Welcome to OpenHardware.net!

      Welcome to the newly renovated OpenHardware site. Since the site was first established in 2000, it has been a place for me to put information that I wished to share with others. The site's mission has not changed, I still remain committed to sharing information about embedded systems and embedded linux.

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TopWho am I?

My name is Tom Walsh, I have been working with electronics for about 30 years now. I started out as an "Electronics Bench Tester" and ultimately worked for the last company as a "Embedded Systems Engineer". I currently do contract consulting work for various clients and have been self employed for the past 9 years.

The bulk of my experience has been with embedded systems. I've designed hardware using the 8051, 80C188 and now ARM processors. In addition to the hardware design, I also write a lot of software.

Over my career, I have also done a lot of circuit board layout. Currently, I use EagleCAD running on a Linux host. Yeah, Linux is another of my passions, I ditched Microsoft about 7 years ago and have never regretted that descision. Linux allows me to be a lot more productive!