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pjclarke

Hello to element14 and  all you guys. I have finally got round to writing my first blog for this  site and rather than posting a blog about anyone subject I have decided  to introduce myself.image

 

I live in the UK and have been doing electronics since  I was about 10years old. Electronics was not my first choice of  career however I followed what was my hobby into becoming a full time  job. I’ve worked at a number of places in my time but now work at ebm-papst UK Ltd. Most people have  never heard of them but they are a massive suppliers of fans and Farnell  are just one of thier distributors. I work as an electronics design  engineer designing controllers for our products and get involved in  fully product life cycle. That means everything from writing the  specification, circuit design, PCB layout, Prototyping, Validation  testing and all the way to seeing the first product off the production  line and into the end customer. Its a lot of work and paperwork which I  hate - hay I’m an engineer after all. I want to tinker!

 

The other big part of  my engineering life now includes a online life. How before I start I’m  going to point out that I’m going to comment on and link to other  communities other than element14. We as engineers all know about them so  I’m not going to hide that fact they exist and hopefully element14 will  not censor my blog for linking to them. OK back to my online life. This  started around a year ago when I was invited to Beta test the new RS  Electronics website called DesignSpark. Here I have written a  large number of blogs and reviews on  products. More importantly I have been using my Twitter account

and connecting to  other engineers and making new and exciting contacts like Jeri Ellsworth and more. However I  have now started to spread my wings and followed the advice of others  and decided to not just blog in one place. So in the last month I have  set up my own blog website. I’ve also  had the opportunity to blog on EngineerBlogs which is a collection  of great engineers and again is still new but getting great numbers of  hits.

 

Well that's it for my  first blog an hope you will be back to check out what I have to say. I  hope to post once a month but if you want to follow this and my other  blogs please feel free to follow me on Twitter ! image

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  • Hi Paul,

     

    Welcome to element 14.  As a systems engineer I know that some paperwork is a hassel, but I want to point out that no one else can learn from your efforts if you do not tell anyone about them.  Yes I am crazy, but I have learned the value of documentation, not the mention taking detailed notes during meetings, that has saved my behind more times than I can count.

    As for tinkering, I think we are all addicted to that, it is why we became engineers.

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    Thanks,

    DAB

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  • Hi Paul,

     

    Welcome to element 14.  As a systems engineer I know that some paperwork is a hassel, but I want to point out that no one else can learn from your efforts if you do not tell anyone about them.  Yes I am crazy, but I have learned the value of documentation, not the mention taking detailed notes during meetings, that has saved my behind more times than I can count.

    As for tinkering, I think we are all addicted to that, it is why we became engineers.

    image

    Thanks,

    DAB

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