The path from a blinking LED to your personal invented device, gadget/technique?

Question

Do it yourself

There are:
1. A person who is easily trained, hardworking, a huge amount of free time - 1 piece
Goals:
1. Deal with microcontrollers, physics and other related circuitry.
2.Learn how to make simple projects on microcontrollers
3.Understand how to turn circuits into real devices
4.After N number of burns from a soldering iron, X number of swear words about broken circuits to Z number of swear words about what it finally worked, the possibility of creating devices according to schemes on microcontrollers without difficulty, where to go next?

Answer 1

To a specialized institute?

Answer 2

this person in the photo does not hold the soldering iron correctly !!!

Answer 3

It is far from necessary to do brainwashing with classical methods, you will come to them naturally, just like children begin to sit down and stand on their feet, take 1st steps, become a child and give yourself one of the NI LabVIEW for LEGO toolkits.