<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm "new" here and thought I'd say "hi"... or "hi again" since I was on the list several years ago but got distracted by other stuff and took a hiatus.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Been interested in robotics for ~ 15 yrs but only have a few circuits and a lot of sketches to show for it. I've had a renewed interest lately and so my wife got me a robot kit to experiment with. It's AVR/ATmega8L-based. Having a lot of fun with it so far (I put together a blog, below, which has a couple entries on my goofing around with pwm & motor control). </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I'm definitely liking the AVR setup far more than the Basic Stamp I was playing with back in the day. :) Figured this kit was a good starting point versus the ridiculously ambitious plans I had in the past. :)</div><div><br></div><div>I am up in Denver but DPRG has always been awesome, so I couldn't see myself doing anything robotics-wise without joining up :)<div><div><br></div><div>Anyway happy holidays! </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Michael<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>---</div><div><b style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#646466"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow">Michael</font></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#646466"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow"> Shimniok</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow"> - <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#66141C"><a href="mailto:mes@cfsja.org">mes@cfsja.org</a> </font>- </font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#181D9D"><b style="color: rgb(24, 29, 157); font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow">Bot Blog @ <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://bot-thoughts.blogspot.com">http://bot-thoughts.blogspot.com</a>/</span></font></b></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#181D9D" face="'Arial Narrow'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div></div></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div></div></body></html>