• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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    That’s how I learned JavaScrpt Python and C++. Now I’m programming my own embedded project on a RP2040 with touchscreen, IMU and addressable LEDs. On top of that I learned thanks to my drone hobby how to solder and assemble circuits and with my 3D printing hobby I can print custom parts to hold the electronics I assembled and programmed. Now I’m reading component data sheet before bed and playing puzzles with i2c communication tables. Fun!

    My background is filmmaking, I’m a camera operator. I don’t work in IT or engineering. I started these hobbies for fun and they have started to blend into something a loser to a job (that I really enjoy)

    • CluelessDude@lemmy.zip
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      This is the sort of person I want to be until mid way through, my crisis begins, as I understand that there are people way better than me at insert current task because I must completely be good at it or it isn’t worth it, I just lose my will power at that point and get depressed, give up and repeat the cycle with something new.

      • Damage
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        Are you young? After a while you accept that making something functional, even if not perfect in execution, is better than not finishing a perfectly executed project.