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[rubberdog]

Hello Community,

my name is Rudi, I'm from Austria and living in Vienna. Since 2 Years I'm retired and have now enough time (but not real  ) to dip into the giant world of microcontrollers. The reason is that I'm a member of a model railroad club and we need to upgrade our old fashioned electronic components to a new technic. For this reason I buyed from MikroElektronika a development board together with a C-compiler and now I have to discover a lot of new things  . Recently I ordered a DSO for measuring purposes and want to look what happens on a RS232 or a DCC protocol data flow.

After having a look througt this very interesting forum I have the impression that there is a lot of well knowing guys who may support me in case of any troubles  (and of course if I get more experience I can provide you my knowledge as well).

All the best for you and don't breath in too much soldering smoke 

Rudi

[Martin_bg1]

Hello everybody,
My name is Martin, I live near Sunnybeach in Bulgaria. I love to play with Pics and power electroncs, but I hate big booms  .

[CraigHB]

Hi folks,

Signed on here a couple days ago.  I'm an EE and an electronics hobbyist.  I'm in Reno, Nevada, USA.

[EternityForest]

Hello! 17 years old, 18 in a month, lived in seattle all my life. Going to start college soon!
I have been doing electronics for a few years now, mostly digital, though the circuit i recently built for a robotics startup was all analog. Love your webseries, Dave!

[G7PSK]

Hi I am Nigel G7PSK I came across this site recently when researching for a new portable scope for checking generators which has been an interest of mine since I built my first one out of an old milk float motor when I was 15 I will be 60 in October. I am a radio ham but my passion has always been power the more the better I got hooked when I turned that motor into a 600 amp generator to supply power to my lab (shed)at the bottom of the garden it is marvelous what you can do with 14 plus KW at 24 volt when you are a teenager, car batteries are gone in a flash for a start arc lights are fun too. I love the way Dave presents his topics I especially like the one where he tests the meters with a large bank of power capacitors.

[markedagain]

Hey all,

Im Mark from montreal Canada. im 30 and im a software engineer for a movie streaming website. i started electronics as a hobby a few months ago and im hungry for much more. recently i slowly started to get into microcontrollers and its the coolest thing in the world, my analog skills are soso, im still trying to get most of the basics. ( i just found out this week i should always have a bypass cap on all ics )

anyway look forward to discussing more electronics with everybody.

P.S. Dave you have made yourself an  invaluable asset to the industry, and i applode you for it . keep up the great work, im learning so much watching all your videos, im at episode 100ish. subscribing to your donation to keep you going as long as you can thank you again and keep on inspiring.

[SteveUK]

Steve from the UK here,

Dave's enthusiasm has sucked me back into electronics after about a 20 year gap (a gap full of science and software development).  I've now dusted off all my electronics bits and bobs from my teenage years (with component drawers lovingly labelled with those crappy plastic dymo strips).

All I need now is to find a cheap analog scope. The scopes on ebay in the UK seem to be few and far between and of unknown condition. Pehaps my oscilloscope quest belongs in a different post though

[Sedengr]

Howdy,

I'm a designer of AC induction motors and a hobbyist.  Have been looking at the new things coming out and decided it was time to finish up some languishing projects and see what new things are available to try.

Sedengr

[IC]

Hello to everyone out there. I'm a teacher (not of electronics) but with an interest in Electronics.

I live in south western Sydney, my interests are Photography, Graphic Arts, Woodwork (Boxologist) and of course Electronics.

Being a little older than the young generation it was quite a task to get registered and participate in this site, I suppose I'm still an analog unit in this digital world. Blogs are a whole new world to me, however, sadly my only proficiency is DataBase design ....... I consider myself an expert here, sadly my colleagues would beg to differ.

I'm currently in the process of setting up a workbench, I have decided to cast of all my old gear, most of which is failing me or failed long ago. I have committed to go all new, this has offered a lot of problems to me as I'm really unsure of what gear to purchase. I have already committed to a new GW Power Supply and a Fluke 289. I would appreciate any advice on the following areas ...... Soldering Station (Hakko or Weller or .....), Function Generator & Counter, Bench top MM (four wire) ...... there are just so many out there .....though I like the consistency of GW as I'm committing anew.

