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1 | :Title: Why |
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2 | :Date: 2016-02-20 |
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3 | :Category: About |
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5 | When I am not in front of my laptop doing some software related stuff, |
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6 | I do sometimes find the energy to do things with my own hands... I've |
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7 | enjoyed to hack eletronics since I am 12 or something like that. At 14 |
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8 | I had a scope in my room. I also started to hack my Amstrad CPC-6128 |
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9 | back then. Beginning to write code, first in BASIC, then in Z-80 |
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10 | assembly code. |
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12 | I've never made something really serious in electronics, mostly |
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13 | repairing stuff, built my own Nelson Pass hifi power amplifier, but I |
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14 | finally made my life hacking computers. The discovery of the FOSS |
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15 | movement changed me, and is now an essential part of my life. |
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17 | More recently, I began to play with more substential |
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18 | hardware. Starting with a very small chinese milling machine (a Vario |
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19 | BF16) and a cheap inverter welding machine, I began to learn (mostly |
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20 | by myself) some elements of machining. |
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22 | Then I had the opportunity to acquire and install (thanks to my |
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23 | sister offering me a part of a newly acquired grange to welcome a |
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24 | couple of more serious machines) a few machinist toys I am, very |
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25 | slowly, reconditionning. |
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27 | I'd like to try to write kind-of journal of my experiments with my |
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28 | "grouwn-up toys", being electronics or machinist related. An maybe |
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29 | some other subjects as well, who knows? |
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