Did you do this before you ever used a full on radio? That seems hard to believe, so I guess you are implying that it is an experience that feels different. I wonder how so?
It feels different when you put it together yourself out of basic components and see that there is no magic in there, and yet... there is.
The profit motive for business is to make things easier to use, but ironically that also makes it less likely for anyone using it to have any idea how it actually works. The reason most of us are here is because we had to struggle and learn in order to get computers to work. I don’t think as many kids today will have that opportunity, which probably means that we’ll have more people who use technology but less of them capable of creating it.