Hello fellow hobbist

@inst-tech

Welcome to the forum.

One minor point though, not many of us are acolytes of Thomas Hobbes, so I suspect that you just mis-spelled "hobbits", which description does fit many of us 🙂

Welcome Inst-Tech. You are going to be popular here. Does your toolbox include micro-controllers and web interfaces?
I’m here to learn MCU s for putting temperatures on a WLAN in an old VW.

Welcome Inst-Tech! Glad to have your experience here. 

What are you tinkering with these days?

@ev-pat While we worked with networked systems, they are very different from what is commercially available to the general public..WiFi, and discrete I/O , digital and analog controllers used in an industrial application are more like what the military uses..lol

My experiences with those systems like Distributed Control systems (DCS), Power Load Control (PLC's) and other stand alone systems (analyzers, and general instrumentation used in process control, use MPC, fuzzy logic, and a whole host of other neat technologies.. Having said that, I am not an expert on networking or MPC.. so I'll be learning some of the neat stuff your talking about, and look forward to learning along with the rest of you...Thanks for the introduction and query..

@a2rpriest Working on something simple, a touch lamp that I designed over 40 years ago...lol

Now, it's nothing these days, but back in the day it was quite something..it used a mosfet technology of the day to used the capacitance of the mosfet so that you really didn't have to touch it, just get within 6" or so and it would toggle on or off.. if you held you hand close to it it would flash on and off in one second intervals..I wished I would have kept that old schematic of it..Working my way through C++ programming, as I'm already proficient in VBA, DOS, and Object oriented programming used in DCS, and single process controllers..thanks for the intro and hope to learn more for you guys..

regards, Inst-Tech 

@inst-tech Sounds fun! I’ve never seen a light that operates from that great of a distance. Hope you get it working soon!

@a2rpriest,  Me too Aaron! lol   memory at my age is a fleeting thing..hehhehe

But I'll figure it out and let you know when I do get it to work as I did back in 1976. In the mean time, lots to learn about the more modern technology like the pixey2 and interesting things that will lead me to a drone copter that can auto pilot and recognize objects that we might be looking for..