Yacine's advice to new programmers: push hardware to the limit, bitbang GPIO
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-31
Indie developer Yacine replied to a novice programmer asking for advice on learning C on a Raspberry Pi Pico with the Pi SDK. His advice: to truly understand how things work, push hardware to the limit — e.g. try bitbanging GPIO to make a wire emit radio signals — and "don't take no for an answer."
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