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Originally Posted by humfrz
Welp, you may not get old, but, several years from now you may start telling stories - 
soundman98's story.
"I remember just a few days ago, when I was 6 years old, my father gave me a few pieces of old siding that had fallen off the chicken house, a piece of tar paper that had blown off the corn crib, a hammer with a broken handle, a dull hand saw and a handful of bent, rusty nails and told me to build a dog house …."
humfrz |
it helps that i didn't grow up on a farm!
when i was 5, i used to get the "LED assorted pack of 20" from radioshack with my allowance, and then i would take them home and connect them to a 9v battery. i learned that different colors took different amounts of time to blow up, and if i connected multiples in series, i could make them light up longer before blowing up.
it's how i taught my self about series/parallel circuits, and forward voltages of diodes.
then there was the "smashing rock" i kept when i was 4-15/16. i would drag any electronics i could find in the trash back home, and break them open to study the insides, many times, the circuit board had the names of the components on it. it's how i learned basic through-hole component names.
yeah, not as exciting as a humfrz story