My name is Ami, I am thirteen, a student, and have started an extracurricular class studying electronics at school, I would eventually like to work as an electronic technician, or designer like my late Dad who tragically passed away this year. I believe I've a head start on the others this year as the project is to build a working radio.
I used to help Dad with his hobby projects, and I learned some of the basics about the way components work, and more importantly, how to be safe with electricity. Last year I asked if I could try a project of my own, and from a design he gave me, I've managed to build a simple MW radio that works well but has very few parts and only one transistor, that drives a set of homemade earphones, it's this set that I intend to modify for the class project, for that I will need to add an amplifier so it can drive a loudspeaker
I would really like to get into radio/audio construction, (like Dad), as well as learning how to build from discreet components, (valves as well as transistorized), as I would like to understand the design process and not just assemble kits or build other people's designs. I've been reading up on the subject with books like The Art of Electronics, and to be honest, its on the limit of my ability to understand them, but I find it satisfying when the penny finally drops.
My late dad's legacy on this is that I probably won't ever want for any test equipment or parts as I probably have all I will ever need already.
With this in mind, I joined a few forums to get myself into something a little more interactive than just reading up on this stuff in books and on the "how to" type websites.
Oh yes, and I love ALL music, that is REAL MUSIC, or put another way, where the art is in the performance, not the autotune unit in the studio!
And that boys, (and girls?) is why I'm here!
Ami.
PS. I hope the "management" here doesn't mind but as a method of parental control, my dear Mum has insisted I use dads old email address, rather than one of my own.
And....
Nobody need be politically correct with me, but it seems to befuddle people on forums that I AM A GIRL!!!
But I would like her money 
