hub - This website provide tutorials for basic electronics and beginner to advanced projects.
ElectronicsTutorials - The purpose of this site is to give students and beginners alike studying Electronics, good Basic Electronics Tutorials and information to help develop a knowledge and understanding of the subject of Electronics.
ElProCus - The Budding Electronic Engineers' Knowledge Space.
Embeddedgurus - Experts on Embedded Softwar
Explore Embedded - Tutorials on various Microcontrollers and RTOS
Freeduino - The World Famous Index of Arduino & Freeduino Knowledge
Gadgetronicx - Gadgetronicx is an educational website based on Electronics and Embedded Systems.
Hackerspaces - Find Hackerspaces around you.
Makezine - DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers.
maxEmbedded - Guide to robotics, embedded systems and computer vision.
MicroDigitalEd - All about Microcontrollers and Microprocessors.
MySensors - An open source hardware and software community focusing on DIY, Home automation and Internet of Things.
PighiXXX - This website is dedicated to all lovers of electronics and programming.
Pololu - Robotics and Electronics
Predictable Designs - Helping entrepreneurs, startups, makers, engineers, & small companies develop electronic hardware products.
RobotShop - Let's Make Robots
SparkFun - SparkFun is an online retail store that sells the bits and pieces to make your electronics projects possible. SparkFun also offers classes and online tutorials to help educate individuals in the wonderful world of embedded electronics.
Spinning Numbers - Learn the concepts of electrical engineering.
Technoblogy - Arduino and AVR projects
Tindle - Buy awesome things directly from makers.
Williamson Labs - Electronics Made Easy.

ELECTRONICS ROBOTICS :

Motor drivers

ODrive - High performance motor control
VESC - Brushless DC Motor controller
OpenBLDC - Open-BLDC stands for Open Source Brush Less DC Motor Controller.
HighPower-Mechaduino - Closed Loop Stepper Servo (50V@10A)
motor-control-board - CVRA DC-Motor Driver, using STM32F3, supports CAN Bus and was designed using KiCAD
MotCtrl - A BLDC motor controller
OtterControl - OtterControl BLDC motor controller
stmbl - High-Voltage AC Servo Driver
RCA's µMotor - control any BLDC and DC motor up to 250W
Brushless DC motor controller board - Dan Strother's STM32f103 based BLDC controller Board
Closed Loop Motor Controller - Step/Dir input for CNC use. Based on PSoC4.
DC Servomotor Controller - DC-Motor driver build around an AVR.
STM_MotorController - Of Robot Design and Control Lab @ CIT

Actuators

Mechaduino - Closed Loop Stepper Servo
OpenTorque Actuator - Joint for legged robots
3D Printed Robot Actuator - Motorcontroller + BLDC + cycloidal gearbox and position feedback
DirectServo - Robotic joint controller with BLDC driver and magnetic encoder.
Moteus - Joint Controller and quadruped robot design

RC-Servo

16 Channel Servo Controler - I²C RC-servo controller with 16 channels

Computer Vision

OpenMV - OpenMV, an embedded CV Module (CMOS Sensor with STM32)
PX4Flow - PX4Flow, Optical Flow Sensor

Battery Management

DieBieMS - DieBieMS (3-12S LiIon-based, 100A)
LibreSolar Project - with different sized BMS BMS Li-Ion 5S, BMS Li-Ion 48V
Ceech's BMS - Arduino-based 5S BMS (BQ76920)
Battman BMS - Li-Ion BMS (LTC6803)

FPGA based

LOA - Loa is a framework designed to build specialized IO subsystems.
Snickerdoodle - Snickerdoodle is a Zynq based System-on-Module
Logi-Bone - FPGA & Beaglebone, also some VHDL modules relevant to robotics available

Bus Systems

UAVCAN - Protocol on top of CAN Bus, suited for robotics and aerospace control applications
UC4H: UAVCAN for Hobbyists (on GitHub) - UAVCAN applied to a multirotor plattform.
SAB - Sensor Actuator Bus (SAB), also in modm.io

Sensors

OpenSimpleLidar - Open Hardware scanning laser rangefinder
OSLRF-01 - An open source laser range sensor using time-of-flight

Projects with open and reuseable designs

Open Source Project

MORPH on GitHub - Modular platform for open robotics development. Supports ROS and uses VESC.
Evezor - Evezor is an open source SCARA class robotic manufacturing platform
Octanis Rover - Octanis Rover Projects Electronics
OAP - Open Automaton Project (Source Repo inactive since 2008)
Linorobot - A suite of Open Source ROS compatible robots GIT
Bobble-Bot - Demo robot for real-time control using Rpi, RT Linux, and ROS.
StanfordDoggoProject - 8-DoF quadruped robot
Pulurobots - Open Source mobile service robot
Open Dynamic Robot Initiative - 8/12-Dof Walker, fast multi-axis force control, bldc-drivers

University Projects, Thesis work, etc.

Litter Bot - Autonomous litter collecting robot (using OpenCV, Rpi and AVR)
Zynq + OV7670 - Student project using Zynq and image sensor (OV7670)

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