Besides Arduino, what other ways are there to learn hardware programming in a hands-on way? Are there any nifty kits available, either a pre-assembled robot, that you can program to move a certain way, or do certain things, or anything similar to that? ...
Some software I am developing requires the presence of a USB device (which I interact with as a SerialPort, with a USB-to-UART bridge). Sometimes, after a computer is being restarted from hibernation, the device is not being detected, and I can no longer write to, or read from, the device through its serial port. Having read/write acces...