[HN Gopher] Bread Board Wristwatch (2017)
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Bread Board Wristwatch (2017)
Author : _Microft
Score : 23 points
Date : 2023-05-27 22:36 UTC (1 days ago)
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| _Microft wrote:
| The components and wiring on the board might be too fragile for
| everyday use but potting it with clear/slightly colored epoxy
| might solve this problem? In that case it might be a good idea to
| solder the contacts rather than only plugging in - otherwise
| epoxy could get between the wires and bread board contacts and
| cause the circuit to fail.
| procarch2019 wrote:
| I miss doing fun little projects with atmel MCUs. They were easy
| to get started with using either arduino or C. I often found
| myself blogging or documenting my projects just like this, which
| is funny since it wasn't "work."
|
| Then at some point I got too busy with work (and a kid) so I
| stopped messing around with them.
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| I didn't realize how helpful learning low level I/O design and
| implementation was to my current job (control systems) until much
| later on. I'm pretty confident my hobbying helped me understand
| design decisions for the software that we worked in for my day
| job. Types, and more importantly type casting, was relatively
| ubiquitous in MCU programming. The software we used in my day job
| casted all types implicitly. So many times when we found a bug in
| that software it was due to some casting issue. Granted I was
| implementing "code" in that platform, but not a software
| engineer, so it was funny having relatively deep technical
| conversations with the software engineers when we had to engage
| them.
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