Hi, I would be glad to hear your opinion about one of my pending projects. I'm writting a practical course about electronics. Practical meaning with minimum math and formulas, covering mostly the aspects which many of you know only from real life and every day practice. Practical meaning a bag attached to the CD with all the components described inside, so the reader could see them with own eyes and design with those parts his own application or some experiments described in the course. For example the chapter about transistors is covering everything from old germanium bipolar transistors to MOS-FET, giving to the reader a complete image about transistor's evolution since 1928 when the first patent was registered till today. Also it's teaching the reader about how to read corectly a datasheet. The writting level will be medium (but this means more than usuall books about electronics you can see on Amazon, I'm talking about those which are starting with pictures with drilling machine or soldering irons), giving the possibility for someone not very experienced ( but tenacious) to catch the microbe of electronics. I'm interested if such course will be interesting for english readers too... I want to hear mostly about the students or high school pupils experience, those which are playing with PICs without knowing exactly how a transistor really work. I hope there are such listeners on the list, despite the answering efforts of old piclisters. thx, Vasile -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist