Greeting All,
My name is Josh, (everyone calls me Deuce) and I’m from the Grand Rapids area in Michigan. Professionally I’m a Lead Software Engineer of compliance solutions for the gaming industry. I’ve always been interested in electronics design/development/repair, and if I could do it all over again knowing what I know now, I’d have went into hardware. As a child I always took household small appliances and various electronics apart just to see how they work. Maybe that should have been my first clue as to “what I wanted to be when I grow up”. Fortunately for me (unfortunately for my wife), I haven’t grown up yet, so there’s that.
Over the course of the last year or so, I’ve been building my low-buck lab. Short of fancy and special and expensive toys, I think I’m doing fairly well: Fluke 179 DMM, Extech EX330 DMM (secondary), Sainsmart DDS120, Hakko FX888D solder station, and assorted components/micro controllers. I’m currently in the waiting stage for my new toys (two from here in the States, others from AliExpress): assorted Panasonic electrolytic caps (thanks, Uncle Digikey), Rigol DS1053Z oscilloscope, RD Tech DPS5015 power supply, a “Shenzhen Special” all-assembly-required function generator, and a “Shenzhen Special” all-assembly-required 30V 3A constant voltage/current power supply.
This is an awesome community, and I’m glad to be part of it!
Cheers,
-Deuce
Side note: the big cardboard box in the attached image is the Hakko solder station. Finally retired that god awful Hakko 936 “Shenzhen Special” clone :-D