Journal #7701

Awesome, great job. Im glad you worked it out

Cant wait to see more projects from you and your Arduino.

Nice, pretty jealous of anyone who understands electronics/hardware. It's a really cool field I never managed to get into properly :<

Its never too late to get a hobby Daubman.
Depends on what you really like, computers or making electronic gadgets, or both

It's definitely up there for the future.
I'm only decent at writing software, and not understanding the underlying hardware is kind of annoying.

You would be surprised how many people that graduated software making and do that kind of thing don't really know things about hardware at all.
I know many people that are software engineers, but have no knowledge of hardware what so ever.

Kind to think of it, they don't really need to know more than basics, because they will never need to have any contact with internal components, unless thats in their field of programming for of course.

A few months ago, my friends brother asked from us to install windows XP on a system with 32MB SD RAM, lol. And he programs software for the Electro distribution company.

Oh yeah, unless you're actually directly programming some kind of device, it's not necessary at all.

I'm just interested in the field. I always thought robotics, etc. were really cool.

That's the field I hope I will pursue in.

Its good to know about caching and how low-level memory is handled to properly optimize though. Knowing how memory is managed between CPU/GPU is nice too. Aside from that, you don't need to know too much.

Yeah, i think Arduino would be a nice choice for you too Daubster.
Ive been talking with a friend of mine, he is an electronics engineer, Aurdino seems like a lot of fun in todays digital age. You should give it a go.

Also, i am thinking of getting me one of those, so, save your knowledge Striker, we might just need it