About me
Contact me
My email is (and will always be, I hope) "joel@binatech.se".
I'm available on IRC as "ZnaxQue@irc.freenode.org", sometimes I'm also on Quakenet.
Electronics
For as long as I remember I've liked playing around with electronics, my parents can confirm that. My dad always came home with computers and industrial control modules and all sorts of apparatus that I took apart to investigate and examine. I was tremendously interested in wires. Wherever I went I just HAD to follow ALL the wires and pipes to see where they were going to/from. When I was four, I wished for a ceilinglamp wire for xmas... I got my first soldering iron as an xmas present at the age of 5 and I remember being soo happy about it. One of the first things I soldered together was the simplest form of an amplifier using nothing more than a carbon microphone, a 9 volt battery, and a telephone earpiece.
At the age of 14 I got into logic circuits after reading about microcomputers of the 80's. I found this site and at the time I REALLY wanted to try to build a Z80 computer, and so I started building something I rather quickly understood was waaay over my head. Even though I didn't finish building even a third of it I learned a great deal trying to. At the same time when I scrapped the ZX80 project I started designing my own binary + 7segment alarm clock, inspired by Hans Summers.
As of today, I'm interested in both analog and digital circuitry. Lately, my interest in tube radios have grown since I was fascinated by some old 1970's electronics schoolbooks that I was given by my neighbor. They're very interesting and informing and easy to read. Some day I hope to build a superheterodyne AM tube radio, but I have a feeling that won't happen in a while since I don't have the required skills to make my own design.
Recently I have gained interest in video circuitry and video generation. For more, have a look at my TV-Tennis page.
Computing
Not always have I been intrested in computers. In the early beginnings I just played games on them, like Counter Strike and Unreal. I had no idea about their inner workings, and at the time I didn't really care either. Most of the experience I have today I've gained from playng around with some Pentium I's and II's with a friend as a kid.
I think that the first computer I ever sat on was, hmmm... Well I have some very vague memories of seeing this old monitor in a wardrobe at home (must have been some kind of CGA monitor). My dad used that monitor together with a terribly old computer on which I believe I played some kind of balloon game. I'm pretty sure it was the CAF 286 I still have in posession. Not sure though.