I'm open to all suggestions re equipment purchase and value you direction as I believe that if you have had the sincerity to reply you genuinely wish to help me ...... I thank you in advance ..... best wishes to all IC

Any other gear to recommend and contacts for within Australia would be appreciated, thank you.

[Rerouter]

Hello All

My name is Ryan, and I live in Sydney,
I'm an instrumentation apprentice, and specialise in automotive instruments,
mainly a hobbiest, who up to this point has been teetering on the edge of getting boards fabbed.

a happy watcher of this blog, and enjoy daves unique spin
and hoping some time in the future he goes to kit up a function generator / counter

[westfeild]

Hi, i'm a refrigeration/air con engineer from the UK with no formal Electronics education, but was into hobby electronics in the early 80's and now starting to get back into it after being encouraged by the video blog.

[Michael B]

Does anyone actually read all of these? Just in case, here it is.

I stumbled onto Dave's blog as I was researching the internet for a new multimeter. I am still using a (very) old B&K model 2845 that I bought when I was still in school back in the early 80s. Still looks good and works well. I even still have all the original paperwork and box, but it isn't exactly, . . . um, the most useful meter.

Anyhow, I'm not an EE. I went to school to be an Aviation Electronics & Instruments Technician back in the early 80s. I worked as a bench technician for 2 years after school, but then got a job with the commercial airlines. Gradually I forgot most of what I learned. 19 years later I got another job as a bench/field service tech and had to slowly learn again. I did that for about 1-1/2 years, then back to aviation.

I am amazed to watch guys like Dave open a box, look at a pcb and tell what kind of circuit he's looking at without a schematic. I know this comes with time and experience, I wish I had. So, . . . I'm here to learn. Probably won't post much, just lurking and learning.

[Kevin.D]

Hi I'm Kev from England .
I started with my interest in electronics in my mid teens in the early 80's . I got a 200 in 1 electronics set just like Dave's in my teens and spent many many hours  making the circuits in the book .After I finshed with the circuits in the book I soldered a dip socket in place of one of the fixed ic's so I could really extend it's use .  
I still have my 200 in 1  along with my very first serious electronics project "yep the almost obligatory 0 to 30v linear power supply" which I was very proud of .lol

I never went into electronics as a career, it was always a serious  hobby interest  up until
the 90's when when It kinda got left out as I had other interest's .Watching Dave's and others videoblogs on line the last few months has rekindled my interests and
I have started to reread all my old electronics books  again ,Its surprising how much you forget after 20 or so years out of it ,but revising isn't as hard as being a newbie .   I still have all my old lab equipment and drawers and drawers full of components from the late 80's .Looking forward to future blogs Dave .Thanks

[The_Penguin]

Does anyone actually read all of these? Just in case, here it is.

Nope. 

[Michael B]

Does anyone actually read all of these? Just in case, here it is.

Nope. 

Not unless you are really bored! 

[electrickery74]

Does anyone actually read all of these? Just in case, here it is.

Nope. 

sure do i read each one with entusiasim.

[siliconmix]

hi
just a quick introduction .my names bill .it took a while to get my activation email but neva mind i'm here now.

[picolater]

New Member
Name Brian
Canada

I'm a Hobbyist who has been following Dave's Blogs since the early beginning.

I mainly got started in electronics with Pic Micros.
After many years of playing with Pics I put up a website targeting Elec-Hobbyists interested in Pic Micros and PicBasicPro.
I kept the site low keyed as Pic Micros are rather long in the tooth now thanks to Arduino etc.
However, thanks to Dave's blog I decided to bring it forward. I started the process of making it open source and may continue depending on the level of outside interest.

These type of sites are a dime a dozen now and I don't expect it will generate much interest.
Just thought I would share it with you in case there are any newbies interested in PicbasicPro.
http://challenger.byethost9.com/index.htm

Kind Regards,
 Brian



 

[awh4992]

Just joined the forum, but I've been watching Dave's videos for a while.

