Before I became interested in 3D printing I tinkered with many things. I began by making weapons when I was a very small child and quickly branched out into making anything that I thought was cool at the time. This included many bombs, airguns, knives, video game props (multiple ‘Hidden Blades’) a machete, a sword (all heat treated using my mum’s hair dryer blowing into a charcoal fire in an old Wok). I branched out into electronics, tinkering with tasers, capacitors, Tesla coils, and many pranks involving these. This electronics knowledge was also put into good use by connecting it to Xbox remotes, enabling me to perform repetitive functions (buying and selling a Fifa item for 250 and reselling it for 300) and also helping me with in-game gameplay (rapid fire modification for Call of Duty and a Fifa modification enabling me to perform tricks that require a lot of dexterity). Most of this has faded from my memory, however, every once in a while I come across an old project in a dark corner of my garage, reminding me of some bodge job I did when I was 7.