[sdiy] Audio circuits and basic electronics knowledge recommendation.

[Gordonjcp]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 12:11:21PM +1300, john slee wrote:
> I like the straight-to-PCB approach. Also if you're likely to need a rev2
> anyway, you can use some of the spare space on the rev1 PCB to validate any
> new part footprints you made, related or not :-)
> 
> The world we live in now, where magical websites (or, as is more likely in
> my case, the laser-cutter at the local hackerspace) very accurately turn
> our design mistakes into reality and pop them in the post for $15... It's
> pretty amazing, no?
> 

It's even quicker and easier to just etch stuff up at home.

I tend to use bird's-nest construction when I'm prototyping stuff and then make a couple of experimental PCBs once I've got it more or less right.  It doesn't take long, even if I can't be bothered heating up the bubble tank.

I'm nowhere near experienced enough to get much out of circuit simulation, so I just design and build things.

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