About the Author

I'm an 89'er, half-Norwegian-half-Canadian. I spent my childhood years in Canada, and at the age of 11 my family moved to Norway where we have family. I watched Sonic the Hedgehog as a kid and always wondered how the robots which seemed to be tin-cans with wires inside could live and function.

Much later I saw a show on The Discovery Channel about BEAM robots, and was fascinated by how some people were able to taken an old stereo, and rebuild it into a real robot. When my family purchased our first PC in the mid-90s, the first thing I did was search for "circuits" on the Internet (I also played Sim city, which came with the computer). I found a lot as you can imagine, even back then, but never built anything with active components. The mere act of interpreting schematics was difficult, and I had no idea where to even find the exotic components mentioned. Instead I tried to make motorized vehicles with scavenged or purchased toy motors, connected to batteries and switches. However, as Lego was much easier to use and gave better results, I spent my time playing with it instead.

Years passed without me doing anything constructive until the end of junior high. It wasn't until joining the 4HV forum in mid-2005 that I started seriously with electronics by investing in parts (and persistently nagging the good folks at 4HV) and finding a project which was both fun and simple. That project was a 2N3055 flyback driver, because I had a bunch of broken monitors which were about to be thrown away, and the circuit consisted of one active component. Since then my skills and the fun I get out of this hobby have just continued to grow. Naturally my hobbies have had an effect on my choice of higher education, and I first acquired a Bachelor's degree in automation. Afterwards I acquired a Master of Science degree in Digital System Design, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I'm currently employed as a software engineer at Esko Graphics Kongsberg, in Norway.

If you wish to contact me, I can be reached via email. My address is the name of this site "uzzors2k", and my email host is gmail.com