eric, well, you don't have to have nicotine/coffee stained choppers, but its definately a side-effect... you do have to put yer butt into a chair and a soldering iron into your hand and a collection of books up your nose... for hours a day, everyday (or at least every week). I've got 1000 hours in this, easy. And a few thousand dollars over the last year or so. You'll drink and smoke... heh.
Thomas is correct... do it, over and over and over and over and over... I mean I've made stuff I'd never show online... some things cool (some things lethal/illegal)
, somethings that didn't work the first 22 times but worked perfectly the 23rd. It's all about exposure.
Thomas started HW around "the beginning" last year... he's "watched" me go thru all the BS like some of the others. From total newbie to being quite Apheared. I still don't get 1/1000th of what there is to comprehend, but hey... it's fun.
There will not be a PCB for this, heheah.. anyone that wants one can etch it themselves. Same reason there's no schematic... if you can't figure it out from the EXTREMELY WORDY initial description, you probably don't want to build it... just stick to opamp swapping on hansen boards.
I'm gonna lock this thread, it's all over the freakin place and gettin long.... any conversations in-progress please create new threads.