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hello; I am ironwood of Irondale, On. Can. Retired mechanic; interested in electronics, have gretch guitar and all tube amp. trying to play well. progress is promising.
 
I am not a geek, not enough technical education for that. I am more a dork with a soldering iron and access to parts, electricity, and a lap-top! I coach middle school football, soccer and track and teach PE. I am revisiting an ancient part of my past; building electronic and mechanical stuff. In the 80's I was a liberal arts major that supervised production of dot matrix printers. I worked in manufacturing for Heathkit (they produced kits for everything from ham radios to tv sets that folks built at home) in the summers when i went to college ('76 - '79) and have built and flown RC planes and helicopters as hobbies. I love doing this, even though I am pretty much a neophyte. I am trying to share the thrill of building stuff (electronic and mechanical; most electronics with 555's and little audio amps) with my students and hope to start a robotics club and teach robotics. I am learning to use the arduino to do stuff and am wanting to share this, also, with my kiddos. I am like a sponge for new learning but seem to live in a state of perpetual saturation. My brain just can't absorb and process all that I am trying to learn!!!!
 

AsstdBin

Joined Jan 31, 2015
21
Resigned from law school my last year as I have absolutely no interest in legal practice and am now managing privately held real estate. Always loved electronics and fixing things. Intrinsic reward to me is understanding something complex and then solving the "equation." I have found an interesting project I am working on (Roomba) that is problematic and would like to understand it more, but the PCB is quite complex. I will be browsing the forum looking to understand better what I am working on.
 
Hi ya all:
Thaelin (thay) here.Been a techie most of my life dabbling in analog, digital, audio and the likes. Computers are my second life, on them all the time. Some times I live there. Currently building a tote able cluster from laptops and one desktop. Have read much of your pages in the past and today read a post from one who is trying to understand how a computer executes instructions. Been there on that so decided to help out.
At the current time researching current phase angle in coils and caps and how it effects wave forms. Glad to join in and will have more as time goes on.
 

iv0live

Joined Feb 1, 2015
4
Hello,

I come from Portugal with a background in IT.
Currently in Germany learning Electronics (and German too) ;)
Like all things tech and have a special place in my heart for open source software and hardware (Linux and Arduino ftw).
Hope to learn much from the forum as from the textbooks I've already downloaded in here.
Sharing of knowledge is one of the best things in the world. Long live this website. :)

Tell me, and I forget. Show me, and I remember. Involve me, and I understand.
(Chinese proverb)
 

Asish PV

Joined Feb 2, 2015
5
I'm a noob in electronics. Know something about something...love to know more about circuits and new things in electronics... Sadly im not a Eng. student.. Im BA English first year. :) from Kerala,India
 

Fieldy

Joined Feb 3, 2015
0
Briefly tell who you are. :p

I'm a senior student studying EE at UC Berkeley, specifically analog circuit design. B)
Hi I am a facilities technician trying to keep up/catch up with the times. I used to do alot of residential wiring and thought, not bad and easy enough then my fulltime job "upgraded" me and i find myself amazed at my earlier niavety....industrial wiring is exceedingly complex. I find it enthralling.
 
I am university student.. with engineering in telecommunication at university of dar es salaam....
I lke 2 share ideas in elctrncs and eltrcal circuits ....so I gt be
 
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