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are drawing normal schematics a dying art?
fourfathom:
--- Quote from: eti on November 28, 2021, 06:33:09 am ---If you want to build a circuit you SHOULD take the time and effort to sit down and work out how it functions and what the components are doing. If you're blindly following a guide, slotting modules together or doing the electrical equivalent of "dot to dot" kids books, then don't you DARE go and show off your copied device to someone, boasting and accepting praise. People ARE VERY lazy nowadays - they want the rewards and adulation without the hard work (look at society too - Instagram nonsense etc - everyone's constantly out having a huge "party", and yet they've got nothing of any substance to be celebrating, if ANYTHING - it's an attention seeking generation)
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This was my initial reaction to the "Make movement". Copying a blinking LED project??? Pathetic!
After a few minutes, remembering how I personally started in this field, I changed my mind. Yes, I started before I was ten years old and it turned into a rewarding career, but I see no reason to disparage an adult who wants to build something. If they advance from there that's great, but if a MAKE magazine project is as far as they get it's still so much better than passively watching television or playing video games.
T3sl4co1l:
Heck, I mean I make a "blinking LED" project every time I'm picking up a new platform. Granted that's a rather more abstract affair, but you never stop doing "blinking LED" projects at some level or another. :-+
Tim
fourfathom:
--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on November 28, 2021, 05:39:53 pm ---Heck, I mean I make a "blinking LED" project every time I'm picking up a new platform. Granted that's a rather more abstract affair, but you never stop doing "blinking LED" projects at some level or another. :-+
Tim
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Yes, me too. It's the "Hello World" of hardware / firmware. And that blinkable LED can really help later in the debugging!
T3sl4co1l:
My typical progression has been:
1. It has GPIO? Blinking LED.
2. It has serial? Put a console on it. (Now I can inspect memory, run commands of my own design, etc.)
3. It has graphics? Put a raycaster on it. Or Doom if it's got enough power. :P
Tim
eti:
If I taught an electronics class, I'd teach them to blink an LED using an oscillator, but mention that a uc is a possibility, but wouldn't demonstrate it; that'd be moving from electronics into programming. I don't "care" how you blink one, but why go to all that silicon expense for such a trivial operation?
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