Welcome! This website has a blog about my V6 Opel Manta build, some general information on mechanical engineering, programming, electronics, and some open-source projects. There are both open-source hardware and software projects for your amusement.
Please read the information below, which will provide most of what you need to get started on valvers.com
Getting Started
First off, browse the site and poke around. There’s a lot of subjects, maybe there’ll be something that really interests you, hopefully you’ll become involved in one of the open-source projects! 
Getting an account
You can sign up for a traditional account, in the normal way or else you can sign up using an OpenID profile. I recommend using an OpenID, because they are almost certainly the future, unlike fb connect! 
Anyway, if you have a Google or Yahoo! account you already have your OpenID sorted!
Don’t forget, when you login using OpenID, a new valvers.com account is setup for you using your email address as your nickname. You can change your nickname through your account profile settings.
There is some more information about OpenID here for the more curious.
Posting for the first time
First posts from everybody need to be moderated before they appear on the site, essentially to validate the account. Once your first post is moderated, you’ll be able to post without the moderation delay, posts will appear on the site instantly.
Setting an avatar
Avatars on valvers.com are grabbed from Gravatar automatically. Gravatar ties your email address (which you used to join with) to an avatar (small image). That way, whatever you sign up to on the web, your avatar will follow you. You can of course also change it and get it to change on all websites you post on at the same time!
So, if you haven’t done so already get over to Gravatar and create your account and upload/grab an image to use as your avatar on valvers.