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Hi Yuri,

Welcome to element 14. I look forward to seeing your participation.

DAB

HI All,

I am a 3d printing enthusiast, maker, teaching programming (software and hardware), fpga and digital design.

Hobbies: astronomy, running, ...

Each year I organize a STEM camp for kids in Belgium (Ingenious Summer Camp).

Hope to see you around!

Kind regards,

Yuri

Hi everyone

I'm Nigel; with a background in Mechanical Engineering - long long ago, I've forgotten everything I thought I knew. (And that wasn't a lot).  Now I know just enough to be dangerous!

I'm looking to put a basic 12v fan temperature controller together and found a likely circuit online : Temperature controlled fan with a 741 op-amp I have a couple of modifications to make, which include driving 2 fans via different temperature sensors and to cut down on the number of wall-warts - a 5v output to power another device (less than 500mA).  Now I can wield a soldering iron & understand the functional requirements. I can even layout a reasonably efficient stripboard circuit, since this is most definitely a one-off.  But I could do with some further words of explanation on the circuit.  Is this right right kind of forum and if so where should I pose the questions?

See I told you I was dangerous!

Cheers.

14elements - nice to meet you and thanks for the awesome intro!

kathryn71, welcome! Check out our STEM Academy area, think you'll find some useful bits!

Hi all, I'm Kathryn Born, I teach CS to student with high functioning autism - (kathrynborn.com/computers-after-school).  I'm interested in the support and seeing curriculum ideas- I already have a Pi in my closet collecting dust. It was a whole door motion sensor kit. I loaded the OS, then got stuck after 2 more hours, took one look at the forum, and gave up. I feel like in the support of Pi, you have to ask: "by "newbie" you mean new to Pi, or new to hardware in general". Sometimes a newbie is often an experienced tech person who is just new to this one particular piece of hardware. But some teachers are real laymen, like me, and need a totally different level of support.

Nice to meet y'all.

K

Hello

Wow, what a Forum from Farnell [already a 'sporadic' customer].

I have been in electronics all my life - since I was 12, playing with it and doing a correspondence course in Italy.

Then I went to higher school and there were no places for Informatics [ouch!] and I had to choose Electronics, which I liked a lot, but want it to combine it with Computing.

Anyway, I got my Diploma in Electronics and already started within the TV Repair area, been a Cameraman [a free-spirit one] in Rome for a short time - I was in search of what to do - still searching!

Worked in various Companies doing a lot of Radio Communications [lost all my skills now on this!]  and then slowly changed field to 'SEA' harbours/shore/etc. Data Acquisition and elaboration - I kept maintenance of Instrumentation etc.

Then got tired and went back to Radio Communications for a couple of years.

Met my British wife and after some years we decided to go to her Land and started a Repair Business in the UK - still here 'surviving' like most of us [I think] - therefore my time has not been dedicated to 'create/invent' and I lost interest in 'pure' Electronics.

During the years I self-learned computing and now mainly do Windows System UN-mucking, Data Recovery [not at hardware level], Repairs on Tablets PCs Laptops and I am getting into mobiles too - mainly Apple - so, I am re-engaging with electronics - my first Love!

So, now using a Microscope [things are getting smaller and I am getting older!] ... and voilà', I am back and hope to make ends meet!

My best bit? I am good at modifying and making things work or at least I used to!

Hey s-fly!  Welcome and thanks for joining us here!  We've got lots of great Arduino content here, and also lots of smarties who can chat about any projects you're working on too!  Something to consider - create a group (can make it open or private) and use it to organize your Hackerspace.   

Hello all!
I've been watching Ben Heck on youtube for a couple months and decided to finally check out the website.
I've taken a few semesters of college studying Computer Science and I took a few classes on Video Production.
I'm interested in learning about the arduino platform to go on and make my own electronics.
My friend and I are trying to start a hackerspace here in our community so I'm sure I'll be utilizing this site a lot in the future.