Anyway, I'm Andy, I'm from NY, USA and I design a lot of my own hardware/embedded software projects when I'm not doing similar stuff at work.  My mirco of choice is a PIC w/ the CCS compiler.

I'm also interested in Linux and getting Linux up and running on small devices.  Altium Designer is by far my favorite schematic capture/layout tool.  I do all my own schematic capture and layouts (used to do that at work for PCBs up to 16 layers, but that got really old).

My blog has information on the projects I've been working on related to Electrical Engineering here:  http://batman.homelinux.com/blog/

-Andy

[blackman]

Hello, Im Matt. From Australia! I'm a sparky(electrician) by trade, I have worked in the Industrial Commercial and Domestic sectors. Im focusing on Industrial work now, its more rewarding. Im also studying Instrumentation as well, as I have the knowledge from my trade but no piece of paper to prove it.

Electronics has been a hobby for many years before I even decided to do it for a trade. I love it!

[nrgeek]

Wow this is a long thread lol .. but I guess I need to make it just a lil bit longer

Ive been reading eevblog for several months .. found it via youtube .. looking for some info on lcd tv ..
Anyway ... I live in Chattanooga, TN USA, been here since 1989, came here via Morgantown, WV my home town for the first 20 or so years .
Im a computer tech / IT manager .. been in the computer biz since the early 90s. I was just a board swapper  for many years .. the chips and bits where a curiosity to me .. but just didnt have the info to delve into board level repairs .. but then around 97 ..  the store I worked for at the time kept getting laptops with broke power connectors.. so I could see this was an area I needed to learn more about.. so with a little digging around on the net.. was much less info back then .. I learned how to become  good at solder work and was turning a good profit fixing broke ac adapters ..this led into more and more digging into board level repairs.. now Im wanting more .. want to do some projects of my own from scratch .. so Im slowly acquiring a lab .. just bought my first scope 100mhz tektronix analog used on ebay 80 bucks.. I have a smd rework hot air gun, several good solder irons, a doz multimeters, esr meter, .. and have been reading all the related books and web sites I can get my hands on .. I was already a electronics junky .. now my wife really will have something to bitch about lol  .. there are some days .. Id like to trade her in on a woman that is geeky as I am and likes to fish too .. if that happened .. Id be dead and in heaven 

[calin]

And I am going to make it even longer.

Hi I am Calin .. geez that sounds like I am @ an AA meeting !! 

Finally I joined the forum after a good while watching Dave's video blog which is just great. I am an IT engineer (yes that is engineer not programmer ) , living in Phoenix, AZ .. which is waaay more sunny that "sunny England" as someone on the thread was saying. Been all over the place so far - Europe/Ireland (there you go sunny England), Canada (frozen & sunny) and now US (sunny indeed .. but too hot sometimes).

I turned to electronics so I don't run completely dumb due to what I am doing @ work and obviously because I really like it!  I work in financial industry - in IT of course - but man !! that can cause some serious brain flatness  

I am really really bad @ programming .. then a bit better at design with numeric circuits and absolutely brilliant when it comes to analog design. Now negate that .. and read in reverse order !!

Joke aside, the info on the forum and the EEV site is just great info for someone who is into this hobby.

See you around !!

[damo]

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

I'm Damo obviously 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.

[dpalme]

Hey there everyone. My name's Dylan, I'm an electrical engineering student here in the states. Been watching the EEVBlog for about a year now and let me tell you, I've learned more from Dave and from taking crap apart than from this damn school.

[g137556s]

Hello everyone!!!

I'm Robert and I'm getting addicted to electronics.  I have been looking around the web trying to learn more and stumbled upon Dave's Eevblog on YouTube and watch it every night.  I have been working with integrating Arduino's with LED lighting and fans for some lighting projects which has got me started.  Anyway, I hope to get to the point where I can design and manufacture my own PCB's soon.  Been fiddling with Eagle.  But if anyone has a better recommendation, let me know!

I am in Houston, Texas, USA