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Not learning anything just yet, but there’s quite a few things I’ve been wanting to learn when I get the time: • I’d quite like to learn how to do ‘low-level s
by bradrn 5y ago
Not learning anything just yet, but there’s quite a few things I’ve been wanting to learn when I get the time:
• I’d quite like to learn how to do ‘low-level stuff’, particularly microcontrollers — I rediscovered an old Arduino which I’ve had some fun playing around with. I particularly want to get to the point where I can write low-level Forth code and flash it to the microcontroller. Also, I should learn assembly language at some point, but it’s proving difficult since I’m on Windows.
• Relatedly, I want to learn the basics of electrical engineering. My physics degree has given me a good overview of the underlying concepts, but I still can’t even design a basic circuit for my Arduino.
• I have very little knowledge of how the networking stack works, so I’m thinking of getting myself a Raspberry Pi and learning how to build and host my own website.
• Wrt linguistics (a favourite subject of mine), I’d like to learn more about morphosyntactic alignment, specifically split intransitivity and alignment in person marking. I have a whole stack of papers stored up which I’d like to read.
• Time management — I feel like I have so much time but am wasting most of it.
Luckily, university vacation started this week, so I may even get enough time to learn some of these!
- elliekelly 5y agoEdit: I'm sorry, that EdX course doesn't seem to be the one I was thinking of. The cool website is https://www.tinkercad.com https://www.tinkercad.com though. Definitely worth poking around and experimenting. There’s a great (very low-level introductory) IoT course from Curtin University on EdX[1] that will teach you the absolute basics of circuitry and get you started building things with arduino. MIT also has almost all of their courses available for free (search “MIT OCW” or “MIT open courseware”) if you’re looking for something more technical, given your physics background. I believe their introductory circuits course for EE/EECS students is 6.002. The EdX course is cool though because it uses a site (I wish I could remember the name) that simulates circuits to let you build things with an arduino right in your browser. [1]https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-the-internet-of-things-iot?index=product&queryID=c4b3fb1b74c421339b459e98f5e3b772&position=13 https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-the-internet-of-t...
- bradrn 5y agoThanks for the recommendations! I was having trouble finding resources, so I’ll have to check those out. (Further question: do you by any chance happen to know of a good textbook? I personally find that I learn better from textbooks than I do from online videos.)