Message from @arkandas
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>hardware for fun
[CHOKING NOISES IN THE DISTANCE]
One-off prototyping is bad tho
Some things can only be done in hardware though
Yeah, he got a lot of spares anyway, but he didn't liked to break many things.
They're getting to be a thin crowd but they exist heh
>stick to
Doing something to pay your bills doesn't necessitate doing it for fun.
yeah, but i'm still at uni doing CompEng
I could go either way in my area
Yeah no legit; when kids ask me if they should get into hardware I generally tell them to get good with software instead. Save the hardware stuff for building hobby drones or whatever.
Yeah, I agree.
I know more than one old man who has jumped the fence for greener pastures, myself included
It's a lot more fun as a hobby.
I think a programmer should know a little bit of hardware at least.
If you're a masochist you can write verilog for high frequency trading firms and make a shitton heh
You're still into hardware then, *kinda*
I took one class with FPGA design on VHDL
Or work in medical decices
Devices
Verilog is a little better
Not that much
yeah, it was suppose to teach you the basics to design your own logic gates and make a mux
really bad teacher
that would kill it yea. Most people use fpgas for glue logic anyways, which makes sense I guess. Pair a big fast chip with a bunch of programmable logic
yeah, I used a spartan for another project almost drag and dropping example code
depends on what you intend
But yea what a world we live in where the most economically viable things are usb power banks, not even a radio
Pretty stale
Where is my cyberpunk distopia?
Expressif is a cool shop but they're in Shanghai
Shanghai
I love the esp8266
I built a small accelerometer with it, really cool project
yeah it's kinda amazing how it kinda just appeared in 2014
Have you played with esp32 yt
Seems a little choked up in supply?
I'm not paying 20 bucks for the development boards
Yeah I'm thinking the price would drop eventually