Eight short field guides for the salvage bench — from a fistful of parts to a machine that senses and decides. Each issue stands alone; together they cover the whole field, and they interlock.
The five or six components everything is made of — and the little circuits you build from each.
Sources, regulators, cells, and caps — clean power in, and how not to start a fire.
The chip that reads the sensors and drives the actuators. Blink to robot brain.
Light, heat, motion, distance, sound, touch — how a circuit perceives the world.
Salvage, spin, generate — fans, rovers, plotters, and a motor run backwards.
Coils that pull, switch, clamp, strike, and sing — relays, latches, speakers.
The simplest Tesla coil there is — one transistor, two coils, a flame of plasma. Full field manual.
Not a thing to build — what you build everything with. The iron, the meter, the habits.
Read it left to right: No. 6 powers No. 5, which reads No. 4 and drives No. 2 and No. 3 — all assembled from No. 7's parts, on No. 8's bench, with No. 1 as the high-voltage wild card off to the side. Build one project that uses every issue and you've built a robot.
Start with the fundamentals, get power and a brain, then make something happen.
Go straight for the wild card — it needs almost nothing else — then double back for the rest.
the workbench series · eight issues · salvage, build, measure, repeat · the meter is the last word