A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
G'Day. I am an engineer who has been into the industry for 30 years... mainframes, analogue and digital electronics design & manufacturing, instrument design, embedded, Labview, C etc. Dave's blogs rock. I am also a Dave.
cheers,
Dave
G'Day. I am an engineer who has been into the industry for 30 years... mainframes, analogue and digital electronics design & manufacturing, instrument design, embedded, Labview, C etc. Dave's blogs rock. I am also a Dave.
cheers,
Dave
Is this some evil experiment ? Is Dave cloning himself ;)
Hi, I'm from Mexico City.
I studied Robotics Engineering and now I'm finishing a Masters in Computing Engineering.
I like the eevblog videos since because they have so many tricks and tips that could come in handy some day. ;D
Hello! My name is Patrik and I'm a recently graduated Robotics Engineer in Sweden. My main subject is electronics and in the robotic company I work in I'm designing a few pcb:s at the moment. I love this blog!
migsantiago: Hello! Nice to see that there are other countries with robotics as master! After I graduated I looked at many different jobs in Sweden but unfortunately all jobs were either work only with electronics or only software. I then started to search for jobs outside Sweden and I found a few that I applied for but I guess that is really hard to get hired in an other country with no working experience. It seemed like the only solution for me were to start my own business so that's what I'm now working on along with one of my classmates and a professor at our school. We are developing a robot but I can't tell you what it is at the moment. I love this job even though I currently don't get any salary.
I hope that answers your question!
Hello!
My name is Rodney, and I am an Electrical/Computer Engineering student at OSU, which is in Oregon, USA. I am a sophomore at my school, and so far I'm most interested in microcontrollers, processor architecture, and programming in general. I have a website that anyone can visit, it's:
http://www.rodneykeeling.com
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Hi
Kiriakos from Volos Greece , industrial electrician ( thats what the paper says ) ;D
plus 20 years repairing electronics , anything other than televisions .. ( I hate them )
I had work from time to time , in many local stores , representatives of major brands ..
So I can now tell that I had work for Panasonic (servicing copiers ) or Zerox as they call them in US , plus fax devices ..... Ricoh (servicing copiers ) .
My first interest years back was FM transmitters , PLL synthesizers Broadband amps and antennas..
later on worked with CB radios , and lastly with VHF repairs in boats.
Unfortunately the life of some one who works with electronics , its not a stable one ...
You have to convert your self ... or better adjust ... at the needs of its period.
I am very proud for my self , I have as we called " a good name " as technician in my location,
and have at list the respect, of my customers and friends..
Found the blog , by looking for info about one old analog Metrawatt multimeter,
found the review of the new Metrawatt ... and I liked a lot the style of the reviewer ... ;D
Electronics are boring for the most people , but our dear reviewer , managed to surprise me pleasantly .
I am Greek , speaking English and German , 41 years old ( this May ) .. with all the hairs in my head ,
and blue eyes .. :D
Thats it, nice meeting you ..
rodneykeeling, i checked you website... its quite nice... i was as enthusiastic as you when i was younger :) but now, since i have a family, a carieer, a hobby, then all those things were long gone. :) nowadays, i try more on getting practical things into reality, for the good of human kind, and i really hate virus makers, spammers etc. i hope you are not one of them ;)
googling the latest exploits, reverse engineering, cracking and patching softwares was a fun thing to do, but now, the "time" really envy me. I dont think i'm going to have enough of it before i come out with something that civilization can appreciate :)
and for zed, some porn :)
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(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o190/kyrrala/strat_after_modding/th_SUNP0001.jpg) (http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o190/kyrrala/strat_after_modding/SUNP0001.jpg)
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o190/kyrrala/LP_Custom/th_DSCF0339.jpg) (http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o190/kyrrala/LP_Custom/DSCF0339.jpg)
And one of my homebrew amps :)
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o190/kyrrala/Teh_cheezy_amp/th_DSCF0231.jpg) (http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o190/kyrrala/Teh_cheezy_amp/DSCF0231.jpg)
I have more but that is for a later post ;)
Fwhorrrrrrrrrrrrr! Suits you sir.
Very nice pics and some lovely axes there. I have wood now ;) lmao
Fwhorrrrrrrrrrrrr! Suits you sir.
Very nice pics and some lovely axes there. I have wood now ;) lmao
Ma'am, not sir, but that is ok :> Figured you would like the pics ;)
Fwhorrrrrrrrrrrrr! Suits you sir.
Very nice pics and some lovely axes there. I have wood now ;) lmao
Ma'am, not sir, but that is ok :> Figured you would like the pics ;)
I'm so long in the tooth that I remember as an apprentice working with and getting a 240V shock from the FRONT terminals of a Philips oscilloscope. I cannot recall exactly what these terminals were for but it was a scope used in the instrumentation dept of the steelworks where I was then working. It may have had something to do with platinum thermocouple junction testing. All I can remember was fiddling around with it looking at Lissajous Figures then "bam!". That was when I got my first electronics safety lesson ....when working with medium/high voltage keep one hand in your pocket!Sounds like some idiot defeated the ground connection and the whole chassis was live, since there normally isn't anything high(ish)-voltage on the front panel.
