Author Topic: New Member, Please introduce yourself (Read 1445841 times)

geekGee · « **Reply #1500 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

Boltar · « **Reply #1501 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*

Gietek · « **Reply #1502 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

Bodgewire · « **Reply #1503 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!

bosummer · « **Reply #1504 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.

allikat · « **Reply #1505 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.

RyanAMT · « **Reply #1506 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.

Dolganoff · « **Reply #1507 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.

1xrtt · « **Reply #1508 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.

Davi · « **Reply #1509 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

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

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

Roboss · « **Reply #1510 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.

bwat · « **Reply #1511 on:** August 02, 2014, 01:17:05 pm »

Quote from: Davi on August 02, 2014, 10:19:34 am

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

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

Davi · « **Reply #1512 on:** August 02, 2014, 03:50:43 pm »

Quote from: bwat on August 02, 2014, 01:17:05 pm

Quote from: Davi on August 02, 2014, 10:19:34 am
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

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

Thanks bwat. Thats certainly something to bare in mind.

DeathTickle · « **Reply #1513 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

) 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

.

Also, I now own a 3D printer which I built from a kit but it isn't working yet.

wyphy · « **Reply #1514 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.

Hootch · « **Reply #1515 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!

Prime73 · « **Reply #1516 on:** August 07, 2014, 07:09:45 pm »

Hello

Welcome to the forum

Bob Scott · « **Reply #1517 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.

OutOfRange · « **Reply #1518 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

What else ? Well, I do have a very weird musical taste

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

Cside · « **Reply #1519 on:** August 12, 2014, 11:30:01 am »

Im Andrew

Im a little crazy, a little ignorant, a little paranoid.

thobo · « **Reply #1520 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

Richardchris · « **Reply #1521 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...

ninjastrike · « **Reply #1522 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!

plus6dbE · « **Reply #1523 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!

KB8CWB · « **Reply #1524 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


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