The very first

   Hello to all of you out there whoever you are (well, mostly bots, but I digress...).

I have been toying with the idea to start a blog for a while but due to the joys of parenthood and the added bonus of ADHD I haven't come round to it yet.

So what's this blog going to be about? I do have some ideas but how these will evolve and fuse into the final outcome is difficult to tell yet. As the title goes, I've been a tinkerer all my life (although I was a serial destroyer during my younger years), and I like to make and put stuff together to make life easier for me and my long-suffering family. I'm much into computers and technology in general but approach the whole thing from a "dumb user's" perspective i.e. while I love to understand how things are done, I consider them well made when knowing anything about their construction is unnecessary. "Convoluted", I hear you say? Probably, in a nutshell, I love technology but the ultimate tech is as K.I.S.S. as possible.

I intend to write about all the little (and not so little) projects that undertake every now and again as well as to share interesting tidbits of info from wherever I come across them.

So to start with, I intend to report on the latest little project I embarked on, a home-made, interactive kiosk for a curious little toddler of 18 months. You have probably come across the type in the play areas of restaurants and other public places. Here's what the professional trade quivalents look like:

(c) Fingabox, www.fingabox.co.uk

(c) Orgacontrol, www.orgacontrol.net

So, let the journey begin, read on for all the funny, frustrating and instructive moments to come....