[mmastrac]

This is purely my personal belief as a software developer with an EE degree, but I strongly believe hardware hacking skills are logarithmic in difficulty.

Those first few steps to get good with the tools are the hardest. Everything else past that is getting better with better - and potentially more expensive - tools.

[agumonkey]

Also, EE is less forgiving, without tools I mean, if you try to hack your way recklessly byebye hardware. No backups.