[alinajaf]

> There's not much information about "electronics for software guys".

Interesting you mention this, I've been getting into microcontroller programming for the past year or so and I've also found this to be the case.

I'm thinking of putting together some tutorials that focus more on the electronics side of things. Additionally the programming would be a bit less offensive to us (i.e. where possible tidied up into libraries instead of splat out into one big sketch file). Do you think there might be a lot of interest in something like this?

For arduino, getting set up in vim and working with ino (instead of the arduino IDE, which is extremely useful but fugly as hell) was the first big hurdle.

[wiradikusuma]

please do, but please approach from software programmer perspective (please read my other comment in this thread).

i think it's like OOP programmers trying to learn functional programming, you need to bridge with similar concepts so it's easier to grasp.

[franzus]

> Do you think there might be a lot of interest in something like this?

I can only tell from what I know from my peers (mostly CS educated guys). Many of them are interested into hooking up stuff to their computers but can't get their head around the most simple electronic circuits. (Pull up/down resistors are pretty much irritating for example).

So yeah, there's definitely some interest. I guess hardware hacking is something many programmers are interested in (Software only gets boring after 2 decades of programming) but can't find some easy intro.