I came across the EEVBlog (
http://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog) some months ago when I was bored.
He's got some great segments like Teardown Tuesdays, where he'll take apart some piece of electronics and figure out how it works. This week, he found a photocopier in a dumpster (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSxEGgrvhMM). Seeing stuff like that makes you scratch your head and think "wow...there was A LOT of engineering that went into that". There are some pretty good beginners tips as well, like on soldering (Part 1:
http://www.eevblog.com/2011/06/19/ee...-part-1-tools/ , Part 2:
http://www.eevblog.com/2011/07/02/ee...torial-part-2/ , Part 3:
http://www.eevblog.com/2011/07/18/ee...surface-mount/ ).
Anyway, just thought I'd share a pretty interesting (albeit educational
) source for how electronics engineering is done in the real world.
There are so much more things to be worked on and are more beneficial to FIRST and FIRSTers than green dots by someone's name. - tiffany34990 [more] 
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