DIY Hobby Electronics

The world of diy hobby electronics has come a long way since the days of building circuits with a soldering iron, a handful of nails and a block of scrap wood. Now you have the luxury of using clean and tidy solderless breadboards that make circuit building fast and easy to complete. They avoid you ending up with the 3D "rats nest" of wires and components that so many of my builds would finish up as. More...

I love tools. I like to feel that I always have the right one for the job and I treasure the set that I've built up over the years. But starting out in electronics does not have to be expensive. You can start with just a few inexpensive tools and build up from there. The essential tools that I believe that you must have are a pair of wire cutters and a small screwdriver. A pair of long nose pliers will come in very handy also. These tools can be bought very cheaply. More...

I thought that I would kick off this new web site with a brief history of my career right from the basic electronics engineering construction kit that I was given one Christmas 50 years ago. When I look back at those beginnings I find that a lot has changed but on the other hand, so much is still the same.

The world has seen amazing inventions in this half century. From the humble LED to personal supercomputers. The world has changed but basic electronics remains the same. A resistor is still a resistor and a transistor is still a transistor even though we now have much smaller, more efficient, more powerful and certainly cleaner components.

Let me take you on a trip down memory lane and show you how it all began for me. My story