New Member, Please introduce yourself

[soaring_spitfire]

Hello!

Recent electrical engineering graduate, from New Zealand, with my first real job in power distribution. An electronics hobbyist in my spare time. In the market to buy a function generator! (and an LCR meter)

Currently been working on a 10x10x10 RGB led cube, (on and off again for 2 years (including uni study)), currently trying to solve an issue with what I think is noise on the SPI bus of my control electronics for the cube.   Will post some photos when it gets up and running.

Never been especially active on forums, but will give it a go!

[asmfan]

Greetings,

My career is in software quality assurance in the area of software performance testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_performance_testing

A few years back I was introduced to EEVblog by a news article that linked to one of Dave's videos debunking a solar roadway installation.
I watched more EEVblog videos and read through general topics on the forum for close to a year.
Thanks in part to Dave and the EEVblog community, my interest in electronics has moved to an active hobby.

I'm now working through Make: Electronics and supplementing with Practical Electronics for Inventors.
My bench consists of the equipment and components required for the Make: Electronics and Make: More Electronics books.

[h4x0r]

G'day everyone,

Another 'local' 'strayan here.

As the tag implies I'm a bit of an old hack. I have been dabbling in electronics since I was about 6-7, so that's 40+ years of hacksawing my way around various bits n pieces.
I've been lurking here randomly over the last 5 years, but never bothered to register. I have no idea why, I just never bothered, possibly has something to do with my work.. I figured I should do the needful.
My occupation is in software QC, for a large multinational IT network equip vendor. Highly specialized role and completely irrelevant to 90% of the real-world.

I spend my hobby time hacksawing and destructive testing / fabricobbling stuff. Mostly stuffing around with mech-elec related gear, also mostly on things that propel people (cars, bikes, skateboards etc) and playing a few instruments.

I'm here to learn stuff I should have paid more attention to 25 years ago.

I'm also learning to 'upgrade' my hacksaw lab with some decent quality test and measurement gear. I have old analog stuff, and some good quality gear, but I need some more precision gear to help me move forward.
I have spent time playing with valve amps etc. I've stuffed around with reverse engineering ignition map drivers in old cars to convert into 3d maps for modern closed loop efi. I made my first PCB with a tandy kit about 35 years ago, and learned stuff like how to build circuits from kits and schematics from EA/ETI/Silicon chip magazines back in the day. So Hacksaw is probably the most appropriate name.

I feel that I need to reboot and refresh my nvram and learn a few new things related to industrial circuits and the like.

I also need to learn about basic things like the best way to purchase consumables, even though I am sporadic with my spend at places like element 14/mouser/rs etc. Also what's the best way to do PCB's these days - e.g. farm out or buy a machine/small cnc etc... Then there's the  how to sniff out quality components from crap and the hotbed of PRC banggod etc stuff is it worth it...

I know I'll have lots of obviously noob questions, I'm familiar with searching so naturally I'll look for an answer before I ask everyone the 'dumb questions'..
Got a lot of ground to cover to reinvest the gery matter into hardware.
That's about it for the moment.

Hope I can climb out of the dark ages into modernity...

[arkeo]

Hi everyone,

I am Corrado from near Rome, civil engineer but electronics is one of my hobbies since I was a kid. Great forum!

[cprosser]

Hi Folks,

I've been dabbling with hobby robotics and electronic kinetic art on and off since 1997. I've recently decided to blow the dust off my gear and repair some of my old projects. I have several that I built on the old OOPIC Platform, and another with just an AVR and a C compiler. Well, I've lost the C compiler and the code, and OOPic is out of business  . So I've got some work cut out for me to reverse engineer them and replace the microcontroller so I can do some upgrades.

I'm also very excited to have replaced my 2nd edition of The Art of Electronics with the 3rd edition!

--chris
(Seattle)

[showler909]

Hi folks,

I'm Robert, a Mental Health Nurse from the UK. I'm looking into dabbling with electronics, learning more about all the components and tools used to resolve issues, with a potential new hobby developing repairing broken PC parts.

I am a complete novice so pretty useless regarding advice or guidance, but I hope to learn much as I develop my understanding from you fine people

Have fun folks!

