I once have a eye burn becouse I made some work soldering (electric soldering) with out the mask and I get really burn and couldn=92t see much, so, my doctor, told me to wait to see what happened, but fortunatly all turn out fine and I can see now as I saw befere. During that blind week, I thought how would I work in this bussines beeing blind. In the hardware part, I imagine what you just explain to me, but in the software, I thought that it might be lot different than know, (I guess) since now, I can "take a look" at the code, see the C structures graphically, and that stuff, but I guess that beeing blind you have to read line by line and "imagine" the structures in your head, wich, by the way, must have a big "memory" to store full structures.... Well, keep on the good work. Bye Mauricio Jancic Janso Desarrollos Microchip Consultant (54) - 11 - 4542 - 3519 >>-----Original Message----- >>From: pic microcontroller discussion list=20 >>[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin McCormick >>Sent: Lunes, 10 de Noviembre de 2003 12:41 >>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >>Subject: Re: [OT] My Time Capsule >> >> >>Mauricio Jancic writes: >>>Added TAG: >>> >>> can I ask you, since english is not my native=20 >>thongue: Are you=20 >>>really blind or is just a form of expresion. If you are, how do you=20 >>>manege to assembly circuit in the breadboard, protoboard or the way=20 >>>that you call it.? >> >> Yes. I really am. I can see bright Sun or photo=20 >>strobes, really bright lightning and probably nuclear war,=20 >>but that's about it. >> >> I keep a Braille notebook of pin-outs of chips I use=20 >>in projects and use perforated board and wire-wrap as well as=20 >>solder connections to connect wires to round component leads.=20 >> Many chips have a notch or little pin-prick dot at Pin 1 and=20 >>a number of wire-wrap sockets have something, either a notch,=20 >>a bobbed corner, or maybe even a logo stamped in to the=20 >>plastic on the Pin1 end. The two most important things are=20 >>to be sure to keep all the IC's in carefully-marked boxes or=20 >>their shipping tubes because they sure all look the same to=20 >>me when I don't know what they are. >> >> The one monster I haven't even begun to tame is the=20 >>surface-mount technology. One can use a wire-wrap pin nest=20 >>and socket if such a thing can be found for a given chip, but=20 >>they are _EXPENSIVE_ and only practical for large IC's. A=20 >>lot of those surface-mount parts feel like grains of sand to me. >> >> I know I must make PIC's work for the same reason=20 >>that anyone involved in electronics wants to use them. Less=20 >>packaging, smaller projects, and greater ease of duplicating=20 >>the same circuit if one needs to. >> >> Also, for me, documentation of what I did can be put=20 >>right in to the PIC program in the form of comments and=20 >>stored for later use if necessary. >> >> Your English is much better than my Spanish and=20 >>Spanish through the speech synthesizer I presently use=20 >>doesn't come out right because the synthesizer expects=20 >>English rules so I have to slowly spell out Spanish words to=20 >>work my way through a Spanish message. >> >>-- >>http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three=20 >>different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. >> >>--=20 >>Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). >>Version: 7.0.197 / Virus Database: 260.2.9 - Release Date: 06/11/2003 >>=20 >> --=20 Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.197 / Virus Database: 260.2.9 - Release Date: 06/11/2003 =20 -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.