A stinking wet and windy day outside, making me gratefull that my pastimes are all indoor activities!
I`d just built a 7 segment x 4 plugin board for prototyping quickness, and hooked that up to a newly programmed PIC16C54 (my 1s`t ever OTP!) and needless to say it worked 1`st time (Kinda), I had the a,b,c,d,e,f,g and DP segment lines a little mixed up and the display looked a bit like Predators Wristband-Mini-Nuke countdown timer 
it got me thinking as I was nearly tempted to actually Keep it that way and just learn to interpret the numbers for fun, is Electronics itself actually an Art as well?
now I know you can use electronics IN art, and electronics to Produce art, but is there an Art to Electronics? as well as programming (low level)?
I know sometimes in electronics design there`s more than One "right" answer, and several ways to design a PCB for instance (I consider them art).
so my question is somewhat Multifold, as in we would need to define "art" in the 1`st place.
I`m not going to do that (because I don`t think I can), but I recon it`s about "Gray Areas", when there Is no definitive Right or Wrong method, some will fall one way, others a different way, all down to personal preferences, I think "Art" is a bit like that.
but the Interesting part to me comes from trying to reconcile the Pure Maths of electronics and/coding into something like Art when you deal with 1s and 0s, fixed constants, and "Knows", into something that`s so seemingly "Analog" as art.
Artfull vs Skillful, anyone?
for Me, I see the Gray areas as room for Art, the application of the finished product as Art.
Photgraphs are 100% accurate, a painting isn`t, one is art the other commonplace/ignorable, if an artist produced a painting with a micro scale paintbrush of something, with the detail of a photo, is it art?
so Do the confines of Physics in elecronics bind us in such a way that it`s not Art, but a purely logical progression from concept to reality, is there something inherently Artistic in a paintbrush or chissel, that cannot be found in a soldering iron and a page of numbers? or would the solding iron have to make a pretty picture?
there are MANY, other aspects I Could cover here, here are just a few quick thinkings that sprung to mind whilst watching it rain, I`d Love to hear of YOUR thoughts and perspectives, additionals and even arguments (of the Logical sort!!!!) about this.
I don`t know how to post a POLL, or even if we can, but it would be Great to read you comments on take on the idea(s).
what`s YOUR input on this?
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