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willygeek

I am a septuagenarian, I live in New Zealand.

I am a Registered Electrician (in NZ), I worked for Xerox for 30 years in a variety of tech roles, eventual becoming tech launch manage for a range of high speed electronic printers. I took early retirement due to health issues, but when I got over this I started my own business building & repairing PCs, website creation and hosting, I am now fully retired from this but still want to "keep my brain active"

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  • Hi Rachel Et Al, Thank you for your warm welcome.  Unfortunately the only project I am working on is the refurbishment (Not a full showroom restoration) of a 1983 Kawasaki Motorcycle.  It is mid winter here (shortest day today, 22nd) and so it is a bit cold most days to achieve too much.

    I do also have a fully operational 386 PC that I am going to disassemble in order to check the condition of the electrolytic capacitors and the on board RAM battery.

     

    If anyone is really interested I can post some information on these.

     

    I do have some sort of Arduino kit that my son in law bought me, as well as one of the early Raspberry Pie kit, so in some ways I am spoiled for choice on where to start.  That is why I very interested in the kit you are detailing as it comes with project descriptions and would give me a great platform on which to build.

     

     

     

     

    Regards

    William

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  • Hi Rachel Et Al, Thank you for your warm welcome.  Unfortunately the only project I am working on is the refurbishment (Not a full showroom restoration) of a 1983 Kawasaki Motorcycle.  It is mid winter here (shortest day today, 22nd) and so it is a bit cold most days to achieve too much.

    I do also have a fully operational 386 PC that I am going to disassemble in order to check the condition of the electrolytic capacitors and the on board RAM battery.

     

    If anyone is really interested I can post some information on these.

     

    I do have some sort of Arduino kit that my son in law bought me, as well as one of the early Raspberry Pie kit, so in some ways I am spoiled for choice on where to start.  That is why I very interested in the kit you are detailing as it comes with project descriptions and would give me a great platform on which to build.

     

     

     

     

    Regards

    William

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    That is why I very interested in the kit you are detailing as it comes with project descriptions and would give me a great platform on which to build.

    I helped with this series of Arduino 101, which is downloadable here

    Arduino Articles / Sketches

     

    There is nothing like diving into the deep end to wake up the senses.

    The reality is that unlike many other forums, here the members will help you with meaningful answers rather than single line comments "about why did you do it that way?"

     

    There are plenty of good tutorials out there, and some of the better ones for Arduino, Raspberry Pi and many other baords have been discussed here.

    You just need to navigate through the search engine which is an art on it's own image

     

     

    Mark