“In the past couple of months, I’ve taken interest in the popular ESP8266 wifi enable uC. I’ve also wanted for a long time to start designing PCBs, so I decided to mix both interests and build an irrigation controller. I am no expert in PCB design nor any electronics for that matter. I’m a software guy. So this whole PCB design is done in a very amateur way and some of the experts out there might find many flaws in my design. But the important thing is that it does work as expected and most of all: I had a lot of fun and learned a lot of things while doing this. That project may look like a failure to some, but it is definitely a victory for me since I ended up learning things. And next time, I’ll learn even more until I get good at it. That’s the process I went through to learn about software design. I have to fail once before taking on the theory.”
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