Hi Guys,
I'm Peter, from Wollongong, Australia (about an hour south of Sydney). I'm an apprentice instrument fitter/calibration and electronics tech for an electricity company. I've always had an interest in Electronics, but I didn't get serious until the last two years of high school.
My main work tends to be in calibration checking instruments- usually small things like multimeters and high voltage detectors, but we also fault-find and repair these devices, plus some more complex ones, down to component level where possible.
I'm trying to get myself reasonably competent with microcontrollers so I can start applying them to our designs- We're sometimes asked design instruments for other staff in our company, and I'd like to increase the level of sophistication we build into these. I'm also pretty keen to work with SMD components, they're clearly where design and construction is going.
I'm hardly an expert in any of this though, so if I say something strange or downright wrong, please set me straight.
Thanks all, I'm looking forward to learning a lot you!
Peter
Wo0t! Another apprentice :)
What year level are you?
Wo0t! Another apprentice :)
What year level are you?
I'm a third year. It's really weird though- I'm one of three instrument fitter apprentices in 250, mostly electricians and linesmen. ...Each and every one of them think I'm mad for liking my office job in the cal lab :P
What year and industry are you in, if you don't mind my asking?
Hi, I'm Simon from NZ. I am a software person professionally. An ex-developer (I got better!) and now in QA and testing. I am a long time electronics tinkerer however and I usually have some mad projects on the go. I joined because I wanted to ask about my multimeter - a Fluke 19. I couldn't find any reviews online for it and the Fluke sites don't mention it. I saw mutterings about this being a disastrous model and was wondering why then I found the question was already answered by Dave here.
Can someone tell me exactly how they did fail? What was the symptom or symptoms? Mine still seems to work even though it is over 10 years old now (bought new from Dick Smith) but now I feel I can't really trust it. Perhaps I should send it to Dave for some, errr, testing!
Thanks!
Simon
Perhaps I should send it to Dave for some, errr, testing!
Thanks!
Simon
i am frank form good old Germany :-)
...
What is your prediction for the future of electrical engineering.
Will be most of the jobs transferred to china or india, etc?
greetz,
frank
"churning"
Do you mean trickery, don't you?
Hello, my name is Kalle and I'm an EE student from Finland with quite a lot of electronics experience prior to starting university. I'm generally interested in all things electronic (including computer stuff, programming etc.). Done some stuff with microcontrollers etc. and I've been especially interested in high voltage/current stuff (but not limited to) which includes tesla coils, other kind of high voltage supplies and induction heaters etc. I'm a pretty typical engineer-kind-of-guy who has lot of project ideas and designs but rarely gets anything finished, I just tend to lose my interest in project after some time (I've noticed this is very common in engineerish -type people). Currently I've been redesigning my induction heater:
(http://www.dgkelectronics.com/storage/electronics/induction_heater/new_design/sw/igbt_bridge4_resize_400x.png) (http://www.dgkelectronics.com/storage/electronics/induction_heater/new_design/sw/igbt_bridge4_resize_1024x.png)
Here is my website: http://www.dgkelectronics.com/ (haven't bothered to add that much stuff there yet) but you can find all kinds of pictures and stuff of my projects in: http://www.dgkelectronics.com/storage/electronics/
Now excuse me but I have to go and study for tomorrows circuit analysis exam... :-X
My name is Chris Gammell.
By day, I work on electrometers, digital multimeters, source meters and picoammeters (DC test equipment).
Hi everyone,
I'm a student in the San Diego, California area. I currently attend a local community college and will be transferring to a university. I would like to major in Computer Engineering or a comparable program (i.e. EECS). UCSD has accepted my transfer application for the fall 2011 semester. I'm thirty years old, definitely not a traditional college student and if you told me a few years ago that I would be doing well in college and accepted to a university I probably would have laughed at you. I'm pretty much just stoked to have found something that I have a real interest in.
Greetings all from Victoria, BC Canada.
I'm a tech school dropout who's delved into just about everything electrical. I am slowly and steadily modifying my environment, so that I may one day realize my ultimate goal -- to live inside a computer.
I'm a tech school dropout who's delved into just about everything electrical. I am slowly and steadily modifying my environment, so that I may one day realize my ultimate goal -- to live inside a computer.another reverse osmosis idea :D where scientists and engineers are currently trying to do the other way around.
While listening to Beatblender station on http://somafm.com (http://somafm.com) site, I've decided to write thing or two about myself ;)Just wanted to say, thumbs up for somafm! I've been listening to groovesalad for about four years nearly nonstop. :D
I'll try and join the list of these replies. I don't think anyone reads these.
Hey Shafri,i'm ok. will be glad if you could locate ur'self (and other newcomers are welcomed too) in My Google Earth (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=1103.0). Cheers ;)
How are you ?
Glad to meet a fellow Malaysian on this forum....
Stanley
hello, I'm Yossi from Israel and electronics is hobby to me for a long time.
Today i'm working on a project which i hope to patent it and maybe do some money of it.
