abhayghatpande
commented
5 years ago 
Electronics and computer programming was my hobby in my teenager days. After graduated EE degree, I started working as a software engineer for different companies. My career was a roller coster. The companies I worked for, either closed or sold. In 2008, after the company lost its main source of revenue. I knew the I was about to loose my job again. Then there came this itch about electronics. I wanted to build something just for fun and for a change. So I picked up a soldering iron again. My hand was shaking so hard at first that I couldn’t solder anything at all. About 2 months after I lost my job, an old colleague contacted me with his idea of teaching kids financial literacy with online game and piggybank. I started designing a USB connected coin counter prototype. Eight months later, in 2009, we got our funding. By the end 2011, the new company was struggling with sales and out of cash. Again, I be came unemployed voluntary this time to save the company. Then I began to learn about BLE with the Nordic nRF51822 on my own and try to make a BLE version of the piggybank hoping that it would attracts more sales. Although I have completed the new product design it was too late. We weren’t able to secure any funding to bring it to the market. While designing the BLE piggybank version, I felt in love with the Nordic nRF5x series SoC and the Bluetooth technology in general. In 2014, I came up with a module IMM-NRF52822 using the nRF51822 with a blog post showing how to setup a free Eclipse development environment and a bunch of example code. When Nordic releases the nRF52832 I also made the IMM-NRF52832 module with same footprint as the previous one and more example code. As need of miniaturization of things became more and more important, I am releasing now the IMM-NRF52832-NANO 10x7x1.6mm module. These are my hobby, my passion and I will continue to bring them to life.
Think about how and why you decided to undertake the project. What drove you to start it and keep working? What will change or improve for you when the project is a reality?