Brian Griffin
- Joined May 17, 2013
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I can understand your difficulties of sourcing the components. I did have a lot of difficulties getting the components too earlier when I was a teenager, but when I entered my first year I got the components by purchasing from online retailer. Maybe you need to ask around the college or your coursemates for online retailers. I'm sure there are plenty of them where you stay. In where I stay, the local electronic component retailers are quite far away (30-40kms) so I ordered from online instead.Yes I am using simulator software. I don't have microcontroller and other electronic component. There is no electronic market, where I live. I have to go for away from my place And They sell very expensive items but I will purchase very soon. I have just financial issues.
Depending on the simulator alone couldn't help in the push button. These requires actual components. You need to also get a modern microcontroller such as PIC16/18F and a programmer, which are available very cheap.
I did not start from using a simulator. I started with a box of electronic components with a breadboard and doing it in a semester holiday.
It is a lot of trial and error and you need to be prepared to see more failures so that you can learn faster (and more efficient).