After building my first DIY amplifier with valves and receiver with transistors at the age of 13, projects followed one after another. I turned electronics design into my profession.
The creativity and the design bring me more satisfaction than the soldering. This is the reason a part of my projects remain unfinished. When they do get finished, it gives a kick if they actually operate. But in just as many occasions it fails because practice and my theories do not always match. In the later case I learn from it.
The last decade this hobby has been moved to the background more and more. Main reasons are: miniaturising of electronics makes it more difficult to do the soldering in a home-environment, the technologies I use mostly date back to the 90's; for me it is almost impossible to have my projects compete with electronic equipment one can buy in the shop; my present hobby photography leaves little or no free-time for other hobbies.
