New User Intro

Hello, and thanks for the opportunity to join the group.

I am a retired Construction, Warehouse, Factory; worker. started each in entry position, and moved up through the ranks to a supervisory position for each.

So jack of many trades and master of none. Always enjoyed tinkering with things to see how they work. And how can I make this do that.

Hobbies include: Programing, Cad, 3D printing, Electronics....

@dmserve Welcome to the forum, be sure to post in the appropriate section when you have questions or just want to share.

@zander If I have this in wrong place delete it and I will try again, thanks

@dmserve Nope, this is the right place for the introduction.

@dmserve 

Welcome to the forum!!

As you have probably noticed, there are many members on here with diverse experience in both programming and electronics. I’m sure they will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have. 

Bill’s videos are some of the very best at explaining different aspects of both the programming and electronics involved in the various projects he undertakes in the Dronebot Workshop.

Being a jack of many trades with a love of tinkering with things is a great asset to have when playing with electronics and programming. In my experience, sometimes it takes a bit of tinkering to get things to work the way you want them to! 

Enjoy and again Welcome!

Lee

Hello, my name is John and I live in Western Australia. back in the day I worked in clinical care and research and mainly psychiatry as a researcher. I am, as others have discussed themselves, a tinkerer and have limited knowldege of electronics and computer programming.

I have grandchildren who are interested in simple Arduino and microbit projects and I would 

like to build upon certain projects such as how to use IR to control a robotic arm instead of a manual controller. I am gettting to understand Bill's excellent tutorial titled IRR Receiver Demonstration 2. I am having trouble with a sketch included in this article and the reading of case statement.

Anyway, I am sure this is to much information for now and will at another time post the problem to obtain some assistance.

John

@enigmajd 

Welcome to the forum John.  There are plenty of us here with grandchildren, as well as those that qualify as grandchildren and everything in between.

Take a look at the "Form Help Menu" to find out the best way to post any code you are having difficulty with and I'm sure you will get an avalanche of help.

From your screen name do you have a interest in the Enigma machine.  I repaired a crypto machine which was sort of an Enigma machine on steroids for the USAF back in the mid to late 60s.  A KL-7.  And there are two renditions of simulators for the KL-7 available on line if that interests you.  They a very accurate simulators, right down to the sound they made when running.

Again, welcome.

@codecage

Yes I do have an interest in the Enigma and did visit Bletchley Park in the early days of its refurbishment.

I'm still a member of the Enigma Club although I don't follow it so much these days. I still occasionally use the enigma app and decryt old navy, army and airforce apps. the Kreigsmarine were always the most challenging.

airforce apps.Should read airforce messages 

@enigmajd Try to read the HELP to learn how to write a post in one posting rather than the 3 you used. Clicking the on screen REPLY buttons is the end of a post, if you just want to start a new line, use your keyboard ENTER/RETURN key. Once you click an on screen element, that post is done.

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Yes I do have an interest in the Enigma and did visit Bletchley Park in the early days of its refurbishment.

It's a great place to visit. Sooooo British.

And so British in the way its so hyped up. If my memory serves me ( which is doubtful at my age ) it was the Poles who got their hands on an enigma machine and did the groundwork.

@hilldweller The Poles were working on a 'double' as early as 1932. In another fun Enigma fact, Naval Commander Ian Fleming (creator of the James Bond series of semi-fictional books)  led a raid during the Dieppe invasion to capture an enigma machine. Book HERE

In less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian and American commandos died in the French port of Dieppe in an operation that for decades seemed to have no real purpose. Was it a dry-run for D-Day, or perhaps a gesture by the Allies to placate Stalin's impatience for a second front in the west?

Historian David O'Keefe uses hitherto classified intelligence archives to prove that this catastrophic and apparently futile raid was in fact a mission, set up by Ian Fleming of British Naval Intelligence as part of a 'pinch' policy designed to capture material relating to the four-rotor Enigma Machine that would permit codebreakers like Alan Turing at Bletchley Park to turn the tide of the Second World War.

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@hilldweller , Naval Commander Ian Fleming (creator of the James Bond series of semi-fictional books)  led a raid during the Dieppe invasion to capture an enigma machine. Book HERE

Ha !! So that Bond book with Rosa Kleb and the machine was based on truth ! I'll bet Fleming did not get as lucky as Bond did.  Was if From Russia With Love ? I can hear the wonderful Mat Monroe singing it.