This is the kind of full stack developer I'd like to be. Started tinkering with electronics in earnest about a year ago but it feels like I'm a decade away from being able to build stuff like this of my own volition.
https://github.com/whyboris/Arduino-LED (see "stairs.ino")
Another project of mine is having the LEDs light up as I play piano:
https://github.com/whyboris/Digital-Piano-LED
Unsure where I'll go after I finish these projects, but LEDs are so much fun!
(As it turned out, I wanted a more stable clock signal for timing purposes than the arduino clock, so I attached a 32.768kHz crystal to one of the inputs, and that also was very easy. I also attached a 4-digit 7-segment display, as there are enough I/O pins, a thermistor, several buttons/switches, and a stepper motor controller. It was easier than I thought. Give it a try.)
Me too. But I think we need to find a new term for “full stack” at this point. Full stack developer was kind of the trendy “I do JavaScript and server stuff too”—though when I visited with adherents I usually found that many migrate to one part mostly and cede the other areas to others.
I do the kind of stuff shown here, embedded C, mqtt servers, native mobile apps, etc, but I have been leery of using the term “full stack.”
But now I’m seeing the term used more often in a more general abstracted sense, like the above. I see this type of person as a polymath (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath). I’d propose the term polytech, but that term is pretty overloaded already, and polyeng just doesn’t role off the tongue very well.
Same. It's really fun to mix high level software with hardware.