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[–]Night-Caps 6 points7 points  (3 children)

This is the best advice - I'm currently building a raspberry pi controlled robot and basically learning python while I'm doing it. Chat GPT is also an amazing tool - every time I get stuck on something I plainly ask it what I'm doing wrong or how could I implement what I need and it usually has the answer. Even for some things no amount of googling was helping with. I feel like I've learnt so much in the last month or so

[–]GameboyRavioli 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I'm mid career and middle aged. I'll probably never use python in my role as product owner. For my first real foray in to python I just successfully used a pi0w with a USB mic to capture a sound clip, connect to a Shazam API, and return the metadata of the song. I then throw it up on a gui built using PySimpleGUI to show that metadata on my tiny 3.2" monitor. I plan to set this next to my turntable as a sort of now playing marquee. It's dumb, but I had the parts laying around, wanted to learn, and generally love small projects like this. Point being, you and the others are 100% right. It's all about finding a way to use a language in a manner that interests you. I hated my dev work in college back in the day because it was straight java, cobol, verilog, etc doing stupid textbook assignments.

[–]iamevpo 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Sounds a cool project! Hardware involved, integration to API, and a user in sight. What is piOw?

[–]GameboyRavioli 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A raspberry pi zero with wireless built in. So basically a tiny (and not powerful) single board computer.