Hi,
first of all, please excuse my partially bad English 😱
If there's anything I write you simply cannot understand, don't hesitate to tell me
because it is a good opportunity for me to improve my language skills, too 🙂
My name is Stephan and, as mentioned in the title, I'm from Germany and currently
studying electrical engineering at the university of Stuttgart.
When I was a child, I was very interested in "how things work". So many of my toys
didn't survive pretty long in my room because soon I would take them apart to see what's inside 😀
Some years ago, suddenly I fell in love with a piece of glass and metal called "valve" and started to collect them.
As I did not know how to calculate any simple circuit before, this was the real start of my DIY-"career"
because again, I wanted to know how things work (but not by smashing tubes or transistors
to take a look inside 😛) and began to analyze circuits and learn to design my own.
Meanwhile, my focus went from "destruction" to "creation" and so I try to repair any radio, turntable
or amplifier my friends and relatives ask me to. But not only to repair...
Knowing the basics I soon started building HiFi and guitar amps, effect pedals, cloning the famous CA3080 🙂p), etc.
using both transistors and valves and sometimes in combination with another field of interest: microcontrollers.
Once programmed to their task they do their job fine in controlling Nixies, switching the amp's
input selector or decoding IR-remotes' signals, measuring bias currents, ... 😉
When I realized that all this wasn't so complicated at all, I started doing DIY
in other hobbies, too. Building my own guitar amps was fine, but why not build the guitar itself?
Well, not quite exactly the guitar, but its historical predecessors, the lute and the baroque guitar 🙂
And, always been a huge "vintage"-fan, I soon started to collect and repair mechanical watches, with hopefully more to come.
Though this post did cover only a small fraction of my person, I think it reveals one fact about me: I like learning new things.
And that's the main reason I signed up here 😉
But for the reason of good karma, I don't simply want to gain knowledge but I want to share it.
So if there's a question to any subject mentioned above or affiliated to it, feel free to ask me about it 😀
Greetings from Germany,
Stephan
first of all, please excuse my partially bad English 😱
If there's anything I write you simply cannot understand, don't hesitate to tell me
because it is a good opportunity for me to improve my language skills, too 🙂
My name is Stephan and, as mentioned in the title, I'm from Germany and currently
studying electrical engineering at the university of Stuttgart.
When I was a child, I was very interested in "how things work". So many of my toys
didn't survive pretty long in my room because soon I would take them apart to see what's inside 😀
Some years ago, suddenly I fell in love with a piece of glass and metal called "valve" and started to collect them.
As I did not know how to calculate any simple circuit before, this was the real start of my DIY-"career"
because again, I wanted to know how things work (but not by smashing tubes or transistors
to take a look inside 😛) and began to analyze circuits and learn to design my own.
Meanwhile, my focus went from "destruction" to "creation" and so I try to repair any radio, turntable
or amplifier my friends and relatives ask me to. But not only to repair...
Knowing the basics I soon started building HiFi and guitar amps, effect pedals, cloning the famous CA3080 🙂p), etc.
using both transistors and valves and sometimes in combination with another field of interest: microcontrollers.
Once programmed to their task they do their job fine in controlling Nixies, switching the amp's
input selector or decoding IR-remotes' signals, measuring bias currents, ... 😉
When I realized that all this wasn't so complicated at all, I started doing DIY
in other hobbies, too. Building my own guitar amps was fine, but why not build the guitar itself?
Well, not quite exactly the guitar, but its historical predecessors, the lute and the baroque guitar 🙂
And, always been a huge "vintage"-fan, I soon started to collect and repair mechanical watches, with hopefully more to come.
Though this post did cover only a small fraction of my person, I think it reveals one fact about me: I like learning new things.
And that's the main reason I signed up here 😉
But for the reason of good karma, I don't simply want to gain knowledge but I want to share it.
So if there's a question to any subject mentioned above or affiliated to it, feel free to ask me about it 😀
Greetings from Germany,
Stephan
"Welcome" Stephan. I'm a newbie also."your" English is bad 😕 I'm ashamed
to say I don't speak a word of German😱.I admire what you've achieved so far,I am a complete novice,if i can learn a fraction of what you've learned I'll be happy 🙂 I may take you up on that offer to ask you some advice 😉
Cheers
Dean (aka solderburn)
to say I don't speak a word of German😱.I admire what you've achieved so far,I am a complete novice,if i can learn a fraction of what you've learned I'll be happy 🙂 I may take you up on that offer to ask you some advice 😉Cheers
Dean (aka solderburn)
Stephan,
Welcome to the diyAudio.
Your english looks to be better than many that only speak english. I'd expect about 1/2 of members speak english as a 2nd language, and the rest -- like me -- only speak english.
dave
Welcome to the diyAudio.
Your english looks to be better than many that only speak english. I'd expect about 1/2 of members speak english as a 2nd language, and the rest -- like me -- only speak english.
dave
Oh, I didn't see your posts earlier...
@Pano: Thank you, I definitely will 😉
@Solderburn/Dean: Too many of those kind words (though they make me feel better now 😀). I'll try to do my best in order to answer any question arising 🙂
@planet10/Dave: Thanks to you, too 😉 In my opinion, it's not about being a native speaker or speaking/writing "only" this or that language. I just want to be kind of a counter-example for us Germans only talking English like Günther Oettinger or Wolfgang "Staatsbankrott" Schäuble 😀 Herrgott, die sind peinlich...
Even if it takes half an hour plus an OALD to write a posting...
Best regards
@Pano: Thank you, I definitely will 😉
@Solderburn/Dean: Too many of those kind words (though they make me feel better now 😀). I'll try to do my best in order to answer any question arising 🙂
@planet10/Dave: Thanks to you, too 😉 In my opinion, it's not about being a native speaker or speaking/writing "only" this or that language. I just want to be kind of a counter-example for us Germans only talking English like Günther Oettinger or Wolfgang "Staatsbankrott" Schäuble 😀 Herrgott, die sind peinlich...
Even if it takes half an hour plus an OALD to write a posting...
Best regards
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