New Member, Please introduce yourself

[SLJ]

Steve from upstate New York USA here.  This looks like a great resource.  I retired a couple of years ago and now have a little more time to play with my collection of antique electronics. 

I collect antique radios and record players but now mostly antique test equipment from the 1920s through 1940s.  You can check out some of my test equipment collection here: http://www.stevenjohnson.com/testers-misc.htm  You will also find links to the rest of the collection of radios, soldering irons, and my workbench here: http://www.stevenjohnson.com/

Over the past few years I've built a large library of antique service manuals covering U.S. and Canadian radios, record players, amplifiers, and test equipment which I sell on-line.  I don't miss the 9 to 5 day job at all.  Looking forward with chatting with a few of you.

Some of my test equipment collection:

[dr_p]

Mihai from Romania here, late 20's, no EE formal education or job. Passionate about it though. Currently working on a linear programmable lab PSU with switch-mode tracking pre-regulator and lots of other goodies.

Great place this forum, I've learned lots so far, hope to grow and give something back to the community. Cheers!

[Prizmatic]

Chris from UK here. Taking early steps into RF circuits and home construction, hobby only, and looking to get a better grasp on wrangling electrons. Followed Dave's tube blog for some time, thanks for having me and providing the forum. All the best from the UK.
Chris.

[Shuggsy]

Hello everyone, Scott from Georgia, USA here. I'm a "formally trained" Electrical Engineer and graduated from college in 2008, but I've found the most I learn is by tinkering, playing arorund, and experimenting.  There has been more than one occasion where I've released some magic electronics smoke... all in the process of learning, of course!

For me, it all started in high school -- I was really into computers all through middle school and I kept asking the question of "how does that work?" Eventually, that led me into the actual electrical construction of a construction of a computer, and here I am. I find nearly every facet of electronics interesting, but the analog side of things really intrigues me.

I come across Dave's EEVblog when I was thinking about getting a Kindle. I stumbled on his Kindle 3 teardown/review and I've been hooked ever since. I figure that now is as good a time as any to quit lurking and hopefully contribute to the community a bit! Keep up the good work Dave and everyone else!

[N TYPE]

Call me ignorant but I cant be bothered reading through the previous 53 pages of introductions before posting my own 
Im Sam, I live in New Zealand Ive been an electrical engineer (electrician) for the last 10 years but have always been interested on electronics..
After stumbling across daves video blog on youtoube it has rekindled my interest in electronics. I plan to do an electronics engineering degree (study from home) starting next year..

Anyways I dont want to carry on and on so I'll leave it there.

[andys electronics]

Hi, I'm Andy from England, i run my own television repair shop, fixing all makes of plasma and lcd tv's.

[catcow1234]

Hi all,

I'm Steve from the UK. I'm a test and repair engineer.

I've been an electronics engineer for as long as I can remember. 

Looking forward to getting to know a few of you.

[croberts]

I'm Chris from the USA. After being away from electronics for a number of years, I'm doing some circuit and PCB design and PIC programming now as a hobby. I'm currently working on a solar powered LED lighting system for my home. I also do a bit of watercolor painting when I have the time. I've enjoyed reading the posts here and I'm happy to join you all as a member.

[eLi_205]

Hi Everybody!

I am Eli, aged 20, from Israel.
I am currently studying Electronics Engeniring, and hopefully in 5 months I'll get my degree 

I am actually divided between two main intrests - Cars (mostly French) and - as you may guess- Electronics, My best fun accures when I get to integrate the two 


Peace & Love!

Eli S.

[brainwash]

Hi there, I'm coming from Eastern Europe but currently [temporarily] located in Germany. I have a former EE education, Bachelor Degree, but it's really that: formal, since I've done high-level programming most of my useful life.
Currently doing some small open hardware/software projects and slowly growing the home lab.

[jalves]

Hello all,

Long time passionate with electronics, now playing more and more with it.

Never to late to learn. I am learning it as a hobby.