Hi,
My name is David and I'm a student from Czech republic. I was born in 1990.
I am interested in measuring technologies and communication.
Hi I'm Pete.
Electronics is my passion and if you have time visit my site to see cool gadgets that you think fits 'on you.
thanks and have a nice day
electronicspassion.com (http://www.electronicspassion.com/)
Hello fellow EEV users!
. They say a picture is worth a thousand words... Here is my lab in my basement.
Does anyone actually read all of these? Just in case, here it is.
Does anyone actually read all of these? Just in case, here it is.
Nope. :)
sure do i read each one with entusiasim.Does anyone actually read all of these? Just in case, here it is.
Nope. :)
Hi Guys,
My name is Will and I'm originally from Melbourne but now living in Oxford and studying Motorsport Engineering- i.e. Mechanical. (My first career choice and I didn't really get along).
I'm a big fan of Dave's blog which I only discovered a couple of months ago but now check several times a day in case something new has been posted!
I have a website if you are interested with some PIC tutorials (notes taken as I taught myself) and write ups of projects I am working on.
Happy Australia Day! (At least it is here for 6 more hours or so!)
Will
I'm James. I mostly watch the blog on YouTube and randomly comment in there. By day I teach kids ICT, by night I write software and take electronics to bits (http://piku.org.uk). I've been merrily voiding warranties since I was old enough to work out that the insides of gadgets are much more interesting than the outsides. I also collect retro computers.
I used to be an outdoor activity instructor in a past life and used to do rock climbing and the English equivalent of canyoneering, which is a rather cold thing to do in the UK.
My electronics knowledge tends to be functional - I can repair things that go 'pop' (like the PSU in my BBC Micro). One day they'll invent more hours in the day and I'll be able to sit down and spend time learning all the theory too ;-)
Hi all, my name is Filip and I am from Croatia. No formal education in electric/electronics (I am machinist) but electronics is my hobby from early days...
When an unexpected event causes power loss i recuperate the energy stored in the spinning disks ( by using the brushelss three phase motor as generator ) to safely complete a write operationThat's clever.
Another thought was wh@ if one were to incorporate a method of cutting and placing current conducting thread [like th@ availably from adafruit] into, perhaps, a 3D printed board, one might reliably produce small run pcb's with it? placement of smd components combined with current conducting thread might produce a reasonable end product...assuming the right plastic was used { IF there IS a good alternative available...I do not know if currently used plastics would be suitable for a 3Dprinted pcb ::) } then a 3D structural printed circuit unit [sculpture?...appliance?...wh@ever?] might be entirely possible...hmmm
Hi All
Im Pete a spakie with 30 years experience & am looking for the diagram for an Electronics Australia Dual Tracking Power Supply that I built at Tafe 25 years ago when I did electronics as an add on to my trade.
After all these years the Positive side of the supply is at full supply voltage. The Negative side still tracks as it should.
There is a 1 ohm 5 watt resistor in the output side as part of the over current feed back that has failed on the positive rail that I have replaced but the problem must be before the resistor & I need the diagram to get my rusty brain around electronics after too many years of not needing to use it.
Just a little worried about playing with Mains
(since I was always taught it was dangerous).
~Simman
Hello everybody,
I just run into this website and want to take the opportunity to introduce myself.
My name is Chris Scholz, I work as Field Applications Engineer for a large US-based manufacturer of oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers.
Glad to be here , please don't hesitate to contact me for any questions related to electronic time-domain test and measurement issues.
Chris
You building a fusion plant in the workshop?
You building a fusion plant in the workshop?
The vacuum chamber with the high voltage feedthrough............
I thought maybe a deep sea submersible... for cats.
Quote from: SLJI 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.
Link to "EEVblog Main Site" is at the bottom of every page...........
Must be a little cranky tonight, keep getting calls from some unknown number +27793307368 who is adamant I am some bit he met called Thandie. 11 calls now as I am trying to sleep, can't take the hint, the direct telling him he has the wrong number, the ignoring the calls and the "Please Call Me"'s by the dozen from him for the last 2 weeks at all hours of the day and night are getting very irritating.
Link to "EEVblog Main Site" is at the bottom of every page...........
Must be a little cranky tonight, keep getting calls from some unknown number +27793307368 who is adamant I am some bit he met called Thandie. 11 calls now as I am trying to sleep, can't take the hint, the direct telling him he has the wrong number, the ignoring the calls and the "Please Call Me"'s by the dozen from him for the last 2 weeks at all hours of the day and night are getting very irritating.
Few reasons as to why not................ Only calls when inebriated and is looking for cheap sex, and I am not that kind of guy.
Hi, I am Axel from Berlin/Germany and just enjoy Dave's very special way of doing this Blog. I am a computer scientist and much more into photography than electronics, even though Dave managed to finaly make me understand some facts, that I never catched up with at university. So, I feel something like an autumn renaissance of electronics in myself.... *rhubarb*
:-+
Ah, you are the guy who sent Dave the stunning photo calendar! :-+
( P.S. Grüße aus der Pfalz. ;) )
I am K.C. (yes like the Sunshine Band...)
