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+Episode: 3064
+Title: HPR3064: How I got started in Electronics
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3064/hpr3064.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-24 16:05:52
+
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+
+This is Hacker Public Radio episode 3,064 for Thursday, 30 April 2020. Today's show is entitled,
+How I Got Started in Electronics. It is hosted by Archer 72,
+and is about seven minutes long
+and carries a clean flag. The summary is,
+How I Got Started in Electronics and some job stuff.
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+Hi, this is Archer 72,
+and I'd like to thank HPR for providing the servers to record to.
+This is going to be a little bit all over a place,
+but HPR was asking for shows,
+and they had a little bit of things to say,
+so I wanted to talk a little bit about my interest in electronics.
+Started when I was 10,
+I found a train set in the basement,
+and decided to set it up.
+It was just a little old track,
+and I had a really basic transformer,
+and I didn't do much with it after that.
+I played with a couple of little engines,
+and oh yeah,
+and I forgot the very first time I got any taste of electricity,
+so to speak, was when,
+according to my instructor,
+I felt a sine wave at three years old
+when I couldn't keep my little hands out of the power outlets.
+And thankfully in the US,
+where the house voltage is 110 volts and about 220,
+I managed to survive.
+A few years later,
+I get a bigger power supply of transformer,
+and more complex layout,
+which I make foldable
+out of the way at the ping pong table,
+which also folded down,
+so that we could have some family time.
+I didn't have a way to simulate this train,
+fully starting and taking time to stop,
+so I added a decent sized capacitor at the track output.
+I think it was about a thousand microfarads.
+That was also when I learned a solder,
+because the rail connectors would have intermittent contact.
+I'd also have,
+to use a heasing clip in order not to melt the track,
+plastic track ties.
+I also made up custom levers
+that went through the plywood to activate tracks,
+which is with solenoids.
+I remember correctly,
+there were catalogues for MCM electronics
+and all electronics,
+which I'll include in the show notes.
+And at this point,
+I think MCM electronics
+became another company like Newark.
+That's where I found the parts
+for this and other projects.
+I still have a bunch of atrial scale cars and engines
+in my parents' house.
+When I was building this layout,
+I learned how to use a hot resistance wire,
+my dad,
+and we cut Styrofoam
+as a base for some of the scenery.
+Also, I did a lot of bit of wire framing
+to do some of the inclines.
+And for realism,
+I was in a crushing of coal with a hammer
+to make realistic size pieces
+for the co-oppers.
+I should have actually used a mask,
+because I breathed in a lot of dust in that process.
+I dumped my midteens.
+I was still on the trains,
+but I took more to building circuits
+from any engineer project books.
+They had a radio shack.
+And there's archive.org,
+like the guy I could put in the show notes too.
+My favorite project at the time
+was a mini-stun gun
+that I made using a pre-built inverter
+from the catalogs that I had mentioned.
+And I put it,
+provided a hundred volts
+from the inverter circuit.
+And I ran into a,
+I think it was called deck stacked
+a bluer circuit.
+The result was a 1,200 volts
+at a few micro-amps,
+as far as I can measure.
+And in a couple of moves,
+I managed to lose it.
+I wish I had it around.
+I continued my interest
+when I was building
+an electronics one.
+I was building speed carrying closures
+for a sound system
+in my 1986 Chevy celebrity
+station wagon,
+which was my first car.
+I ran a high-amperage cable
+across one fair-eyed capacitor
+to account for the amplifier's current draw.
+And I built a custom board
+to hold those amplifiers
+that fit in the rumble seat of the wagon.
+In 1985,
+I was about the same time
+I was working with the car amps.
+And I had my first long-time job
+in the printed circuit board industry.
+I walked on the mechanical assembly
+for a year.
+And I myself and the SMT
+department are asking around
+and SMT is surface mass soldering.
+And I asked to learn how to do
+the SMT soldering and repair.
+This lasted about five years
+until I moved on to a medical
+device from manufacturer Baxter,
+which is spelled Baxter Healthcare.
+Here are the robust
+infusion pumps for about six years.
+These pumps would be set
+for a flow rate for vinyl fluids,
+of course electronically,
+through a keybed.
+You know, detect air pockets
+if the tube was pinched off
+or if the patient laid on it in the bed.
+I had a variety of jobs after that,
+mostly in contracting and manufacturing
+for PCB boardhouses.
+The last job before this
+was working on machines
+that analyze trace amounts of nitrogen
+to packaging environment.
+All right.
+Now they make floats
+where most of them make use
+or actually all of them make use
+of a sensor package
+for temperature pressure and salinity.
+It depths of 2,000 meters
+to study environmental issues.
+They have room for other packages
+if they have to do custom jobs
+for other clients.
+And up is a result
+in not the same thing,
+just one of them was
+to study hurricanes.
+If anybody else
+has any interesting experiences
+they would like to share,
+please consider recording a show
+for Hacqq Public Radio.
+This has been Archer 72.
+Thank you for listening.
+Remember to support Free Software.
+Thank you.
+Bye.
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