WarlordQ Electronics

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Started building Electronic kits

At around 9 years old, warlordQ started to get into electronics... i liked building stuff, and electronics fascinated me... The local electronics hobbiest shop in the area were selling Electronic kits that you could build yourself, but they where only limited to a few items, which at that time consisted of these high tech FM transmitters... These kits never really appealed to me, but thats all they had.. i just wanted to build stuff... Nobody showed me how to solder, and my soldering was really bad... Every transisitor was basically fried beyond repair, and every joint was dried and cracked... Nobody told me i was suppossed to cut the leads off, so i left them on... Its no wonder it never worked, nor did the next 10 kits work eighther...

My first project that work

By this time my soldering techniques were improving and i was no longer burning out transistors by over heating them... Suddenly an amazing thing happened, the shop had new electronic kits, and these new kits actually did stuff that i liked... My first kit that i built that actually worked was a Kit Scanner, as with most of the kits that i brought, i never new what they acually did, untill i read the instructions which were inside the package... these kits just only a name on the label with no description what so ever, and i had to rely on the names... "Kit scanner" sounded cool... and its still available in its original form after all these years.. crazy!!! Ahh yes getting into the good stuff now, well at last something works... Its about time that shop started to sell good stuff... I started to build these Dick Smith Kits...

Electronic courses

I started learning Micro-processor controllers that where programmed via EPROMS... and multiplexing cascaded LEDS that where micro-processor controlled...

• half adders
• binary counters
• shift registers
• serial to parellel convertors - Interfacing CPU to Data Bus
• Parellel to Serial convertors - Interfacing Data Bus to CPU
• analog to digital convertors - ADCS
• digital to analog convertors - DACS
• 8 bit synchronous up/down counters
• JK - Flip flops
• and tones more stuff

Wow!! this is starting to sound more like a CPU itself, acutally these things are found inside CPUs... the "Talking Electronics" had a digital electronics course which i started doing when i was 15... gates, latches, shift registers, etc, you name it, i studied it.... it was my hobby, and the course didnt feel like school work... it was all fun stuff... I even got an A++ for my practicle exercise of soldering a CMOS Ram chip on a tiny board...