Advice for Designing & Programming Circuit Boards & Devices

[drayven]

Hi,

First i just want to say if this is not the right place to post, i apologies now.

The reason for my post is this. I would really like to be able to design and create
my own circuit boards/devices then program the drivers and finally my own software
to interface with that device.

The software I am on my way to learning with a software engineer degree, but I am not sure
where to start when it comes to circuit boards, electronic.

Do i need to have a good foundation of maths and or physics to reach my goal?
Right now I am not sure where to start so any directions would be greatly welcome.

Take care
Will

 

[DaveC426913]

It wouldn't hurt to have knowledge of math and/or physics, but I know plenty of electronics hobbyists who do just fine without them.

But you're planning to go into software engineering. You might need some advanced math - calculus for example.

You don't have to be an A+ in every subject if that's what you're worried about.

 

[drayven]

Hi,

Thank you for getting back to me and for the advice.

I wanted to know what books you would recommend for getting back into math, which i did not pay much attention at school with and a book on physics.

I just want to learn i like reading. but because i don't know a lot of math i have to start form scratch before i can learn anything about physics, well that's what i have been lead to believe.

any help or direction would be great

Thanks

 

[and9]

Not much math is involved in software engineering (speaking from the Computer Science/Physics double major perspective). It is nice to know algorithms and how to implement your own algorithms but that is a luxury.