System Check: Your Opinion on Learning Analog

System check! Elektor wants to know: Should engineers learn analog, even if they do digital? What is the best way to learn analog electronics? Please share your opinion.

System check! Elektor wants to know: Should engineers learn analog, even if they do digital? What is the best way to learn analog electronics? Please share your opinion.

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Past Results

Curious about the results from last week’s System Check on dev boards and whether they lead to laziness? Here are the result's from last week.

Based on the poll questions, we see that most Elektor readers don’t see development boards as making engineers “lazy.” In fact, more than 40% say dev boards actively accelerate learning, while another approximately 22% believe their impact depends on how they’re used. A smaller group (about 18%) views them as slightly abstracting but still helpful, and only a minority (around 8%) think they introduce too much abstraction. Enthusiasm remains solid, with approximately 12% simply saying they love dev boards.

When it comes to skills at risk, it seems most of our community members are concerned about circuit design fundamentals. Some also worry about losing the habit of reading datasheets (about 15%) or low-level debugging (around 9%), but these are secondary.

Interestingly, almost 25% of respondents believe no real skills are lost at all, reinforcing the idea that dev boards are helpful tools provided engineers, students, and makers stay knowledgeable of the underlying hardware.