{"id":224,"date":"2010-03-22T20:35:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T01:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2019-05-26T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T16:31:50","slug":"difficulty-levels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/difficulty-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Difficulty Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The difficulty level of a project indicates on a scale of 1-10 how hard it was for me to build and how hard it might be for you depending on your experience.  It&#8217;s not very precise, just a relative measure.  <\/p>\n<p>You will get more satisfaction from your work if you dig in and learn some things for yourself instead of having someone hold your hand.  Sometimes it&#8217;s better to take the longer path because you&#8217;ll learn more.  If you want to build a significant project, you may need to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn how to read datasheets.<\/li>\n<li>Find where to buy components and any hardware you&#8217;ll need.<\/li>\n<li>Read the code to understand it.  I try to comment my code quite a bit, but you&#8217;ll still have to read it carefully to gain true understanding.<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to use Google to find things.  I&#8217;m sometimes amazed at how many people act as if search engines do not exist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best of luck in your experimentation, and we hope that the projects in the nootropic design Project Lab help you learn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difficulty level of a project indicates on a scale of 1-10 how hard it was for me to build and how hard it might be for you depending on your experience. It&#8217;s not very precise, just a relative measure. You will get more satisfaction from your work if you dig in and learn some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}