[ben.howard1987]

Hello, I'm Ben from Wallingford in England. I make terrible things that barely work from junk and I love it!

[radiokot]

Hi!

My name is Alexander. I'm from Russia. I have been engaged in radio electronics for about 5 years. Basically I develop for microcontrollers stm32, stm8, avr. Rarely I use FPGA. Work at the factory. I'm doing freelancing at the time.

[prouser]

Hello,

My name is Arthur, I am looking forward to learning much from this forum and sharing what i know along the way.

[carolcarol]

Hi  My name is Carol, I live in Chicago, IL. I'm currently a freelance writer. Raised on a steady diet of classic literature, I pursued an English degree at the University of Tennessee after high school graduation. I started my freelance writing career after a five-year stint in marketing.  I came to the realization that the part of my job that I loved the most involved writing promotional material for clients and articles for the association’s monthly newsletter.  So, I decided to turn my passion for writing into a career.  I now spend my days writing about health, home decor, fitness, parenting and travel for a variety of clients.

[Dave_C]

Hi!

I'm David (or Dave for short). I currently live in a small town/village near Rzeszow, Poland.
I recently finished trade shool in electronics with good amount of achievments and prizes (test gear  ). Before that I've been tinkering and experimenting on my own with mostly recycled or old parts and a 5$ multimeter.  I had some succesful designs for school ( biggest one was a peltier-based temperature controller for thermistor testing ), and now I'm going to share my new work on this forum. Soon I will be starting EE in college.

My main focus is test equipment design. I love everything analog, but I often work with digital logic and microcontrollers, also I can write some code in C if I need to.
I have a never-ending stream of ideas for new designs and I'm currently working on a differential scope probe made as cheap as possible and a DC electronic load with CC, CV, CR and CP done completely in analog (well, the current/voltage/power meter is going to be digital).

[TheDeuceII]

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

[gedong]

Hello, Name is Renaldi. live somewhere in 3rd country of South east Asia. 34 years old, unmarried, jobless, currently struggling to make a living.

have an  electronics fetish but always too lazy doing some real work and understanding the principal behind it, was an audiophoolery untill i learn some basic physics .

[Radio Guy]

I'm Jason and was getting into electronics way back at school. Then girls got in the way (and ruined several other hobbies too). Now I'm (a lot) older and have some time on my hands I am getting back into it again. I love the YouTube videos! 

My loves now are Ham Radio, CB Radio (but don't tell the other Ham guys) and Guitars.

[Radiosonde]

Greetings
My name is...
I am a Student and ham radio operator from Austria.
I like designing and building RF circuits and I am a big Rohde and Schwarz fan...who is not?
I also help out at the local repeater...i go there with skis in the winter

73

[MichaelJohnson50]

Hello folks!
My name is Michael, which you can probably already tell by my username.
Born and raised in Manchester, working as an engineer here. Electronics is my hobby and biggest passion since I was about 12 years old.

Feel free to DM me!

[Sousuke]

Hello Everyone

I'm Sousuke, I'm usually a people engineer (Student Paramedic) but I do like to dabble in electrics and computer equipment.

Born in South Wales (The "Old" one in the UK )

[daddycool]

hello everyone

my name is guy i am 45 and i live in sherbrooke, quebec, canada i own my own bussiness a computer shop i also do some basic electronic repair. i am a school dropout and autodidact. i love dave show he is my "friend from the internet who teach me electronic" i always try to be positive and in a good mood. that about it baby! peace man!

[Steven.UK]

Hello My name is Steven, I live in England UK.  Been here a while but only noticed i never said "Hi" Doh! 

I have always had a big interest in Electronics, Thanks to my dad, I've spent my hole life in eletronics along with computers/software/hardware and RC mostly air.

[glaxoni]

Hi guys

I'm Nate from Oregon, US

Hobbyist who loves DIY electrical projects.

[marcio.andlei.adv]

Hello, I’m Marcio from Brazil  Glad to be here.


Enviado do meu iPhone usando Tapatalk

[radhika]

Hello, I am the stubborn girl with revolutionalizing tech dream.

[Fred_47]

This is my introductory post to the EEVblog forum. I notice it's somewhat longer than others. Maybe because I'm older than most on this forum.

