Rumors of the death of Roman Black have proven to be greatly exaggerated!

All those who subscribed to this journal prior to March of this past year
will remember that Roman Black is the genius TV repair guru, biker engineer
who has shared any number of inspired designs including the LiniStepper (a
part of each sale kindly donated to the web site based on this list)
http://www.piclist.com/techref/io/stepper/linistep and other gems; Just a
few listed here from
http://www.romanblack.com
- NEW 90% efficient 2-tran SMPS 5v "Black regulator"!!
- EE-Draw! - Software to draw electrical circuits with text!
- DC Motor Encoder - mega cheap - measures motor speed
- BTc PICsound One-bit sound recording/playback on a PIC
- $10 Eprom Eraser - simple 4watt fluoro tube driver
- Self (power) switch a PIC or other micro
- Magic One-second timer algorithm for PIC
- 2-Speed clock for PIC or other micro
- Easy cheap small robot chassis!
- Hippyware License

Not to mention literally thousands of posts with answers, advice and
encouragement for list members in need.
http://www.piclist.com/techref/postbot.asp?by=thread&Month=&Year=2003&author
=%25roman%25&tgt=_top

Many worried emails were exchanged when Roman fell silent on the list in
April and was not heard from again except for occasional shipments of
LiniStepper kits. Much like Willy Wanka, the chocolate factory was closed
and only supplied and products flowed in or out.

But fear not! For I have just heard from the man himself! He has taken some
time off for further education, long term planning, and new product
development. To accommodate this, his personal "chat" time with list members
had to be put aside, but he has indicated that he misses it and hopes to
return. I'm sure we can understand and commiserate...

...AND I'M SURE EVERYONE WILL BE VERY CAREFULL TO PROPERLY TAG ALL POSTS SO
THAT VALUABLE, PROFESSIONAL, AND GENEROUS HELP FROM PEOPLE LIKE ROMAN WILL
NOT BE DRIVEN AWAY BY "NOISE" POSTED UNDER THE [PIC:] TOPIC!

Please read this:
http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist/index.htm#topics if this doesn't make
sense to you. This list works because people post answers and share
experience. And if the people who HAVE answers and experience are too busy
filtering through junk to find the actual questions...

See? You knew this was going somewhere didn't you? New Years resolution for
the PICList: Change the topic tag when the thread wanders away from the
original topic. Have respect for the people who help. BE the people who
help.
http://www.piclist.com/support#form

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