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1. Awesome Cpp
Weblogs
- C++ Team Blog - Dev blog from the Microsoft Visual C++ team
2. Awesome Wagtail
Tools / Templates & Starter Kits
- Wagtail Quickstart with docker (⭐4) - A template repository to get started quickly with the latest Wagtail in docker.
3. Awesome Mac
Design and Product / Screencapturing Software
- Zappy - Zappy is a screenshot and screen recording app all in one. Has some simple editing tools built in.
4. Awesome Go
Security
- go-peer (⭐294) - A software library for creating secure and anonymous decentralized systems.
5. Awesome Electronics
Simulators / Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Simulators
- LTspice - The industry standard free SPICE circuit simulator from Linear Technologies. Also see the unofficial LTwiki and Group.
- ngspice - Open source SPICE circuit simulator.
- Circuit JS/Falstad - Free, open source online simulator with electron flow visualization (rewrite of original Java applet by Paul Falstad).
- EveryCircuit - Free to try online, visual, interactive circuit simulator for simpler circuits.
- Qucs - Open source, cross-platform, non-SPICE-based circuit simulator, with with S-parameter and Harmonic Balance capability.
- Qucs-S - Open source fork of Qucs using SPICE for simulation.
- QucsStudio - Free, closed-source, Windows-only fork of Qucs with a similar interface, new engine, and more features.
- Open Circuit Design Software - Open Source, full EDA suite chip design suite, focused on keeping up with commercial tools.
- TINA-TI - Exclusive DesignSoft-TINA build for Texas Instruments, bundled with Texas Instruments Models.
- CppSim - Free, open source circuit simulator that leverages the C++ language to achieve very fast simulation times.
- Scilab with Xcos - Free, open source numerical computing alternative to MATLAB. Xcos provides Electrical System modeling capability similar to Simulink.
- iCircuit - Easy to use electronic circuit simulator, its advanced simulation engine can handle both analog and digital circuits and features realtime always-on analysis.
- Micro-Cap - Professional-grade mixed signal simulator with wide variety of interactive simulation types.
- GeckoCIRCUITS - Open Source Power Electronic Circuit Simulator. GitHub Project (⭐67). Direct download link due to broken website.
Paid EDA Packages / Installable
- Proteus - PCB Design and Circuit Simulator Software.
- Altium - PCB Design Software & Tools.
Simulators / Verilog HDL Simulators
- Verilator - Free, open source Verilog compiler. Test benches are in C++ or SystemC. Very fast, but limted to 2-state, cycle-based simulation, and synthesizeable code only.
- Icarus Verilog - Free, open source verilog interpreter. Test benches are in behavioral verilog. Simulation is 4-state, and event-based.
Free EDA Packages / Installable
- KiCad - Open source EDA package with push and shove router, differential pairs and much more.
- Eagle - One of the most popular EDA packages due to it's (board size restricted) free version.
- DesignSpark PCB - Gratis EDA package without restrictions, sponserd by RS Components.
- Altium CircuitMaker - Free package from the maker of the go to pro software.
- gEDA - Another open source package, good for people that like scripting and makefiles, Linux and BSD only.
- DipTrace - Quality Schematic Capture and PCB Design software with (pin and signal layer restricted) free version.
- LibrePCB - A new, powerful and intuitive EDA tool for everyone, cross-platform and GNU GPLv3.
- Horizon EDA (⭐1.2k) - A free and open source EDA tool with the focus on shortcut operation.
- EasyEDA - Easy to use with both browser based and cross platform app versions. Integrates LCSC and JLCPCB component catalogs with 3D models.
CAD Specific / KiCad
- Contextual Electronics' Shine on You Crazy KiCad - Beginner video tutorial that gets you to a manufactured board as quickly as possible.
- Contextual Electronics' Getting to Blinky Tutorial - A more comprehensive beginner to intermediate video tutorial.
- KiCad.info Forums - User discussion and help forum.
- Keyboard PCB Guide (⭐4.6k) - Comprehensive written tutorial that takes you through creating a keyboard PCB.
- Cheatsheet (also in landscape) - Short PDF that goes over the menus and keyboard shortcuts for the most common operations.
