hello everyone

Hello

my name is Steve I'm very close to 50 years old I live in Georgia usa. I have been a mechanic for over 30 years diesel up to 7 years ago. Now I work on cranes and bucket trucks or anything in the utility industry. I have always been a electrical troubleshooter at work. About a year ago I wanting to learn more about electronics. You know build something not just fix it that;s when I found Bill and the workshop on youtube.

My first project was a power supply that I made from an old computer I mounted the circuit boards in a plastic ammo can and made it variable with a boost converter all with Bill’s help (Bill just doesn't know he helped) my second project was the same as the first I like how it turned out. so I made one for home and work. The one at work gets used daily either by me or by the other 8 mechanics in my shop. now for my third project that I have been working on for 2 months, an rc controlled 46 inch riding lawn mower, I know a little ambitious for a newbie. I was given a broken crane remote and receiver from work and was able to fix it. I was able to use the remote for the lawnmower project everything worked,

the only problem I had was the receiver was 12v and gave out 12v signals, not real exciting at all, after running it around the yard a couple times I decided I was going to scrap the crane remote idea and go with arduino, I going to learn more about programing and sensors so in a year or two I can make this self driving.

I joined this forum to personally thank Bill he has encouraged me to do more, a thumbs up on youtube is sometimes not enough, I know this forum is filled with electrical engineers and people that have been doing electronics and programing for a long time so I know I'm way out of my league but I have a strong desirer to learn. Thanks for letting me ramble