luojanne
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I finally started my electronics hobby, which I had been thinking of starting for a several years.
Now I have enough space and I finally got a small collection of electronics from my childhood friend from to start with. I'm just ordering ESP32 and WS2812 led strip and stuff, but when waiting them to arrive, I've actually now something to play with.
I've some education and history of work with electronics and programming. Also I've started to design, program and control lights and VJ-stuff at electronic music scene like 20+ years ago. So interest of this kind of tinkering of a hobby has been in my mind, quite long time.
The second setup with a simple code of blinking the led and switching it and off with a button. Actually afterwards I knew that it wasn't working quite perfect because of ChatGPT:s little bug I've found later.
ChatGPT was really my new useful friend. I've asked in last 12 hours numerous questions I wasn't sure of.
Also I learned quite fast, that when I really try a bit more complicated and still basic things, and I've to use something like INPUT_PULLUP-kind of solutions, because I've got only one 150Ω resistor at the moment. ChatGPT couldn't think that fully trough. Also I'm happy that I've some history of programming.
I really need some resistors and transistors. Tomorrow is a new day and local shop is open, So I don't have to wait to some package to arrive.
Somehow a man can get some happiness of four leds you can switch with a push button.
manixaist
That’s awesome, I should get my Arduino out and play with it again. These projects are always personally satisfying.
solrev
You might like this site. Goodies https://www.robotshop.com/collections/robot-kits?view=boost-pfs-original
luojanne
I'm not so into robotics. Lighting and stuff like that are more my thing. Like I mentioned in the post, I've been kind of many different light and video productions in (mostly) electronic music parties in like more than 20 years.
But what I can know when I continue my journey? Moving lights will be still in a far future.
solrev
Not as far as you think. At least Basic ones. You can assign a Boolean array to physical outputs then update where the true is and trigger the led that way.