<p>I just re-watched some of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@breakingtaps" class="u-url mention">@<span>breakingtaps</span></a></span> videos and it gave me the motivation to really push on with my own projects. To see someone build their own fricking microchip semiconductors and still sometimes make oopsies that could have (in hindsight) easily been prevented makes me more confident about making mistakes.</p><p>We generally see only the finished projects and a straight path to the end result when other people present their hobby projects. However, i am completely sure that each and everyone, even the most skilled, cannot have their projects succeed in one single try. _Especially_ when those projects push against the boundaries of their skill set and knowledge.</p><p>Go ahead and be proud of your mistakes, it means that you learned something. Write bad code, make mistakes in your PCBs, blow up some transistors, get the polarity wrong on ICs. It does not make you bad at what you do!!! I dont know who needs to hear this but I certainly do.</p>