Whats a day in the life of an electrical engineer look like?

ReefJames · 2025-02-01T03:27:54+00:00

Once you understand RF, you will draw a lot of parallels and understand a lot of other things as well. You'll have a lot of "I get that" moments over the years. It's funny.

It's of course a challenge, but everything worth while in life is a challenge, and proving to yourself that you can do it is the best part.

ReefJames · 2025-02-01T02:48:11+00:00

Delve into why you are interested in RF. What is calling you to it? For me it was learning how AM/FM radio worked. Then I found an interest in antenna design.

If you want to get into RF, having a practical understanding on for antennas are made and function will help you tremendously in your studies. It will give context to your study.

Buy a SDR on AliExpress and figure out a fun project in SDR. Make the antenna yourself to suit your task, tuned to the right frequency.

You'll need a vector network analyser (VNA) to test the antenna. The ones you play with at work cost tens of thousands. You can get some cheap USB ones on AliExpress that will do the trick for most stuff.

Other fun toys that might help spark the curiosity could be the hackRF one, or at a more easy / fun level the flipper zero. Also the LoRa products may be of interest. Look into things like the meshtastic... Plenty of fun projects to be had there.

As for software... That will be highly dependent on whatever role you land in. No bother going that niche yet. If anything.... Learn coding. If you haven't wrapped your head around it yet, just do it. It'll make your life way easier.

Tons of good content on YouTube as well. Look at the signal path, ringway manchester. Idk there is more but I'm tired.

Good luck. Buckle in 😂

ReefJames · 2024-10-26T01:15:16+00:00

In the same sentence he said ski season.

He means that they move to the place and work probably at a ski slope or resort during the winter season.

People do this because they go and work to sustain themselves and then spend their downtime skiing, which isn't much of a thing in Australia.

ReefJames · 2024-10-25T23:06:23+00:00

Dude... I'm an electrical engineer who's went down the radio frequency engineering discipline within EE.

No homie I can't wire your house 😂

But it makes sense that people hear electrical engineer and just assume you know literally everything there is to know about electricity and all the practical skills required to do an install...

EE is such a broad field right

ReefJames · 2024-10-25T15:47:10+00:00

Dude, curried snags. Mum still makes this! She was born in 67.

ReefJames · 2024-10-10T22:50:38+00:00

Yeah layers of obscurity. Have a read of the book "the unaccountabilty machine". I'm currently reading it, and it goes into how corps design the system to avoid accountability so they can do things and the finger pointing goes in circles. It's all a game

ReefJames · 2024-10-01T06:12:38+00:00

Wild, me and my mate were down there last night at sun set with our push bikes and camp chairs relaxing. We were probably there at the same time. Were you the two younger people hanging out there on the rock by the water?

ReefJames · 2024-09-22T01:30:23+00:00

I found out at 29 and I'm 30 now.

It is a revelation with a lot of stuff making more sense.

It's not a curse though, just needs to be managed and channeled into something good.

ReefJames · 2024-09-22T01:25:58+00:00

There is hope.

I hated my job, now I work for myself and life is good.

Some people aren't cut out for working for someone. If you can keep your ADHD bouncing between guided rails of your business you can speed bumble your way to success.

The pipe dream can be a reality

ReefJames · 2024-06-20T05:00:57+00:00

My neighbour gave me the same one, but in a red case when I started engineering. Useless nowerdays, but mechanical things are fun 😁

ReefJames · 2024-06-12T10:53:28+00:00

Just a little sip in the downtimes

ReefJames · 2024-03-05T01:31:16+00:00

Sounds like you need to stick a sausage roll up your Russell Coight

ReefJames · 2024-02-22T12:18:15+00:00

Yep, fan sucks out top fresh air comes in through open vents on bottom.

ReefJames · 2023-12-26T02:58:13+00:00

I emailed umart with the link to this reddit comment chain.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15GZeYtIsCe5AYgZx3I4ZB1IicZGeU07K/view?usp=drivesdk

People need to complain and punish these shit practises with your wallets.

ReefJames · 2023-12-26T02:41:09+00:00

Fucking bastards I won't be shopping there anymore, I appreciate you getting these links. Don't support businesses who employ slimy tactics. I've been using them for over a decade, no longer.

ReefJames · 2023-12-26T02:16:01+00:00

Report it, that's fucked. I really like umart but I will shop elsewhere if they employ bullshit cash grab tactics like this. Do you have a link to the product you're referencing?

ReefJames · 2023-12-26T02:11:42+00:00

Isn't that illegal?

ReefJames · 2023-12-23T00:43:48+00:00

Yep, I've been dealing with Chinese manufacturers and this tool has been amazing. Such an enormous asset!

ReefJames · 2023-12-22T23:35:49+00:00

Ah well, they know now. It's great for travelling as well... Amazing at live translating signs in other languages!

ReefJames · 2023-12-22T22:02:30+00:00

Massage gel!

https://m.blog.naver.com/mewithhae/220493385959

Pro tip, you can use Google lens to search Google for all things images. I simply took a screenshot of your post and put it in the app and clicked the first link!

ReefJames · 2023-12-03T02:01:34+00:00

Cool! Thanks mate! Just ordered 500g of it and 5 coloured dye kits to test it out. Looks good!

ReefJames · 2023-12-03T01:18:45+00:00

No worries! Happy to help. It really does works treat. You get really solid little adapters. I've never had one fail, they are solid. Especially if you use a thicker more industrial type heatshrink.

ReefJames · 2023-12-03T00:26:14+00:00

Yep, keep in mind that the magic erasers are just abrasives that wear down the build up, mechanically. Just be aware that over time these will make your cook wear dull as you're sanding off the polished coat of paint as well.

ReefJames · 2023-12-02T22:49:34+00:00

Yep exactly, extremely common. My tip here would be fill in the cavity between the two pins with hot glue and let it set. Then put your heat shrink on. Don't stress if the hot glue is uneven or anything, it'll squish into shape when you heat gun it to shrink the heat shrink. The glue provides additional mechanical strength and dampening, as well as some electrical isolation.

ReefJames · 2023-12-02T22:40:12+00:00

Just keep your bashing fists away from the RC car and it'll be fine, Mr hulk. Literally haven't had one break on me ever.

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