New Member, Please introduce yourself

[Terry01]

Hi all,I'm Terry!

I'm just learning electronics. I found electronics after having to quit working due to illness. Multiple sclerosis.

Sooooo....I'm now teaching myself electronics. It makes for some funny/interesting results! My instructor (ME!) has an official diagnosis of "brain damage" and knows absolutely nothing about electronics. Lots of sparks and smoke and my wife shouting "WTF"!

I love it!! 

[Russ]

Hello

   Russ and I’m a new member. Presently studying Mechatronics in College. Also waiting for UPS to deliver my EEVBLOG-Bryman multimeter today.  . I hope it lives up to the reviews.

Russ

[adam.sage]

Hello everybody!  I've been watching Dave on YouTube for quite some time and figured it time to come over to the check out the forums.  After about 2 years I think it's time to purchase the Rigol DS1054Z I've been watching and I'm looking forward to learning all about it here.

[runeazn]

Heya everyone,

Current I am studying Bsc. Electrical Engineering in Eindhoven University of technology! 21 years old. I love doing things myself and making things work. However, not until recently have I really made my own circuits or electronics. Since I really enjoy this, I went to watch youtube videos about it. I started with GreatScott and now I regularly watch EEVblog videos. I knew of this channel couple years ago, but not until recently did I start to appreciate Dave's long videos. Before I thought of them as lengthy and boring, while actually it is full of information where Dave beautifully explains the thought process of a experienced engineer (himself).

I hope I will have a nice time here!

[Freelander]

Hi all,
Layabout and retired messer of all things electrickery....
My main hobbies and interests are Electronics, Radio Electronics, Computing, programming of embedded microprocessors.

[ADent]

Hello!

I'am an embedded SW developer, 41 years old (it sounds old when written  ) and lives in Sweden.
Have been playing around with electronics for about 10 years now.
Did learn quite a lot of basic electronics at school 22 years ago. Thanks to my current work I got hooked on LeCroy oscilloscopes.

Made a Sokoban game for my old Sony Ericsson T610 a long time ago, and it was incredibly fun seeing my own code
running on a small device. One of my first hobby project was at university making a 230V relaybox controlled by my Amiga 4000 - which ran a web-server so lights could be controlled via WAP from an early wap-enabled phone.

Actually had a board manufactured and sold: http://electronics.chroma.se/rpisbv3.php
Currently working on, and almost done with, a tranceiver for making old C64/Amiga joysticks wireless, based on the NRF24L01+. Pretty neat if I may say so myself http://electronics.chroma.se/wlj.php

Other than that i have an old house to take care of, two kids and an -84 SAAB 99. Wish I had more time for fun stuff but it's all sleep - work - eat - feed the dishwasher - repeat. (Projects above move at very slow pace).

Edit: Also my nick of course stands for Arthur Dent which is also of course not my real name.

Best regards
Mikael

[Freelander]

Edit: Also my nick of course stands for Arthur Dent which is also of course not my real name.

Best regards
Mikael

Greetings. I hope you brought your towel ? 😀

I think Dave is planning a new vid on an infinite improbability drive soon..................

[CharlieO21]

Hello,

I'm Charlie a mechatronics engineer, I'm from Guadalajara, México. I'm 24 years old.
Currently working as hardware engineer on a transportation company.

[jgalak]

Hey there.  Juliean, a hobbyist from the NYC area, US.  Been playing with electronics since I was a kid, got into Arduino/RPi a few years ago, mostly just doodling around.  Got my ham license a few years ago (KQ2Z).  Currently poking at some VHF/UHF radio projects for High Altitude Ballon and maybe, some day, cubesats (hey, one can dream, right?).

My undergrad degree is in Computer Science from a top engineering school, but I've been in a non-technical industry for the last 20 years.  Still do a fair amount of hobby programming, for various personal projects, but hardly a pro these days.  Complete novice on the hardware side.

