Is electronic freelance possible?

Question

Electronics

I mean the development of devices on microcontrollers.
The level of programming is not God, but I can cope with many tasks...

Answer 1

Own experience of radio-electronic freelancing:
- it is difficult to find customers for simple work, like tracing a board or writing firmware, and as a rule it is unprofitable;
- customers for complex projects - from tracing to firmware, you need to look for yourself, that is, offer services to manufacturers.
One way or another - it is difficult to put on stream freelance electronics - the task is always specific. That is, each time you solve a unique problem for little money. In the end, it all comes down to remote work for regular customers.
The best way is to design your own product and sell it yourself. Here you need to get some work experience for your uncle and start working on your own. As a result, at comparable costs, there is more profit from your own product.

Answer 2

It could very well be the case. But since there are few such specialists or there are no freelancers at all, customers do not go either. This is such a vicious circle.

Answer 3

On easyelectronics, and on the incident, there are often ads for small shabashki.
Here it is important to have a good hardware base at home. They pay very well, but the terms are usually short, i.е. waiting for the necessary spare parts to come from China will not work.

Answer 4

Read Dihalt

Answer 5

On odesk.com there are such and such orders. The truth is mostly either small things, or a project with some kind of shield ABG-12323243-3434 (conditionally) with adafruit and an exotic demo board.
I also saw large projects, for several tens of thousands of dollars.
Search, look around.

Answer 6

Style the date with css into a separate element (div)
A triangle for selecting a date is a button, also stylized through css (you can take a picture for a triangle, you can take a graphic font).
Javascript handle button click to open calendar from jquery
UI standard DatePicker: https://jqueryui.com/datepicker/#date-formats