ELECTRONICS
As regards hobby projects, I've just been through a heavy phase of Tesla coil building: I think I kind of got obsessed by the power of them :-) You can read about my experiments in the Tesla coil pages. Before that, I experimented with hi-fi and guitar amps. I hope to go back to some more audio projects, but not till I've finished that last giant Tesla coil :)
I also hold a ham radio licence and have been playing around more with RF lately.
I'm not entirely sure whether I have "got a life" yet. I only have two oscilloscopes, if that helps ;-)
If you have any questions about the circuits here, e-mail "steve at scopeboy dot com"
| http://www.milbert.com/tstxt.htm | This article explains why tube audio equipment sounds better than transistorized kit |
| http://www.repairfaq.org/ | A huge collection of F.A.Qs on troubleshooting electronic equipment |
| http://www.firebottle.com/ampage/ | The AMPAGE BBS is devoted to audio and music electronics, tube amplifiers, etc |
| http://www.dspguru.com/ | A great resource for people who suddenly get a job programming DSPs even though they've never touched one in their life. Can't imagine who might be in that situation ;) |
| http://www.bores.com/ | BORES Signal Processing have some great tutorials on DSP, see above. |
| http://www.ednmag.com/ | Electronic Design News or something |
| http://www.geocities.com/tjacodesign/ | Tjaco's Design Graveyard has some of the neatest circuits I've ever seen. |
| http://www.tonywelsh.com/ | This guy sells cheap Russian components including hi-voltage capacitors and tubes. |
| http://www.watfordvalves.com/ | The UK's one-stop valve shop ;) Also sells speakers for guitar amps. |
| http://www.sowter.co.uk/ | Sowter Transformers for top-quality handmade power, signal, and tube output transformers. |