'Back in the days' My facebook was just face to face. Or via a BBS in the seventies thru early eighties before Internet. I remember the ASR33 with a 8080 system board and 20ma Loop through a 150 modem. The SBC was home-brewed with a self designed interface board. Originally the SBC had 256B of static memory with a whooping 1KB(4x256B 1702) of EPROM for the control/OS. If you can call the service routines a OS.:) I thought I had died and went to heaven when I built the 1KB static memory board. Talk about tight code & re-entrant code to facilitate the available memory to get the tasks done. Today kids do not realize clean coding nor care to stream or optimize like we used to do. Sad! I now have more power sitting on my lap than I would have in the lab as a total back then.
Reminiscing about hacking both software & hardware to do whatever. I still work with my hands building hardware but not at the rate 40 years ago. Software is still dear to me, more than one heart ache/headache in yesteryear. Limiting my coding now but believe giving back to the community is important, so I moderate a forum to give something back.
Even in primary and secondary school we had shop. Kids today are not afforded the same to tinker or build something from their own design like we did. Cultural changes, education budgets and lose of qualified instructors to teach at this level keeps the student from being exposed to the topic.. Our manufacture needs are not met for worker supply to perform task(s) at the level necessary to produce quality.
Research shows that retrain instructions can provide workers but most people look down on this type of production thus want the corner office or gimme entitlements.:(
Woz, my point is, 'How do you think the industry should handle the situation here in the USA? Active participation in Local education? Not shipping it outside but how to keep it here. How do we get the youth start-up to tinkering, evolving to a generation that could boot strap this country's economy? Not everyone is suited to higher education, nor need a liberal arts degree that will not service over their lifetime. Not everyone can be a game designer nor engineer. Education here in the USA is in sad state.:( Any ideas?
How do we get kids to realize that hobbies can be beneficial. Not sitting all day & night playing a game. Sure produces good hand eye but what good can a professional gamer be to society?
Presently working on a project using the 'RaspberrryPi' to hopefully introduce students to the wonderful world of electronics and experimentation. Project does have simple designs for I/O, motor control and even some simple closed loop control designs that hopefully peak some interest.
Woz, I too wish to Thank You for contributions to the computer world. Amazing designs back in the day that opened doors for many hobbyist to continue on into the field. Many Thanks! --Gary
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'Back in the days' My facebook was just face to face. Or via a BBS in the seventies thru early eighties before Internet. I remember the ASR33 with a 8080 system board and 20ma Loop through a 150 modem. The SBC was home-brewed with a self designed interface board. Originally the SBC had 256B of static memory with a whooping 1KB(4x256B 1702) of EPROM for the control/OS. If you can call the service routines a OS. :) I thought I had died and went to heaven when I built the 1KB static memory board. Talk about tight code & re-entrant code to facilitate the available memory to get the tasks done. Today kids do not realize clean coding nor care to stream or optimize like we used to do. Sad! I now have more power sitting on my lap than I would have in the lab as a total back then.
Reminiscing about hacking both software & hardware to do whatever. I still work with my hands building hardware but not at the rate 40 years ago. Software is still dear to me, more than one heart ache/headache in yesteryear. Limiting my coding now but believe giving back to the community is important, so I moderate a forum to give something back.
Even in primary and secondary school we had shop. Kids today are not afforded the same to tinker or build something from their own design like we did. Cultural changes, education budgets and lose of qualified instructors to teach at this level keeps the student from being exposed to the topic.. Our manufacture needs are not met for worker supply to perform task(s) at the level necessary to produce quality.
Research shows that retrain instructions can provide workers but most people look down on this type of production thus want the corner office or gimme entitlements. :(
Woz, my point is, 'How do you think the industry should handle the situation here in the USA? Active participation in Local education? Not shipping it outside but how to keep it here. How do we get the youth start-up to tinkering, evolving to a generation that could boot strap this country's economy? Not everyone is suited to higher education, nor need a liberal arts degree that will not service over their lifetime. Not everyone can be a game designer nor engineer. Education here in the USA is in sad state. :( Any ideas?
How do we get kids to realize that hobbies can be beneficial. Not sitting all day & night playing a game. Sure produces good hand eye but what good can a professional gamer be to society?
Presently working on a project using the 'RaspberrryPi' to hopefully introduce students to the wonderful world of electronics and experimentation. Project does have simple designs for I/O, motor control and even some simple closed loop control designs that hopefully peak some interest.
Woz, I too wish to Thank You for contributions to the computer world. Amazing designs back in the day that opened doors for many hobbyist to continue on into the field. Many Thanks! --Gary