That is kind of you...but I'm much better, in fact very good, with mechanical stuff. That erector set when I was about eight started a lifetime of mechanical aptitude. I would skip out of eighth grade classes and go to the library and read about how to fix cars. I even worked at a car dealership for a number of years as my first real job. I've built two boats, several cars, a slew of vintage motorcycle restorations, learned to paint when I was 18, built two houses, seriously into RC aircraft, even took up flying for awhile and was going to build an airplane. The electronics are all still just like smoke and mirrors to me. Even so, I'm an IT tech by trade for the past twenty years. I run the network and ecommerce for a distribution company. But then...I have consultants.
I did drop out of two classes at the community college...Electrical and electronics - as soon as all the math started I glossed over.
I used to enjoy working on mechanical stuff, now it just seems like work, so I make craft beer and ride electric mountain bikes. I had to give up a fifty year pursuit of offroad racing and adventure touring motorcycles for old age.
Reading about all the problems people have with trying to make their DIY batteries work is exasperating at a minimum. I don't know if I could handle all the futzing around with them. Top charging and bottom charging, puffing and sensors for every silly thing. I think I would rather just buy one that had a warranty, and setup my rig to keep it charged.
I'm two years away from retirement, and then we'll really be able to do some RV traveling. We had a blast when the kids were younger - put forty thousand miles on the ol' motorhome with them - this is the third one. Now the kids are all grown and gone, they all moved back to Seattle. All I hear is "So when are you guys moving back up here?"
Well,
maybe eastern washington where it doesn't rain so much.
I guess I've got one more house to build... ?