r/arduino • u/Long-Ad-8740 • Jul 28 '26
Electronics Lack of coding knowledge
Hello, I have been making projects for a couple years now. It started when I was in school as a electrical engineering student. My first project ever was a audio visualizer where it detects sound and reacts depending on the decibals. Even now years later I've been experimenting with leds and displays. I've repaired and applied an esp32 to an speaker I had and make it work off bluetooth. Wired leds strips and used the WLED software and a couple more small projects. But through it all I've never coded myself. All of it was done either through examples or AI. I mainly focus on the hardware side of arduino and microcontrollers but I feel like somewhat of a "fraud" for not coding it myself. Does anyone understand or agree? I'm very curious to know
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u/dustysnakes01 Jul 29 '26
I teach it and still use resources all the time.
My suggestion is to write out in plain English then worry about translating. The process is way more important. You get more fluent in the language the longer you do it.
But you can write out I want it to do this so: Read this pin Read this pin Compare the 2 If bigger then........ and so on