New Member, Please introduce yourself

[lqqkout]

Hi! I'm James, a long-time lurker and recent Patreon supporter - I'm mostly posting so that I don't get purged with other zero-post accounts.

I've taken apart electronics since I was a kid, failed at learning from an EE educational kit in middle school, and revisited the topic throughout my studies and career in IT. My background is data security and computer science and I'm currently a full-time "homeschool hacker dad" which has given me a lot more time to learn all of the EE topics I missed out on.

My most recent re-introduction to electronics came through the #badgelife community at Defcon and I've been respinning old badges, deciphering schematics, building BOM's, etc. My "Badgedolier" project was featured on Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2019/08/17/nfc-business-cards-to-fpga-cubes-skull-badges-to-bandoliers-heres-the-hardware-from-breakfast-at-def-con/

I'm excited to see the topics roll by and who knows, maybe I'll eventually have something more to contribute!

Cheers!

[smorriso3]

Hello, I am Steve. I'm an engineering student who is currently living in the Seattle area. I'm finishing my senior year in Electrical Engineering and right now, besides trying to pass my classes, I'm trying to find an internship. I'm in a fairly unusual position - I want to get as far away from the United States as possible. I'm a triple citizen - US, UK, Canada, though the UK one is in a bit a a flux now with the bullshit that is Brexit. Growing up I completed primary and secondary school in the USA, UK (Glasgow), and AUS (Townsville). To be frank - I would love to move back to the UK/AUS in a year to pursue an EE career if I could only find a serious offer for a company willing to take me. Obviously I'm pursuing good leads in the USA because there are great jobs here but I want to relocate. I'm a driving force in my regional IEEE student chapter with many offers at local public utility companies but I'm looking to get out of here! I'd seriously consider anybody in Sydney or elsewhere (UK, Canada, ) that would like to initiate a conversation.

Academically - I'm finishing a second Bachelor's degree in Electrical engineering this year. I'm 35 and finished a management degree in 2008, in Hotel and restaurant management. Spent ten years working in kitchens. I'm a great cook but now I really have an edge above my fellow EE students as far as teamwork and management. I'm heavily engaged in mentorship and encouraging underclassmen/women to get engaged with organizations like IEEE.

Sounds too much like a coverletter! But thats me!

[bobtiki]

Hello,

My name is Mark Boszko, and I'm … a tinkerer, I guess? I learned some electronics from the Forrest M. Mims book as Radio Shack when I was a kid, and I've kinda stumbled my way through learning what I need to know to do various projects over the years, as I try to learn animatronics, LED animation, smoke generation, etc., usually in service to a themed environment, film, theatre, home automation, or cosplay project. Arduinos and Raspberry Pis often play a large part.

I also have recently started repairing and hacking old synthesizers and game boys for some fun music projects.

Cheers!
Mark

[michalwu]

Hi there
Name's Mike.
I have been tinkering all my life. Last 10 years gone with kids and kinda normal life. Now want to go back to my passion.
Not active ham, 3d printing enthusiast, RF and radio lover.

[Polym0rphed]

Greetings and salutations! Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, I am completely new to electronics (and STEM subjects in general). Unfortunately (in retrospect), I managed to get through the entirety of my schooling without really ever learning math properly (I did almost everything in my head [my own way]), so I'm finding that side of this mysterious new realm quite overwhelming.

I found my way here via a YouTube journey - Dave makes sitting through any topic entertaining and sometimes even if I don't learn anything, I still consider it time well spent! Absolute legend!


I've heard good things about the book Practical Electronics for Inventors, which I may procure as soon as I'm out of financial hardship (neck injury).

I'm almost 100% interested in applying what I learn to Professional Audio (if not for some consumer/prosumer audiophile exceptions).

I appreciate that there are a lot of fundamental that are unavoidably paramount and that some of these, if not all, will be more general in nature. I'm definitely more of a 'concept first, "the how" later' kind of learner.

• Which web-based circuit designers/simulators would I find the most intuitive (and pro audio focused, if possible)?
• Are there any hobby groups, clubs, regular catch-ups etc. anyone might be aware of in Melbourne (Eastern suburbs is home base) where I might learn from the experience of others?

Cheers!

[angrybird]

I like birdwatching.

I move around a lot.

Puerto Rico is a little too humid for me.

I once saw two squirrels fighting in a tree; both fell at the same time, and continued the fight in midair and continued it on the ground after they landed with an amazing THWACK.  Since this time, I have always avoided confrontations with squirrels whenever possible.

[wizard69]

This is probably a bit late but stuck at home with nothing to do.    I'm an old fart automation technician that had a bit of interest in electronics in my youth but only sparsely apply that knowledge to work these days.    Thus half my interest here is to find all those old memory cells.

[Simon_RL]

Hi All,
I am a relative newb to electronics, although I do a cert 4 when I first left school, but that is so long ago I barely remember anything.

My background is IT both project and operations and I have solid programming knowledge in C/C++.

I have gotten into electronics through my other hobby Astronomy/Astrophotography and a desire to build things for my gear. I find now I have fallen a rabbit hole and am lost in the warren of electronics  . Having never being accused of doing things by half I find myself diving head long into maths and electronics theory. I have also purchased AOE and am working my way through this fantastic book to gain a more practical perspective of electronics.

Would also like to say a huge thanks to Dave for creating a blog that is such a fantastic resource that is very entertaining. Also this forum is brilliant and am astounded by the level of people’s knowledge and willingness to share information.

[datsuncogs]

Hi all, classic car enthusiast here from Sussex UK , i am also interested in electric vehicles, solar power, off grid systems, analogue synthesisers, old tape recorders and other gear that I like to try and rescue. I am better with mechanical restoration , and electrics than I am with electronic circuits and digital stuff. 

