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
>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 !
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.
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.
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
It is an epiphone "Custom shop". The build quality is very good on it and it plays really well
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
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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
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.)
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
I'll be around..
take care ..
swer
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.
I'm Dylan, started on electronics about 6 months ago and loving it so far.
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
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!
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.
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.
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!
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
What year and industry are you in, if you don't mind my asking?
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
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
Hi. I'm from the northwest US and occasionally diddle with electronics as a hobby.
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
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.