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by DanBC 5190 days ago
CAD is expensive, or confusing, or both. It's not much fun. The kit needed to play with HDL is expensive.

Really, this guy just needs a bit of sponsorship and guidance. Some tech company should send him "stuff"[1] and they'd earn some nice publicity.

[1] Development kits or test equipment or robots or whatever. And good books for it all. And maybe a gentle syllabus.