Height: 0x45 in.
Weight: 0x98 lb.
Int: 18
Wis: 16
Chr: 12
Con: 13
Str: 13
Dex: 14
Hair: Copper (natural)
Best 5k: 22:00:00
Resume aka employable things I've done
Brian grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico- the nerdiest town in the world. Some time around second grade he discovered computers when he asked "Daddy, whare you doing?" and was told. Dad was hacking away in Pascal on the family Mac Plus writing a Trek game. Proceding to learn Pascal by trying to do things and eventually asking dad how to do it, Brian spent more and more time on the computer. Between Dark Castle, Missle Command and THINK Lightspeed Pascal, he spent enough time on that computer to pick up hundreds of little experiences and lessons to start him down the path towards being the computer wizard he is today.
Somehow, probably because of digging trough the 529 section of the school library, and maybe through a bit of absorbing sci-fi TV and movies, Brian picked up a taste for robots. One day in early elementary school after flipping through the pictures in Powers of Ten again, he started to write the great american sci-fi novel about a little robot that sprang out of the sun and flew to earth live in someone's garage building itself out of the garbage it found there. That endeavor ended with many hours having been spent over an old noisy electric typewriter finally genereating about 3 pages which caused more computering to type them up properly in MacWrite which led to handing in typed assignments in school a bit earlier than normal at that time.
Robots became a sprradic but recurring element. For a year or so around 4th grade, my two best friends and I 'designed' a little robot which amounts to a Hero 2000 with a closed loop tv system and radio control. Trying to build parts of it I started to learn electronics. Thinking I could actually do it, I dove straight in and started buying parts from Radio Shack. I had an old electronics kit that I'd gotten for christmas a couple years earlier, and I'd learned a few things from that. A dozen project books and many large messes of scattered parts later, I knew enough to be more cautious.
Being the budding little geek that I was, I entered a couple Science Fair projects in Elementary Scool. I tried to do a robot that would go towards light in 7th grade but I couldn't get the electronics right. In 8th grade I hooked up with ElRoy Miller who helped me with electronics and mechanics and let me use his milling machine in his basement. All together I built a 4 legged robot with parts from RadioShack and the local harware store. It was controlled by a BASIC program running on a Commodore VIC20. It was all there and all the parts worked, but it wouldn't work all together; I never figured that one out. Also it was mostly particle board and plywood making it too heavy to lift itself. The robots after that are well illustraded on my Robots page.
Well, we'll call that Chapter 1- Overview, and leave the rest for a later
writing.
-Brian, 9/19/98
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