I've been watching YouTube channels such as Applied Science: guys who are pushing the boundaries of what can be accomplished in a garage shop. It really wants to make me step up my hacker game. My "day job" is industrial mechanic in a chemical plant.
I kind of want to put Arduino on the shelf and learn one microcontroller really well.
When I was school we programmed PICs, so maybe that's the natural choice. I was kind of thinking of the SAMD21, though. Adafruit has the Feather boards, and if I really want to whip up something quick I can still use Arduino or even MicroPython. I think I like the idea of that flexibility: a high level language for a non-critical application, and C for something timing sensitive or resource intensive. It has been a couple years since I have written any C code, but no doubt it's like riding a bike, hahaha.
I have maybe 100 hours of experience with the ESP32 and didn't find a way that I liked to program it. Eventually I started to learn RTOS and came to the conclusion that I didn't like it.
There are so, so many microcontrollers and dev boards out there. What do you suggest?
I kind of want to put Arduino on the shelf and learn one microcontroller really well.
When I was school we programmed PICs, so maybe that's the natural choice. I was kind of thinking of the SAMD21, though. Adafruit has the Feather boards, and if I really want to whip up something quick I can still use Arduino or even MicroPython. I think I like the idea of that flexibility: a high level language for a non-critical application, and C for something timing sensitive or resource intensive. It has been a couple years since I have written any C code, but no doubt it's like riding a bike, hahaha.
I have maybe 100 hours of experience with the ESP32 and didn't find a way that I liked to program it. Eventually I started to learn RTOS and came to the conclusion that I didn't like it.
There are so, so many microcontrollers and dev boards out there. What do you suggest?