I am currently trying to reset a DJI drone battery that has shut itself down. Hope to find some answers here.

[toby10ant]

Hi, My name is Toby, currently work testing transceivers for the Oneweb LEO satellite suppplied by Teledyne.

Looking forward to learning and discovering new things.

Thanks, Toby

[gorge441]

Hello! mate
I am from Hessen, Laubach, Germany. I am new here. I expecting to get future support from this community.

[spongella]

Hello everyone hope you are all well.  60+ year tinkerer of anything electronic or mechanical, ham op, longwave, mediumwave, shortwave listener, vhf/uhf listener, CB, GMRS, OTA, FTA, radio restoration, alignment, test gear, free-lance writer. Had more radios than socks.  Glad to be here with all those with similar interests. This is one great site from all the posts I've read.

[ocom]

Hi all,

I introduce myself, Yohan, 30 years since today, I live in France I am the manager of a company specialized in the field of radios and telecommunications. The radio world has fascinated me since my adolescence;). It's been a long time since I read your messages on the forum but I never signed up, it's done now.

thank you

[kleiner Rainer]

New member here: Rainer, keeping the solder flowing for 50 years, 33 of them as a design engineer, and over 25 years as a ham (DG1SMD).
My job is about mixed signal and embedded systems, EMC and standards organisations (DIN, IEC).

My main interests are ham radio (esp antenna building), restoring and using old measurement equipment and computers, audio recording and generally analyzing and repairing stuff.

Greetings,

Rainer

[GilgaFrank]

Hello EEVFolk, greetings from sunny Stockport in the UK. Followed Dave on Youtube for ages so I thought I should sign up for the lively discussion on the forum here. I like audio synthesis, DSP stuff, vacuum tube stuff, late nights spent staring at an IDE with a can of energy drink and the music of Motorhead. That's Lemmy, Phil and Eddie Motorhead, not the Motorhead tribute acts Lemmy organised after Eddie left.

[6h8c]

Hi. My name is Olek. In my free time I repair old systems. I mainly concern myself with old tube audio-video-TV gear.
I lack the space for what I have already accumulated and I guess I'll never stop buying.

[3DA502]

  hello everyone ,I am a Chinese engerneer

[jmh]

Hello all

I’ve fiddled with electronics my whole life since taking a valve to school and lighting the filament from a Lego battery box when I was about 6. My grandfather sparked my interest by explaining the difference between AC and DC. When I started work in 1977 I worked on the maintenance of x-ray generators and electron microscopes and all sorts of associated equipment, eventually building and programming an 8080-based microcontroller out of chips and wire-wrap to log data from an x-ray diffractometer. Lots of boring stuff happened after that, like getting to fiddle with mainframes, mini computers and early PCs but I left the actual electronics ‘doing’  behind, progressed through the web into law and retired in 2018. So I’m back fiddling, this time mostly around the Raspberry Pi and also building radio stuff. I was always into amateur radio but never licensed until 2017. I spent a few teen years fiddling about with teleprinters, eventually buying, repairing and selling on Creed 7E machines for pocket money while I was at school. I now have a Creed 444 to fix. Also into model railways and DCC, and real railways as I volunteer on a heritage line in S&T. That is a result of my lifelong interest in telegraphy. Funny how things come round. Anyway, enough rambling!

Jeremy

[mdkendall]

Hello everyone, I am Matthew from Vancouver, BC, Canada. I have been registered here for many years but not posted much, mainly lurking. I am an engineer mainly doing product development work, particularly RF.

[homepoochie]

Hi, I'm Poochie from the Philippines, 35 y/o and an Electrical Engineer.

[Alphaprot]

Hey there, I'm Yannik - currently quarantined in Germany (I happen to live here, too). 18yo with interest in electronics engineering (which is 99.5% what I'll study once I finish school). Hobbies include a bit of homelabbing (I'm not really into programming though, I can code, but it's far away from being my favourite activity).

[hannobisschoff]

Hi guys, Hanno here from South Africa. Junior Electrical engineer and looong time fan of the Eevblog. Cheers!

[duckduck]

Hello, I'm a long time fan of Dave's EEVBlog videos. Interested in simple electronics for past 30 years. Reading this forum has made we want to learn more.

Interests:

• Analog circuits. Digital is super useful, but completely uninteresting to me.
• Audio.
• Guitar amplifiers, both solid state and vacuum tube
• Linear power supplies, low ripple power
• Op Amps
• Measuring and characterizing all of the above

Looking forward to learning more and sharing what I learn.

 - duckduck

[Gerken]

G'day,

Luke here. I am just starting to get into all things electronics, with no specific areas of interest. I have a general knowledge but just want more!
I have always been interested in how things work and throw nothing away without tearing it down first. I recently purchased an Arduino but was not satisfied with the high Level programming, and plug n play shields, that just magically work. I wanted to know more about what was going on in the background. This lead me to purchase an Attiny85, so I can learn as much as I can with out being overwhelmed with an excessive amount of peripherals. Currently I am working on a Digital Music box in Assembly, using as many features of the chip as I can.

I certainly don't have the knowledge to give any form of answer on here, but will have a few questions along the way.

[seatsniffer]

Hello everyone. I'm a physicist that ended up taking the plunge and going more into engineering. I used to work doing R&D with optical equipment for telecoms applications and later on some LIDAR as well (lots of analogue and digital electronics but also wafer level stuff). Now I do research with thermoelectrics (bulk and thin film) and the effects of thermals on PV systems (cell and panel level).

Ive been a big fan of the youtube channel for a long time and finally joined the forum recently.