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« on: December 08, 2019, 10:55:03 AM »
I guess I’m a bit of a jack-of-all trades as well. During my young adult phase I also worked at a TV and stereo repair shop - fixing, well, TVs and stereos. Actually, there were VCRs in the mix as well. I fixed many blown solid state amplifiers during those years. Good times!
After graduating college I moved to the city where I started my new life. I got into a band within a couple of years of landing, and made many friends.
I eventually bought a house in 2010- beginning the next phase. Home repair. My very first job was fixing the fence that blew over during a storm during my first year in my house. Lucky for me, my neighbor provided much guidance on rebuilding the fence. Invaluable!
As for coding - I’ve done quite a lot of firmware with Microchip mostly using their c compiler (and sometimes assembler). I’ve done a fair amount of front-end and backend code for webpages - including SQL and mySQL. I like using Python (already installed on macOS!). Recently, I took a job coding some automated test equipment (ATE) - mainly creating the user interface to control and test product.
Oh, yeah, how can I forget this - I designed a point to point radio system using Excel for the frequency planning. This worked extremely well. I started off using Excel’s conditional formatting and quickly moved to their built-in VBA. I wrote the VBA to perform an exhaustive search for the best frequencies to use with the radios I was designing. I needed to meet ETSI specifications (stringent) yet keep cost low. The details are mind numbing at times (why we use computers).
These days - after work - I like to focus on playing out somewhere and/or listening to new songs and chart the piece only using my own ears - that is, without looking at the internet for the answers (or perhaps not so correct answers). Stay agile!