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1 :Title: Why
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2 :Category: About
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3 :Heading: Who am I?
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4 :Subheading: And why this blog?
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5 :author: David Douard
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8 Why
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9 ===
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11 When I am not in front of my laptop doing some software related stuff,
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12 I do sometimes find the energy to do things with my own hands... I've
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13 enjoyed to hack eletronics since I am 12 or something like that. At 14
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14 I had a scope in my room. I also started to hack my Amstrad CPC-6128
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15 back then. Beginning to write code, first in BASIC, then in Z-80
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16 assembly code.
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18 I've never made something really serious in electronics, mostly
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19 repairing stuff, built my own Nelson Pass hifi power amplifier, but I
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20 finally made my life hacking computers. The discovery of the FOSS
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21 movement changed me, and is now an essential part of my life.
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23 More recently, I began to play with more substential
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24 hardware. Starting with a very small chinese milling machine (a Vario
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25 BF16) and a cheap inverter welding machine, I began to learn (mostly
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26 by myself) some elements of machining.
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28 Then I had the opportunity to acquire and install (thanks to my
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29 sister offering me a part of a newly acquired grange to welcome a
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30 couple of more serious machines) a few machinist toys I am, very
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31 slowly, reconditionning.
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33 I'd like to try to write kind-of journal of my experiments with my
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34 "grown-up toys", being electronics or machinist related. And maybe
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35 some other subjects as well, who knows?
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37 Who
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40 My name is David Douard, I live in Paris, France, and work as a software
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41 developer for the `Software Heritage`_ project.
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43 You may contact me on david.douard @ sdfa3.org.
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46 .. _`Software Heritage`: https://softwareheritage.org

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