Where Im at

Ok so what have i got and what have I done so far ........... As for tools and supplies ... very very little, Have managed to get a soldering iron and a few screwdrivers and a wire snip.  As yet have not bought any electronic items like resistors, capacitors or transistors.  Reason being very hard to find anywhere to buy them in my Country. Have found only one shop that sells some of the stuff i need but its fairly expensive compared to shopping online from other countrys.
I am looking at the shop promoted on the Lets make robots site called YourDuino (based in China) and will probably make my first order for parts through them, they seem to be very good value and have most of what i need to get started.
At the moment im working with parts i have scavenged form old electronics items, a lot of which i got from my local charity shop.  I have manged to get a few remote control cars for only a euro each even got a perfectly good working one which ill save for a later date to Hack.
Got a little electronic kit called Snap Circuits Pro for €3 with nearly all the parts working which is not bad considering they sell online for well over a €100.
I also use this to hook up some of my scavenged parts to and try things out ....

Also have various motors from the remote controlled cars, more from a hacked video camera and a large stepper motor from a photocopier i dismantled.

Have taken some capacitors off some of the hacked boards and have being experimenting with them to understand better how they work ( i can read about them online but i always find it better to work with things to learn better) also got a small supply of leds from the various hacked boards.

Have mostly being studying electronics on various web sites ... just trying to understand the basics plus learning about some simple to make robots like Beam bots ...... these are little robots powered by solar energy and can be very simple to make and cheap to make.

Also found a site that provides a circuit simulator applet that enables you to create circuits and simulate them. Its basic but dose help those that have limited knowledge of electronics understand things ... link provided in link bar.