[Russ]

   I was sure that they were on Amazon, now I cannot locate them. Does anyone have the Amazon link to the packet of fuses that Dave sells for this DMM?

Thanks
Russ

[Andrew Morton]

Hi all, I'm Andrew and I had no idea I couldn't change my username after registering. So you can all laugh at my feeble comments on EE.SE and know it's the same person 

So, I see a few people announce themselves here and say they'd like a Rigol DS1054Z. Well, I did it the other way round and thought I could let people know that the Rigol EU site https://www.rigol.eu/clearance/ has three two refurb ones for €299 euros + tax + €15 shipping as of today (see post date).

When it arrives, hopefully I'll be able to get a clue about why my simple two-transistor oscillator doesn't, and quantify how I fixed an I²C sensor with a bypass capacitor. I'm just casually learning about/messing around with electronics - if I was serious I suppose I'd actually do the exercises in TAofE, lol.

[soubitos]

Hi... not my first post, but here is my introduction...
I am Christos, live in North Greece in a small village 2 years now. Used to live in Athens.
I studied electronics in technical school and went another year for computer repair class.
After many years of various jobs, mostly outside my study fields I ended up unemployed and with plenty of free time.
I repair computers and electronic devices here in the village but its not much.
So, after some time, i got interested in lithium batteries and other stuff and i have started to build a few projects based on ideas/solutions i saw are needed around here... you can see my projects here https://easyeda.com/catech75

[Andrew Morton]

   I was sure that they were on Amazon, now I cannot locate them. Does anyone have the Amazon link to the packet of fuses that Dave sells for this DMM?

Thanks
Russ

Maybe you meant to look on ebay?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Multimeter-HRC-Fuse-Pack-EEVblog-Brymen-FLUKE-FLU11-/222458807451?
hash=item33cb94049b:g:iJgAAOSw4CFY3z13

[JohnnyMalaria]

Hi!

I'm John - originally from the UK but now living in the US (since 1997).

For my PhD in the'80s, I invented a laser light scattering method (Phase Analysis Light Scattering) for measuring the surface electrical charge on nanoparticles dispersed in liquids. Six major instrument manufacturers sell their versions and I have yet to get 'one red cent'. After 24 years working for the man in big pharma developing drug products, I left earlier this year to set about something I have wanted to do for years - set up my own instrument shop and build a cutting edge version of my original work. In part, this is because of the insane advances in electronics and drop in costs.

Although I'm good at knowing what I need a box of electronics to do, I'm somewhat challenged when it comes to designing/making fundamental circuits. Case in point - I need to measure current flowing through an electrochemical cell - without forking out $1500 for a used Keithley picoammeter. Imagine my delight that I found the uCurrent through this blog! It has saved me who knows how many weeks of frustration trying to do it myself. Also, because of this blog, I just bought a Rigol DS1104Z. It arrived yesterday and it is already proving to be worth every penny (the FFT function is wonderful). At this point, I'm at an advanced stage of proof-of-concept and basically cobbling things together to get the overall behavior I need. I've  got some amazingly inexpensive but excellent Chinese products off eBay including a 4-channel 200MHz DDS for $99. When I did my PhD, the equivalent functionality cost nearly $7K in '80s money.

John.

[manoj]

Hi,
I am Manoj from India. I run a small company working in Solar EPC. Have worked for 17 years in HR, Finance & Marketing domains. Trying to learn Electronics for my new Project.
Regards to all Members.
Manoj

[RobBarter]

Hi,
Rob from England.  Self employed software developer by trade, currently writing embedded software for a medical 7MV linear accelerator.  Ham Radio when not earning money but fortunately I like the paid work as well as the not paid    Recently bought a Siglent spectrum analyser to help with the 23cm build....wow, what a piece of kit!   Now looking to upgrade the Rigol scope.   There's something about the smell of solder in the morning...

[env23]

Hi everyone.

John from Philippines. Doing mostly hobby stuff on HW level and professional on FW level with POS terminals and stuff like that.

