Personally, I’ve always loved the process of taking things apart, understanding how they work and putting them back together. I turned that into a degree in mechanical engineering and eventually a career in power plant operations. Couldn’t be happier with my work than I currently am. Its WORK but I don’t hate it and I feel like I’m doing something important.
You just described my nephew. He saved up to buy the dolphin hacking tool, I gave him an old laptop to do his more dangerous stuff on so he didn’t break his current one, stuff like that. Built his own keyboard, 3d prints me fun shit like a pocket knife wall rack. He’s barely in 6th grade. Loves making his own board game rules and messing around with programming and make space stuff.
He is a little autistic and has trouble controlling emotions, explodes easily, but can occupy himself with awesome tech stuff.
I’m autistic too :D
If you show him the game Kerbal Space Program I’m sure he’ll love it! And always incentive breaking shit, it’s how humans learn ❤️