I had to move my electronics and coding station, just simply due to space. I swapped out the old Dell prebuilt I was using for a raspberry Pi 4b I had sitting in a drawer, and this sucker is actually a beautiful little coding machine. I have a razor thin HDMI display on a stand that also is perfect, all my components, microcontrollers, etc, can all fit into a clamshell case. 5 minutes and I can set up a portable electronics "lab". Amazing! (Oh btw, does anybody have any keyboard recommendations? I can't stand writing code on the little ones that come with the Pi packages, but I also don't want a massive one. One with a couple usb ports would be great)

I've also spent the last couple of years relearning math, and I'm finally back up to calc (which I took in highschool for college credits, and promptly dropped out lmao), and the more I learn the more applications and ideas I have (wish I thought this way when I was assessed as "mathematically gifted" and put in special school as a child), and now the idea of just pure computation is pretty exciting to me.

So, just how much am I going to have to learn to build a cluster that acts as a backbone for computation? I'm thinking 5 pis in a case with passive and active cooling. I don't know electricity very well yet, but I've been doing a bunch of Arduino projects and function tutorials, I don't think I'm missing too much knowledge to power this sucker efficiently either.

Here's an example - my car, a 2015 Nissan Altima, is doing something strange. When it idles for a long time, it starts messing up the timing of EVERYTHING, and the car is basically a disaster when it hits that state. The ODB codes are completely useless, and not at all indicative of the actual problem. They tend to just clear themselves. Now, I think that the onboard computer may be overheating, and is either functioning as a microcontroller as well, or its jamming up communication with the microcontrollers for some reason. I've managed to passively monitor the port while recreating this, and have some raw data now. It's complete nonsense right now, and what exactly I am going to have to do is something I have NO idea about. As this is a little bit out of my current depth (my favorite projects always are), I am only theorizing, and haven't done any deep research yet, but say I had to try and brute force some encryption keys, or something, it'd be amazing to have that ability!

Sorry for the steam of human consciousness here lmao, I love talking about this stuff.