Personally, I wanted to go to GA Tech and work with wearables up there. But that is quite a remote possibility. It just seems like a better environment to go to school for computer science (and to be in a lab setting) than the one I am most likely going to. *shrug* As far as I know the school I will be stuck at has no form of program even remotely related to wearables or experimental work. I agree, practice on old stuff. If you have someplace to toss it and someone throws it out, get it. Even scrap PCs can provide invaluable experience at interfacing hardware (and if its free or very low cost, you are more likely to try more of those "just to see if it works" things). Even an old 386 or 486 will run a tiny Linux system so you can practice writing a driver for that cool new hardware you just built :) I am by no means an expert hardware hacker (or driver writer, I am just learning about Linux as more than JUST an OS), but i will offer you the soem advice. If you hack together some piece of hardware and it doesn't work, don't be discouraged, in the beginning it rarely works the first time, the second or third times. Atleast not to your expectations. I am sure Don can vouch for this in his HMD work, because I know his devices have been through many revisions (even when some of us are going "WOW thats AWESOME!"). Eli Eli _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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