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What were your first steps into creating?

cstanton

 

Mine was when I first visited Leeds Hackspace, and I worked on a system to monitor the temperature/humidity of the Hackspace - how did you get started?

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  • It was a Radioshack 10-in-1 kit when I was probably 7 or 8 years old. I think it was a decoy to keep me away from my older brothers' 200-in-1 kit, which I later did get to play with when the older brothers got bored with it.

    In university one of my computer science courses was to do with hardware - breadboards and chips and lots of wires. I think that kept the spark going.

    Then about 10 years ago (I think), I saw a 130-in-1 kit on super clearance price at the local RadioShack (or was it The Source already by then?), and of course for the 30 bucks I couldn't resist.

    I quickly moved onto logic chips, and then micro controllers. I think that was when Texas Instruments introduced the MSP launchpad series for only $4.30, shipping to Canada included!

    element14 introduced me to Arduino in 2011 when they sent me a Nano-MC.

     

    -Nico

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  • It was a Radioshack 10-in-1 kit when I was probably 7 or 8 years old. I think it was a decoy to keep me away from my older brothers' 200-in-1 kit, which I later did get to play with when the older brothers got bored with it.

    In university one of my computer science courses was to do with hardware - breadboards and chips and lots of wires. I think that kept the spark going.

    Then about 10 years ago (I think), I saw a 130-in-1 kit on super clearance price at the local RadioShack (or was it The Source already by then?), and of course for the 30 bucks I couldn't resist.

    I quickly moved onto logic chips, and then micro controllers. I think that was when Texas Instruments introduced the MSP launchpad series for only $4.30, shipping to Canada included!

    element14 introduced me to Arduino in 2011 when they sent me a Nano-MC.

     

    -Nico

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