Hello from Missouri

Just joined and will tell you about myself. Joined the Army during the Vietnam war and served as a Sargant Missile Test Equipment Repairman in Germany. We repaired the equipment that repaired the Missiles. After military, I opened my dream TV Sales and repair business, later expanding to 3. This was in the days of vacuum tubes. I loved working with those. Transistors were just becoming popular in TV's.  Then along came modular circuits full of integrated circuits. I begin losing interest at that point. No fun just replacing boards. About that time, along came the Altair 8800 and the SWTPC 6800 micro computers. I bought the 6800 kit and built it along with building a keyboard. I taught it how to say "Hello" in assembler! Wow! I also worked with storing programs using the Kansas City Baud on Cassette Tapes. But then a computer school opened up and I took classes in COBOL and RPG. They wound up hiring me and I instructed and developed software for different businesses. Later I got a job developing software in C. Kernighan and Ritchie was the in thing! Still are in my book. I worked on a Unix based  Pixel Computer system. I loved that job. I became programming manager over a team of 6 programmers developing accounting software. Well, one of the big managers took a vacation in Sweden and spent all the company's money and they had to lay everyone off. (Cocaine I was told). Must have been some party. So I opened Action Computer and sold and repaired computers. I ended up selling that business and  to make a longer story shorter, had several computer businesses, Software Development Systems, Bitek Computer, Sunset Software Publishing, Inc. (Currently). I recently spent 2 years developing a new software product to work with documents SSP101 dot com. Hope I'm not breaking any rules here. I'm mostly retired but support my customers by internet. I have a degree in accounting among other things you wouldn't believe. I'm kind of a jack of all trades. I love building circuits. My first Arduino project was an alarm clock with 4 alarms to remind my mate when to take her medicine. I got my first Arduino clone around Christmas time and have since been building lots of little projects. My favorite so far is sort of an e-book reader (text only).  It has a Kuman 3.5 TFT screen with SD card, mounted on an Uno clone that barely fits in an open top 3.94 X 2.36 X .98 inch plastic case. I then stacked another case on the bottom holding 2 Lithium 3.7V batteries with a switch to run them in series for the Arduino or parallel to charge through a TP4956 5V 1A Li-ion Battery Charging Board. The fun part is programming the touch screen. I developed a menu to select to doodle or choose a file off the SD drive for viewing and use the file.position() and seek() to be able to page up and down through the text documents. My next project I am thinking will be to buy a larger screen and build a bigger model with more capabilities. Oh! have you seen the Jennifer Grotheer trigger box video on you tube using a Nextion LCD display? I've got to build that one! Sooo, guess you know I love the Drone Bot web site or I wouldn't be here! Hope to contribute! Stay safe!