> Forrest Mims' mini-notebooks were horrible. I used one of Mims' designs for a final project in an entry-level elecronics lab in college. I can't remember the

> Forrest Mims' mini-notebooks were horrible. I used one of Mims' designs for a final project in an entry-level elecronics lab in college. I can't remember the specifics, but I think it was a little sender/receiver setup that transmitted audio over beam of light. When I couldn't get it to work after a bunch of troubleshooting, I showed it to the TA. I'll never forget his incredulous expression. "Where did you get this? This resistor should be ten times this value. This shouldn't be an electrolytic capacitor. This. . . hell, I don't know what they're even trying to do here." And so forth.