Welcome to CuVoodoo, the sorcery of copper.
This first episode will be an introduction to this new video podcast,
where I will talk about electronics,
a hobby I do in my free time.
But first about the name.
Cu in CuVoodoo
is the symbol for copper in the periodic table.
And as you know, copper is the main conductor
used to connect electronic components on a printed circuit board.
Voodoo is simply because this whole electronic field
works kind of like sorcery for me.
I am not an electronic engineer at all.
Actually the only thing I learned in classes is Ohm's law.
Instead, I studied computing.
And the only board I saw
was the motherboard of my computer.
But in 2010 I discovered electronics.
And now I own an oscilloscope
and I design my own boards.
But since I lack all the theory,
I often don't know what lies underneath
and how it really works.
I simply put the components together
and hope it will work, a bit like magic.
And often it will fail.
But with practice and experience,
I become better and better over time.
Now about this podcast.
I will publish the videos on this blog.
https://www.cuvoodoo.info
They will also have subtitles, for three reasons.
First it allows hearing impaired to also enjoy it.
But more importantly, it's a text form
with machine readable information,
so you can search through it.
And finally,
it allows me to correct what I say,
since I will probably make mistakes,
a lot of mistakes.
So this is about the videos.
Now if a topic I presented includes some documentation,
you will find it in this wiki.
https://wiki.cuvoodoo.info
And if I wrote a tool for it,
or designed some electronics,
you will find the source file in this git version control.
https://git.cuvoodoo.info
Per default I use open source licenses,
like creative common for the videos and documentation,
GPL for the code,
and the CERN OHL.
So you use it, change it, distribute it
and do almost whatever you want with it.
That's it for now.
Enjoy it.