November 2017 Update: The return that will hopefully work

Whew 4 months sure pass by quickly. As an update, my Summer was very unproductive, but I did manage to get myself a soldering kit which was pretty cool. I kept myself busy by going to the dollar store, finding cheap electronics and try to dissect the circuits inside them. There was this simple PCB I found in a $2 lawn lamp. It had a solar panel to charge a small battery of some sort. It also had a on/off switch if you wanted to enable the functionality of the lamp; turn off the LED during daytime and charge the battery, and then turn on the LED at nighttime. 

Long story short, I couldn't figure out the circuit diagram for it because there was a black epoxy covering what I suspect to be some sort of transistor (a component I had not been taught about before).

I also found a cheap light that would turn on if it detected motion. I only took it apart once and quickly scanned its components. If I recall correctly, the circuit used some sort of photo resistor to detect motion. 

Apart from these small electronics, did not really do too much. Now, I'm almost done the first semester of my Junior year and have a great deal of projects I want to do, or at the very least attempt.

A tentative list of such projects in no particular order:

• Albert's Gift (fix 3D printed enclosure)
• Arcade Box (Redo laser cut wooden enclosure into something that works)
• Makeshift Raspberry Pi (I ordered a laptop screen and various parts to make a cardboard laptop out of and hopefully I can laser cut/3D print a good enclosure)
• Amazon Echo Stuff / IoT
• The various Adaboxes to do

Hopefully I can knock at least 3 of these before the school year ends next May. I got big dreams, but only by actually doing something can they come to fruition. Let's also hope I stick to this work ethic.