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[Iceni]

Hello

Registered from the U.K. - for Inspiration and Information.

First involvement was with Apple 2s in 1980, now just repurposing discarded enterprise equipment for enjoyment.

The knowledge available here is tantalising, I hope I can learn and contribute.

Thanks.



Iceni

[hakos]

36 years old, a jack-of-all-trades, occasionally dabbling in amateur electronics, I found the concept of this forum interesting because it offers a wealth of expertise from around the world.


I own a Pickit and a small CH341A.

I sometimes modify video game consoles and repair electronic devices.

[Include]

Hello,

Joined from Netherlands. I’m into electronics and a lot of DIY, also hardware hacking(still newbie). Hoping to not lose my interest to it and stay active for long time.

[MontyL]

Greets to all, glad to be here!

First computer was a PET... yup, brand new and yes, I'm past 65... 😀 Had a VIC-20, still have my original C64 (and a spare!), have owned Model 3 and 4 TRS-80's, a few Tandy 1000's, and a slew of PCs both brand name and self-built. The current machines are multi-cores with no less than 32G of RAM, at least one RAID array each, displaying on no fewer than 2 LCDs. Add in the NAS, printers and scanners, a couple of laptops, and you start to get a feel for the homelab.

6 years NAVY in the submarine force, hauling my bride and ultimately 2 children (grown now with their own offspring) from sub base to sub base.

15 years consumer electronics repair, component level. Factory certified by [pick a brand name, any brand name audio/video manufacturer] and loved every day of it. You can probably imagine how many of them had "cap kits" for different models, more often than not one voltage rating or more above the originals. 🙄

Moved to the local telco as a field service tech for 17 years (for the insurance and retirement), retired in 2018.

Have an awesome day!

[rinsingsun]

Hey there!
Very glad to be here. I'm an old techie from Switzerland.
Trying to repair any kind of laptops for my customers, primarily Lenovo Thinkpad or HP Elitebook.
I hope that this forum will bring me to another level.
Cheers

[Malek Noori]

Nice

[Tomblarom]

Hello I'm looking forward to share knowledge in exchange for knowledge

[Juan Manuel Yacomini]

Hello! Writing from Argentina here. Looking for new things to learn and inprove my work in IT. Really good space!

[Tozyel]

Hi there !

I'm french guy, living next Le Mans, working sometime on the famous 24h Le Mans Circuit... I repair compters since I'm young, my first one was an Amstrad PC 1512. LOL
My english is a bit rude, sorry. Now I'm trying to repair a macbook Pro a1989 that doesn't start, it's first time I'm repairing Macbook, it's more difficult that I've habit on other computers. (for me I mean, I'm not an electronician).

Well, I'll read few posts to understand it and maybe to find the problem to solve it, I hope!

I found your forum from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmm1Q7mnQW4

Have a nice day !

[Toan.ts]

Hello everyone

[Kamil Lisx]

Hello

[CocZamudio]

Hiya folks. Happy to be here!

[Alex Jones 1292]

hello everyone. new here
hoping to find lots of good info

[AKuchen87]

I am from Germany. I sometimes feel the sudden urge to get some broken Apple products off eBay and try to fix them.

I have read here quite a bit and finally I’ve created an account

[onerkilic]

Hello, I am a 66-year-old electrical engineer, joining you from Turkey.

[Zero X]

Hi Guys

Im maksum. I'm Indonesian. I'm 25yo

I hope we can support each other

Thanks

[mick_ros]

Hello folks,

i am mick from germany and i am interested in expanding my knowledge in electronics.

[cajuruassist]

Hey! I'm 29 yo and I have a store in which I repair PCs, notebooks, printers, monitors and smartphones.
I look forward to help the community here.

[pmnlla]

Yeah yeah, brand new forum, totally.

I'm Pom! I dabble in a whole bunch of topics, notably electronics repair & development, photography, sometimes biking and fitness.
I'm from Ontario, Canada.

Started off at the ripe old age of seven years! There was a guy advertising a little coding summer course outside of my school, and I was just barely too young to take it. But my parents convinced him, and it all spiraled from there. From that little program, i learned the very basics of C# and WPF, whoever remembers that old ancient thing now that the greatest UWP is in full swing! (i hate uwp.)

I immigrated to Canada and took up a small interest in retro computers,. but never got too deep to actually buy one. I think i told my music teacher I really wanted a Commodore 128 at the time. In hindsight, I totally see myself shoving a 6502 in one of my circuits soon. Would have been a great start.

More recently, I've picked up planning PCBs! I usually use KiCad for this, tried out Altium and didn't like it. I stick to smaller projects, recently I got some chromebook CCD adapters made, with a built-in hub for both ADB and CCD. Built some grove modules for Sensirion and Bosch sensors, an esp32 devboard for driving e-ink screens, that whole stuff.

Always been a fan of moodding and tinkering - a few months ago I taught myself how to install Picofly chips as well! Now, where to find boardviews....

[altmrrelaxed]

Doing research on Lenovo 10sf ThinkCentre.. Won't complete bios upgrade from level 65 to any next level. Needed to download pdf so I needed an account here. I have already tried al lot of stuff, and this is the next step,