Unfortunately, when I left Philips I left all that good stuff behind - didn't think it was appropriate to pilfer all that.
Over the past couple of months I've been fortunate enough to come across similar suitable components.
Some from my friend Gareth back in England (lego motors/technical lego he just happened to have lying around.
So my task now is to get the lego motors hooked up to some vintage of Palm PDA.
I think I need 4v to drive the Lego motors, so I'm going to call in at Frys to get a little battery holder (3xAA). 4.5V - near enough!
I'll get Ben hooked on Electronics before too long :) Although I think he'd rather be a space man.
Anyway, once we get through the basic principles of forward and reverse, based on polarity of a battery, we will progress onto remote control via wireless or RS232.
Don't know whether to pilpher a copy of code warrior from work to do the software, or be legitimate and use the GNU toolchain.