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It Started With a Curious Kid Who Couldn't Stop Opening Things
From the age of eight, Wiets would take apart radios, hairdryers, and remote-control cars — not to destroy them, but to understand them.
His room was a tangle of wires, LEDs, and half-finished circuits. Every small project, every blink of light, felt like proof that he could make something real.
But life changed.
His family moved several times, and with every move, more of his electronics got left behind. By the last one, everything was gone — the tools, the boards, the projects.
The thing that gave him life was suddenly missing.
He stopped building.
He stopped dreaming.
And slowly, he forgot who he was.
One day, standing in a grocery store aisle, it all caught up to him. The noise, the routine, the lifelessness of everyday life — he broke down.
Not from what happened, but from what hadn't.
He realised the creative spark in him was dying, and he had no way to bring it back.
Then things slowly began to shift.
He found a small robotics group and joined them. He started again — simple circuits, buttons, lights. The spark returned.
Soon, he moved from PICAXE to building line-following robots, and then into the Arduino world. That changed everything.
Now he could program lights that changed colour, screens that spoke back, and sensors that made his projects come alive. His mind flooded with ideas.
One day, he had an extra Arduino board and decided to list it on Facebook Marketplace.
Within a few days, he found a buyer. When the man arrived to collect it, Wiets was surprised to see someone in his mid-fifties — but something about him was familiar.
He was beaming with the same excitement Wiets once felt himself: that feeling of bringing something new to life.
They spoke for a few minutes — about code, projects, ideas — and in that short exchange, Wiets realised something profound.
This wasn't about electronics.
It was about revival.
That single interaction wasn't the start of an electronics project.
It was the start of a movement — one that reminded people what it feels like to make again.
That spark became TechToast Academy.
Because building things isn't just for experts — it's for anyone, young or old, who's ever wondered "how does that work?" and wanted to find out.
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Once a curious kid, still building
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