Just realised that I never formally introduced myself. Trying for the record wall of text here in Intros
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I'm Damo obviously
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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.