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Experiments Arduino & low-level
Electronics projects and programming close to the hardware — microcontrollers, sensors and low-level code that changes how you think about everything above it.
What I used
ArduinoCElectronics
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What I did
- Built circuits with microcontrollers and sensors.
- Wrote low-level C code close to the hardware layer.
- Experimented with electronics for the sheer joy of understanding how it works.
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What I learned
- How the layer nearest the metal works and how it reshapes higher-level thinking.
- Debugging without comfortable high-level tools.
- Respect for memory and real-time constraints.
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Challenges
- Memory limits and real-time requirements were unforgiving.
- Hardware/software boundary issues are hard to pin down.
- Losing the comfort that high-level work spoils you with.