[sdiy] how to best learn the trade

[Robert Krueger]

Thanks for all the amazing advice. I honestly never even considered
breadboards before. I've been reading up on them and that seems like
the easiest/cheapest way to go to test out a design and experiement
with tweaks.

At what point do you decide you want to go with a PCB?  How does one
go from a schematic to a making/having made a PCB. What PCB resources
are out there?