I am a retired EE (electric power) who has dabbled in electronics since the mid 60's. Textbooks were switching from vacuum tubes to solid state as I was in collage and my employment involved practically nothing under 2300V AC unless it was control circuitry (125VDC) or support equipment (480V AC). I worked on auxiliary system design and large motor application for power plants and was the company's "rotating machinery specialist", i.e., the guy the plant called at 3AM when the generator went boom. (the largest motor I've worked on was rated 261,000HP & the largest generator was 800MVA) The motor was the main machine (there were 2) at a pumped storage hydro station. Motor at nite and generator (220MVA) by day.

I KNOW  what it takes to run a power plant because I've been part of it. Burn 5000 tons of coal a day, get rid of 500 tons of ash (without filling the sky or your room with it), all without blowing the place to kingdom come.

I've built many Heathkit bench gear kits starting with the EK-1 VOM and moving up to the IM-13 VTVM (still in daily use after about 55 years) and winding up with the IO-4235 dual trace scope (still in use after 37 years), a couple signal generators & a counter.

I have a Rigol MSO2102A & DM3068 bought new when my electronics interest reignited a year ago.

I designed and built a digital computer using RTL logic in the early 70's a few years before the Altair. It had a whopping 64 BYTES of memory, I/O was via toggle switches and LEDs. Eventually I built an Altair 8800 kit which was my main computer til the Mac Plus in 1985 IIRC.

I have a flock of old Mac computers, most of which work including this one (a 2.3GHz G5 tower anchor) which is my newest computer. It runs OSX 10.4 because 10.5 breaks too much software. (I'm a Mac fanboy because I never liked MS because of Bill's attitude toward hobbyists when he worked at MITS.)

Lately I've acquired a bunch of old gear from eBay. The list:

2 HP3478A  5 1/2 digit VM

2 HP 3456A 6 1/2 digit VM one of which I repaired failed zener in the inguard PS

1 Fluke 335D voltage standard & null VM (replaced a bunch of caps)

1 HP 6253A dual PS (repaired, failed zener)

1 HP 6642A PS

a couple GR decade boxes, a DP1311 Decapot (Kelvin Varley divider which I'd never heard of til Dave mentioned it) & an ESI D887 Deka box. All seemingly in spec or close enough.

My main interests in electronics are power supplies (usually model RR throttles), repairing (& building) test gear, voltnuttery, test & measurement, digital computers & digital circuitry in general. Most of my hobby work is usually in support of something digital (Arduino these days). I never really understood the pole & zero stuff.

For me, positive current flows from the plus terminal to the minus terminal & we should have never let the physicists name the terminals on a FET.

Sayings:

Never remember anything you can look up. (Einstein)

Groves giveth and Gates taketh away. (?)

Fred_47
Fred Lotte, PE (not current), BEng, MEng
Ohio, USA

[MrMobodies]

My name is Richard and I thought I would sign up. I have seen the videos over the years and I am considering Youtube Red as the EEVBLOG channel is becoming so good it will make it worthwhile. I remembered first coming across a video in 2012 of a huge tear down of a hard drive from a bank. I don't often rate videos or subscribe but as it is so good I'll start giving the thumbs up. I like the tear downs, details and the sarcasm.

I would like to go more into electronics by interest and by opportunity there is Dave opening things up and explaining how they work. Most of my questions are eventually answered during a video.

From a 2010 driving video, for me the educational parts are delivered through interest and enthusiasm of the speaker.

I'll have to start donating.

I have some old stuff that are too heavy to send for tear downs so maybe I'll start some threads with pictures of them and the insides.

Many thanks to the patreons for supporting a valuable educational resource made interesting and enjoyable.

[Alf]

Hi All,

I'm James and I'm an electrical engineer in Newcastle, Australia.

I used to be an electronics technician for 7 years before going to uni, graduating a few years ago.

I do a lot of electronics and PCB design at work and at home and I like Audio Electronics, DSPs, speaker design and microcontrollers. I work on lots of stuff from micros to GPS to Ethernet, power supplies, control and protection systems.

I have been lurking on EEVblog youtube videos for a while and I thought I should get involved. I'm the only electrical guy at work and it would be good to have somewhere to kick ideas around with others with similar interests.

Looking forward to meeting you,

James