My parents encouraged my mechanical/electrical/electronic interests at a
young age. I remember on several occasions when they bought a second copy o=
f
something (eg: a cassette tape recorder) after I taken apart the first to
see how it worked. It seems that in those days I sometimes couldn't get
things back together. This was especially amazing because our family had
little $ for extras.

I remember "improving" small transistor radios by connecting them to higher
voltage batteries (18V?) and larger speakers. The sound output was
impressive, for a while.

Another story: when I was about 10 my dad was doing some remodeling and had
to install a wall switch for a light. He thought the simplest way to do it
was to wire it in parallel, _across_, the line. He reasoned that when the
switch was on the current would go through it rather than the light bulb. I
set him straight, and from that point my mom wouldn't let him do any more
electrical projects.

-- Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems



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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Justin Richards
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 1:37 AM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [EE] Uses for stepper motors

> I expressed an interest in electronics to my parents when I was 9 or 10.
> Not being technical, they asked my uncle what to do... he said the one
>

I also had an interest in electronics at a young age, but it never occurred
to me to go to my parents, I simply begged, borrowed or stole what I needed=
..

I did ask my father from time to time if he could borrow the iron from his
work place as this was the quickest way to connect leads to batteries.

So my parents rather than supporting my interest they endured it.  My
brother on the other hand was more in tuned and bought me a 50in1 which I
loved to bits.

Justin
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