As some of the veterans know, I've rarely been active on the forum for the last few years. It's one of those things when as you get older life decides that you must have other priorities.
What have I been up to? I haven't done much robot building as a hobby at home for about 4 years now, although my day job keeps me at it. The last 2.5 years I spent designing the control systems for an advanced fuel cell used for Navy drones. Really cool stuff.
For the last three years I've been involved in quantitative finance, involving quite a lot of engineering and programming skills.
Anyway, while I rarely post, I'm still working on the back end ... making sure the database isn't crashing, fighting off spammers (a never ending job), upgrading software to fix the latest security flaws, paying the monthly server bill, etc.
ps - I apologize for being very bad at answering emails... I do read them I just don't have the time I used to when I was younger....