May as well say hi, such is the custom :D
You made 2 posts, and I can read them just fine.
Hi all I'm 18 years old and tomorrow actually, getting my electronics degrees and certificates and graduate! :D I've been studying electronics for about 3 years now in a school and going to start work soon. I love electronics and am a typical geek who likes anything techy.
Besides my electronics interests lies philosophy, music and programming.
Hi all,
I'm Phillip and I live is Sydney. I actually worked in Baulkham Hills for a while, which I think is pretty close to where Dave's lab is....
Anyway I am a software engineer, been doing it for around 20 years. I was into electronics at a younger age for a couple of years and then fell out of it (I really didn't understand what I was doing, just brought kits, built them and said cool..)
I am getting back into it after playing with the Arduino which peaked my interest. Am currently looking to find a good way to learn the theory and put it into practice. So if someone has any tips, that would be appreciated.
I look forward to being a member of this community.
Cheers -
Phillip
PS. I love TheAmpHour although alot of the stuff discussed goes way over my head, but Chris and Dave are very entertaining. It makes the train journey to work every day bearable.
Hi from old Denmark, land of free, snow, rain and some sunshine :)
Hi, I'm Thomas (or equivalent 8) ) from Europe, currently living in Belgium. I'm a design engineer at a instrumentation manufacturer, making industrial/lab grade crap. Dave is an inspiration, I must say. I have an electronics related blog: www.NANDBlog.com (http://www.NANDBlog.com)
Hey kjelt, that workshop look cool, well at least to my eye. my workshop has simple problem: too small table or then i just don't organize it right :D.Thanks, my experience is that no matter how big the table, it always gets (too) full with stuff/projects.
Hey kjelt, that workshop look cool, well at least to my eye. my workshop has simple problem: too small table or then i just don't organize it right :D.Thanks, my experience is that no matter how big the table, it always gets (too) full with stuff/projects.
Electronics is both a hobby and a component of my studies. ... and Liechtenauer fencing. Some of these are more applicable to electronics than others, ...
Hi Guys,
My Name ist Marco Iam 39 years old and i live in Bonn (Germany).
Iam working in a little Factory as Chemical Technican Assistent.
there's not much love for Americans around these's parts. just keep a thick skin
Welcome to a pretty good site, altho there's not much love for Americans around these's parts. just keep a thick skin and enjoy it for what it is.
Plus Dave makes Fantastic videos, as he's a natural entertainer. :clap:
... altho there's not much love for Americans around these's parts ...Completely untrue ... maybe you're just easier to upset :-) Aussies will "pick on" anyone, even ourselves.
Quote from: BennyBoy... altho there's not much love for Americans around these's parts ...Completely untrue ... maybe you're just easier to upset :-) Aussies will "pick on" anyone, even ourselves.
A forum has it's own life, no matter in what country it resides.
... Does anyone really watch this thread...? ...Nope .... oops ... DOH
Hello all. (Does anyone really watch this thread...?)
Hi all,
I'm David, a software developer (can't call myself an engineer, no degree).
Ever since I had a C64 and looked around inside it I wanted to be able to understand what the bits did. From assembly language up it's never been a problem but the inner workings of hardware remained mysterious.
My current projects are:
- A Z80 micro. Still playing around with a debugging board for it using an Arduino Nano clone as a sort of supervisor. Now having to get clever due to lack of I/O pins!
- Using Pololu Wixels to make model trains RF remote controlled. Got a basic version going.
- Servo control and electronic interlocking for model train turnouts.
- Making a tank for the kids using Tamiya chassis/tracks/gearbox and a Wixel. The turrent will use a stepper motor and a small red laser.
Analogue electronics is beyond me, I just don't get it. But the digital stuff seems understandable so that's where I'm playing.
I'm quite enjoying the videos and the blog. As my wife says, "you're watching your favourite noisy person again" if EEVBlog is on the Apple TV.
Regards,
David.
Hi dajt, I'm also a former 8-bit assembly hacker.
You'll be into analog soon enough ;-)
Hi dajt, I'm also a former 8-bit assembly hacker.
You'll be into analog soon enough ;-)
Hi madshaman,
What micro did you have? I hope the analogue stuff sinks in eventually, but right now even something like an RC circuit baffles me. Sad, I know.
Hi Everybody,
I always try to wear a smile and joke around. I like to get informative ideas and I like the business of Electronics. I am happy to provide you the valuable services & products. Anything else you want to know, you can ask me without any hesitation. Thanks
Hi there
I am Joern from Germany and live next to Hamburg . I am electrician since 1991 and found the multimeter review from Dave at Youtube . When I looked at his blog I found many many interesting stuff for myself . I am really interesting in electronics and I am going to built up an electronics lab . Some stuff still is missing but I am sure that I will find it in a couple of time for a good prize , lots of stuff is really overprized here in Germany so I need some patience to make it .
