4) Bk-Gnd: Projects I did while developing my unique sys. of Creative Problem-Solving + Design Skills that I offer to you for free. Note the broad range of experience covering many original accomplishments over a 65 year. career.
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- * Age 9: Bugged my house, my mother's Beauty Shop & Restroom of a service station being built next door. I ran wires to a speaker in the restroom vent. I could listen/talk over it.
- * Age 10: designed a mechanical elevator, to my tree house, 12 feet off the ground. No one
- students, or their friends ( in 28 yrs ) were able to figure out how I did it!
- * Age 11: Designed an electromagnetic acceleration device that shot needles across a room sticking them into a wall.* Age 12: I got 10 used Hearing Aids and converted them into code devices to play ARMY. We didn't know until the Feds caught us that every time we used them all TV's for blocks went crazy. TV was new and we didn't know we were interfering with the TV signals! * Age 14-18: Won my Hi-School, 8-12th grade, Sci Fair 5 yrs in a row. Best Overall 3 years!
- * Age 16-18: All-State Band 3X. Qualified 1st Chair on both Trumpet & Clarinet. Won a Full College Scholarship but didn't use it but joined Air Force, went to SMU got a BSEE degree.
- * Age 17: Won Sci Fair: Detectoscope a listening device, similar to those used at NFL games.
- * Age 18: joined USAF and used 'GI bill' plus TI's Summer Development Program to get an. Electrical Engineering degree from SMU in Dallas.
- * Was top of my class in a 53-wk Air Force Electronics school. was assigned the 745th AC&W Squadron in Duncanville, TEXAS. I got married, went to SMU and that changed everything.
- * 1963 AirForce Honorable Discharge. Hired by Texas Instruments, worked on Shrike Missile guidience system, had a Top Secret Security Clearance for 12 yars & worked on special . . .projects that I still can't talk about.
- * 1964 designed 'Musical Lights' a visual Stereo Demo. System that displayed how stereo . .. worked. Had two sets of 30 light bars ea using colors to represent the 3 freq. bands in .. . ea channel , ie: (Bass, MidRange, Treble). . This system has been used in Clubs all over .. . . the world and I still have the original prototype in my home.
- * 1963-67 Hired by Texas Instrumenta & became a non-degreed Engineer. TI put me in their . 'Summer Develop-ment Program' which paid my SMU tuition plus a job each summer.. . . . .. When I graduated TI sent me to TI Austin to work on the Bubble Memory System of a . . .. $25 million Air Traffic Control Super Computer. * For 28 yrs I taught "Engineering Skills, Creative Problem Solving and How Things Work " ... classes, at Private Schools & Home School Co-OP's in Dallas, Richardson & Plano, Tx.
- * 1972 Tx Instr. Dallas, Ea day for 9 mo's I flew to Houston to design the brain chip for the .. .. .. original TI hand held Calculator. I also wrote the operators manual explaining how to .. use it to do advanced mathmatical calculations. * Took 5 yrs to convert my Highland Park home into a two story with a large two story 3 car ... garage with a 10ft wide bridge from house to deck and a two story workshop. Shop ... . had two sets of stairs and a 3rd floor loft.
- * My Orig. Product Designs: Color ink printing analizer for graphics arts industry, 'Musical ... . . . Lights' Color display sys. used in night clubs, Orig. TI Calculator Brain, "Wide-angle 3D" ... w/o special 3D glasses required,
- * invented "Musical Drum Sticks" a unque musical toy that helps students learn to play.
- * built the 172 fastest gaming computer in US - it's 9.5"W x 9"H x 16.5" L , rated by Heaven .. Score Sys, it's liquid cooled, has i7 6700K overclocked .intel chip, DUAL 500MB SSHD's, . runs at 68 degree case temp, has 10w Stereo system with inside case speakers.
- * Was Science-Fair Judge for many years and one year at 'Future City' competition UTA.. . . * Created special projects and kits specifically designed to teach creative engineering skills .. and to develop and hone your abilities to apply my Essential elements of design and ... problem .solving skills I was working on.
- * I Built and drove a modified sports car to series championship. Won 'Most Popular car' .. .. .. award at the '91 Fort Worth Autorama first time showed, held hill climb record at ... .. Austin Travis Dam for 2 years. Only lost 3 races in 5 yrs, all due to a DNF. Car was a .... .. modified '58 Austin Healy Volvo Sprite (225HP) and 50/50 weight distribution.
- * Was Assistant SM & Eagle Coordinator at Troop 35, Highland Park, 18 yrs. plus co-started .. BSA Troop 125 at Northwest Bible Church, Dallas, helped over 300 Scouts earn their .. EAGLE Scout Rank. Was on Circle 10 Health & Safety Com. & Boy Scouts highest level .. of Adult Training, 1991 WoodBadge 45, In Antelope Patrol. Earned Paul Bunyon Axe- .. manship award by making a 1/2 mile hiking trail through the woods at Scout Camp. * Can't discuss possible "Top Secret special projects" that I may (?) have been involved in.