I've been tempted to get an Arduino (or one of the alternatives) and find a few projects to play around with. Has anyone here done anything like this? I've looked through Instructables and I saw a few interesting projects and I figured that the odds were good that someone here has.
Or has anyone simply built their own boards? One instructor was telling me that I could, and we have the bits/materials I believe, but I'm assuming that I'd need to get through the bulk of the digital/micro courses first.
I was thinking of trying to put together an Arduino + hard drives setup to play music, and I started wondering if I could use some PLCs to actuate the hard drives and increase the number of hard drives I'd be capable of using. But then I don't think I could get my hands on 50+ hard drives, or that inserting PLCs to gain outputs would even be workable.
Or has anyone simply built their own boards? One instructor was telling me that I could, and we have the bits/materials I believe, but I'm assuming that I'd need to get through the bulk of the digital/micro courses first.
I was thinking of trying to put together an Arduino + hard drives setup to play music, and I started wondering if I could use some PLCs to actuate the hard drives and increase the number of hard drives I'd be capable of using. But then I don't think I could get my hands on 50+ hard drives, or that inserting PLCs to gain outputs would even be workable.