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There is one in Bristol yet its a mess and barely bigger than a 1 car garage. Their page vastly exaggerates their facilities.

The 4 AM Army 13 years ago

It wasn't too long ago i worked long hours in removals. It still remains the only job (among quite a few) i've had that day to day I happily felt something was achieved and didn't go home drained. [edit] I've been working as an EE/SE for the last 4 years.

Don't even need a hotplate. Any soldering iron will a concave tip, lots of flux & a touch of solder. Takes 4 strokes/drags and some extra flux afterwards to remove bridges (usually the 1st 2 pins on each drag).

It's surprisingly easy and i've had no issues on up to tqfp144's.

mid 20s, uk.

I, along with my younger bro & sis and friends, had to be back in by dark and rarely had to say where we were going. sometimes we'd go off on bike rides well out of the city or even take a small boat we found and row/motor it around the rivers(tamar/tavy) (no safety equipment, repaired it ourselves, hilariously overloaded). fires, explosions, trespass, "base"/bunker/dam building, tree-climbing, ragging my donated scrambler in wasteland, etc were all regular activities.

Now I see my other bro and sis (~10yrs younger than I) and they always have homework or are on their laptops. my youngest brother used to go with us sometimes when he was ~4 so he knows what "play" is but none of his friends want or are allowed to join him.

NETduino 15 years ago

Whether the item works is the least of your problems when it comes to military jets. Trust me, if it's UK-mil it's a bureaucratic nightmare (expensive) to develop software that can be proven to be of high-integrity. To reduce costs you use stuff that has been proven safe before (we still use 8051s and wire-wrap).

Put simply, if the pilot makes decisions on how to fly (in flight or on later analysis) based on an electronic piece of equipment, it'll have cost shitloads. This fact is why I want to get out of mil-aero in the UK; developing embedded soft/elec is mostly about jumping through hoops.