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Baby steps..  0

Posted on October 20th, 2005, early in the evening. About Cardiff.
Made my first proper electronic circuit today (just incase you don’t know and actually care, I’m doing a BEng in Electronic Engineering). Ok, so it was in like “Electronic Applications” which is basically a class for people who have little or no experience with the stuff - like me. But it wasn’t bad, quite fun. Got to use a soldering iron which I haven’t done since like DT in Year 9.

The circuit was pretty simple really, 4 resistors (2 in parallel and 2 in series) and 2 bits of wire which had to be soldered on and then was tested and it managed to work. Apparantly we make an amplifier in a couple of weeks with a 1:10V ratio. Which apparantly means 1V in makes 10V come out or something. Then the final “project” is a battery charger so nothing big but if it helps me pass lol.

Here’s some photos of the masterpieces..

Circuit - front

Test - close Both

Week 1  0

Posted on September 29th, 2005, late in the morning. About Cardiff.
So been here 5 days now and it’s been good. Been out every night except for last night due to lack of funds. My course decided to give us a wonderful maths test yesterday even though we’re meant to be in Freshers week and not start until Monday. At least I managed to just scrape through enabling me to avoid “maths surgery” for the time being. Still haven’t had to brave the washing machine just yet. Got enough clothes for that at least. Not sure how my first attempt at washing my clothes will go, but we’ll see…

Home sweet home  2

Posted on September 26th, 2005, in the middle of the afternoon. About Cardiff.
Well I’m all settled in at Cardiff and it’s amazing. Got here yesterday morning and course the net wouldn’t work so had to wait until today. But went out last night, me and my new found mates walked around most of the city looking for a place to go and ended up in Spoons followed by Subway. Then one person suggested a club called Barfly and it turned out it was an under-18’s night lol. So it was back to the Union for the Fresher’s party. Damn good.

Picture of my room:

My room

Edit:New, bigger photo - had a bit of a tidy up and changed the sheets lol

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