Gaining experience

I don't believe there is a better board for learning about electronics. I think the best way to learn is by making projectssss (as much as you can +1). I start myself without any theory and I just try learning by realising schematic I could find online. Most of the time, there were faulty parts and that's the way I learn (by debugging). So if I would have to recommend you a board, it would be a breadboard. And it's practically magical how ideas come around and just make you want to create more stuff.

But I start before all these boards were available and I know that lot of low-cost boards are very attractive for learners (Arduino) , and for owning some of them, they are pretty cool! So I guess you could really learn with an arduino if you would prefer to start with programmation. The biggest advantage of the Arduino,is its community. In facts, there are lots of projects that other made that you could learn from. There is also a lot of tutorials on it.

Because the only way to learn this science is practice. But more important than practice is failure. If when you power up your project, every thing work fine, you're lucky but didn't learn as much, and if it doesn't, you are luckier! Just don't give up because nothing work, we all wanted at some point to throw a board on a wall (and sometimes did). But this is electronics. It's not easy, and if it was, I wouldn't be into electronics!

Good luck,

Julien

I don't believe there is a better board for learning about electronics. I think the best way to learn is by making projectssss (as much as you can +1). I start myself without any theory and I just try learning by realising schematic I could find online. Most of the time, there were faulty parts and that's the way I learn (by debugging). So if I would have to recommend you a board, it would be a breadboard. And it's practically magical how ideas come around and just make you want to create more stuff.

But I start before all these boards were available and I know that lot of low-cost boards are very attractive for learners (Arduino) , and for owning some of them, they are pretty cool! So I guess you could really learn with an arduino if you would prefer to start with programmation. The biggest advantage of the Arduino,is its community. In facts, there are lots of projects that other made that you could learn from. There is also a lot of tutorials on it.

Because the only way to learn this science is practice. But more important than practice is failure. If when you power up your project, every thing work fine, you're lucky but didn't learn as much, and if it doesn't, you are luckier! Just don't give up because nothing work, we all wanted at some point to throw a board on a wall (and sometimes did). But this is electronics. It's not easy, and if it was, I wouldn't be into electronics!

Good luck,

Julien