Hello GroupDIY,
Been a lurker for a while now and have finally decided to introduce myself, now take part in conversation, learn a bunch, and hopefully contribute something of value to your community.
Bit about who I am... I've always been fascinated with electronics, audio, and engineering in general, from diapers really. My parents realized this and fostered the passion very early. I built simple ciruits with Capsela before I could wipe my own butt. Then came Erector Set, Knex, and Legos. Anything in my house that had screws was openned up and investigated, broke a lot of things actually haha.
From age 8, I attended a summer program for 3 consectutive summers that had a very foundational EE course. Learned about basic components, how to solder, read schematics, and we built things such as LED flip flop circuits. I was in love with it. Took some piano lessons at those ages as well but for some reason it never really stuck with me. At age 17, I got into electronic music with DAW's and put a lot of energy into it until about the age of 22 when life and responsibilities began to catch up take that energy.
Dropped out of high school at age 16 and started going to work instead, with my father, as an electrician. First working residential, then commercial, and eventually got into one of my local unions doing more state and government projects at 24, industrial type of work.
I am now 32 and still do this. I work for contractors who mainly do projects for MTA (public transit company) in NYC. We do a bit of everything... mains power, signal work, control wiring, bit of fiber, regular branch circuitry, transformer installations, data, etc. Fun thing about transit work is there is something new to learn on every new contract.
Beginning of 2021, I got back into making music, and actually trying to learn to play keyboard. Sometime in the last 6 months I discovered this forum and the community of DIY pro audio and my passion for EE has been reignited! What a wonderful topic. I've since been playing with breadboard circuits and studying a lot about audio signal circuit design and such on my free time.
Well that's where i'm now.
I beleive when arriving to a "party", one shall bring a gift or some type of value. One thing I am an expert at is being an electrician, so other than being a supporting member I'd gladly like to offer advice of any kind in that field to anyone who needs it. In regards to electricity, the electrician trade is far away on the spectrum compared to small circuit design. So anyone, private message me at any time if there's something I could do, i'd love to help.
Well, hello everyone, see you in the threads! Thank you for reading
Been a lurker for a while now and have finally decided to introduce myself, now take part in conversation, learn a bunch, and hopefully contribute something of value to your community.
Bit about who I am... I've always been fascinated with electronics, audio, and engineering in general, from diapers really. My parents realized this and fostered the passion very early. I built simple ciruits with Capsela before I could wipe my own butt. Then came Erector Set, Knex, and Legos. Anything in my house that had screws was openned up and investigated, broke a lot of things actually haha.
From age 8, I attended a summer program for 3 consectutive summers that had a very foundational EE course. Learned about basic components, how to solder, read schematics, and we built things such as LED flip flop circuits. I was in love with it. Took some piano lessons at those ages as well but for some reason it never really stuck with me. At age 17, I got into electronic music with DAW's and put a lot of energy into it until about the age of 22 when life and responsibilities began to catch up take that energy.
Dropped out of high school at age 16 and started going to work instead, with my father, as an electrician. First working residential, then commercial, and eventually got into one of my local unions doing more state and government projects at 24, industrial type of work.
I am now 32 and still do this. I work for contractors who mainly do projects for MTA (public transit company) in NYC. We do a bit of everything... mains power, signal work, control wiring, bit of fiber, regular branch circuitry, transformer installations, data, etc. Fun thing about transit work is there is something new to learn on every new contract.
Beginning of 2021, I got back into making music, and actually trying to learn to play keyboard. Sometime in the last 6 months I discovered this forum and the community of DIY pro audio and my passion for EE has been reignited! What a wonderful topic. I've since been playing with breadboard circuits and studying a lot about audio signal circuit design and such on my free time.
Well that's where i'm now.
I beleive when arriving to a "party", one shall bring a gift or some type of value. One thing I am an expert at is being an electrician, so other than being a supporting member I'd gladly like to offer advice of any kind in that field to anyone who needs it. In regards to electricity, the electrician trade is far away on the spectrum compared to small circuit design. So anyone, private message me at any time if there's something I could do, i'd love to help.
Well, hello everyone, see you in the threads! Thank you for reading
