I take no offense to that chippie, but I think that maybe I didn't explain myself enough. I want to circuits to be simple. I would like to them to be something that a newbie would be able to build, and through building, learn more. There is nothing like a little friendly compitition to make the ole' neurons fire more. I am a real newbie. I was so geeked to just make a simple 555 timer circuit that made some LEDs blink. So next I tried to hook up a 4020 using the 556's output to make a LED bar blink as it counted up the pulses. I fried my 556 chip trying to attemp this. I wasn't happy. Yea, it's only $.60 at most, but it was a little blow to my ego, and all I could think is "I'm such a newbie" I guess I would just like a little direction, and I'm sure that there are things in electronics that the more advanced people here say, "man, I wish I would have paid attention to this" or "I wish I would have learned that sooner" I guess I view it like this. I'm 30 years old. Some of my best friends are women that are like 20 years older than me. They have given me so much insight into the female mind it's scary; so I have this mental list of "things that I won't do, becuase some other guy has already made that mistake, and I would rather learn from his mistake, then make it myself"... Well I hope that makes sense..
Walk?, I can't even crawl :cry:
Bentov