{"id":118,"date":"2012-02-18T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2012-02-18T23:32:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T22:32:07","slug":"reading-and-learning-instead-of-blinking-and-beeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/reading-and-learning-instead-of-blinking-and-beeping\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and learning instead of blinking and beeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know, all those &#8220;I&#8217;ve been too busy to blog&#8221; postings are boring, so I&#8217;ll skip that part and just give you a short status update how things are going.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I haven&#8217;t been building and coding much lately, at least not for the .NET Microframework environment. Sure, I think this kind of technology is great, and I really like to have some peaces of it laying around, waiting for the next idea to become a prototype.<\/p>\n<p>But the more I&#8217;ve been playing with the NETMF things, the more I learn about related technology: electronic components, sensors, chips and microcontrollers. Well, I&#8217;m exaggregating when I speak of &#8220;learning&#8221;, but I&#8217;m getting a better idea of how all those things are working internally.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand this makes it easier to understand what others are building and how their projects solved a specific problem, often in a very awesome way, on the other hand you have to get more into detail when working on own project ideas, because having an overview of available components doesn&#8217;t mean that the technological solution appears out of nothing.<\/p>\n<p>To cut a long story short: electronics in general and (.NET powered) microcontrollers are just awesome and I&#8217;ll keep on playing around with it and occasionally sharing my results with you, promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know, all those &#8220;I&#8217;ve been too busy to blog&#8221; postings are boring, so I&#8217;ll skip that part and just give you a short status update how things are going. First of all, I haven&#8217;t been building and coding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/reading-and-learning-instead-of-blinking-and-beeping\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}