>
> It sounds to me like you've found yourself deep in "information
> overload".

Absolutely.

> This list has quite a number of active members who are very
> experienced in many different aspects of electronics, PICs, and
> programming. Discussions can sometimes proceed at a pace that's just
> too rapid for a beginner to keep up with. Don't let that throw you.

I'll try not to let it throw me.  I have to recompile all the responses
I got from the stepper circuit stuff, perhaps map it out on a sheet of
paper, so I can draw some conclusions.  That'll be a task for next weekend
if I'm not too busy in class.

> Pick up what you can from the list as you go along. Don't try to "get
> it" all at once; that's a sure-fire way to do nothing more than
> frustrate yourself.

Indeed.  I get very angry at the slowness of my learning sometimes.  I think
I need to get a date, see a movie, and think about something other than
electronics for a little while. :)  Despite dating/movie watching/bantering
about with women being wholly and completely unproductive.  Nonetheless,
finding a date is a sufficiently difficult challenge as to be intersting.

> Take your time learning and ask questions when you need to. Of course,
> be sure that you've done your own research before you ask them. :=)
> Good questions are the lifeblood of this list and many of the best
> come from posters new to electronics.
>
> Hang in there, Gustaf. You *can* learn it -- you just can't learn it
> all at once.

Yes, I will hang in there, and take it more slowly.  I will do my research.
As for my training thus far: school of hard knocks (tinkered as a kid with
electronics, mostly for model railroading), two electronics courses in
college (nothing beyond here's an op amp, do stuff).  Oh, I did build a
wire-wrapped Motorola 68000-based computer, complete with UART and Forth on
EEPROM.  However, that was also for a class; it booted, I got a B-, and I
couldn't get the silly thing to work again after that.  Of course, it was
not my design either, so I didn't really know completely how it worked
anyway.

Gustaf

> Regards, Bob
>
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