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10 Electrical Engineers Everyone Should Follow On Twitter
Nicholas Walter
3/21/2013 5:10 PM EDT
As we found out from EE Times’ recent Mind of the Engineer survey, more and more engineers are getting information from twitter and social media, so I decided to put together a couple of lists, of which this is the first, containing some of the best people and companies in electronics to follow on Twitter. My first list of influencers contains members that are all engineers with extensive knowledge in electronics design, and in my opinion, quite entertaining!
I chose these influencers based on a combination of Klout, Peek Analytics and good old fashioned editorial judgment. So, if you are on twitter I recommend you follow the engineers in this list and if not, proceed on for 10 good reasons to join twitter today.
Name: Jeff Keyzer
Job Title: Hardware Engineer
Twitter Handle: @mightyohm
Why You Should Follow: Circuit design, electronics, microcontrollers, amateur radio, his soldering iron, and pinball. Need we say more?
Troubleshooting a rotary encoder problem on the Hameg HM507 I picked up at the ham swap. Comes apart easy! twitter.com/mightyohm/stat…
— Jeff Keyzer (@mightyohm) March 20, 2013
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rick.merritt
3/21/2013 6:51 PM EDT
Great resource, Nicolas. Thx!
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nicholas.walter
3/21/2013 8:51 PM EDT
Thanks Rick and if anyone has any other good social resources - please do share!
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jbusco
3/29/2013 3:51 PM EDT
A Twitter EDA list:
http://twitter.com/grep/eda
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Robotics Developer
3/30/2013 8:07 PM EDT
I agree it looks like some folks I should follow. Now I am going to have to get a twitter account...
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Frank Eory
3/21/2013 7:35 PM EDT
It seems like it was less than 2 years ago that EE Times ran a story asking the question "do engineers use social media?" and the majority of the commenters were fairly negative about social media in general and Twitter in particular.
I wonder if attitudes of engineers on this subject have changed since then?
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nicholas.walter
3/22/2013 11:38 AM EDT
As I mentioned, from the mind of the engineer study, views do appear to be changing. Also for your reference here is the article you mentioned, aptly titled - Why engineers don't like Twitter: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/pop-blog/4199325/Engineers-dont-like-Twitter
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Bert22306
3/22/2013 8:08 PM EDT
That was my first reaction too, when I first read the title.
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kmeagher
3/22/2013 11:22 AM EDT
For Jeri "Why You Should Follow:" should have included "Makes IC's in her garage"
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Duane Benson
3/22/2013 12:52 PM EDT
I've followed a few of the folks for a while. Jeff Keyzer had designed an open source Geiger counter a while back. I took the design and converted it into surface mount parts, and then from an Atmel MCU to a PIC. He sold me the Geiger tubes.
He also published a very nice beginners guide to soldering: http://dfblink.info/jksoldercomic. It's popular enough to have been translated into 17 languages.
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docdivakar
3/22/2013 3:33 PM EDT
Duane, thanks! The link works only when the trailing 'period' is removed. I know you meant it as punctuation mark but the hyperlink carried it! Good resource nonetheless.
MP Divakar
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KRS03
3/23/2013 12:16 PM EDT
RE: G. Harrison's Tweet: Amazon shipping ferret's beads sounds like it might come across an animal rights obstruction.
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StvNordquist
3/28/2013 8:55 PM EDT
Tell me that's the RoHS-compatible ferrite bead, made of processed ferret gut biota with lower reluctance and secondary practical use as antidote/palliative to cobra vodka with some reactive oxygen species that haven't mellowed (mind that trailing designation in the part spec.)
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selinz
3/25/2013 9:09 PM EDT
I generally associated twitter with random, shallow, and typically meaningless thoughts... That's why it works so well for people in the entertainment industry (which includes athletes). Usually the more interesting technical stuff requires a few more words than twitter is set up for. It's a great place for one liners though!
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Kyle Bostian
3/27/2013 3:15 PM EDT
I would add Michael Barr @embeddedbarr for some great embedded systems writing and general technology insights.
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Klinkenbecker
3/29/2013 2:37 PM EDT
As if we need yet more mind numbing banter...
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Mike@FH
3/29/2013 4:57 PM EDT
Some good ones there but it made me think that no-one nowadays has the influence and charisma of Bob Pease. I think everyone who did analog even as a sideline followed his articles.
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Robotics Developer
3/30/2013 8:11 PM EDT
I am not that heavily into analog but I always followed Bob Pease! I miss his wit and broad interests, some of his replies were priceless.
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elPresidente
4/1/2013 11:18 AM EDT
"Electrical engineers" I should follow?
According to Wikipedia, Ellsworth seems to be an excellent self-promoter who dropped out of high school, then dropped out of a community college after a year.
Running a computer store chain and playing in your basement does not make you an electrical engineer - your listing of her as one is an insult to those of us who put in the hard work to become one...we weren't "dropouts".
And why would I follow this teeniebopper drivel?
Jeri Ellsworth Jeri Ellsworth @jeriellsworth 8h
I'm practicing my Audrey 1 voice(Not Audrey2). #littleshopofhorror
Jeri Ellsworth Jeri Ellsworth @jeriellsworth 8h
Watching Little Shop of Horrors(80's version). Cheesy goodness.
Jeri Ellsworth Jeri Ellsworth @jeriellsworth 12h
@digitalkitty Like OMG?! Totally want to go get our nails done and hang out at the mall? That would be like rad?
Jeri Ellsworth Jeri Ellsworth @jeriellsworth 30 Mar
Movie night!
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MichelleRichardson
4/1/2013 5:18 PM EDT
Yes, God knows that self-taught dropouts have amounted to nothing in the world of cutting edge technology. And real EEs certainly don't have interests beyond work.
She's worked on some interesting stuff, and notably, keynoted at ESC a couple of years ago. I was thrilled to see just a little bit of diversity in the list. And not just the gender or race kind of diversity, but a refreshing diversity in approach to life, project choice and problem-solving.
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elPresidente
4/7/2013 6:00 AM EDT
Title says "Electrical engineers" - did you miss that in your feminazi rage?
Her accomplishments are irrelevant to that filter - she didn't have the resolve to get her EE. She dropped out.
She ran a computer store. A clerk is not an EE, despite her hobbyist accomplishments and work on "interesting stuff". So do some high school kids.
To call her an EE, or to group her among EEs is an insult to the EEs that actually put in the hard work to get their degrees.
She's a dropout hobbyist/hacker that is a great self promoter. Nothing more.
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~analoger~
4/19/2013 11:16 AM EDT
"To call her an EE, or to group her among EEs is an insult to the EEs that actually put in the hard work to get their degrees."
Sure it's because what she has achieved is an "insult" to the corporate academia.
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Paul Tan
5/13/2013 4:16 PM EDT
I agree! It is such an insult to all the university prof and PhD students who can't even solder or put together a simple circuit.
Maybe they will actually wake up and realize that just doing math on the blackboard is useless without the practical knowledge of being able to build something, the mark of a true engineer!
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IT support london
4/11/2013 8:37 AM EDT
Cabling done correctly first time !
Our engineers are fully trained in the art of cabling and pay great attention to get this process correct for businesses in London and in our data centre. Take a look at a few examples of our work!
another to follow on twitter @SpeedsterIT
http://www.speedster-it.com/server-roomsdata-centers/cabling-done-correctly-first-time/
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