• I am far from being good with my hands. Although I have improved over the years.

    At college our computing course split into a business stream and a software engineering stream. The business stream did Cobol, more advanced accounting, management etc. whereas the software engineering did assembler, C, electronics, software engineering principles and such like. Naturally, I opted for the software engineering stream with a slight trepidation towards the electronics.

    I missed the first electronics lab and before the lecturer turned up at the second I was shown this tool with a vacuum cleaner function by one of my peers. I jokingly made out to vacuum one of the other kids heads. Everyone laughed. I actually "vacuumed" his scalped. Everyone laughed even more. The kid cried out saying things that didn't add up until a friend tapped me on my should and whispered in my ear "You do know that is a soldering iron don't you?". Oops.

    So back to the question: What would you build if you had a parts list like this one?

    That is easy: I would join an enthusiastic team and help with the coding but leave the hardware (and any soldering!!!) to them.

    Gaz

    -- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!