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