My plan is to study a btec through ICS in electronic engineering.You better read this:
http://www.icslearn.co.uk/distance-learning-courses/btec-level-3-certificate-in-electronic-engineering.aspx (http://www.icslearn.co.uk/distance-learning-courses/btec-level-3-certificate-in-electronic-engineering.aspx)
My plan is to study a btec through ICS in electronic engineering.You better read this:
http://www.icslearn.co.uk/distance-learning-courses/btec-level-3-certificate-in-electronic-engineering.aspx (http://www.icslearn.co.uk/distance-learning-courses/btec-level-3-certificate-in-electronic-engineering.aspx)
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/warning-do-not-get-a-qualification-with-ics-learn-in-the-uk-(btec-l3)/msg486201/#msg48620 (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/warning-do-not-get-a-qualification-with-ics-learn-in-the-uk-(btec-l3)/msg486201/#msg48620)
I noticed a mention of Electronics Today International Today.
There appears to be a lot of misunderstanding of how it started etc.
I founded the magazine in April 1971 in Australia with the intent from the start of it becoming International. We got the UK one going six months later. The others followed.
If anyone is interested I can tell most of what happened up until my departure in 1982.
Collyn Rivers
(My website is www.caravanandmotorhomebooks.com (http://www.caravanandmotorhomebooks.com))
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Hello,
My name is Miki and my interest in electronics is related to music as well as power supplies and inverters. I have built several standard H supplies as well as my own record lathe. I wanted one but could not afford one so I made it from a page scanner (for the lathe arm), car audio amplifier and cassette player.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5xjY9jZNms# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5xjY9jZNms#)
Im 12 and i LOOOOVE ELETRONICS I LOVEE BUILDING STUFF I LUVV SOLDERING STUFFZ I LUV EEVBLOG!!!!!!!1111111oneoneone
I'm from Holland and have a really rough period behind me where i have been homeless due to errors of my "municipality" (translated it, don't know if that's the right word actually dutch:"Gemeente") and them taking a while to get me and my family back to normal civilization. I lost allot of my old stuffs, friends, and my old school had been lost in the process, and that's why i am building up my live again from scratch.
PS: language is my worst side, sorry :P
Hello everybody, I love comic sans! xd
You might be able to guess my age by hearing my first computer was a Timex/Sinclair zx81. Thing used to overheat, hated the membrane keyboard, but learned a lot. Still have it.
Started to play with arduinos this year to learn some basic electronics.
tim
oh yeh forgot to say GO the mighty WEST COAST EAGLES...;)
A multitester I bought on eBay. It tests transistors, tells you the pinup of b-c-e, hfe, conducting-voltage, capacity of caps, their esr, resistances, diodes, regulators, misfits, etc. For 13$,this is my most used and valued instrument. 😊
I can read the your windows XP license key on that image.
Probably you don't care, but I thought I'll mention it.
Also those LED bulbs look like 80 proof whiskey, but with winter coming it's either that or vodka :-+
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(...), to which I replied simply (after having recently watched a new movie called 'Top Gun'), that I wanted to work on the F-14 Tomcat. (...)
Yeah, it's a really nice one :)(...), to which I replied simply (after having recently watched a new movie called 'Top Gun'), that I wanted to work on the F-14 Tomcat. (...)
Congrats on the very nice and neat lab!
Hi everyone! Nice to find an active forum with like-minded people!
I'm a 24 year old electrician, dad to be (~ 1week!) and all around electronics enthusiast. Working in my trade has made me want to understand more about electricity, and i figure the best way to learn is by taking things down to a smaller scale.
I'm currently learning out of "The Art of Electronics" and supplementing with "Practical Electronics for Inventors" when i don't understand a concept from the former. So far, they've been a great learning duo!
I have a small lab set up with basic components, breadboard and a Fluke 87-V with a 116 as my backup. I'm trying to do labs while learning out of books to really cement the key concepts.
Looking forward to meeting all you fine people!
Harlan King.
Yeah, it really does seem like an active community geared towards helping people out! That's refreshing..Hi everyone! Nice to find an active forum with like-minded people!
I'm a 24 year old electrician, dad to be (~ 1week!) and all around electronics enthusiast. Working in my trade has made me want to understand more about electricity, and i figure the best way to learn is by taking things down to a smaller scale.
I'm currently learning out of "The Art of Electronics" and supplementing with "Practical Electronics for Inventors" when i don't understand a concept from the former. So far, they've been a great learning duo!
I have a small lab set up with basic components, breadboard and a Fluke 87-V with a 116 as my backup. I'm trying to do labs while learning out of books to really cement the key concepts.
Looking forward to meeting all you fine people!
Harlan King.
Welcome. This is a great place to share ideas, get help, and generally discuss.
I love my copy of Art of Electronics and refer to it frequently. With that said, I would likely have been baffled by it if it was my first book. What type of things are you hoping to accomplish as you learn electronics? Repairs? Designs? Analog? Digital? All of the above?
The reason I ask is because I have always been interested in electronics and started building kits and reading books when I was about 8. I didn't really learn anything very useful until I picked an interest and went after it until it worked. Once I got through one small-ish project, the flood gates were opened. I had learned how to learn. Now, when I think of a project, I don't need to know how I will do it, I only need to know that I can learn to do it.
