Re: Getting started with electronics (Gen7?)

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NoobMan
My opinion is that if you build and debug your own made electronics then you will understand much more than the usual user.

While I agree with that in general and why I built my own printer instead of just buying a ready made one or a kit, etching your own board, soldering the components in, and all the debugging that goes along with it can either be greatly rewarding, or incredibly fustrating when it doesn't work. You might learn some about the electronics but you aren't learning circuit theroy or why a particular part is being used where it's being used when you solder your own board, or what might not work if say you get a component backwards. The only thing you're learning is how tedious it is to solder all those component leads. In the end, for me, I learned more actually working with the electronics on my printer then looking at the electronics components and schematics.