Niek, That was great. It is nice to know some background on people you talk to. The document part is very important. Because you never know when you are going to need it.

Please keep doing what you, you are building a strong foundation for your future. Now I have a problem with my ominbot. I will post it under general because I do not think the is the place for it. Keep up the good work

BC

@neik it can be done witha 555 timer ,may need a few,dpends on how random you want them and the time they stay on,he says he wants to use only one I/O PORT or there are digital counter chip with the I/O port as a trigger

looks like a good job on pcb boardi many many many boards (more then 100) and alot hand made ,from yours it looks good i got my first solder gun at age 7 as a gift from my dad,and electronics kit at age 23 i got my engineer degree ,now i desgn very hoh precision in-house test equipment witch meens i made pcb's from scratch,some take 5 boards per tester in house testers is board the check pcb from the pcb bath ,before they go in to a product and final testers before they get ship you and started about the same age in electronics,right going to be gone for a week to china to repair a equipment that broke down

@Niek - I am very impressed with you. You have a tremendous future.

@NIEK you seem like me when i started,may you soon be able photo read schematic what i meen by that is look at a circuit and memorize it a beable to redraw it called electronic photographic memory,bigger the circuit the harddest it is to memorize took me a long time to do it

my favorate part going to all these countries is i get to see alot for free and get paid alot,plus the best news i get to keep very good top of the line equipment to work at home,or at work or one the trips i take alot

WOW!!!!!!! I am so glad I started this thread. I am truly enjoying the lively discussion that has grown from it! Thanks for the info BC; and no, I don't think you ran on to much! You too robotmaker! Its great learning about all the people that are on here. @Niek: Thank you also for adding your story to the mix. You certainly are a intelligent young man. I concur with BC. You are indeed laying a strong foundation for your future. Nice to know we have so many with engineering backrounds. I am a retired architectural engineer. I also have degree in electronics; but very long time ago. I was trained as an Aircrraft Armaments Tech. in helicopters when I was in the army. I did two tours of duty in Vietnam. I also have a degree in Commerical Photography, from the Ohio Institute of Photography. Some of my past jobs have been; Professional Automotive Test Driver.Paramedic and volunteer fireman. Director of Operations for a small electronics firm here in central Florida; and of course an architectural engineer. I started building scale models and miniatures when I was 13 y. o. I went on to build one inch scale miniatures as an adult and I am a past member of the International Guild of Miniature Artisians. Thats the basics.

I'm hoping DJ droppes by our discussion here. I think he would enjoy it. As for the circuit we all seem to be working on for Gizmo's head. Must admit I got a little lost. Are we there yet???????? Let me restate my basic idea. If possible I want an independent circuit in his head. I'm designing it so that his head will be removeable and the top "dome" will lift off as well. Again I want to thank all of you for your kind assistance. Robot On!!!!!!!!!! Lloyd

@Robotz012248 you in FLA,i got my degree from FIU ,about 20 years ago and now i work at a electronic A/C company love working with mostly all types of sensors including ultrasonic use for depth and bubble detector gas sersors ,ir sensors,special sensors,weight or scale sensors and lot more depending the job got a very big design awards for super high precision AC SOURCE(not a power supply) 100 % pure sinewave at 1ppm,(1 part per million) for calibrating high precision 8 digit meters save the company $10000,got a great bonus,if you have heard of amprobe meters that is one we make ,but many many many more test equpment job i have it great much travel all over the world and best pay $100k plus a year

@niek i see also you work on moms kitchen table (she would get mad at me),i did that too until i bought a very big house with 20 feet by 40 feet lab saw your website look good so far,i also have a robotics website ,havent done too much yet on it lately ,working on robots and travel take my time

@Robotz012248
what do you want your eyes to do,blink in series,blink different ones,or some on and some blink,i guess you are not looking at a mouth type vu meter as the mouth talks the leds move let me know and will design a circuit using only one pin if only random and blinking its fairly easy,times you need a few,so not really power saving,most likely the easy way is to use a digital counter chip only but depends on what you want will need also what type of led and power output for for current needed

@robotmaker : If you will go back to the beginning of this post I described what I wanted to do with the eyes. I wanted something rather simple if possible. I do have one of the "A" boards ( you know, that "A" word we don't use on EZ-B) However, I'm not doing very well learning how to use it. Niek said he was going to send me some links with good tutorials, so, we shall see.

@ Niek : When you get a chance, would you send me those links you were talking about?????? I have one of "those" microcontrollers laying on my workbench waiting for the day I might learn how to use it. I also have another small project I'm working on that it might be useful for. I don't think this forum is the approiate place to discuss the "A" word. If you don't mind contact me at my personal email so we can possibly set up a different contact method. Are you on Facebook? Thanks. Lloyd

@Robotz012248

I don't have facebook but i do have e-mail. What e-mail can i reach you?