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2025-09-04 12:38 am
Hello everyone. It's been a LONG time since I was last on the forum, so I will start again. My name is Steve Pritchard, and I am a retired IT manager. I have been retired since the end of 2007 and have dabbled on and off with Arduinos and ESP32s for almost a decade. I have a love (and sometimes hate) relationship with those little guys. π Before retiring, I spent most of my time in Unix, Xenix, and finally Linux. I have some experience programming in Basic, Lisp, and, more significantly, SQL (if you can call that programming). I can do rudimentary C/C++ stuff, but while I have a basic understanding of the language, I get lost in the syntax - or maybe that's proof I don't have a basic understanding of the language....Β
I started my working life as a T-38 instructor pilot, then after separation, a commission-only salesman, and several years traveling around the eastern US, teaching the federal court's new (at the time) electronic case management system before settling down to a Unix system administrator's job supporting that same case management system. I was much happier in the administrator's job, but the IT manager (or Director of Information Technology) job came along, and it paid more. Actually, I think the title was longer than that. Every time IT folks give you a pay raise, it seems that they have to justify the money with a longer title.Β
Now I am a 78-year-old woodturner with a 3D printer and an auto racing simulator in an upstairs bedroom, and an avid interest in making life easier by automating various things around the house and shop with ESP32s.