I bake bread and cookies. Nice to meet you all.Me too.
I've definitely subscribed to the "Take it apart and apologize" philosophy since I was a kid.
That's the driving force for me to learn electronics -- if I broke it, either fix it or get my ass "fixed" by my parents.
@Vgkid I'm from King William County. That's about 30 miles NE of Richmond.i'm about 60 miles south of Richmond...
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ECPI. I graduate (hopefully) in late 2017. I went to high school (back in the dark ages...late 90's) in Newport News.@Vgkid I'm from King William County. That's about 30 miles NE of Richmond.i'm about 60 miles south of Richmond...
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Where did you go to school?
ECPI. I graduate (hopefully) in late 2017. I went to high school (back in the dark ages...late 90's) in Newport News.Small world, I live in Smithfield VA.I earned my AS from TCC(Portsmouth)/TNCC(Hampton)(very long story), and am going to ODU(Norfolk) for my BSEET in the fall.
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Hi
Found your board the other day when I was looking to buy a scope. Have a Tektronix 547 which has stopped working.
By trade I was an industrial mechanic, welder and electrician. Now I am an Oracle Programmer.
For fun I work on stuff like car restoration and pinball machines, old EMs and Solid State but not very knowlegable in electronics.
My younger son is to turn 14 next week and I have gotten him a raspberry pi 3 to get him started playing with electronics and programming.
My oldest son is an Organ performance major and loves old keboards. He buys em broke and expects me to fix em.
So far, a burton harpsichord with structual problems, Baldwin 635 church organ which has broken again, a rhodes stage 73 mark 2 which I had to rewind over 50 of the pickups, a yamaha CP70B with some of the action broken and a bunch of missing metal parts to make and now the newest, a Korg BX3 from 1980 with 1 manual not working.
I need a scope now to work on the Korg and the Baldwin and was looking at the Rigol DS1054Z.
Thanks again for all the info on this board escpecially the references for beginner in electronics.
Seems like a friendly place.
Hi
My names Simon, I'm an electronic/software enginner in Hertfordshire in the UK. I first encounered Dave tearing down the worlds most expensive hard disk. I looked in occasionally after that and then gradually got sucked in so I thought it was about time I joined the forum.
I graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1987 and amongst others I have worked for Stag Programmers, Artimi on Wireless USB, and an electronics consulatncy. I am now self employed the same kind of things.
Sadly I also do this as a hobby, although I do actually do other things but this seems to be mostly dog training at the moment.
I now mostly do embedded software having leared from the very best while at Artimi, but I still dabble in electronics from time to time.
Simon
I'm also an avid Formula 1 fan. Are there any Formula 1 fans out there?
Hello all -
I'm a hobbyist, interested in making and repairing gadgets. Always trying not to let the magic smoke escape. :)
Looking forward to learning.
Kind regards.
Hi,Welcome.
I am Matti from Helsinki, Finland. I have been working on IT field for a long time and tittle system architect/analyst probably describes current day job best (mostly Unix + DB stuff).
I am not EE so electronics is just a hobby for me but I am really hacker/maker (and science junkie) at heart. I started first "take it apart" projects in electronics when I was just a toddler ... and long before learning how to actually put those parts back together. Since then I have been building and experimenting with all kinds thingamajigs and doohickeys, which usually have something to do with radios, audio or computers.
I don't remember how or when I first heard about EEVblog but it must have happened many years ago. I have watched many of Dave's excellent videos and followed some forums but now I finally decided to shape up and actually register.
Regards,
Matti
thingamajigs and doohickeys
Hi, my name is Ronald.
I have been fascinated by electronics since i was a kid. Now I work in a large hospital, where i fix and service all "machines that go Beep Beep" :-BROKE
Packing plant: Meat or boxes?
Forgot to quote you. Closest paper plant was International PaperPacking plant: Meat or boxes?Assuming that you are talking to me. A packaging plant for making boxes. I used to run a hand-fed flat bed die cut for about 7 of those 10 years.
Hey everybody.
I am just a person who just loves to fix stuff or learn how it works. Just recently I worked up the courage to start building my own electronics from eBay kits and now learning how to do it from scratch. Only thing left to do is stop being so fearful of the magic blue smoke especially from mains powered projects.
Hello from Michigan Tech! 1st year Computer Engineering student and complete retrocomputing nerd here.
Repairing 1970s and 1960s discrete logic processors is my definition of fun... mostly so when schematics are present. Who needs a logic analyzer when you have vintage HP logic probes?
Greetings. I hope you brought your towel ? 😀
Edit: Also my nick of course stands for Arthur Dent which is also of course not my real name.
Best regards
Mikael
I was sure that they were on Amazon, now I cannot locate them. Does anyone have the Amazon link to the packet of fuses that Dave sells for this DMM?Maybe you meant to look on ebay?
Thanks
Russ
Am also very interested in home automation and am playing with HA and SmartThings.
