Electrical and Computer Engineering

Hey everyone.

I've asked the Lemmy.world admins to make me a moderator of the /c/ece community. I'm a ECE major from college, but all of my real-world work job is programming. So the only electrical/hardware stuff that I do is for hobby work. Still, I'd like to think I know a thing or two worth sharing.

I've got an imagined list of topics that I'd like to cover to help seed and generate discussion. But what would be helpful for me is to know the skill level of my audience. I'm sure there's plenty of experts who are stronger than me in the field of ECE, but I remember being a young high-schooler trolling around EE USENET asking stupid questions. So I also imagine a few precocious high schoolers out there might be lurking around.

So... what is your skill level? Who should I be writing for? Are you hobbyists with no formal training? High-school level with just a propensity to look at various Youtube videos? Or are you formally trained but no practical knowledge? What subjects do you think would be best that I covered?

Over at another lemmy, I've mused upon the skill levels I imagine: https://lemux.minnix.dev/post/81220

The skill tiers I think of are as follows:

Tier 0: Wires and "Lego" sets. Arduino-boards connected with Qwiic and/or Mikrobus

Tier 1: Breadboarding and Through-hole rapid prototyping.

Tier 2: Low speed simple PCB design. Large surface-mount parts.

Tier 3: Higher speed PCB design. Smaller parts to minimize parasitics.

Tier 4: Design with BGAs. "Transmission Line Theory" all across the board, delay matched lines