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Topic starter
2019-07-26 3:55 pm
I was digging through some boxes in storage last night looking for some old parts and found this:
A book I have had for a long time, though not the book I have had the longest. That goes to a Z80 book I still have from 1979.
Scott
2019-07-26 4:08 pm
So, how many of the 99 did you attempt? ?
Pat
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That's funny …”
Author: Isaac Asimov
Topic starter
2019-07-26 4:20 pm
I probably did 5-6. I know I built one of the LDR "eyes", the gripper and a few others.
2019-07-26 4:54 pm
I had that book too! It might even still be here somewhere. Probably up in my attic. I gotta get up there and empty that blasted attic.
DroneBot Workshop Robotics Engineer
James
2019-07-26 7:29 pm
Although I never kept any of my hardware (no attic and didn't want to live in the past) I still have some of my old books on the shelf.
The TRS-80 was my first computer on which I learned BASIC and Assembler programming and how to interface to the world.
Ever since I was a child I wanted to build my own working robot to do all the boring repetitive work. An interest that was always there so over the years I bought books on the subject in the hope one day I would find the time to actually build one! That included all of Gordon McComb's books.
Topic starter
2019-07-27 4:55 am
@casey
I do have the Frank DaCosta book somewhere, and it would have predated my McComb book.
2019-07-29 4:32 am
I see that Gordon McComb passed away Sept 2018 apparently of a heart attack.
https://makezine.com/2018/09/14/gordon-mccomb-father-of-hobby-robotics-has-passed-away/