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What is the result of a programmer's work? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Robotics (or more broadly mechatronics) is a super interesting field. To do the work at the mechanical/electrical interface is really hard.

The field of industrial controls skips the hard part and just buys stuff that is pre-designed to move. Then those pre-designed pieces are made to fit and work together. It's like complicated Legos and is honestly very fun and rewarding.

If you want to do programming with a physical result, controls engineering is a great option. I would recommend shooting for the hard stuff (real programming - DSP, FPGA, etc) knowing you've got a safe fallback with industrial controls (PLC programming).