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[Karthor]

Hello i'm Karthor and i've been interested in Electronics from a young age

[squibby]

Hi Guys,

New member here in Brisbane. I started my hobby by fixing up 1950's 1960's tube stereos. You know the sort in their own furniture with a record player. Then gradually started collecting period-relevant tools from mid-century, and then i found I started to enjoy collecting the tools more than the radio repair.

I have a large stock of old tubes, and a few old multimeters (1960's) from Kyoritsu and Sencore. I got an old japanese 1980's scope and a 1960's Tektronix scope. 1950's tube tester and capacitor checker, 1960's signal tracer, Secore Mighty mite tube tester, 1970's Sencore transistor testers x2, 1960's counter with nixie tubes, some old 1960's signal generators etc and probably a few things I have forgotten. Most of them have just needed small amounts of attention to get them working perfectly, others (like the super cool 1950's capacitor checker) needed massive overhauls, and some i haven't got to yet. The Tek scope is the most amazing piece of kit.

Anyway, that's me. Hope to fix up some old radios again once I get some jobs out of the way around the house.

[LooKatME]

Hi, I am Oscar. It is my first post here. I am looking to build a budget workstation for myself. I will ask for some advice in other posts, feel free to comment. Thank you!

[DiodeDipShit]

Hi All, I am just an olde lover of electronics. I studied electronics in a vocational school, worked at a few companies (test equipment, commercial, components} then change occupation to Mechanical Engineering. But, I have dabbled in electronic repair ever since. I only have a VOM and power supply. I have collected components over time as the evolution from early bimetal mechanical thermo switches to micro electronics fascinates me. I found this site today and feel I can contribute in a primitive way, being more tuned in with resistors, diodes, transistors and breadboard, though I used to be versed in 7400 series IC's. That was some time ago...

[LMedu]

Hello everyone. I´m Luis from Spain. I.m a maintenance technician for air navigation radars. See you here.

[DiodeDipShit]

Hi Luis, Welcome aboard ! ! ! 

[RetroHackShack]

Hello! My name is Aaron and I create YouTube videos on the channel called Retro Hack Shack. Glad to meet you all!

[PeterH_1979]

Greetings from California,

My name is Peter, I've had a life long passion for all things technical in the world around us.

[Brumby]

To all new members - and the other ones - WELCOME!  Good to see you here!

It always fascinates me to see the broad spectrum of members here - from professional to hobbyist backgrounds; from interest and/or experience in audio to areospace; young and old; from the farthest corners of the world .... and every point in between.  Not only that, but the willingness for so many members to share their knowledge and experience as well as help and advise other members is nothing short of amazing.


I suggest every member should drop in here occasionally and just check out those who have introduced themselves.  It is really encouraging.

This is one of the best places on the internet - IMHO

[numero_trey]

Hey, everybody. I'm Trey. I'm an electronics tinkerer and computer engineer. I like building LED pixel projects and programming animations. I should use my 3d printer more. Currently getting into radio.

[ClarenceMorse]

Hello all,

I'm a newbie here. I want to say hello to all. I hope everyone here is doing well so far.

Thank you so much for your time.

[Vertamps]

Hello, a geek from MI USA. I have faith in Christ Jesus, play guitar, fix music gear and do 2 sided circuit boards and embedded software at my work.
Collecting test gear made me join the forum .
-William

[Х-50]

Hello! It will be extremely difficult to understand what is written below. I am writing this sober and not under the influence of drugs. My life has been ambiguous. Since childhood, I have been interested in technology. But in my country it was not popular, to put it mildly. After the collapse of the USSR, complete degradation and deindustrialization began here. That’s why I ended up getting into medicine. Where I successfully work. At the same time I learned English But when I graduated from medical school, I discovered that everywhere people earn more than me. This is the paradoxical reality of our country. And my former classmates appeared in my life who asked me to make a metal detector (it was expensive back then) - and showed me the entrance to a hole in the fence leading to a scrap metal dump...
n general, I will not write too much - I will say that in the age of fools there must be a void of miracles and I found it. it was fun and interesting. There were plans to make a mini-factory. Until the moment when the war began. And now I’m trying to find my place in this madness. I don’t know what to say. I see several very important things that need to be done in medicine and in other areas, but it’s not clear whether it will be possible in the current situation. but I'll try. My parents’ generation said, “We were born to make a fairy tale come true.” And I should probably rephrase it as “We were born to make comics real.” Doctor Ido from the manga "Battle Angel" also regularly visited the scrap yard. In general, I really hope that you will never understand me.

[Andrew-s]

Hello im Andrew i am a long time hobbiest and self taught in electronics design as well and programming in multiple languages.im a automotive technician by trade and specialize in electrical diagnostics and repair i do alot pcm and module repair and reprogramming with a general goal of saving people lots of money by bypassing manufacturers attempt to require you to buy new hardware and i achieve this by ether hacking a used module to work with a different vehicle or repair issues on a module that most techs can't. Im currently designing a device to help other techs do this easily even without the knowledge i have.

[Stvor]

Hi I am Stvor, I am EE hobbyist and Sysadmin/SRE for main job.   I have done some basic electronics in collage, and occasionally played with micros  (PIC, avr, arduinos).

Now I want to get deeper, started re-learning about basic (Just reading Practical Electronics for Inventors,) and playing around with 3d printers.  My setup currently consists mostly of multimeter and bunch of breadboards, microcontrollers (bought myself some stm32, esp32 and some interesting risc V from china) and some components.

I am decent programmer (several languages), and have decent knowledge about linux and freebsd.

[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
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  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.

[iSuckatelectronics]

Yo, I'm Jon, I've watched the eevblog for years and decided it was time to join the forum since I've learned so much from the videos and forum posts.

I knew absolutely nothing about electronics for the first 2.5 decades of my life, but life was getting dull and I finally decided I wanted to be able to understand those green boards that's seemed to be everywhere but nobody talked about. So, a few years ago, I bought my first oscilloscope (got a nice deal on a Keysight EDUX1052G - nothing super fancy) and enrolled in an undergraduate EE and Math program. Buying that scope was one of the best life decisions I ever made. Ever since, like all of you, I have been addicted to learning how things work and my only regret is not getting into electronics earlier. I'll be graduating this year and look forward to whatever comes next!

Cheers!

[nebogeo]

Hi, I'm Dave - long time playing with electronics - digital and analogue, from ripping apart PCBs as a kid to building robots and audio circuits. Currently messing around with DIY semiconductors using minerals reclaimed from mine waste.

[liszt955]

Hello everyone, I'm Liszt, from China. I'm very interested in RF, measurement, and instrumentation equipment. These are involved in my work

[MaurizioT]

hello everyone, i'm what is probably best described as a novice electronics tinkerer, usually using PIC microcontrollers. located in the Italy.

love the blogs & videos

[tspoon20]

Hello, I'm Tim from Michigan. Newbie here trying to learn how to fix somethings myself on my CNC equipment. I'm sure I will have a lot of questions. I don't give up easily when I have problems with the equipment. Would be nice to have a mentor that knows what he or she is doing in fixing CNC equipment on the electronic side of knowledge. Thank you for letting me join.