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by seba_dos1 784 days ago
> there is just so much learning curve

There really isn't these days. There's KiCad and LibrePCB, there are fabs that give you boards for pennies or even assemble the whole thing on a hobbyist's budget, there are cheap off-the-shelf dev boards that you can use as a base for your first designs, there are tools that verify your designs and can autoroute simple things, there are component libraries... I have just went through my first PCBs recently and it's incredible how approachable it became. Merely a decade ago we had to print, etch and drill a PCB ourselves for a group project as anything else would be way too costly (I worked on software and only watched though :P)