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This is an experiment to see if there are many (any?) hands tech. on people out there. I'm interested in discussing and learning about many areas of practical technology and actually making them work for me. I am not talking about out of the box stuff made in china but (relatively) scratch built technical solutions to basic day to day problems or opportunities.
I am an Experimental Physicist by training and have enjoyed working with analog audio electronics (solid state and vacuum tube) for years and am now expanding my efforts into other areas and thought it might be fun to see if anyone else is into actually doing "stuff."
I'm more hardware than software but there is no way around sharpening my software skills which are currently a shallow knowledge of Linux, Unix (Solaris), C and a little Python.
I have a couple development boards for Microchip microcontrollers and they look very interesting and quite capable. Program them in C (or Basic I believe), on board ADC, DAC, lots of I/O and more than fast enough for most simple tasks.
My standard strategy is when i find something that appears to be interesting I start learning...
i'd be interested in hearing about anyone projects.
rt
I am an Experimental Physicist by training and have enjoyed working with analog audio electronics (solid state and vacuum tube) for years and am now expanding my efforts into other areas and thought it might be fun to see if anyone else is into actually doing "stuff."
I'm more hardware than software but there is no way around sharpening my software skills which are currently a shallow knowledge of Linux, Unix (Solaris), C and a little Python.
I have a couple development boards for Microchip microcontrollers and they look very interesting and quite capable. Program them in C (or Basic I believe), on board ADC, DAC, lots of I/O and more than fast enough for most simple tasks.
My standard strategy is when i find something that appears to be interesting I start learning...
i'd be interested in hearing about anyone projects.
rt