- Footprint Collection (⭐335) - Collection of all the KiCad footprints available online and some scripts to manage them.
- InteractiveHtmlBom (⭐4.1k) - A html BOM generation tool for manual pick and place.
- KiBot (⭐633) - Generate the fabrication and documentation files for your KiCad projects easily, repeatable, and most of all, scriptably.
CAD Specific / Eagle
CAD Specific / Altium
- Altium Designer Libraries -
.IntLiband.PcbLibof electronic components from different manufacturers.
Part Search Engines / Altium
- Octopart - Probably the most well known part search engine.
- Findchips - Part search from Supply Frame.
- Parts.io - Another search engine from Supply Frame geared towards discovering new parts.
- Electronic Component Search Engine - Free access to schematic symbols, PCB footprints and 3D models.
Blogs / Altium
- Hackaday - Probably the most popular blog covering electronics and hardware hacking with a whole staff of writers.
- bunniestudios.com - Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang covers hardware hacking, open hardware, manufacturing and more.
- Bald Engineer - Project logs, tutorials and articles about electronics and embedded software by James Lewis.
- Rheingold Heavy - More project logs, tutorials and articles about electronics and embedded software, these ones by Dan Hienzsch.
- Hackster.io - Another blog covering electronics.
- Dangerous Prototypes - Blog about open source hardware projects and interesting app notes.
- N-O-D-E - Blog about DIY electronics, hardware, and technology.
Forums / Discussion
- EEVBlog forum - Probably the largest and most active forum to discuss Electronic Engineering topics.
- /r/electronics and /r/ECE are the two most active sub-reddits for EE topics.
Forums / Help
- /r/askelectronics - Sub-reddit dedicated to help on electronics topics.
- Electronics Stack Exchange - Question and answer site for electronics running on the popular Stack Overflow service.
- EEVBlog beginners forum - Good place for beginner questions, other sub-forums on EEVblog should be suitable for questions on more advanced topics.
Podcasts / Help
- The Amp Hour - Off-the-cuff chat about electronics with Chris Gammel and Dave Jones (EEVBlog), often with guests
- Embedded.fm - Christopher and Elecia White discuss embedded systems development and much more, often with guests.
- The Spark Gap Podcast - Covers a specific EE topic each episode, sometimes with guests.
- MacroFab Engineering Podcast - Weekly podcast where Parker and Stephen from MacroFab discuss EE topics and industry news.
- The Engineering Commons Podcast - Covers general engineering topics from mechanical to electrical.
Videos / Help
- EEVblog - One of the earliest and most successful YouTube channels where Dave Jones does teardowns, tutorials and more.
- BigClive - YouTube channel about teardowns (including dangerous products), circuit reverse-engineering and tutorials.
- ElectroBOOM - YouTube channel that debunks and explains EE topics with a lot of comedy thrown in.
- Micah Scott - Video logs of reverse engineering and re-purposing consumer electronics hardware in creative ways.
- Afrotechmods - Tutorials on electronics projects, often suitable for beginners as well.
- The Signal Path - Very in depth teardowns, repairs and reviews of lab equipment and prototyping products.
- w2aew - Excellent tutorials about basic and complex analog hardware.
- Mr. Carlson's Lab - Teardowns, repairs and restorations with an emphasis on classic electronics gear.
- GreatScott - Electronics tutorials, projects and how to's.
- Julian Ilett - Buys cheapest electronic modules he can find and tries to do useful things with them.
- MikesElectricStuff - Teardowns, large lighting projects, xrays and more.
- Ben Eater - Series of videos on building an 8-bit computer on breadboards with excellent explanations of all the sub-circuits.
- Robert Feranec - 100+ Hardware design tips and tricks. Videos about Schematic design and PCB layout.
- Strange Parts - YouTube channel about electronics, manufacturing, making, world travel, living in and making things in China.
3D Part Models / Help
- GrabCad - Community supported database of 3D models with a large number of electronic component models.
- 3D ContentCentral - Website dedicated to 3D models of parts (requires login).
6. Awesome React Components
Data Store / Mouse Events
- fireproof (⭐879) - demo - docs Pure JS, zero dependency, CRDT database - runs in the browser and connects to any cloud or backend
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