Gregg has joined the community!

A guy with many hats over the many (70) years. I have no formal educational qualifications as I hated school and was glad to get out of it as soon as I could. I did have the obligatory chemistry and electronics sets when I was 12 so I have to say that I was keen on learning stuff - just not boring stuff.

I became self-employed as a photographer when I was 20. After a few years of this I worked for the government for a time before taking an interest in computers and eventually becoming self-employed in that field. I've always enjoyed helping people into new technology and I basically did that for 30 years before retiring in 2019. 

My other hobbies/sports have been fishing, skiing, fencing, flying (both powered flight and gliders), pistol shooting and most recently golf. 

I would say that golf and computing have been my most enduring pastimes and I think that is because they both appeal to my 'problem solving' nature. This is probably also the case with my electronics dabbling (although I admit that I am lost with much of it).  I did manage to build an Arduino based alarm that growls when someone approaches my front door and barks if they come to the back door. However I cannot say that I wrote the code myself - I borrowed it and experimented with modifications until I got what I wanted. 

I recently sold my Toyota Landcruiser and got into e-scooting as a means to transport myself to and from golf each day. One project I'm working on is to incorporate turn signals into my jacket or perhaps backpack. 

I have many questions and will no doubt plague the members here with some of them.. 

Cheers from an older 'noobie' 😉