Thats a good way to go.

Congrats on getting KVL and KCL under your belt. They help greatly.

Keep on truckin'.

 

I've been here a while but never introduced myself. I'm charlie.

I slacked in highschool, then worked as a mover, then joined the navy to be a nuclear reactor electrician, failed out of school for that & wound up in school for submarine torpedo & tomahawk weapons launching systems maintenance & operation. That was the first "productive" thing that ever interested me and I did great at it; that's where I got into electronics & electro-mechanical systems. Decided that being on a submarine sucks so I got out and went to work in the oil field as an international field service technician on the newer offshore rig floor machines control systems. Loved that, working on cutting edge stuff, internation travel, great pay, etc. Got married and had to give up the 90% "on the road" job so now I work in a wire & cable production plant as a maintenance technician. my job is ~40% mechanical (troublehooting hydraulics, welding, beating on things, changing oil, etc), 30% electrical (troubleshooting usually a blown fuse, or operator error, or make a PLC change so that an engineer can do what he want outside the machine specs, but every once in a while I get to trash an old DC motor and install a VFD or upgrade an old relay controlled machine to a PLC ... that makes my pants stand out). My hobbies... well not so much anymore.

 

Hi, I am Nick from USA just join this community need your welcome hope that i ll gain so much from here

 

Hi, all.

I've been prowling around here for the last few weeks...figured I'd finally introduce myself.

I own a product development and manufacturing company in Florida, been in business for myself for the last 11 years.

I started electronics as a hobby at about 5 yrs. old. Grandma bought me a crystal set radio for Christmas that I actually managed to assemble (it worked!) and I was hooked ever since.

I was programming Z80 assembly at 9 years old (a TRS-80, fully customized and still have it). Built my first computer at 13.

Worked as a programmer through middle school, and an engineer in high school. Got my BSEE in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Miami in '89 (for some reason, most employers require "parchment" to convince them you know what your talking about).

Been working as a design/development engineer since. I was one of the first adopters of Microchip back in '92 using the PIC16C54. Prior to that, I'd used z80s, 8080s, COPS, 8031s and 8051s and others, but I really saw something in the PIC and dedicated my career to it. I've developed dozens of products, many on the market today, based on PICs. I am a member of the Microchip consultant program (though I am not here to sell any services).

My specialties are sensor design, signal conditioning, microcontrollers, DSP, and low power battery operated stuff. I have 6 published patents and 2 applications on file. I do R&D, product specification, analog/digital hardware & software design, PCBs, 3D modeling, packaging, molds, die casts, LCDs, keypads, artwork...pretty much everything from top to bottom.

I *love* electronics. I'm getting up there in years, and figured maybe its time to give back a little bit and help the younger guys out. Perhaps that is something I can do here?

I have *lots* of tricks that I've developed for the PICs over the years...I can't share everything, but I might sprinkle a little bit here and there. BTW, I program PICs *only* in assembly...I am highly proficient in C and C++, but usually the things I do require *very* fine grain control of timing and instruction cycles. I cannot trust a compiler and someone else's libraries to read my mind and do what I intend.

On the side, I am a political junky of a conservative bent, I train dogs on the weekend (German Shepherds), I love to shoot, and I have a beautiful and smart 4 year old daughter who is starting to follow in my foot steps (she can read her Dr. Seuss books cover to cover already and she knows how to work my wifes iPod better than I do!).

Thanks for having me here.

 

What a difference two towns in Florida can make, A number 1 and a
0.The zero must have a Loosewire.

 

Found this forum by coincidence and like it a lot.

I'm an electronics technician from Germany. I used to repair costumer electronics, but found it quite boring, and nowadays it's not worth it anymore, at least not to earn money.
Later I travelled a lot all over the world to install and repair custom built frequency inverters. Knew my wife in Brazil and stayed there for 6 years, working as an R&D technician with UPS and DC/AC converters.
That was my dream job!!! Well, and then we decided to live in Canada and this is where I am now.

 

Found this forum by coincidence and like it a lot.

I'm an electronics technician from Germany. I used to repair costumer electronics, but found it quite boring, and nowadays it's not worth it anymore, at least not to earn money.
Later I travelled a lot all over the world to install and repair custom built frequency inverters. Knew my wife in Brazil and stayed there for 6 years, working as an R&D technician with UPS and DC/AC converters.
That was my dream job!!! Well, and then we decided to live in Canada and this is where I am now.

A brazilian/german couple living in Canada. Canada is the new America (Land of opportunity), now that America sucks I guess.

 

A brazilian/german couple living in Canada. Canada is the new America (Land of opportunity), now that America sucks I guess.

+ it's much more difficult to immigrate to the US

 

Could someone move Canada to a warmer place? Then, I'd consider moving there.

 

Could someone move Canada to a warmer place? Then, I'd consider moving there.

lived in alberta for a little while. I would move there despite the cold, if it weren't so expensive. and I hear Alberta is the cheaper province.

 

Hi all,

I currently live in the UK, Cambridgeshire to be exact. Although I haven't got much knowledge of electronics, I hope that you guys can teach and help me learn far more than I know at the moment.

This looks like a great forum, full of great guys, so I'm looking forward to bothering you all with pleas of help for my failed projects.

Seriously though, I hope to learn a lot of stuff, and I'm looking forward to being part of the community!

Sparky49

 

Sparky,just monitor off-topic,all the guys come over
to offer there opinion. I am Loosewire,I post alot in
off-topic.Welcome to the Forum we talk a bout many
subjects.We have a lot of fun also.We have a very
active member in the Maldives a Island in the middle
of the south Pacific ocean. You can go my bio and
see me swiming in the Atlantic Ocean,the guys like
to see pictures of curcuits or people.This message
goes out to all.

 

Hello everyone,

I'm a junior double majoring in electrical engineering and computer science (still trying to decide whether I will take the software or hardware route in grad school.) I live in Maine (US) and spend what precious little free time I have hiking and playing designer board games.

I'm looking forward to contributing to the forums (and getting help from the many experienced members here!)


Mike

 

Hey Hello Hi, etc.

I am student of Engg in Electrical and electronics, I like to work in projects but i am very far from studies...
I Live in Earth...
nothing more.

 

@ RRITESH,why not more about the earthling,opression or
do you live in your avartar,a beauiful place that you feal
secure in the bright never,never land.

 

Lets see, I work at Panasonic. I'm married, no children, and looking to make some friends, and have something to do while at work. I've followed the threads in the other sections for some time and learned a great deal. I just thought I would stop by and thank everyone that puts time and thought into posting here.

-W

 

welcome. Norfolk. I left some DNA there. Crashed my motorcycle coming off of 264 onto 64.

 

Hi guys, just joined the forum and looking forward to contribute as well as learn from this wonderful community. I know there is a couple of guys here with over 20 years of experience in electronics, which is quite inspiring! Remember visiting the forum 2 or 3 years ago and seeing these 4 or 5 guys answering and solving every question posted in this forum. I hope to reach that level of skill and knowledge one day....I'm originally from Perú by the way, but now studying electronics here in Sydney at a technical college.

 

Oh no! magnet18 has a clone.
Are you both DerStrom8 brothers?

 

Oh no! magnet18 has a clone.

@n1t0 he's referring to your avatar. We have another member here with the exact same avatar.