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So I'm going to type a decently long message, and hopefully you'll reply. I see you reply others so please read this if you can spare the time

I am 21 years of age and I live in South Africa. I won't be able to afford university, I've been applying for scholarships in hopes I can study these fields officially

Other than that, for the past year I've been intricately studying electricity as well as other VLSI fundementals

I came upon NAND and how memory chips work and function, and I realized this is my fascination. I want to work whith data, I knew I was fascinated by data, but I never wanted to do data science. I studied the field for a while and noticed it's not what I'd like to do
I dabbled in networking and came to the same conclusion

When I started learning how storage mediums worked, I just became perplexed. I've studied all free material I can find online. From Western Digital, Seagate and Toshiba's videos and documentation on hard drives, optical, floppy qnd tape storage for the fun of it
I've studied kioxia and crucial's material on SSD's and fell in love with NAND.

I realised I want to design these things, I just don't even know where to begin. I've gotten my hands on CMOS VLSI Design a Circuits and systems perspective by David Money Harris and Neil H. E. Weste
The book is a little too advanced for me. I progress about one page per day, so I've started looking for other books to explain these concepts and fundamentals I'm not knowledgeable about yet
I've gotten my hands on All About electroncis by forrest m mims and I've read through it. I've gone through all material allaboutcircuits.com has to offer as well as electronics all in one for dummies by Doug Lowe

I've also went through the material provided by circuit bread on youtube. He has quite some strong material on a lot of relevant topics

Now I know all of these topics require strong knowledge about physics, chemistry as well as linear algebra and calculus

I've recently started calculus and linear algebra. I have a strong understanding of chemistry as it also fascinates me alongside physics, but I cannot progress my physics any further without stronger foundational knowledge in math.

How would you recommend me to go forward if I cannot get a degree? I can learn these topics as much as I can, but without putting it into practice, how will I ever keep the knowledge I've gained

So I started a project with a few friends. We've developed a sensor that you can place inside a beehive which can in turn predict the behavior of the bees. Will they swarm, is the queen in good health, is the hive sick, is the hive up to pollenation standards as well as some security features to let you know if your bees are being smoked, if the hive is being disturbed, moved or stolen. We've developed an APP and a deep learning algorithm alongside it to do these predictions. We have about 1 terabyte of training data as of yet and we are in the testing phase. We need to determine warranty, pricing as well as accuracy of the algorithm and then develop an IP68 (Not sure if we'll be able to afford the rating itself, but we want it to be waterproof) enclosure for the pcb to be inside. We've decided on using a 12700 battery with a 25x25mm multilayered pcb. It turns on in a set interval and exports data on another set interval. I'm currently working on an analog method which will always stay in a powered state, to wake the digital components from their sleep state if certain conditions change, but I need some more knowledge to be able to do this. The project has taken about a year, and we might actually launch as a business. During the time we've developed this sensor (We are a team of 3. A beekeeper, a programmer, and then me) we noticed other people who are doing similar to exactly the same things we are even though we had an original idea (to stop theft actually, but the project got a little out of hand in a few months and I'm glad it did.)

Goes to show, if you think about something, act on it quickly before others do. Anyways, please tell me if you can assist me in any way forward

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How simos work in microcontroller

Yawn. Y’all really expect to have a job in a country that does not have any for semiconductor engineers?