Building a Workbench

Let’s face it.  I’m a handyman nub.  I’ve got a reasonably functional brain, and I’m technically minded, but I haven’t done any real woodworking since high school (I did Tech Studies in years 8, 9, and 10, both woodworking and metalworking).  So it’s fair to say I’m pretty bad.

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Electronics & Me – A History

Rewind 25 years or so.  I’ve always had an interest in electronics.  Mostly in pulling stuff apart and tinkering with it - I even built a few little FM radio transmitters in my early teens.  Of course, then I discovered computers, and the hardware side of things took a pretty big back seat from then.  And when I discovered the Internet in 1992, that was the end of that.  For a while at least.

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