I wanted to learn more about electronics, and I found this www.open.edu/openlearn/…/content-section-0 to start from so I can have a grasp on theories first, and I want to try learning microcontrollers afterwards but I can’t afford to buy any IRL atm, are there any softwares to simulate them to assist on learning without having the physical hardware? I’d be happy if anyone could give me any tips toward that, thank you if you read this far
I think tinkercad is a great place to start. It’s browserbased and doesn’t cost money. It may not have a lot of components, but it still have quite a few more than just resistors, caps and inductors. And it is aimed at newbies and hobbyists, which is reflected in range of the available components. Being able to drag an Arduino into your sketch and have it run your program is neat.
We used to use yenka, when I taught electronics. It was OK for teaching, but I don’t know if I’d recommend it for self-paced learning as a hobbyist. It costs money, requires software installation and is so much more than just electronics that navigating the program can be difficult. And default settings explodes components when you put too much current through them, that alway annoyed me.
lime@feddit.nu 18 hours ago
Depends on what your focus is. If you want to build understanding of electronic components and how they interact through experimentation, Paul Falstad’s circuit simulator is a great start.
If you want to focus on digital logic, Logisim is great.
But here’s the thing: A microcontroller is controlled only through code. You want to learn electronics, you can simulate those. You want to learn about a specific microcontroller, read the manual for that controller.
You want to code on a microcontroller, get a microcontroller.
The raspberry pi pico is $4.