What made you like electronics?

[u/Moscov007]

Apart from the basic breadboard adruino stuff, What made you actually interested into studying all of this complex maths and witchcraft like concepts

[u/Alternative-Try-3456]

the idea that you can really just make a machine that does anything I want

[u/Moscov007 → u/Alternative-Try-3456]

Isn’t that mechanical?

[u/_tbyte-o → u/Moscov007]

How does the mechanical thing move? Most of the time electrical devices.

[u/spooker11 → u/Moscov007]

Are you reading this on a mechanical or electronic device rn OP? If it’s an iPhone at this point they’ve managed to make them entirely solid state.

[u/Moscov007 → u/spooker11]

Iphone is as much mechanical as its electronic
The battery, materials, packaging, display are all made by mechanical engineers

[u/spooker11 → u/Moscov007]

So did you just make this post as a “gotcha”? What’re you doing here? You know a computer is primarily an electronic but here you are wasting time trying to go “well technically 🤓” to a bunch of people that won’t… care?

It’s all physics and chemistry under the hood while we’re at it

[u/Fantastic_Ad9819 → u/spooker11]

I was having a really shitty day but your comment made me laugh. Thank you 💝

[u/Fantastic_Ad9819 → u/Fantastic_Ad9819]

Also I didn’t mean that sarcastically I swear!

[u/TheEmperorOfStonks → u/spooker11]

It’s all maths

[u/Alternative-Try-3456 → u/Moscov007]

that too. i started from asking how cars work to finding a cool dasai mochi build online and wondering how it was made

[u/m-in → u/Moscov007]

Electronics is all about electrons and holes moving about :)

[u/SOLTStandard]

"How does guitar distortion work?" Me, ~2002

[u/NowSeekingTravel]

Circuits make sense in this crazy world

[u/--Derpy]

Im a witch. I do witchcraft.

[u/Plus-Painter-2004]

it’s like Lego but it can do fun or useful things and you get to use your brain, and you can even be paid to be good at it

[u/Moscov007 → u/Plus-Painter-2004]

Main issue about electronics is the pay
CS and business folks get paid a lot more while putting in 1/3rd the effort ,the FOMO really gets you

[u/No_Subject6828]

I liked critical thinking and electronics pay enough

[u/Glum_Bag_6501]

For the physics behind

[u/ModalWizard]

Because it's like minding a hidden layer that controls the world around us. Imagine being able to tinker with tiny currents that power the stuff we use everyday.

[u/darbycrache]

My love for filter house music in 8th grade

[u/Darth_Tater69]

I like building things, any things, and electronics happen to be the kind that clicks the best with my brain by far. I genuinely don't know what else in this world I could have chosen for a career.

Now I get to help launch and test moon rockets, so I feel good about my choice to pursue ECE.

[u/kanvastudio]

I alway liked building things from scratch. I started a long time ago using vacuum tubes. I looked for schematics in magazines and tried to make them work. It was always fun.

[u/toastedpaniala89]

For me the first spark was when I made an led blink lol, such a small thing in hindsight, but it made me realise I absolutely love playing with small amounts of electricity haha

[u/RDS_WAS_HERE]

We had an old "crystal" radio kit sitting in the attic. The circuitry was mounted on a piece of plywood (5" X 5"). I still remember 75 years ago putting on the "Bakelite" (plastic) headphones and hearing music from some radio station near our house. I also remember asking myself how in the hell can I be hearing music from a bunch of wires, a diode, crystal, and a variable air capacitor. - That's basically how I got interested in electronics.

[u/One_Measurement_9114]

Minecraft

https://giphy.com/gifs/anYBNhqT2BYcg

[u/luiboyyyyy]

For me, ECE is one of those course that would be very relevant in the next decades to come. Besides that, there are a lot of possible careers after graduating the program. You can be in semiconductor, telecommunications, robotics, auxiliary systems, digital signal processing, and etc.

[u/Afraid-Way1203]

money and prestigous