Later, after my lunch break, I would be fusing macrocells in the CPLD that I was planning to add to my circuit design.įirst, though I needed something to think about over my lunch. Next to my lukewarm, milky coffee was a brown envelope which was covered in a sketch, a block diagram of a proposed circuitry project. The leaden scent of vaporised solder was in the air from a half-populated breadboard in my little electronics lab in Filton, Bristol. To the soundtrack of Cannonball by The Breeders 1, I flipped the pages of my 2nd edition The Art of Electronics (TAOE) by Horowitz and Hill 2. What was this feeling? How to describe this new sensation? I had literally never come across anything I couldn’t just “figure out” before. It was in late 1993 when I first got my ass kicked by a maths puzzle. “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” – Abraham Maslow, 1966 How did I get started in technology? Great question, let’s explore…
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