Hello Everyone! My name is Alex
I started learning electronics since i was 10 by dissassembling toys and small electrical stuff, it wasn't until 12 when i really started to do learn it, i started off with a local facebook group, asking questions wich i didn't really got an answer for, there i found a friend who gave me books and talked with me on the phone for hours about electronics, i read some old books and at the age of 13 (yes, 13) i asked my grandmother to buy me a soldering iron <3 so i got my first soldering iron (good thing i like psychology also) and my very first bit of solder, tested it on some wires i was terribile but i insisted at her so she can buy me my first IC (a TDA2005) and dot matrix board... ahh dose days i spent 12hrs to build a TDA2005 amp... and because of the best soldering ever
) i failed horribly, i got really dissapointed and decided that i have to learn more, so reading i go
by mistake i got to one of Dave's Videos it was the moment that i opened my eyes
the first video i've seen it was about how to solder (the complete guide) it was so awesome, i tried again soldering (a 555 based boost converter) i succeeded although i has some issues and quite a bad soldering, during practice i improved
because of my dad i had to move to bucharest to make my step from elementary school to high school (he made me enter a highschool that made me a chef although i don't want to hear about cooking) and somehow i combined that horribile high school and electronics (and Russian, Serbian, Engish and some spanish lessons i took by myself via the WWW) all my life since 12 was a continous personal and professional development and here i am, wathcing EEVBlog, GreatScott, mike's electric stuff daily as much as i can, almost finished my highschool (i have tomorrow math graduation exam and friday psichology one and i am done) and i turned 18 by now <3 i got as many tools and parts as i could over time (i remember because i was grown in country by my grandmother i was going to nieghbours to ask for broken electronics
) ) and i design an build circuits i repair electronics and i make schemes off the internet, my first designed circuit was actually another 555 timer-based boost converter, it had an eff of ~89% at voltages higher then 12V and a max of 10% eff at voltages around 4-5V
I heard about the EEV forum long time ago, didn't consider that i could say Hello! to Dave and he'll read it but no i take my chances
Hello Dave! Thank YOU for doing all of this work on YT to teach people electronics, i really like your videos ( i watched ~800 and yes i like mailbag as well, i preffer the teardowns though, especially vintage gear, those were really the days
) Keep up the good work, with LoL, Alex