Hi. I'm a life-long tinkerer and ham-radio licensee. I got my first license (US Technician) age 12.
One of my first electrical projects was at about age ten. I found an old pinball machine in the dump. I hooked one of it's electro-mechanical score displays to a rotary dial phone to make a rudimentary adding machine. I also nearly got expelled for hooking a car-radio vibrator to an oil furnace ignition transformer and wiring it to the striker plate of the junior-high science lab, giving the instructor quite a jolt when he tried to get in the room.
I started a stereo service business right out of high school, and worked as a technician for a decade or so, and then was promoted to Design Engineer.
Still mess around with AF-to-RF and digital.
de N7JDB/VA7JHI
One of my first electrical projects was at about age ten. I found an old pinball machine in the dump. I hooked one of it's electro-mechanical score displays to a rotary dial phone to make a rudimentary adding machine. I also nearly got expelled for hooking a car-radio vibrator to an oil furnace ignition transformer and wiring it to the striker plate of the junior-high science lab, giving the instructor quite a jolt when he tried to get in the room.
I started a stereo service business right out of high school, and worked as a technician for a decade or so, and then was promoted to Design Engineer.
Still mess around with AF-to-RF and digital.
de N7JDB/VA7JHI