I dislike all the purpose-built schematic capture tools I used (Eagle, KiCad, Diptrace), so I'm just using a general-purpose CAD tool. It's all boxes and lines on a grid anyway, so not like it takes long to do it from scratch vs fighting some crummy tool.
I have a license for Rhino3D for other reasons, so that's my pick, although I wouldn't recommend paying for it just to draw 2D stuff. Something like LibreCAD or QCAD should work if you want to take that route.
I really appreciate these posts. As a software engineer I've been tinkering with a bit of electronics and really want to put something together "from scratch", but there's quite a lot to get in to. Your series is such an inspiration and studying how you've put things together is both fun and educational. I wish there was a "zero-to-handheld console" electrical engineering course to do... but this together with Andre LaMothe's general EE course is the next best thing.
Thank you for the post, always enjoy reading them! Which software did you use to create the circuit layout diagram?
I dislike all the purpose-built schematic capture tools I used (Eagle, KiCad, Diptrace), so I'm just using a general-purpose CAD tool. It's all boxes and lines on a grid anyway, so not like it takes long to do it from scratch vs fighting some crummy tool.
I have a license for Rhino3D for other reasons, so that's my pick, although I wouldn't recommend paying for it just to draw 2D stuff. Something like LibreCAD or QCAD should work if you want to take that route.
I really appreciate these posts. As a software engineer I've been tinkering with a bit of electronics and really want to put something together "from scratch", but there's quite a lot to get in to. Your series is such an inspiration and studying how you've put things together is both fun and educational. I wish there was a "zero-to-handheld console" electrical engineering course to do... but this together with Andre LaMothe's general EE course is the next best thing.