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Are there softwares to simulate enough electronics and microcontrollers to learn? (self.askelectronics)

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I wanted to learn more about electronics, and I found this https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/an-introduction-electronics/content-section-0 to start from so I can have a grasp on theories first, and I want to try learning microcontrollers afterwards but I can't afford to buy any IRL atm, are there any softwares to simulate them to assist on learning without having the physical hardware? I'd be happy if anyone could give me any tips toward that, thank you if you read this far

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[–] Kalcifer 1 points 16 hours ago

Are there softwares to simulate enough electronics and microcontrollers to learn?

It depends on what you are looking for. For a quick simulation to get a very rough, and more ideal, visual, you can use something like Falstad. But for anything more practical and useful, I'd recommend using SPICE. There's lot's of software out there that implements SPICE [2]. KiCAD offers SPICE simulation [1].

References

"SPICE Simulation". KiCAD. Accessed: 2024-11-21T02:26Z. https://www.kicad.org/discover/spice/.
"List of free electronics circuit simulators". Wikipedia. Published: 2024-09-07T14:19Z. Accessed: 2024-11-21T02:31Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_electronics_circuit_simulators.

I want to try learning microcontrollers afterwards but I can’t afford to buy any IRL atm

The perceived expensiveness of things is certainly relative, but I would still argue that the hardware for microcontrollers really doesn't have to be that expensive [1][2][3][4].

References

"Pocket AVR Programmer". Sparkfun. Accessed: 2024-11-21T02:36Z. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9825.
"Raspberry Pi Pico". CanaKit. Accessed: 2024-11-21T02:37Z. https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-pico.html?cid=cad&src=raspberrypi.
"ATMEGA328P-PU-ND". DigiKey. Accessed: 2024-11-21T02:37Z. https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/microchip-technology/ATMEGA328P-PU/1914589.
"Arduino Uno Rev3". Arduino Store. Arduino CC. Accessed: 2024-11-21T02:40Z. https://store-usa.arduino.cc/products/arduino-uno-rev3.