I used to agonize when I wrote the first post for a blog believing it somehow set the pace and tone for things to come.  Then I realized it’s the post least likely to be read on any given blog!

Briefly, a bit about me.  I’m 29, I have an MS in Computer Enineering from the University of Florida, and I have somehow made it this far in my career without ever once having to do digital circuits design.  Thisis particularly frustrating when you consider my field of interest is operating systems and that I make my dough designing cellphones for Motorola.  I know of hardware/software interface, but how much do I really know until I actually build a few things myself?

So, that’s what this blog is about.  If I’m lucky, I might one day make something interesting enough to get on the Make blog.  I’m not really holding my breath on that, though.

Anyway, future posts will be about my current project, a self-study course from the makers of the XGameStation Pico.  The course offers lessons in basic circuit analysis, SPICE simulation, digital circuits, and then leads you through a from-parts assembly of the XGameStation, and from there you write games and demos for it.  Sounds fun.

Anyway, I’m letting the nice people at Nurve decide how much they’ll let me post about the process and review the materials, but it should be interesting.  From there, who knows?