Now for a different kind of post, one on truly learning new skills. I attended Arduino Day 2017 in a nearby makerspace. The day was particularly invigorating mentally for me, as it was not only my first time participating in any sort of coding oriented day in a live community setting but was also the first time I stepped into a makerspace.
The space was gorgeous and they had more 3D printers than I knew existed! There's one that 3D prints paper structures... paper! Anyways, part of the cost of the class for Arduino Day 2017 covered an Arduino Uno, some resistors, jumper cables, servo and a wealth of knowledge that I'm still trying to understand and learn.
For a while now I've screwed around with codeacademy, done the "Hello, World!" sort of early coding at least 6 times, but I never know what comes next. What do I do next?
If you ask friends of mine, you'll find that I'm prone to aiming to overachieve which leads to some failure. Sometimes I get frustrated but overcome (see my retropie set-up) and other times I fizzle out. This behavior is a bit of a personality flaw, seeing as how it was present in my yearly review at work as well.
Regardless, Arduino Day 2017 was great as it kickstarted that thirst for new skills and knowledge. Although electronics is such a different mindset for me, I really have to focus- my dad seems to think that had I just "kept up with it all" it wouldn't be such a challenge now, maybe he's right...
Despite the fact that I tend to overreach, I'm very excited about furthering my abilities. I'd love to document this process as well, so there may be more of those ramblings here.
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