As a child i used to be passionate about Lego and building (...or breaking) stuff. Then Lego announced Mindstrorms (which is basically a embedded system with a renesas-h8/300 micro-controller)
I instantly fell in love with it and started saving money to afford it for about a year.
It was quite fun and challenging at the same time.
net_split is my online name which I have used since 2003.
I came up with the name because people blamed me for so called 'net split' errors on the IRC - a disconnection between different IRC nodes.
This tend to happen a lot back then.
However, it stuck.
In 2008 I started studying electronic engineering and information technology at the former university Fridericiana zu Karlsruhe, which now has become part of the
Karlsruher Institute of Technology.
The first real micro-controllers was a birthday present from some friends and fellow students.
I started hooking up LED’s and other little things. Then LCDs, sensors, photocells and now TFT LCDs.
The possibilities seems endless, still it remained a lot of work and reading every time.
I discovered Arduino in the Summer of 2011 and instantly bought a Arduino Uno with an Ethernet Shield.
Of course I knew about potential of a micro-controller, but Arduino made it so much easier to access it.
This made the creation process so much faster and therefore more enjoyable.
Feel free to contact me should you have any question regarding my projects.