What is a BitBox?

As soon as I got myBitBox.com my friend asked 'Sounds cool, but what is a bitbox?'. Well the original site I wanted was something with Bit Bucket in the URL but all the cool URLs with Bit Bucket were taken.

Back in the early days of computers, long strips of paper were used to store programs using a series of holes. When a plain strip of paper was punched out with a program, the 'holes' would fall into a bucket or box. Since the paper punch outs were representative of bits, the bucket that caught them was called a bit bucket.

Using hard drives today, the bit bucket box has gone the way of the Dodo but bit bucket can still be used to mean a trash can. Since i make a lot of random stuff on the computer (most of it just for kicks) this site could be considered the catch for my creations rather than the trash. :-P

About s1axter

My name is s1axter. I'm a computer engineer with a passion for anything that has an electrical circuit. I made myBitBox.com to host my stuff and be a personal blog...that's it, no real higher purpose. Almost anything you find on here can be used for non-commericial purposes, just throw some credit my way.

A little background: I've been an engineer for a LONG LONG time. I remember taking my first summer course in circuits when I was like 8. I've had a box of parts and broken stuff since about then (I still have the box,lol). When I was in High School I fixed the school computers and got away with way too much stuff. I also converted a '92 VW cabriolet to run on batteries and participated in two road rallies (teamev.com).

I went to Clarkson University and survived with a BS in Computer Engineering. Since then I've lived in all four time zones in the US, spent time in paradise; San Diego, CA. I went to Japan for business, learned all about electronics manufacturing, and test engineering. Now I reside in northern Colorado and work for a large corporation as a firmware engineer and team lead. I also maintain and run geeksinside.com. The only real computer games I play are Guitar Hero and Quake 3, I am learning to play the real guitar and like Hard Rock.

If you have a question, send it to s1axter@geeksinside.com
That's about it