Ten years ago today, I launched Ohmify 🎉

During that phase of my life, I was living a more nomadic lifestyle, traveling while writing about electronics on my blog, designing hardware products for other companies, and writing my first physical book (Electronics For Kids).

Wherever I went, my electronics interest came with me (and my soldering iron!).

But I was mostly alone with my interest.

There were a few online communities for electronics, but they usually weren’t very welcoming. If you asked a “stupid” question, you’d hear it!

So I had started imagining a different kind of community. One where beginners were welcome, and no question was too basic to ask — with courses and fun projects to support it.

A place where the goal was not to get a certificate, but to actually learn and understand electronics, so that you could build cool stuff.

I named it “Ohmify” in my head.

For a long time it stayed there. It felt too big. I had too many other projects. It was one of those ideas filed under “would have been cool.”

Until a friend challenged me to think long-term — and to ask myself what I’d do if I knew I wouldn’t fail.

The answer was obvious. It was always Ohmify.

So from a small apartment in Medellín, Colombia, I started building it.

Working day and night, with the occasional beer with my friend Danny or a salsa night out with my girlfriend (now wife) as the only breaks. I loved every bit of it.

And after several months of work, on March 31, 2016, I launched Ohmify!

We started with a small group of learners, and little by little it grew.

Since then, thousands of people have learned electronics through our courses.

And the community is exactly what I hoped it would be — friendly, encouraging, and genuinely helpful to beginners.

Now, ten years later, the girlfriend from back then has become my wife, and we have two young daughters. We have our homebase in Norway but still spend longer stretches in other countries.

And I get to spend my days writing, building projects, thinking about, and creating more ways to help people learn electronics in Ohmify. Life is good =)

Ten years in, and I’m just getting started.

Keep On Soldering!
Oyvind @ build-electronic-circuits.com