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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 6:45 PM PST Doc Shipley wrote
My first foray into hot rods was a carburetor swap,
not a full engine
build. I'd never have finished a motor if I'd jumped right into the
deep end.
But an entry point can be a Peter Norton book or something like it or interpreted BASIC.
Some people, not you, are disgusted with anything done the old ways. To my knowledge, the
only way to create a laboratory quality flat piece of cast iron is with a blasted chisel.
Newer ways of doing things need to be persued of course. You have to anticipate critiques
on a list such as this. I alluded to a discussion with another lister about a 14 year old
kid learning how to fix crt based displays. Is there one person on this list who isn't
impressed with such a mind? Same kid taught himself calculus. But maybe it's best to
break him of that interest in such old crap. It isn't all twitter, facebook and the
rest of the garbage with the youngsters and thank God.
Nothing against Rpi, just that it's definition of hardware hacking differs from some.
Although I generally have an interest in it, and more so after this discussion, there
still remains a void when it comes to learning chip level interfacing, leggo style.