--- a/content/first.rst Sat Feb 20 23:26:37 2016 +0100 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -:Title: Why -:Date: 2016-02-20 -:Category: About - -When I am not in front of my laptop doing some software related stuff, -I do sometimes find the energy to do things with my own hands... I've -enjoyed to hack eletronics since I am 12 or something like that. At 14 -I had a scope in my room. I also started to hack my Amstrad CPC-6128 -back then. Beginning to write code, first in BASIC, then in Z-80 -assembly code. - -I've never made something really serious in electronics, mostly -repairing stuff, built my own Nelson Pass hifi power amplifier, but I -finally made my life hacking computers. The discovery of the FOSS -movement changed me, and is now an essential part of my life. - -More recently, I began to play with more substential -hardware. Starting with a very small chinese milling machine (a Vario -BF16) and a cheap inverter welding machine, I began to learn (mostly -by myself) some elements of machining. - -Then I had the opportunity to acquire and install (thanks to my -sister offering me a part of a newly acquired grange to welcome a -couple of more serious machines) a few machinist toys I am, very -slowly, reconditionning. - -I'd like to try to write kind-of journal of my experiments with my -"grouwn-up toys", being electronics or machinist related. An maybe -some other subjects as well, who knows? -