Right!? I was hooked the moment I realized the internet was a wide open place where builders and creators could share and open source their projects.
As a kid who was obsessed with understanding how things worked and had an engineering bent, the internet was a breath of fresh air and led to a huge decline in the frequency of my library visits.
I was the teen building 13' cannons in my backyard and mixing up thermite from manufacturing tailings.
I was assembling banks of electrostatic capacitors I'd assembled from 2-liter bottles in milk crates in my basement, charging them up with a giant CRT television with it's screen plastered with aluminum foil, and seeing how much voltage I could store on my own body as I sat atop a DIY throne made of Styrofoam and lit up light bulbs just by holding them in my hands.
Tesladownunder was right up my alley.
