Hi, my name is Matt (screen name may give that away). I am in Walnut Cove, NC. I have had a couple of years of electronics in high school (about 25 years ago). I have always loved it and was pretty good at it back then. I worked as an electrician for several years in industrial construction. I have been away from that for 18 years now. I am looking to get back into it with microcontrollers, and things like the Raspberry Pi. I've been looking at several online solutions for re-learning, youtube, instructables, hackster io, etc... very excited to get back into it. A lot has changed, yet so much is still the same! I have several projects that I can see the advantage of using the Raspberry Pi, or some other type of small form computer, even the use of microcontrollers like the Arduino product or variations there-of (Adafruit and so-on).
Some of my hobbies are;
MTN Biking
RC - hobby grade electric - trucks & learning quads
On-going resto-mod 1970 C10 truck that was my grandpa's (this may end up being one of the places where I will use some electronics knowledge gained to modify/ add a few things).
Also, if someone knows of a local "club" in my area, I would be interested in looking into that.