Nerdular – content and commerce platform for nerds (comics, video games, table top games, anime, cosplay, etc.). Bootstrapped and in private alpha now but hope to launch in late summer.

Great share!I rebuilt all of mine till I had the money not to and when they became to complex to do yourself in the backyard.Your startup is__________?

Sounds like an awesome person 🙂 And although you didn’t relish it at the time, looks like the skills you developed served you well in your adulthood, and you have all those memories!! My brothers are handy (something that my dad passed down to them), but unfortunately I grew up in a household and in a time that favored specific gender roles. They didn’t encourage education bc they thought I would just get married anyway. Got scholarships, finished college (first in my family) and now co-founding a tech startup. Would love to rebuild an engine one day 🙂

Truly an amazing father and teacher.i have a terrific pic of him reading to me when I was 3 or 4 that is how I remember him the best.

I love that your dad did that! Problem solving, building mechanical/electrical aptitude, repurposing and family time all rolled into a weekly project.

That’s the basis of the Inquiry-based learning model. My wife is a 7th grade science teacher, teaching middle school physical and chemical sciences and running the Virginia Junior Academy of Sciences for her school. Her classes are different from all of the others. Her class is noisy, she lets them go off on tangents, asking questions about the material that has nothing to do with the standardized testing. She had a light-bulb poster on the wall that a student can get up and any time, run over and slap to poster to let everyone know that they just had a light bulb moment, an epiphany or that they “got” a difficult concept. She hardly lectures and doesn’t give homework. 100% of her advanced and IB students have passed their HAT tests. She does it all by making them do everything possible hands on and instead of giving them answers to things or lecturing them, she presents a topic and makes them figure it out.This sounds like bragging, and it is–I can’t brag enough on how talented she is and how many students she is turning from indifferent into dedicated STEM students. Forget the lecture, which they’ll forget anyway. Teach them to think and how to work out questions and problems themselves. Teach them not to be afraid to ask questions or to be wrong, and to learn from their mistakes. It sounds a lot like Entrepreneurism, doesn’t it?

I remember that drill bit that you speak of.I have a similar one like that which is a hole saw. Used as an example for cutting into a desk and then being able to insert those plastic wire corralers. I bought a premade laminate conference table and cut a bunch of holes in the top so I can use it with computers and not have the wires draped over the top.I guess my issue as far as how things are now is that since people don’t understand they can use things they only know what they can buy pre-made (or at least most people).