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| Laval:
Hello from Québec, Canada. I'm graduated in Mathematics from Laval University and I have been working as a software engineer for 25 years. I've always been interested in physics and electronics. I started electronics as a hobby when I was in high school. Reading books on the subject I got more and more into physics which got me to mathematics. I always want to understand everything and one thing leading to another I ended up studying mathematics at university. Now I got back to my original hobby. |
| zygoma1:
Hello, I'm Tim from North Somerset, UK - cider country. I have been into electronics since childhood but trained as a biologist and did postdoc research on tsetse fly ecology and physiology in Zimbabwe. On returning to the UK in 1985, research jobs had become scarce and with a family on the way, I won a job as an electronics tech with a dental physiology research group in Bristol. This led to an interest in dentistry and a new career as a dentist. I am now retired and spend my time building (mostly valve/tube) audio amplifiers, restoring vintage electronics and restoring classic cars. I found EEVblog while looking to build a transistor curve tracer and came across the VBA curve tracer blog. |
| lead magnet:
hello i am a new member to forums live in Oz, QLD - the state Dave wished he lived :-DD i am old, been watching Davids videos for a while, before he was a 'professional' tuber if i was to do it all again i would have got an EE degree as it has always been a passion, but civil then mining made bill paying easier. i now have a lot of time on my hands and have interests that have been dormant while life got in the way...wife, kids etc. pre-children i was making robots, i still have them, some hexapods some humanoid, and my failing memory tells me i was getting to grips with inverse kinematics and getting my creations to look 'life like'. this was 20+ years ago, so there's that. i now have to get through some initial GAS, well not the GAS itself, it is the explanations, mis-remembering of costs, disapproving looks and cry's of :wtf: is this even for, and the fairy tales i come up with on the spot to explain it all away. lol if nothing else will take me back to earlier days of marriage. i will say, my budget - which if anyone asks is a couple of hundred dollars - will go waaaay further with test equipment today than the last time i looked, this is wickedly exciting. i have soldering station - old but Goot made reasonable stuff when i purchased it, and it still works a treat and does not need an upgrade yet. DMM -i snagged a Fluke 115 on a special and i have some cheaper ones also but what excites me the most is the state of scopes now. wow, just wow. i will spend less than i had budgeted and will get a scope waaay better than i ever dreamed of owning...ever. i have come to a decision on that - Rigol DHO914, for about $850 ozzie didgeridoos, and from what i understand from Daves videos i should be able to turn it into a 924 and get 250MHz/4 channel. is it because i have not had my head in this space for a while that a 4channel scope @250MHz for that money seems crazy. it does to me, and from what i see and read Rigol are pretty good scopes for the money but 4channel 250, even 125MHz seems stupid cheap to me, oh did i mention i am old? maybe that has something to do with it. anyway, outside of robots i like vacuum tubes. so anything requiring those will be on my bench. somewhere i have a couple of boxes of NIB nixie tubes i got from russia some years back, so i see clocks in my future. outside of maybe a few questions i may have when i hotrod my scope, i generally just lurk, so nice meeting you |
| thephil:
Hi everyone, I'm not really new to the forum anymore but have not introduced myself, yet. I have been reading for many years and registered an account about a year ago when I finally felt the urge to also write here. Anyway, I'm a proud nerd and tinkerer. I love building, making, repairing and breaking things as well as writing about it in my blog. I'm fascinated by plenty of things: electronics, computer programming, physics, statistics, building stuff from wood and metal, etc.. I guess that's called a Maker nowadays. Like many nerds, I love equipment just as much as the things I do with it and I certainly appreciate a well over-engineered project. Cu Phil |
| Foodie:
Hello everyone, I'm a new member of this community. I own a Sapphire 3D printer, which I consider a hobby. I also enjoy playing the guitar in my free time. I find it difficult to say more about myself as I'm uncomfortable sharing personal details. |
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