I love tinkering, have done it since I was old enough to unscrew a flashlight and figure out how the switch worked. A few tries later it actually worked when reassembled. Built a 2 dimensional router table only up and down was definitive, either up or down. Built it mechanically, electronically ,wrote the program all controlled with a c=64. I have 3 mechanical licenses and an electronic certificate of a sort. Worked with different PLC’s over the years that were too expensive for a hobbyist. Then I was introduced to the internet, I found a little affordable controller that had a free ide which was the OOPIC.
This suffered from time and support. Then 16 or so years later I got an arduino… C++ and I had issues, the syntax was problematic for me, I liked basic type of programming. Then I found XOD … AND HERE I AM!