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shiroiushi 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year ...

This is exactly true, unfortunately: proprietary tooling that costs an absolute fortune, and has a UI straight out of the very worst of the 1980s, and only works on very select proprietary platforms, is absolutely the norm with hardware work.

tarruda 5 months ago [–]

Why is that the case? Are there no good open source alternatives to these tools?

eimrine 5 months ago | [–]

Nobody except gigachad capitalists need that advanced PCB.

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