[markitzero]

Hello to all I am Randy  from the US I am 26, I am computer and electronics person, Computers is one of my obessions because of me having aspergers. I am with alot of stuff I am a self learner since I have a Hard time reading text books because I can't remember what I read in the textbook

[kxenos]

Hello, I'm Kostas from Greece. I'm an EE and CS and working for the last 13 years on public transportation fare collection systems.

[nadona]

Hello all,
Long time thinking about to learn electronics. Never too late to learn. Finally bought DMM.

Michael from US.

[Jerzy54]

Hi,
My name is Jerzy from Coram USA. I'm new to electronics, but very impress with this site and this forum.
I hope to learn from all the experts here.

[bitwelder]

Hello from a Electronic Engineer borrowed to IT world, as I sometimes describe myself.
I studied EE and practiced it as hobbyist at that time, but then I got job in computer area, so I can count the number of times I used my soldering iron in last 10 years on the legs of a Z80 
Recently I "rediscovered" my hobby and with it also this fantastic EEVblog.

Cheers!

[ElectronicTonic]

Hi, my name is Eric Wasatonic, electrical lab supervisor at Penn State Harrisburg, where I have a huge lab with all kinds of new and old goodies to play with and lots of projects to work on in my spare time. Also completing my master's project in which I investigate differences between spark gap and solid state Tesla coils.

Just spent the entire summer listening to all AmpHours from the beginning and watching most of Dave's videos. Recently got an AmpHour episode 116 shout-out for my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/ElectronicTonic156 (Thanks Chris & Dave!!).

I look forward to discussing and sharing more projects and ideas.

[Jackster]

Jack here from Derby UK.

Electronic Engineer in the making I think


Computer geek is my main job.

[clarksnel]

My name is Clark Snelgrove and I work as a test engineer for Nuvotronics in Radford, VA. We are an R&D company where manufacture using our proprietary Polystrata technology microwave circuits. We make an air dielectric  coaxial line ~500 microns wide and can thus shrink traditional microwave frequency circuits to very small dimensions without suffer the problems of microstrip. We can get insertion losses almost as good as waveguide from a few GHz up to 330 GHz.

I was formally trained as a physicist and spent more than twenty years as an educator. electronics and test have always been interests/hobbies of mine so when I left teaching this has become a nice fit. My biggest challenge is that much of the work that I do I am self taught on since much of the microwave test equipment that I used was introduced after I got my bachelor's degree 27+ years ago. I hope that this forum will help me be in touch with those of you that are more recently trained and more familiar with some of the current test equipment.

thanks

[TerraHertz]

Hello all. I'm a semi-retired electronics and embedded systems designer in Sydney, Australia. Happened upon this interesting forum just now while googling for a manual, found the 'show off your workspace' thread. Can't resist - will post some pics there in a few moment.
In the meantime, a few odds and ends. No, I don't bother maintaining my web space in any rational order. It's mostly just a temporary filespace for passing things to friends.
http://everist.org/pics/hp_racks/
http://everist.org/tales/

[SeanB]

You building a fusion plant in the workshop?

[TerraHertz]

You building a fusion plant in the workshop?

Ha ha ha... I've no idea why you would be thinking that.

[SLJ]

You building a fusion plant in the workshop?

I thought maybe a deep sea submersible... for cats.

[SeanB]

The vacuum chamber with the high voltage feedthrough............

[TerraHertz]

The vacuum chamber with the high voltage feedthrough............

Actually that HV insulator came with the chamber and is far too big for my needs. The top only clears the 'ceiling' by a few inches, and that is wooden flooring for the loft space above. Which is piled up with electronics and intended to become a networking  and CAD lab.
The insulator is just parked there while I think about a better way to do that.
Anyway, vacuum and high voltage (like the 200 KV DC that generator in the background is capable of) is a great way to kill yourself with accidental X-Rays.

I thought maybe a deep sea submersible... for cats.

Hmmm.  My cover story is slightly better than that, but your idea might work as a backup. I do have cats. When the chamber is all back together I should take some photos of cats inside it. Maybe photoshop some fish in on the outside, to look totally convincing.