Circuitry is like Lego for big kids. You need a lot of knowledge on how and what every little bit does, but after that, you can just start putting things together to get a final beast, and that’s what began to finally happen this year thanks to Simone (my electronics teacher).

Beyond all my Microcontroller and microchip programming knowledge, ( THANK YOU ROB!! PS, Rob Sux) I finally get, Voltage dividers, bi-polar psu’s, Analog to digital conversion, servos, 4049’s, lm3915, 16f84a PIC microchips, 4017 sequencers, etc!!! The picture in my head as to how to program all these things is getting clearer, and whatever I can’t program or do with hardware I can do through software and PIC’s (microchips).

It’s interesting to look back to my animatronic bat from second year and know that I can replace that entire laptop set-up with a tiny little black microchip.