Typical forum always has a tread on introducing members. ;D ;DHello. Norman from Blacksburg Va. Just an old time CB audio gear repair hobbyist. Still learning in my retired state. Not looking to work on new digital systems. Thanks
Hello from Malaysia. I am currently studying in Sunway Monash University Campus in Electrical & Computing System Engineering (2nd year). I got a bit bored by the typical theoretical lecture and wanted to buy some lab instrument for the practical side. I recently bought PICkit 3, fluke 289/FVF, LCR meter TH2821, some soldering tools and breadboards. I am currently building my own linear power supply for my micro-controller and looking forward to start learning micro-controller myself. ;)
Hi my name is Christian, I am a freshman at Tennessee State University majoring mechanical engineer major. I am really excited to learn as much as I can about all types of engineering.
Hi All, I am bob from the usa and just happy to be here!
Hello everyone! My name is Wendy, and I've worked at Harwin for 23 and a half years - the first nine in our Design Team. I have a BEng in Manufacturing Engineering, and a crazy-good memory for all the designs and projects that have passed through my hands here at Harwin. I designed or worked on a fair number of our standard products, and still keep an eye on Design ;D .Nice to see another industry rep being helpful of this forum!
These days, I'm the main Technical Support contact - you have a question on Harwin connectors and hardware, I'm the one you'll be talking to in Europe. I'm also responsible for all the technical stuff on our website. Any questions, let me know, I'm always happy to help!
Hi everyone. I'm a writer writing about different trends in technology and personal development. I'm currently a technical writer & editor at Engineer Warehouse. Glad to be here and I hope to be of help to some of you. :)
Range of skills for:
- Reading, interpretation and implementation of schemes and / or drawings of analogue and digital electronic circuits, including books and technical manuals for electronic components and systems used in command and control equipment;
- Perform installation, repair and maintenance of modules or electronic equipment used in the command and control of industrial equipment, using tools and measuring instruments and test appropriate;
- Carrying out maintenance and repair of digital equipment and / or IT systems, as well as test the operation of industrial equipment (total or partial).
Hello,
My name is Andrew and I live in the centre of England. I've been meddling in electronics for over 40 years both professionally and as a hobby. I've worked in the telecommunication and computer industries. I'm currently clearing out the junk, rearranging the test benches and updating some of my test gear in my workshop room. It's amazing what junk you accumulate over the years. :)
Hello,
My name is Andrew and I live in the centre of England. I've been meddling in electronics for over 40 years both professionally and as a hobby. I've worked in the telecommunication and computer industries. I'm currently clearing out the junk, rearranging the test benches and updating some of my test gear in my workshop room. It's amazing what junk you accumulate over the years. :)
North East guy here... and my intro largely sounds like yours, ex-Telecoms, and everything else. Greetings from up and to the left of ya :-) (Waves towards the center)
Typical forum always has a tread on introducing members. ;D ;DWTFF
Hello from Malaysia. I am currently studying in Sunway Monash University Campus in Electrical & Computing System Engineering (2nd year). I got a bit bored by the typical theoretical lecture and wanted to buy some lab instrument for the practical side. I recently bought PICkit 3, fluke 289/FVF, LCR meter TH2821, some soldering tools and breadboards. I am currently building my own linear power supply for my micro-controller and looking forward to start learning micro-controller myself. ;)
Hi everyone..i'm new :)Can you add something more about yourself. This thread was to understand people and get to know their background and general interests.
Hi there everyone!im not hongkonger,but i support you!
i'm from Hong Kong, this forum is so comprehensive and i can learn a lot from here!
u might watched the news about the mess in hong kong these few weeks.
thank you for the guys who support the HongKonger
Looking forward for more discussion!
Je suis intéressé pour l'achat d'un oscilloscope
I am interested for the purchase of an oscilloscope. And it is by searching information about those items that I realized that we could "hack" certain models to upgrade additional options ! :-+ :D
What is interesting for restricted budgets and which opens access to some top of ranges...
Hi everyone,
Another new member saying hello. In my fifties, but I've had an interest in electronics my whole life. My uncle Marcel can attest to that: I took apart his cassette player when I was seven or eight. I can't recall if I put it back together, though. That would have been about the same time I learned why a capacitor was called a capacitor- ouch! I look forward to learning from the gurus on the forum.
Hi everyone,
Another new member saying hello. In my fifties, but I've had an interest in electronics my whole life. My uncle Marcel can attest to that: I took apart his cassette player when I was seven or eight. I can't recall if I put it back together, though. That would have been about the same time I learned why a capacitor was called a capacitor- ouch! I look forward to learning from the gurus on the forum.
Sounds like what I did in my teens.
What do you do with electronics these days?
Hello Everyone!Neat old school device, love it!
I'm watching EEVblog for serval years. So I thought it was time to look at the forum. I used to be electronics hobbiest, and then I turn to computers.
Gradually, however, I go back to the beginning and so I started again with Arduino and recently also ESP and home automation.
I am from the Czech Republic and currently I work as an IT specialist. At one time I also programmed a PLC, which was quite fun, especially finding the right sequences for running a complicated machine.
I think I'd send my dumpster find, but the postage seems pretty expensive to me.
