So I am pretty much a newbie to electronics. I went out and bought an electronics kit from Radio Shack, w/ workbooks by some dude name Forest III Nims to ramp up on my knowledge. Interesting that his workbook is all written by hand! However, I do have some inborn skills with things that have to do with electricity and wires and power tools, so I hope that figuring out this stuff won't be too hard.
My goal is to learn about physical computing, electronics, and learn how to build my own interfaces. I am frankly surprised that our main mode of interfacing with computers remains to be the mouse and keyboard. Additionally, I find that the disconnect that most people have between a game console, cellphone, VOD boxes (like TiVo) and many other devices that have microprocessors in them aren't viewed as "scary technology" while the computer in its screen, keyboard and mouse state are.
So I am embarking on this path of Arduino boards, wires and powersupply! Yay!
