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by: ColonelZen	IP: 86.95	rated: 0-0	posted: 2010-08-19 06:39:45
Firstly, the name obviously is an hommage to Babylon 5's technomages, save that I can't sing worth a damn, hence the change. Sometimes I can do a little thinking.     I'm a programmer. I grew up around tools and mechanics and such, and while I can swing a hammer and drive a nail, and use tools to fix things, I never had the tools and resources in my youth to make anything very interesting.     Likewise in electronics. I messed with it a bit in high school, and "recued a few transistors and such from old radios and such but never had the parts to do much. A little later on I bought a couple very trivial kits from Heathkit (a VOM, and a simple FM radio kit, if I recall) and got them working. With my rescues, I built a couple logic circuits (NOR gates and such) which worked but were too haphazard to do much with. Then I was starting to grow up and had to think about college and girls and put away the toys.     Now, of course, I've got a fine woman, grew two girls of my own who are adults now, have a house and garage ... and while not rich, I CAN spare enough cash now and then to buy tools and parts. So I've decided to have some fun. To use my hands to MAKE things - for me it will, hopefully, eventually be things that talk to the computer and I can then use my programming skill affect real things in the real world, even if they are mostly toys, rather than just lights and words on a screen.     But the primary motivation is just fun.     -- TWZ