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That’s pretty amazing, how you can build solutions “on the spot” (instead of buying something off the shelves) how did get started with tinkering?

• madaxe_again 6y ago
  As a kid, with analogue electronics, and microcomputers. I did little to none between ‘04 and last year, when I moved off grid and got back into “gear” while installing a PV system, and got the first RPi all of six months ago because my NAS wasn’t up to running openhab - and haven’t looked back. The arduino stuff has been “buy the bits and put them together”, although some of the bits have been a bare PCB and a bunch of components. So far it’s almost paint by numbers, to be honest - I’m combining things in a somewhat novel way, but the components are all existing solutions to one degree or another.
  • prox 6y ago
    It’s great you got to learn as a kid. I got a class on electricity with a simple board, that was it. But that’s why I love the Pi and similar, they allow you to tinker.
  • mellavora 6y ago
    Would be great if you could post some links to some of your sources/suppliers, I'm thinking of setting up something similar.