Use skill trees to track your growth and inspire you to try new things. Print the open source templates and color in the boxes as you level up your skills.
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https://www.makerqueen.com.au/skill-trees-1Andrew "bunnie" Huang’s classic sourcing tool for non-Mandarin speakers navigating the Hua Qiang electronics market, with completely updated maps, locations, and new chapters by Naomi Wu.
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https://www.crowdsupply.com/machinery-enchantress/the-new-essential-guide-to-electronics-in-shenzhenMake it Yourself is a digital book that showcases this incredible talent, bringing together over 1000 useful DIY projects to demonstrate just what is possible when you make things yourself.
Each featured item links directly to their original project websites, where you’ll find everything needed to make them.
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https://makeityourself.org/A directory of on-demand manufacturers for your creative projects.
Each site listed has instant quotes / online ordering so you can upload your project files and immediately see how much it will cost and how long it will take to make.
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https://buildlist.org/The Pinouts Book is a free digital book created for designers and engineers as a quick reference for remembering the different pinout functions in your electronics projects.
The book covers 130 commonly used components (view list), such as connectors, single board computers, dev boards, memory cards, microcontroller chips, and more.
If you need more technical information, each page has a link at the top (e.g. pinouts.org/XXX), and these redirect to official datasheets / specifications.
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https://pinouts.org/