I was slowly receiving my orders, but at the same time I was still pretty overwhelmed with the whole project and the idea and I knew would need to assemble it all somehow. Some people would warn me that it’s complicated or “ambitious” but I would blissfully try to ignore it. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will” I would repeat to myself and just try to stick to more hopeful people. Since I was still pretty stoked about the whole idea I kept on talking about it to whoever was willing to listen. One of my work colleagues told me if I should check out Bitraf. The name did not tell me much, so at first, I ignored it and visited the local hackerspace instead. When hacker space guys also directed me to the neighborhood place Bitraf I finally decided to give it a go. On one of those rainy autumn evenings, I showed up in a graffiti alternative part of Oslo, just to discover the maker space had all that I needed, most importantly the “electronics room”.

I have posted a message on the club communication channel. I did not wait long before I got the one response. That’s how I met Tingo.

Tingo, an electronician who at this time had some spare time and was a Bitraf regular, became a kind of godfather of the project – spending an insane amount of time educating me about electronics. We started with finalizing the shopping list; he showed me pages such as https://octopart.com/ exist – a site checking the availability of components at different retailers. He taught me how to read the data sheets, showed me how to use the tools I needed – the reflow oven, and the air-suck machine, and he was judging my soldering and telling me to always check the device with a multimeter.