Re: Getting started with electronics (Gen7?)

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Rudbot
I wish there was a schema somewhere with the full list of components (on a high level).

This is mostly an open source community, so the sources should be available for download. If you find some set of electronics without the source files, then dont buy that. Beware there are some like that which do not provide the source files, those are practically closed source even if they claim to be open. If you get those and you want to debug or make expansions on electronics without source files it will very hard to do so, and others will not be able to help just based on pictures or drawings. So when you buy electronics, download and open sources first, or if these are not available then simply do not buy - no matter how nice the offer and publicity is. Imagine you have an issue with a closed source electronics and post a picture and ask a question, well anybody answering would be just making guesswork, because without source files ppls do not really know what is there. Pictures and schematic drawings are limited in this regard.

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Rudbot
What do you mean with debugging your own electronics? Do you mean try .... evaluate .... troubleshoot .... fix ... try again?

Yup. If you want to build your own and learn, then for the best give some attention to this side of things. On the same line of thinking, you may not strictly need a programmer if you get the chip already with bootloader on it, but if something happens then a programmer certainly comes in nicely. Same thing you may do without source files if you do not plan to do anything outside a regular use, but again when you have any kind of issues, those source files become essential.

There is a firmware that runs on microcontroller, if you want to get into that, maybe instead of a basic programmer perhaps a debugger could provide more functionality.