[nicalitz]

Hi all, Nico from South Africa! Not a lot of us it would seem. Studied electronic engineering undergrad, post graduate studies in satellite mission design and control systems. Working for an engineering company that develops small satellite subsystems. Can't believe it took me this long to discover this forum.

[jouko.perkkio]

Hi, Jouko from Finland.

I've been working with embedded systems for > 10 years for now. My work consists of both software and hardware design. My passion is in combining these two; not just making a nice piece of hardware but to make it sing too! My semi-professional hobby is within drag racing and developing a data acquisition system for the very harsh conditions.. We have currently a well working, accurate and fast data acquisition system with web & SD-card interface to bring the data to PC for analysis. Great forum, somehow never got here before.

[Decoman]

I am above 40, and only now do I find an interest in basic electronics.

I think I've managed to finally absorb some basic knowledge like: Volts=I*R and Watts=V*A

When I was a kid, like 7 y.o. or something like that, my father bought a test board or something, however I think his mistake was to assume that lighting up a damn LED off a 9V battery and playing with resistors would be that damn exciting to me.

[shawty]

Hi,

I'm Shawty and I'm an.... OH OOP's sorry wrong forum... (Cough)     :-)

Now where was I, oh yes....

Hi All, new forum user here.

I'M "Peter 'Shawty' Shaw" (I more often use my Nick than my real name...) I'm a proud card carrying original 1980's UK Back Bedroom developer/Hacker type, and started with computers at around the age of 7 back in the Late 1970's

so yes I'm a bit of a Old B*****d now, not super old, but definitely heading in that general direction :-)

I'm mostly a Software Developer by Trade, but I like to think of my self as an all round Technologist, Iv'e forgotten more over the years than Iv'e learned, and among the things I know and do, I'm a fully experienced and Trained GSM Mobile communications engineer and ex UK Military radio tech.

These days, I own Digital Solutions Computer Software UK, not a huge company by any stretch of the imagination, but it keeps me out of mischeaf.

I'm a brit, yup that's obvious, but I'm one of those Nutty breeds of Brit known as a Geordie , well Geordie'ish, North Durham (I think the term is Pitmatic) to be precise, but unless your a fellow Brit and understand the Nuances of this wonderful land, Geordie usually suffices :-)

I have no problems with tearing stuff apart (First thing I ever took apart was my Grandads brand new TV set when I was just 3 yr old!), and I frequently believe in recycling used electronics for parts, rather than sending them to landfill.

And that's pretty much it for a forum intro, but there is more....   and if you want to know, then a quick google for "shawtyds", should find my blog at a minimum and a load of other stuff :-)

Shawty

PS: Yes, I am this nuts in real life.  If any of you have ever been on the official Raspberry PI forum, you've likely come across me on there too.

[EvilDNA127]

Hi, Dan from Nebraska in the Untied States. 

I once attempted EE education and burned out on that due to multiple factors, and now I'm getting back into tinkering with electronics.  Set up a bench and got some components to mess with.  Hopefully I'll poke my head in here every now and again.

[Dbhrs]

Hi Darcy here.

Was introduced to electronics just a bit in my electrician course. I am just now starting to tinker with electronics.


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[huskee]

Hi, my name is Xenofon and I'm from Greece. I'm 15 and trying to balance my time between electronics, computing, programming and school.

[tboy32]

Hey all. I'm a long time forum lurker and I hope to make time to post a little more here. I've got an EE degree from about a decade ago but never got into the field professionally. I guess I felt my college classes were too "academic" with not nearly enough actual design/hands on time, which is what I like doing.

I really enjoy working on personal hobby projects with anything involving electronics or computers. I'm a self taught programmer and know just enough to make things work the way I want, but not enough to be comfortable letting anyone else see the mess I've written. I've learned KiCad and have designed probably a few dozen smallish boards using that suite over the past several years. I enjoy the whole design process from concept to schematic design to component selection to footprint design to board layout to assembly, software development and testing.