The urge to build or take something apart has always been with me. From an early age I'd drag random junk home from the street and take apart anything I could get my hands on. My grandfather's garage, with shelves of mysterious equipment, toolboxes, and suitcases of Soviet electronic parts, always felt like a treasure trove to me.

As a little kid I tinkered a bit with wood. As a teenager I got into amplifiers, simple transmitters, and textbook circuits. There wasn't really a grand goal — I just loved the feeling that, with a handful of components, some chemistry, and a soldering iron, I could hear my own voice coming out of a radio in the next room. By university I'd gotten into microcontrollers — Arduino hadn't taken over everything yet, so I mostly copied other people's projects and played around with Atmel and PIC.

Then there was a long break — adult work, moving between cities. All the hardware stuff got left behind. I came back to it in a small way in 2022 — a few of us tried building delivery rovers.

That same project is where I tried 3D printing. Learned to knock out simple engineering models in Fusion 360, and to fix and upgrade the printers themselves. About five printers have passed through my hands so far, with a sixth on the way.

These days I occasionally mess around with ESP32 and Arduino — you should find a list of projects below, and maybe even some notes about them :)