Hi,
first of all, please excuse my partially bad English :o
If there's anything I write you simply cannot understand, don't hesitate to tell me
because it is a good opportunity for me to improve my language skills, too :)
My name is Stephan and, as mentioned in the title, I'm from Germany and currently
studying electrical engineering at the university of Stuttgart.
When I was a child, I was very interested in "how things work". So many of my toys
didn't survive pretty long in my room because soon I would take them apart to see what's inside :D
Some years ago, suddenly I fell in love with a piece of glass and metal called "valve" and started to collect them.
As I did not know how to calculate any simple circuit before, this was the real start of my DIY-"career"
because again, I wanted to know how things work (but not by smashing tubes or transistors
to take a look inside :p) and began to analyze circuits and learn to design my own.
Meanwhile, my focus went from "destruction" to "creation" and so I try to repair any radio, turntable
or amplifier my friends and relatives ask me to. But not only to repair...
Knowing the basics I soon started building HiFi and guitar amps, effect pedals, cloning the famous CA3080 (:p), etc.
using both transistors and valves and sometimes in combination with another field of interest: microcontrollers.
Once programmed to their task they do their job fine in controlling Nixies, switching the amp's
input selector or decoding IR-remotes' signals, measuring bias currents, ... ;)
When I realized that all this wasn't so complicated at all, I started doing DIY
in other hobbies, too. Building my own guitar amps was fine, but why not build the guitar itself?
Well, not quite exactly the guitar, but its historical predecessors, the lute and the baroque guitar :)
And, always been a huge "vintage"-fan, I soon started to collect and repair mechanical watches, with hopefully more to come.
Though this post did cover only a small fraction of my person, I think it reveals one fact about me: I like learning new things.
And that's the main reason I signed up here ;)
But for the reason of good karma, I don't simply want to gain knowledge but I want to share it.
So if there's a question to any subject mentioned above or affiliated to it, feel free to ask me about it :D
Greetings from Germany,
Stephan
first of all, please excuse my partially bad English :o
If there's anything I write you simply cannot understand, don't hesitate to tell me
because it is a good opportunity for me to improve my language skills, too :)
My name is Stephan and, as mentioned in the title, I'm from Germany and currently
studying electrical engineering at the university of Stuttgart.
When I was a child, I was very interested in "how things work". So many of my toys
didn't survive pretty long in my room because soon I would take them apart to see what's inside :D
Some years ago, suddenly I fell in love with a piece of glass and metal called "valve" and started to collect them.
As I did not know how to calculate any simple circuit before, this was the real start of my DIY-"career"
because again, I wanted to know how things work (but not by smashing tubes or transistors
to take a look inside :p) and began to analyze circuits and learn to design my own.
Meanwhile, my focus went from "destruction" to "creation" and so I try to repair any radio, turntable
or amplifier my friends and relatives ask me to. But not only to repair...
Knowing the basics I soon started building HiFi and guitar amps, effect pedals, cloning the famous CA3080 (:p), etc.
using both transistors and valves and sometimes in combination with another field of interest: microcontrollers.
Once programmed to their task they do their job fine in controlling Nixies, switching the amp's
input selector or decoding IR-remotes' signals, measuring bias currents, ... ;)
When I realized that all this wasn't so complicated at all, I started doing DIY
in other hobbies, too. Building my own guitar amps was fine, but why not build the guitar itself?
Well, not quite exactly the guitar, but its historical predecessors, the lute and the baroque guitar :)
And, always been a huge "vintage"-fan, I soon started to collect and repair mechanical watches, with hopefully more to come.
Though this post did cover only a small fraction of my person, I think it reveals one fact about me: I like learning new things.
And that's the main reason I signed up here ;)
But for the reason of good karma, I don't simply want to gain knowledge but I want to share it.
So if there's a question to any subject mentioned above or affiliated to it, feel free to ask me about it :D
Greetings from Germany,
Stephan