{"id":2,"date":"2008-06-26T23:21:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T04:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-02-19T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T19:58:51","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8910\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/about\/13103321_10154223447832932_1987182702795293572_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/13103321_10154223447832932_1987182702795293572_n.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"959,959\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"13103321_10154223447832932_1987182702795293572_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/13103321_10154223447832932_1987182702795293572_n.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8910\" src=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/13103321_10154223447832932_1987182702795293572_n-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Keyzer \/ mightyohm\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/13103321_10154223447832932_1987182702795293572_n-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/13103321_10154223447832932_1987182702795293572_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/13103321_10154223447832932_1987182702795293572_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/13103321_10154223447832932_1987182702795293572_n.jpg 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><br \/>\nHey there. I&#8217;m Jeff Keyzer, aka mightyohm.<\/p>\n<p>A few things about me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m an Electrical Engineer. \u00a0I studied Circuits and Systems at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsd.edu\">University of California, San Diego<\/a> (MSEE &#8217;02).<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve lived and worked in some amazing and beautiful places: San Diego, California, the San Francisco Bay Area \/ Silicon Valley, Austin, Texas, and now Seattle.<\/li>\n<li>I started my career designing radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless LAN and cellular devices. Most of my chip design work was in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gallium_arsenide\">GaAs<\/a>, one of the lesser-known compound semiconductor cousins of Silicon.<\/li>\n<li>In 2008, I started doing freelance design work in embedded systems, PCB design, and electronics prototyping.<\/li>\n<li>This led to me being hired to design consumer electronics hardware at <a href=\"https:\/\/valvesoftware.com\">Valve<\/a>. I designed the majority of the electronics inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/353370\/Steam_Controller\/\">Steam Controller<\/a> and was one of the primary folks responsible for bringing that product to market. That included setting up several PCB manufacturing lines in China and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uCgnWqoP4MM\">a fully-automated controller assembly line<\/a> in Chicago, IL.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m an occasional guest-host of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamphour.com\/\">The Amp Hour<\/a>, &#8220;an off-the-cuff radio show and podcast for electronics enthusiasts and professionals.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Along with Mitch Altman and Andie Nordgren, I helped write a free comic book called <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/soldercomic\">Soldering is Easy<\/a> that has been translated into over a dozen other languages and is used to teach people around the world how to solder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I blog primarily about electronics projects that I&#8217;m working on.\u00a0 Expect to see posts about microcontrollers (mostly PIC and AVR), Arduino, embedded Linux, circuits, DIY projects, and other related stuff. \u00a0Most of the projects featured here were born in my lab, but occasionally I will feature projects from friends of mine as well.<\/p>\n<p>I also <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/products\">sell a few things that I designed<\/a>, including a very popular <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/geiger\">Open Source Geiger Counter kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from my obsession with electronics, I enjoy working on old cars, machining, welding, fabricating, and generally building stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mightyohm\">Follow @mightyohm on twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Questions? Comments? Project ideas?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/contact\">Contact me.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there. I&#8217;m Jeff Keyzer, aka mightyohm. A few things about me: I&#8217;m an Electrical Engineer. \u00a0I studied Circuits and Systems at the University of California, San Diego (MSEE &#8217;02). I&#8217;ve lived and worked in some amazing and beautiful places: San Diego, California, the San Francisco Bay Area \/ Silicon Valley, Austin, Texas, and now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PioCd-2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4078,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/products\/geiger-counter\/design-files\/","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":0},"title":"Design Files","author":"Jeff","date":"August 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Eagle files (schematic and layout): Eagle design files (.zip) Schematic (PNG) Layout Bill of Materials: OpenOffice (.ods) PDF Laser-cut Case: CAD drawings (CorelDraw X5 cdr & AutoCAD dwg\/dxf) Case BOM (OpenOffice) Case BOM (PDF)","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3356,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/products\/design-files\/","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":1},"title":"Design Files","author":"Jeff","date":"December 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"(click to download) Schematic and Layout (Eagle format) Bill of Materials (OpenOffice format) Schematic (PNG format, click for larger version): Layout (PNG format):","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/files\/ICSPOV\/ICSPOV_r1_schematic.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3424,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/products\/hv-rescue-shield-2-x\/design-files\/","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":2},"title":"Design Files","author":"Jeff","date":"December 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"(click to download) Schematic and Layout (Eagle format) Bill of Materials (OpenOffice format) Bill of Materials (PDF format) Schematic (PNG format, click for larger version): Layout (PNG format):","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/files\/hvrescue21\/HVRescue_Shield_r21_schematic.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15656,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/products\/geiger-counter\/sbm-20-tube-specs\/","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":3},"title":"SBM-20 Tube Specs","author":"Jeff","date":"January 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The SBM-20 is one of the most popular GM tubes for hobby Geiger Counter and radiation monitoring projects. It is relatively sensitive and easy to use. There are many example circuits online that will help you build a Geiger Counter using this tube. One example is the MightyOhm Geiger Counter\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4074,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/products\/geiger-counter\/","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":4},"title":"Geiger Counter","author":"Jeff","date":"August 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Introducing the MightyOhm Geiger Counter kit! Geiger Kit Options Kit with Laser-Cut Case and SBM-20 Geiger Tube $114.90 USD Kit with SBM-20 Geiger Tube (no case) $99.95 USD Kit without Geiger Tube or Case $49.95 USD Laser-cut Case Only $14.95 USD Bare PCB Only $12.00 USD Assembly Instructions Case Assembly\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"OSHW logo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/files\/geiger\/images\/6275026497_3cf9f175b2_c.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3211,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/tutorials\/avr-toolchain-installation\/","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":5},"title":"AVR Toolchain Installation","author":"Jeff","date":"October 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Mitch Altman and I are in the process of writing a book about Making Cool Things with Microcontrollers (for people who know nothing.) The book features several DIY projects that use\u00a0AVR microcontrollers. \u00a0We're aiming to teach absolute beginners how to solder, basic electronics, and the process of turning a cool\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/tutorials\/avr-toolchain-installation\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10361,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/10361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}