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Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. We have

kind of an interesting show for you today that is web development adjacent. I promise there will

be some JavaScript in the show. But we're going to talk about electronics for beginners.

Something that is very interesting to a lot of developers, including myself, is tinkering and fixing

and playing with electronic items around the house. So specifically around

you're working with microcontrollers, but also just the basics of like how do batteries work?

What are the different voltages? What's amperages? What are watts? What is GPIO?

Sometimes you get into these things and you start looking at tutorials and you're going,

oh my goodness, I don't know what any of these things are. And what I found is that once I had

it's with everything, once I had a good base of how electronics work, you're able to pretty much

tackle anything, not anything, but you can tackle a lot of DIY projects without

getting too deep. For a lot of the stuff I'm going to talk about, you don't even know how to

solder something, which is just plugging stuff together and running code that somebody else wrote.

Yeah, I'm really excited because I like my level of electronic prowess comes in and like,

I can install an outlet or an install a let's switch. I can do very basic things. I am bad at

soldering. I soldered one, I made like a motion controller that used a weemote in college,

that used an IR, like a custom IR bar that I built. And like I had to solder that thing and it

like didn't work over and over again because I was just really bad at it. I didn't know what I was

doing. And I haven't gotten any better at that. So I'm interested to hear a little bit about some

of the stuff that you have to say here in general because I would consider myself the very much

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