Did I mention lack of focus? Yet another program I’m following is the Contextual Electronics course. The focus here is very practical. It teaches KiCad, the free open source schematic and PCB design tool, and practical design skills.
This is a paid program, but the fees are quite reasonable and there’s tons of live support. The first few projects are free.
You can also get a Digilent Analog Discovery 2 at a discount price, which is a really nice piece of gear, especially if one doesn’t already have an oscilloscope. I do, and mostly got this for the logic analyzer capability.
I did the design for the first project (“Shine on you crazy KiCad”) but didn’t bother building it.
The second project, “Getting to Blinky 4.0” I built, for the SMD soldering practice, mostly.
