About Bromsmurf

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Brommen means: drone, hum, buz (for insects) and growl, grumble (for human beings)

Bromsmurf is born in mid 1955 in Heidelberg, Germany and moved to the Netherlands a year later. Since then Bromsmurf has been living in the west part of Holland so development of language and all other school activities have been taking place in Dutch.

The fascination for electronics started at the age of 8 following an article on building a simple crystal radio. This interest in the magic of 'managed electrons' has been a guidance throughout Bromsmurfs further life.

The first time Bromsmurf was exposed to a computer was in 1973 at the University of Delft. Working with a computer those days meant messing around with bunches of punching cards and miles of paper tape. The first real personal computer, a home built Sinclair ZX81, came in 1982, followed by an Acorn BBC in 1983. After that all varieties of clone-PC's came in. Languages where Algol 60 and various flavors of BASIC. Finally Bromsmurf decided to go for C and C only and he never regretted that decision.

At this moment Bromsmuf is 'between jobs' having a sabbatical to find new goals to go for in the second half of life.

Bromsmurf is doing a lot of experiments, mainly using PIC microcontrollers, and works on dataloggers to end up with a set of finished products.

The passion for microcontrollers is relatively new, it started about 2001 with the Conrad C-Control units followed by a period where mainly Parallax Basic Stamps were used. When these Stamps turned out to be totally insufficient to build real dataloggers a fast and vast move was made to the PIC controllers programmed in C.

Bromsmurf is mainly working on devices that can measure all kinds of parameters and then, if possible, take some action or just display the results for further interpretation.

Bromsmurf now lives in Voorschoten in the province 'Zuid-Holland'.

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