New Member, Please introduce yourself

[kfitch42]

My name is Kevin Fitch. I am a software engineer by training and trade. But, I have recently been bitten by the electronics bug. I haven't done much more than blink an LED with a 555. But I have much bigger plans ... Just need a few more toys (O-scope, LA, ...) before I conquer the world

[R-M-I]

I'm Remi..
29 years old, from Norway. I'm a System Administrator\Network Engineer\technician by training and trade.

I've always been facinated by electronics and always want to know "how it works".
So... I'm basically the kind of guy that "fixes" things that aren't broken (yet), [That's when you start reading the manual right?].

I currently own a Ardunio UNO R3 that I've been using for different projects.
One of them are here -> http://youtu.be/dnCiJrnM_fg?hd=1

I recently also bought a PICKit3 that I will be experimenting with.

Will hopefully be posting some of my modest projects at a later point when I get around to uploading all the pictures and all..

I'm in no way an expert\experienced electronics-guy, but I want to learn and that's basically why I'm here.

-Remi

[valdas]

Hello, my name is Valdas. I am from Lithuania, often you can find me in UK

I work 1/2 of a day as web based program developer for one engineering company (repairing, building, modernizing industrial objects). And 1/2 of a day i work as visual design freelancer.

My first introduction to electronics was ZX Spectrum tare down, actually i was trying to fix it. At a time i was 10,  I think. It was not the best experience for ZX By my 16 i knew what is capacitor, resistor, transistor and diode Few years ago i bought 1 atmega 8 for one project. Finished it and it worked nicely it was code generator. Next i made my own development board with atmega and enc28j60, and it started

Project that i recently made

3 axis CNC 65 cm X 45 cm x 12 cm all made of laser cut steel 10 mm
Underwater lighting projector with with W+RGB leds for adjusting light temperature. All casing is water tight switches made with REED.
Wooden laptop (actually fiberglass laminated with wood)
UV box with timer

now i am working on tiny quad copter (4.5 cm), i just finished designing pcb (2 side, very compact layout). I has 3 axis accelerometer, 3axis gyro, 3axis magnetometer, rf chip and you guest it Atmega for its brains tint 6mm coreless  motors, 300 ma lipo battery, step up dc chip, and some passive components. All component weight 18g. I made a test it can lift from 35g to 45g when motors maxed out, but they get quite hot, and battery drains super quickly

 
 So thats all folks for now

And Dave thumbs up for eevblog

[Zopsi]

Hey guys,

I forgot to formally introduce myself. I'm Bob from California and I'm an Electrical and Computer Engineer. Pretty much all there is to it.

[spyderjacks]

Hello:

This Mike from NJ, software engineer and lifelong fabricator, including electronics.  I was born to "take it apart"... and it's taken a lot of years to be reasonably successful at putting them back together.  Tear-down Tuesdays are in my calendar now!  Thanks Dave for a great vblog and forum.  I've looked at maybe 50% of the vids - this is where I need to hang out!

Cheers.

[SoundBound]

Hello everyone!

My name is SoundBound, aka Rick.  I am a computer electronics technologist out of Canada.  Should have realized I was a techie when I was a kid on the beach and everyone was making sand castles, I was making sand refineries (using various plastic cups and glasses to make storage tanks with sand and using straws etc. to make the pipes that linked them - loved those bendy straws!).  My main hobby is audio equipment, but enjoy computer stuff too.  Mostly analog, turntables, tube amps and preamps etc.  I enjoy modifying audio gear as well as restoring and making my own gear.  Currently several projects on the go.  Right now it's a TT motor speed controller, then I have a tube preamp to build.

Really enjoy the site for new info and methodology.  Thanks !!

