New Member, Please introduce yourself

[Wor3d]

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

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 ). 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 - - 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"

Anyway, glad to be here Looking forward to talk with you guys

[ToeJam]

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.

[andrewhannay]

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/Pong-Watch/
Andrew

[electrogeek]

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

[botcrusher]

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.

[pitts8rh]

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 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.

[douardda]

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

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).

David

[AntonSwe]

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!

[gsocker]

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.

[TechieTX]

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. 

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.

[jfasoc]

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.

[cinbody]

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.

[joao]

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.

[scheetz]

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.

[AF6LJ]

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.

[Dave Atom]

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

[fanOfeeDIY]

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.

[cmcollander]

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.

[Blueled]

Hello,

I'm Fred, I am Belgian and I live in Luxembourg!

I make electronics for almost 10 years now.

thanks Eevblog!

[Vgkid]

Welcome fanOfeeDiy, we do 't have to many Japanese members on here.
seems like Akihabara is Japan's nerd central  .

[amsmith525]

I'm Andrew, live in Michigan, and I dabble here and there in electronics, computers, video games, amateur radio, etc etc Hello all!

[Evan.Cornell]

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!

[ali6x944]

I'm Ali...
I gess that's it...

[Kev31779]

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

[zal42]

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!