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About Me
About the Author
I'm an 89'er, half-Norwegian-half-Canadian. I spent my childhood
years in Canada, and at the age of 11 my family moved to Norway where
we have family. I watched Sonic the Hedgehog as a kid and always
wondered how the robots which seemed to be tin-cans with wires inside
could live and function. Much later I saw a show on The Discovery
Channel about BEAM robots, and was fascinated by how some people were
able to taken an old stereo, and rebuild it into a real robot. When my
family purchased our first PC in the mid-90s, the first thing I did was
search for "circuits" on the Internet (I also played Sim city, which
came with the computer). I found a lot as you can imagine, even back
then, but never built anything with active components. The mere act of
interpreting schematics was difficult, and I had no idea where to even
find the exotic components mentioned. Instead I tried to make motorized
vehicles with scavenged or purchased toy motors, connected to batteries
and switches. However, as Lego was much easier to use and gave better
results, I spent my time playing with it instead. Years passed without
me doing anything constructive until the end of junior high. It wasn't
until joining the 4HV forum in mid-2005 that I started seriously with
electronics by investing in parts (and persistently nagging the good
folks at 4HV) and finding a project which was both fun and simple. That
project was a 2N3055 flyback driver, because I had a bunch of broken
monitors which were about to be thrown away, and the circuit consisted
of one active component. Since then my skills and the fun I get out of
this hobby have just continued to grow. Naturally my hobbies had an
effect on my choice of higher education, and I've since acquired a
Bachelor's degree in automation. Currently I'm working on a Master's
degree in Engineering Cybernetics, at the Norwegian Institue of
Technology.
Since good pictures with phony smiles
are boring I've added this picture with a phony grimace. Taken during
summer vacation on the farm in '08.
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