[Clifton Harp]

Hello everyone. My name is Clifton Harp. I am 34 yrs old and live in Ohio, United States. I like a good movie, long walks on the beach, and poking dead things with a stick. Haha...but seriously...dead things ...sticks...lol  January 2nd of this year I started attending Devry University's online program for EET. Now, I have always been a hands-on kind of guy. I started working on cars when I was 9 and started making money working on cars just a year later. I never had any decent toys because I tore them all apart to see how they worked. Anyway, back to the subject. I am just getting into the world of electronics and I am having a BLAST! I already have some ideas that i will be trying to work out as I progress through this degree. The great thing is...they provide some decent equipment to start with. If I think about it I will have to post some pics of the trainer pad they supply me with, along with the Textronix TDS 1002B scope and the Fluke 77-4 (yeah I know...not the best, but it's still a decent meter) Not only that but they give me all sorts of components to play around with. mainly passive components but I do have a few logic gates, switches, LED's, and a 7 segment display (single digit only though) Anyway, if you have ay questions for me just shoot me a line and I'll try to get back with them as soon as I can. BTW I might be polling you guys (and girls) for some info and general knowledge stuff so if I ask something that seems a bit amateur-ish remember I am only getting started so be gentle (It's my first time LOL) Nice to meet you all

[cobblers]

Afternoon chaps!

I'm Dave from Sheffield, England. Fairly recent EE graduate. I'm a patent research engineer by day (yes, I know. I'm sorry!) but when I'm not working for the dark side, I'm mostly messing around with cars in some way. I don''t have the best "lab" equipment, but I get by.

[SeanB]

As long as you reject somebody trying to patent the wheel............ again!

[digsys]

Gidday, James here from Melbourne, Australia.
Doing R+D since the late 60s. Pretty much all fields over the years. Preferences are hardware design and firmware (machine code),
dun't like that fancy high level stuff .. like C or D or whatever it's called :-) .. Also do a lot of software, drivers, manufacture and
wash ducks part time. Nice to meechas

[vk6zgo]

Wash ducks??

[Satchmoeddie]

My name is Seth, I live in Phoenix Az, and was an industrial electrician, but do have an AA in EE. I am shy of my BS by some credits. I worked on lots of instrumentation, PLC, the usual 4-20 mA stuff and some fascinating older relay logic stuff in industries that still were using 25 cycle 2 phase power. I have worked on everything from data to cross country transmission lines and power generating stations. I am no EE, but I have been blackening outlets since age 7 with "experiments" and various projects. When I saw my friends father turn the Radio Shack 300 in 1 into 1 3000 in 1 by showing us stuff that was nowhere to be found in the instruction manual, I was hooked. This guy was an EE for Motorloa's GEG division. I will share what I know, and hope to gain some knowledge from the real EEs on this forum. I now build valve guitar amplifiers, effects for guitar, keyboard, bass, etc. I have finally delved into the DSP part of this now. I am cursing Nyquist, Fourier, tracking and timing errors for doing it too!

[WorldPowerLabs]

Hi,

Ben from NJ here.  I'm an EE by training (BSEE, Univ. of Pittsburgh), and I've been interested in electronics since I was about 7 years old.  Most of my work has been in medical device design and repair, although now my work is more in what I'd have to categorize as consumer electronics.  It can be frustrating to deal with the throw-away mentality of consumer products when you've spent almost a decade designing high-reliability, highly-regulated and documented devices.  It's also "interesting" to go around with Chinese vendors who are completely bent on doing things their own (wrong) way!  I have also spent some time working in the automotive restoration / hot rod world.

That's about it...

[Janski]

Hi everybody

I'm Jan, a Test Support and Diag. Technician working for a Contract Electronic Manufacturer in Central Scotland. I've over 35 years in the industry working mainly on telecomms products.

[KAlSi3O8]

Hello everybody,

My name is Mike and I have been an electronics technician for a large equipment manufacturer in the Portland Oregon area for 30 years (recently voluntarily unemployed and looking for work). Stuff I worked on: Spectrum Analyzers, TDRs, Arbitrary Waveform Generators, Logic Analyzers, various TV test equipment. Mostly I did repair, test and calibration, but I also have done some support type jobs (software, ran an engineering lab for a bit, service technician work). Hobby electronics has really changed over the years and I am getting back into it. Dave hooked me with his teardown Tuesdays but am really interested in his new USB power supply too. I need to get my home lab fully equipped. It sound like you people are a great resource for my future projects, and hopefully I can contribute a little too.

