1969 Dodge Dart Swinger clean up

One of the reasons why I was in auto shop instead of computer science in high school.
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I have considered myself a "car guy" for the past 40+ years. About a decade ago I realized that to be a car guy these days, one must have at least a working knowledge of electronics & electrical (aka digital & analog). I bought a Radio Shack basic electronics book, a bread board, some proto boards, and a fist full of resistors, capacitors, comparators, op-amps, & 555 timers, etc. It's been quite a journey, but now I work with surface mount components driven by PIC microcontrollers that I program, touch screens, and some other awesome stuff.

The punch line is you can learn anything you set your mind to. I found a way to visualize what is happening within the electronic circuit as mechanisms. I am a mechanical minded person (which it sounds like you are too). The visualization process made electronics (& computers) possible for me.