Education significance:
Consider this; I grew up in another country, had indigenous children as playmates, to the foreigner walking three days into the bush to find us, these people were uneducated. However when we were in the jungle these kids knew the name of every tree, bush, leaf, insect, bird and animal. If we got hungry they could get stuff to eat that was right in front of us, more important they knew what NOT to eat! What I learned from this experience was that they were highly educated, just in a different world view.
At a young age I could build a crystal set or a single transistor radio set, I could tear down a motorcycle engine, put it back together and it would run. As a teenager I built a wind charger and we had electric lights three days walk into the bush. Because I was raised in the bush without electricity I have no clue how I knew this stuff but during a furlough my patient dad just changed the fuses I’d blow. I did have a mentor in Australia who taught me how to make a crystal set. I knew very different things than my playmates in the bush, were either of us uneducated? Not at all, just different educational experiences.
By the time I was 15 I had built a wind generator, making my own blades and pivots and the wind would charge a battery.
When I was 16 we finally had a road into the area but no vehicle, so Dad found an old Land Rover in the coastal town. We had to work on it a lot but the termites had eaten all the wiring and insulation out of it. Mom got my correspondence school in Chicago to send me the wiring schematics for the Land Rover, they found them in the library and Xerox copied them and air mailed them to me. I was able to totally rewire the vehicle, Dad did most of the engine work, I helped replace springs, tires and we got it licensed, it would even drive!
By the time I was 19 there were buildings to wire, power poles to raise and string up, and diesel generators to install and maintain. This was the first electricity for that station; in my spare time I taught science and health to the grade school students. During that time the students tell me I taught them to make simple transistor radios, I don’t remember that but they have pictures. Here is David, Joel and Duane with a bread-board radio they built.
For years I maintained automated equipment for an electronic chip manufacturing facility.
So my experience started early in life and I have been doing refrigeration and air conditioning (HVACR) for many years. However my strengths are in power electrical and electronics, and I have worked in telephone and cabling too.
So I’ve been doing this stuff for over 55 years, I’m not sure how the Sense AI and I will get along because I’m really “hands on” and like to be in control!!!