[Trickett]

Hi all,

I'm Mike from Kingston, Ontario.  I'm currently in an Instrumentation Engineering Technology program in college, and working as a research assistant in the renewable energy field.  I got bitten by the electronics bug a few years back and have been soaking up as much knowledge as possible since then.  I'm currently playing around with the MSP430 series of micros, and I'm thinking of, at some point trying to make a PID speed controller out of general interest.

[neilrudden]

HI,

I have been a lurker on the forum for a while and have enjoyed watching Dave's videos.

I am interested in micro controllers, energy management and automation.

I have worked in the Telecontrol/SCADA field for the last 15 years.

I am based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Chat soon

Neil

[anotherlin]

Hi everyone,

I already started posting but I didn't introduced myself. Let me correct that.

So I am a hobbyist electronician. My 8 hours a day job is C++ development hence I have pretty extensive experience with computers. I work mostly on server development and system programming. I have no problem with assembly language and I've done some PIC programming for fun. I have a PICKit 3.

However, I am pretty much a noob regarding electronics. I do have some math and physics background from university, but not much else. So I'm currently reading a few books (sedra/smith, and agrawal/lang). It's actually fun to learn new stuffs

Moreover, it's really funny to come from the "virtual world" where 1+1=2 exactly, to the "real world" where resistors are only within 1% or caps within 10%, and all readings have a small percentage of error.

I hope that I can contribute and have fruitfull discussion with this forum

Best regards,

[PWood]

Hi everybody,
  I'm Peter, an EE student at the University of New Orleans.  I love getting to see how everything works, which is why engineering appeals to me.  I am someone who likes to take things apart (and wishes he liked putting things back together as much).  I am also a bike mechanic (it's easier to put it back together if they're paying you to do it!).

[Nimesh Silva]

Hi Dave and guys out there.

I'm Nimesh Silva from Sri Lanka. I'm currently working as an Asst. Engineer in electronics in company in sri lanka after completing my BSc.
I just joined the EEVBlog, but have been watching the "That Crazy Aussie's" youtube videos for a long time. And They are very interesting and found that very informative too.

Wish all the best and keep up the good work. 

[NeilR]

Hi,

I've been a reader and watcher of the forum for some time, a couple of years I would say.

Finding time to reply, with a busy work life is not always easy!  For this reason, and the reason below, my posts may likely be not as frequent as other users, but I hope you'll appreciate my contributions.

I am in the UK and work for a specialist T&M equipment distributor so Dave has done many videos of equipment that we either supply, have supplied or that I see regularly.

I've been in the Electronics industry for 17 years, with the last 15 of those in Sales & Marketing, of either T&M Equipment or Testing and Consulting Services.

[TradieTrev]

G'day!

I'm a fellow Aussie electronics enthusiast and youtube partner. Nearly been about 2 years since I've subscribed Dave's vids. Thought I'd do the logical step & present myself here too

My youtube vids have mostly been aimed for a good laugh, but I feel it's time for a change and I hope to post more technical things.

Don't be shy to say G'day, I like to think I'm very active on all social media platforms. Just not google+ lulz

Cheers,
Trev

[KelleyCo]

HiLo!

I'm Kelley from Aurora/Denver Colorado.  Trying to get into hobby robots to find a suitably interesting left brained activity...stumbled across Dave on YT. Extreme newbie, so be gentle.  I found that I enjoy watching EE videos...can't really explain it. I find them creative in a very structured, rule-based way.  For some reason, that appeals to me.  LOL

Have a lovely day.

Kell

[elektronicks]

Hello,

I'm Razvan from Romania and well.. i've been involved in analog circuitry for quite a while for the sole purpose of
understanding synthesizers. I compose electronic music in my free time and from time to time i take a bunch of
transistors and make them do something.

Cheers

[BadQuantum13]

Hi,

Completed newbie at 47ish, just interested in seeing how things work etc.  Always have questions, but rarely experiment ... I know Dave ... you learn best by doing ;-).  Not there yet.  No Qualifications, and apologies in advance for any "dumb" questions.

Oh yes .. am from the UK.


And I like that the answer to your maths question always seems to be the answer to .. Life the Universe and Everything.