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Re:How I Plan to Bootstrap Aspiring Hardware Engineers by iag on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:49PM (#4691121)
Wow, props to you Mike for actually curating all of your iPhone engineering knowledge and share it with rest of us.

A few questions for you. - How hard was it for you to pick everything up and build the iPhone from scratch? - What do you suggest we do to get access to the equipments in some of these articles? It's pretty out of most people's price range.

Thanks again! This is awesome.

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Re:How I Plan to Bootstrap Aspiring Hardware Engineers by umike on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:58PM (#4691140)
iPhone was definitely a team effort, so fortunately I had access to the top engineers at Apple to guide my personal development. The difficulty wasn't really learning the material itself, but rather figuring out what was worth learning. As for equipment, there's workplaces like Hacker Dojo that have community resources, and in a pinch you can rent equipment from places like MetricTest. Oscilloscopes are pretty reasonable, but it's mainly the RF equipment that gets into BMW price territory.
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