What do you think? Send it?
Paul
But I have one pressing questions I could use some help with..
Is there an easy way to keep track of conversations you are a part of? Right now, if I don't recall the category I'm posting in.. I forget to go back and see if anyone had anything new to say... I must be missing something since this seems really important.
Best,
A
Greetings to all fellow EEV bloggers. I've known about EEVblog for years but never quite got round to joining until now.Ohhhh, I like the sound of those two charities, will have to viist their sites and find out more, thanks for the links and details about them.
I'm almost retired from professional electronics but I'm active in vintage stuff. Member of the BVWS (British Vintage Wireless Society) for many years and a founder of the Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group (BECG). www.becg.org.uk (http://www.becg.org.uk) We have applied to become a registered charity.
I raise money for the British Vintage Wireless and TV Museum (Dulwich, South London. Another charity) and the BECG. As such, I may want to flog odd (very odd!) stuff here from time to time. I've got a pile of NOS vintage bipolar PROMs to sort out at the moment.
Some of you may recognise my "ppppenguin" name from other forums. Some may even have had the misfortune of meeting me in person:) I'll see if I can get my animated penguin avatar to work here.
Hi I am David (Sapo),Welcome aboard Dr David. ;)
My background is medical, and hobbyist electronics; however as a senior lecturer (I am pretty long in the tooth) I had the opportunity to design biopotential amplifiers (EEG not as easy as it looks in a noisy environment, try measuring microvolt signals when the surgeon using diathermy/cautery, is applying hundreds of volts to fry your signal source), "pain machines" a form of high voltage constant current device (with sample hold for measuring peak current) used on rat tails and human pain threshold experiments, automated experiments using microcontrollers, and mass spectrometer interfaces (bringing 70/80's tech into the 90/00's.
I thank Horowitz & Hill for my education, plus all the technicians and fellow academics I have worked with (No formal electronics education!).
This is a great blog I hope to learn from all your experience.
Thanks
Hi everbody, I am Joshua from Indonesia. I am a hobbyist. I've been reading this forum for some time now, but only signed up just now.Welcome to eev family! We're glad to have you on board.
Hello from Greece. My name is Mario i'm Electronics Eng. but i work as a Technician (here in Greece the things are difficult) over 4years and i repair usually boards from consuming devices like washing machines, refrigerators, air conditions and some times cellphones, pc, tablets, etc. I start as enthusiast at the age of 7? (cannot remember) when i made my first circuit.
Hi from the south of the Netherlands, background in aviation, ict (unix/linux) and currently embedded engineer.
Fond of fpga's, microcontrollers, dsp, sdr and playing a whole bunch of musical instruments.
Being a licenced ham on this forum is probarly common.
Hello to the EEVBlog community. I'm the FNG here, Im located in Arizona and I'm an Aircraft Mechanic with a love of electronics. I live for avionic issues on my planes. Anyway I have a question for anyone who can help me. I have a mini electronics lab at my home all with used equipment but fully functional, I have an Agilent 54622a oscilloscope and a Fluke 8845a DMM. The DMM is what brings me here, I want to replace the display as its brightness is poor and its very burnt in. As i said all my gear is old and very used but functional and accurate. So is there a new display out there I can buy and install? Also do you guy's have any recommendations of other parts I should replace in my Fluke, I figure since i'm going for a deep dive I might as well do as much as I can to give it a new lease on life.Welcome to the forum.
Thanks everyone for your help.
Hi. electronics student. Saying hi but also testing posting since it seems I'm unable to create new thread.Welcome.
hiWelcome to the forum.
this forum act very weak despite it's universality, it has no room and way to resolve users problems and all of the pages translate automatically for me despite i don't want this, i'm so sorry why such a site should have such this defects
A freaking limey and a fan of SWTPC? :)
I had an MC6802 (with 128 bytes of RAM).
Why would you need any more?
Freaking Limeys created 'Murica. :)Actually, they just shipped out all their religious loonies. :)
Hello everyone!Welcome aboard.
I'm Michal, been lurking here for a longer while - had an account under this name since 2017 but it got deleted at some point due to inactivity I guess ::)
Back then I wanted to become a TV repair-technician.Some of us are old enough to have been, complete with tube caddy!
Back then I wanted to become a TV repair-technician.Some of us are old enough to have been, complete with tube caddy!
Hello I am Joris from the Netherlands some call it Holland.I need my head examined. Can you help?
I 'm a medical elektronici engineer, you know reparing CT-scanners, MRI, Echo machines, X-ray machine, operating equpment. All high tech devices
Unfortunately, my English isn't that good, please don't be mad at me, I wasn't paying attention in school :=\
Hello,Welcome to the forum.
I am new here. I want tosay hello to everybody. My name is Zbigniew, that is very popular Polish name (see Zbigniew Brzezinski). I was born in Poland, but for last 40 years I am living in the US. I am EE from AGH in Krakow. Recently retired. I read this blog for some time but recently I will need to ask some questions about my new Siglent SDS1104X-E which I bought as a replacement for my Tektronix 2236A lost in the house fire.