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Greetings and salutations, fellow makers and modders! I’m Greg—digital archivist by discipline, systems architect by obsession, and a lifelong pursuer of the elegant solution (whether in code, copper, or cadence). My days are a dance between soldering irons and semicolons, YAML schemas and musical staves.
Though I’m relatively new to the hands-on world of electronics, I’m steadily learning to coax Raspberry Pis into obedience and design LED-lit furniture that glows with purpose—sometimes even on the first try. I bring a beginner’s humility, a seasoned eye for systems, and a stubborn refusal to let the magic smoke win.

When I’m not troubleshooting circuits or dreaming up modular workflows, I’m crafting worlds in fiction, penning essays on faith and technology, or composing songs that straddle the line between the sacred and the whimsical. I believe every resistor has a story, every voltage drop a metaphor—and yes, I’ve written poems about both.

I come bearing curiosity, a penchant for modular design, and a deep respect for the art of tinkering. If your project involves blinking lights, poetic logic, or the noble struggle against entropy, I’m probably interested. Let us conspire to build things that hum, illuminate, and occasionally rhyme.

Ode to the Resistor
In circuits vast and wires tight,
Where currents race with gleaming might,
There dwells a strip, so small, so stout—
A humble part with noble clout.

It does not flash, it does not sing,
No microchip or wireless ping,
Yet in its bands of colored hue,
It holds the line, and guides what's due.

It whispers, “Not too fast, dear charge,”
And keeps the amps from growing large.
A guardian of LED delight,
A shepherd in the circuit’s night.

So let us toast this steadfast friend,
Whose purpose holds from start to end.
For in the realm of volts and sparks,
It leaves behind the brightest marks.



   
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We have a new poet!

We had one of our first members of the forum as our resident poet, but he has passed on and now watches over us from the big Makers Group in the sky!  He was known as RoboPi and he was quite a character and a very valuable member of the group.  I still use one of the ideas he implemented and shared with all of us.

Welcome to the forum from not to far away in Stone Mountain, GA

Been playing around with some of those blinking lights myself recently.  Working on a neopixiel Christmas tree display for the upcoming season, but quickly running out of time.

SteveG/N4TTY, aka CodeCage


SteveG, a.k.a. CodeCage


   
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Thank you for the warm welcome! I will do my best to live up to the poetic standard set by RoboPi. 

Stone Mountain, GA! A fellow southerner! I am pleased to meet you.

Greg J.



   
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