I bet we used the same chip! Mine was driven by a 6800 microcontroller, and when I told the instructor I was making a music synthesizer as my project, he jokingly said that he wanted to hear the 1812 Overture, complete with cannons.
That's exactly what he got. LOL
I too was the school-aged loner (but not lonely) and preferred my mostly solitary intellectual pursuits. With hindsight, some of the gadgetry I came up with should have been patented. But I know that I was having too much fun instead. And those pursuits of the past serve me well today.
Maybe it's me getting older, or perhaps it's a need to filter the rapid-fire information I am constantly bombarded with on a daily basis. This is why I envy your vacations and trips and your stories and pictures that come from them. I feel we are blessed that we are able to share in all those great moments, but that sharing isnt the be-all and end-all either. It can be a wonderful tool. But if you start seeing the tool as simply a hammer, everything around you begins to look like nails after a while.
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Date: 2009-03-23 06:05 am (UTC)That's exactly what he got. LOL
I too was the school-aged loner (but not lonely) and preferred my mostly solitary intellectual pursuits. With hindsight, some of the gadgetry I came up with should have been patented. But I know that I was having too much fun instead. And those pursuits of the past serve me well today.
Maybe it's me getting older, or perhaps it's a need to filter the rapid-fire information I am constantly bombarded with on a daily basis. This is why I envy your vacations and trips and your stories and pictures that come from them. I feel we are blessed that we are able to share in all those great moments, but that sharing isnt the be-all and end-all either. It can be a wonderful tool. But if you start seeing the tool as simply a hammer, everything around you begins to look like nails after a while.
I honestly think we are at the same exact point.