I am an electrical engineer who loves his family, loves life, and loves figuring out how things work. I was the kid who found a screwdriver in the street and took Mom's appliances to bits while she wasn't looking. None worked then because it would be years before I figured out how to put them back together. I got a Merlin electronic game in 1978 and wanted to stay up playing games after Mom and Dad had gone to bed. It made a lot of loud sounds so I hacked in an earphone jack and kept on rocking some tic-tac-toe, echo, and magic square.