Re:A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32
by hombre_fatal on Friday August 14, 2020 @07:22AM
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It seems really fun to develop hardware skills like this. Or for example being able to order an eink display and build my own ereader from basic principles.
But every time I start learning, it feels like there's so much you have to learn to do so little, and I'm not fundamentally motivated by the physics of hardware.
Meanwhile, software, being so high level, is extremely actionable early on without a hard dep on knowing how the underlying stack is working. One of the first things I built was a Ruby on Rails web app that my friends and I used to chat in high school before I even could tell you what http headers were, I would learn those later once the initial taste was so actionable and motivating.
With hardware, in the same amount of time I learned to build a web app that my friends and I used, I probably would have learned to make an LED blink.
Oh well, it's like playing the piano: I wish my younger self put in the time so that my older self could benefit for free.
But every time I start learning, it feels like there's so much you have to learn to do so little, and I'm not fundamentally motivated by the physics of hardware.
Meanwhile, software, being so high level, is extremely actionable early on without a hard dep on knowing how the underlying stack is working. One of the first things I built was a Ruby on Rails web app that my friends and I used to chat in high school before I even could tell you what http headers were, I would learn those later once the initial taste was so actionable and motivating.
With hardware, in the same amount of time I learned to build a web app that my friends and I used, I probably would have learned to make an LED blink.
Oh well, it's like playing the piano: I wish my younger self put in the time so that my older self could benefit for free.