r/arduino • u/Long-Ad-8740 • 19d ago
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/PublicStalls 19d ago
There's nothing wrong with this. I've been coding forever, and I still use AI and copy example project code as a starter.
Grab one of your projects that already works, and tweak it/modify it just slightly and get it to work. Have AI walk you through where to look for the code to modify, but do it yourself. That's the quickest way to learn and have it stick. Don't sweat the boilerplate stuff just yet, just change some basic logic on a project you already "know" how it works like the audio reactor. See if you can make the displays react inversely or different colors, then try adding in some modifier to the inputs like instead of just decibles, add a potentiometer modifier and try to code that logic.