I got a pretty solid foundation in embedded from ~1 year worth of uni EE courses. Learn a bit of Arduino, learn a bit of VHDL, fiddle with some registers and yo

I got a pretty solid foundation in embedded from ~1 year worth of uni EE courses. Learn a bit of Arduino, learn a bit of VHDL, fiddle with some registers and you're 90% of the way there. The last 10% comes from finding a job and just spending a lot of time learning all the other little pieces you need.