or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Electronics
I've been wanting to get in to electronics, circuits, microprocessors, and so forth for a very long time, but have always managed to avoid it by laziness and self-sabotage.
Then Make: Electronics went on sale along with its component kits and I couldn't pass that up. I realized that if I wanted to do this I'd have to spend some money and create an obligation to myself. I also realized that this time (because yes, I've tried before), I would not take shortcuts or "just do theory", that I'd actually end with some circuits by the time I was done.
So a plan was formed: I would work through every single project in the book, no matter how mundane or off my interests. I would build without fear of burning out components. I would record and post pictures of every project, just to prove to the world (i.e. myself) that I had actually followed through and done them. And I would do all the silly legwork, math, side experiments, additional exploration, and so forth, in order to really start building a foundation for myself in hardware hacking.
Here begins my journey.
Then Make: Electronics went on sale along with its component kits and I couldn't pass that up. I realized that if I wanted to do this I'd have to spend some money and create an obligation to myself. I also realized that this time (because yes, I've tried before), I would not take shortcuts or "just do theory", that I'd actually end with some circuits by the time I was done.
So a plan was formed: I would work through every single project in the book, no matter how mundane or off my interests. I would build without fear of burning out components. I would record and post pictures of every project, just to prove to the world (i.e. myself) that I had actually followed through and done them. And I would do all the silly legwork, math, side experiments, additional exploration, and so forth, in order to really start building a foundation for myself in hardware hacking.
Here begins my journey.