Hi everyone,
TL;DR Completely new to coding and programming, but I want to learn enough to be able to run a home server, my own website and tinker a bit with Arduino. Is there any programming language or path that you could recommend?
I don’t know if those things are related or not. I’ve been looking at books a bout Arduino, but it’s just following instructions to do xyz, but not explanation of the basics.
About the server and website, I’ve wanted to try it out since I stumbled upon the Low tech magazine. Many of the projects there and the philosophy behind it speak to me, so I would like to be more knowledgeable about it and be able to do some stuff myself.
EDIT. You guys are awesome! Thank you so much for the replies. It’s so cool to see Lemmy populated with cool people willing to chat and put knowledge in common :) I might be updating this post when I get to do something about… well all the resources you gave me!
Sh*t, damn climate. Yeah I remember that being covered on TV and them saying it’s a catastrophe in Catalonia for several consecutive years now. I kind of forgot, because nowadays all the news is about Trump or Putin or Gaza. Wish I could send you some low-pressure weather areas. And I probably also owe some water to the south, because I occasionally buy paprika and other fruits from there. I think this year we got enough rain here in North Rhine-Westphalia so the water levels recovered a bit. I don’t really know what to say… It’s unfair. And one of the major tasks to tackle in the very near future… Probably also a really big investment to sustain a big city.
Hehe. Every so often I check that site and see what’s new. I think the solar powered website is an awesome project. I always wanted one, too. And I already have a small solar panel. Unfortunately the house is facing all sorts of directions, but there isn’t any surface pointing to the south. I’ve tried running an Raspberry from it but that draws too much power and I’d need a bigger solar panel for an usual day. Maybe I should try a more efficient ESP32 and see if anyone implemented a proper webserver for that.