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I have a fine arts degree. Before I switched I took enough CECS to get to EE102, but that's all very vague - pretty much all my working electronics knowledge is picking things up mostly online over the past 10 years or so, starting with simple micro-controller work (Adafruit and Sparkfun have good tutorials, Tom Igoe's Physical Computing is the classic practical guide). Dealing with power systems, robotics, fabrication, etc is mostly a result of building some pretty crazy projects for my own company the past 5 years or so (including building a waterproof outdoor solar-powered shoot-forever camera system, among other things).There aren't a lot of very good guides for battery-powering PCs, so I think this thread in particular is good because it brings together a lot of disparate topics that would otherwise take a long time for someone getting started to figure out.
I have a fine arts degree.
Before I switched I took enough CECS to get to EE102, but that's all very vague - pretty much all my working electronics knowledge is picking things up mostly online over the past 10 years or so, starting with simple micro-controller work (Adafruit and Sparkfun have good tutorials, Tom Igoe's Physical Computing is the classic practical guide). Dealing with power systems, robotics, fabrication, etc is mostly a result of building some pretty crazy projects for my own company the past 5 years or so (including building a waterproof outdoor solar-powered shoot-forever camera system, among other things).
There aren't a lot of very good guides for battery-powering PCs, so I think this thread in particular is good because it brings together a lot of disparate topics that would otherwise take a long time for someone getting started to figure out.
