My dad owns a fab shop, so I grew up making stuff. I was into cars for a long time. In college, I built strut/tie bars and sold them on the web. I turboed my c

My dad owns a fab shop, so I grew up making stuff. I was into cars for a long time. In college, I built strut/tie bars and sold them on the web. I turboed my car and built the downpipe and the charge piping. I also made and modified numerous parts for the car and friends' cars (suspension parts, wiring, brackets, blah blah). I also reverse engineered the ECU running the engine and wrote an engine management system for it which required some hardware integration (that count? http://benogle.com/projects/bre http://benogle.com/projects/bre ). All of my furniture that was not upholstered (no couch, etc) until last year was built by me in high school. I finished the basement in my house which required making a bunch of stuff at previously mentioned fab shop. Even for general house maintenance I often ended up making some small part(s) at the shop (i.e. sprinkler system install, fixing the garage lean, etc).