Hello everyone 🙂
My name is Keri, the vacuum tube witch, geek and activist 🙂
I've been doing electronic stuff since late 1990s / early 2000s. Most of it is audio-related, especially building, repairing and modding guitar and hi-fi tube amps, or some occassional stompbox. Other than that, it's general electronics, electrical engineering, systems/network administration, mechanics and typography / metal type casting. I did some fun digital projects in my life, like my recent vacuum tube tester, some home automation, computer controlling a Monotype composition caster (hot-metal typesetting machine used in the printing industry for a good part of the 20th century) or connecting multiple GoPro Hero3 cameras for synchronized shooting, and I began getting into DCC controlled model railways recently, but my core interest is audio and I can consider myself a semi-professional tech. I'm an autodidact, no formal training, I learned all I know from books, the web and especially from doing stuff myself, getting zapped a few times in my life and gaining superpowers from it 😀. I used to volunteer at a students' radio station where I was doing electronics/maintenance stuff and tried my hand at live sound engineering, but that passed and I normally haven't touched the mixing console other than doing a gig or two later in my life, when I worked for the Book Art Museum in Lodz.
I've got a little electronics lab at home, had it since 2000s when I was in high school. Equipment came and went (I still have a lot of pity about having to sell the OS102 - a Polish copy of some Tektronix tube oscilloscope), skills and knowledge developed. I'm running on a super tight budget, with some vintage test equipment (meters, generators, scopes) and a small stock of vacuum tubes and other parts.
My design and engineering philosophy is hugely inspired by 1950s and 60s professional electronics design. Point-to-point wiring, hand-laced cable harnesses, 19" rack-mount enclosures and all that. I hardly ever make a PCB, and when I do, it's almost always modern stuff.
Personally I'm a 35 year old trans woman on the autism spectrum, living and running her little operation in Gdańsk, Poland. Trying to get by repairing stuff for people as I'm a natural born technical problem solver (interpersonal problems are a completely different story, though I'm seemingly getting better) and taking on challenges is so much fun to me.
My name is Keri, the vacuum tube witch, geek and activist 🙂
I've been doing electronic stuff since late 1990s / early 2000s. Most of it is audio-related, especially building, repairing and modding guitar and hi-fi tube amps, or some occassional stompbox. Other than that, it's general electronics, electrical engineering, systems/network administration, mechanics and typography / metal type casting. I did some fun digital projects in my life, like my recent vacuum tube tester, some home automation, computer controlling a Monotype composition caster (hot-metal typesetting machine used in the printing industry for a good part of the 20th century) or connecting multiple GoPro Hero3 cameras for synchronized shooting, and I began getting into DCC controlled model railways recently, but my core interest is audio and I can consider myself a semi-professional tech. I'm an autodidact, no formal training, I learned all I know from books, the web and especially from doing stuff myself, getting zapped a few times in my life and gaining superpowers from it 😀. I used to volunteer at a students' radio station where I was doing electronics/maintenance stuff and tried my hand at live sound engineering, but that passed and I normally haven't touched the mixing console other than doing a gig or two later in my life, when I worked for the Book Art Museum in Lodz.
I've got a little electronics lab at home, had it since 2000s when I was in high school. Equipment came and went (I still have a lot of pity about having to sell the OS102 - a Polish copy of some Tektronix tube oscilloscope), skills and knowledge developed. I'm running on a super tight budget, with some vintage test equipment (meters, generators, scopes) and a small stock of vacuum tubes and other parts.
My design and engineering philosophy is hugely inspired by 1950s and 60s professional electronics design. Point-to-point wiring, hand-laced cable harnesses, 19" rack-mount enclosures and all that. I hardly ever make a PCB, and when I do, it's almost always modern stuff.
Personally I'm a 35 year old trans woman on the autism spectrum, living and running her little operation in Gdańsk, Poland. Trying to get by repairing stuff for people as I'm a natural born technical problem solver (interpersonal problems are a completely different story, though I'm seemingly getting better) and taking on challenges is so much fun to me.
Hi Keri and welcome to diyAudio! A quite a lot of us don't have any formal training in electronics. It is a very diverse community here 🙂
Tony.
Tony.