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Dylan Wisdom

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How and what made you start getting involved in the world of electronics, and what do you use electronics for?
 

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How and what made you start getting involved in the world of electronics

I was given a "10 in 1 electronic projects kit"

and what do you use electronics for?

It's a hammer that's good for lots of nails.

I use it mostly for fun and helping people. I also repair stuff.
 

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Hi Dylan Wisdom!!

My dad got me started in electronics. One day I asked him what some parts on a circuit board where and he told me some about them. Then he got out a old electronics kit thingy he had and I started experimenting with it. And I've been doing electronics ever since!

I use electronics for a hobby and maybe some day I will use it for a profession.;)

Dan
 

Dylan Wisdom

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For my story ever since I was really young I wanted to create Robots, and i always saw my step dad tearing apart computers and I would always ask "what does this do? What is that?". So i eventually became very interested in computers. I took and are taking computer programming classes in my school. As well as trying to be part of my schools robotics team, but decided to quit. Then recently I started to get interested In the idea of Robotics again due to my new experience of programming and computers, so i started teaching myself electronics. So that hopefully I can at least be a hobbyist robot builder. oh and i don't know if this really pushed me towards robotics but I did use to won a snap circuit kit when I was younger.
 
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Trash pick-up day was every Friday in my neighborhood. As a grade-schooler walking to school, I'd see all kinds of electronics in people's trashes. Much to my mother's dismay, I brought home things that I thought I could fix, and started repairing them in the basement. I'd strip parts from one unit to replace in others. We didn't hve much money, and I learned the hard way about stored voltages in capacitors and TV picture tubes, but I got a lot of extra things we otherwise never would have obtained, by selling repaired table-top clock radios, TV's and radios. Our family 9" black and white TV, was replaced by a Zenith 25" Color TV I got working. First time any of us had ever seen a
color TV. I just kept doing repairs, because I get personal satisfaction from taking something electronic that doesn't work, and making it work.
 

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scavenging rights to the local dump and dad brought home stuff for me to look at. always had a way of figuring things out easily. making one from scratch always eluded me though
right now I am using electronics to make a doll house for my 8 week old. yup its gonna be massive and I reckon 2 year project in amongst work.
 
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