Message from @arkandas
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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
I hated it
Devices
Verilog is a little better
Not that much
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
Or maybe they're trying to recoup the costs of the laowais they hired
found a picture
meanwhile im playing with a bbc microbit