Ask HN: How to get started with practical hardware?

• hackernews-badge

  6 77 2.1 C++

  A gadget that displays the latest HackerNews article, and notifies you of changes to your karma

reposting this tutorial I made some time ago to help bridge the divide, at the end you get a physical Hacker News Badge - https://github.com/jareklupinski/hackernews-badge

• flatbox

  105 621 4.6 C

  Low profile hitbox-layout fightstick

Agreed that keyboards are a good early project. To add to that, if you play video games, leverless arcade controllers can be a fun build also. Pretty similar overall as far as parts and shape, but the firmware they run (stuff like GP2040-CE or HayBox) make them act as controllers instead of keyboards, and they can even work on game consoles. Specifically I'd recommend the Flatbox rev 5[0] and the Open-Frame1[1].

[0] https://github.com/jfedor2/flatbox

[1] https://github.com/GregTurbo/Open-Frame1

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Open-Frame1

  7 104 4.8

  An open-source rectangle hardware project for smash, prioritizing ease of assembly and cost

Agreed that keyboards are a good early project. To add to that, if you play video games, leverless arcade controllers can be a fun build also. Pretty similar overall as far as parts and shape, but the firmware they run (stuff like GP2040-CE or HayBox) make them act as controllers instead of keyboards, and they can even work on game consoles. Specifically I'd recommend the Flatbox rev 5[0] and the Open-Frame1[1].

[0] https://github.com/jfedor2/flatbox

[1] https://github.com/GregTurbo/Open-Frame1

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