Desperately trying (and failing) to remember the name of something else that turned up while at school (198x, in the UK). It was a series of interconnecting small PCBs which were all open - not cased in or anything. (Low voltages only - this was educational!) You connected them together to make longer and longer chains, and had wires to jump across boards if needed.
The big advantage (educationally) was that being open you could see how it was put together physically as well as logically. The big disadvantage was the size - with each little PCB having the components, connectors and a little schematic for that part, it was easy to construct something that was longer than the table.
The real problem is when parents let their children sit in front of a TV or computer all day. There's a lot more to life than just staring at screens.
Yes. The sadest part about the article is the start in life here which encourages inactivity and couch/PC potato behaviour. With the much reported obesity worries, I would rather see an article about kids that prefer to be active, even if they can use Linux. (Although granted, such a story would probably not make/.)
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I tool started off with one of those "discrete components on springs" sets.
Very much like this I imagine.
Desperately trying (and failing) to remember the name of something else that turned up while at school (198x, in the UK). It was a series of interconnecting small PCBs which were all open - not cased in or anything. (Low voltages only - this was educational!) You connected them together to make longer and longer chains, and had wires to jump across boards if needed.
The big advantage (educationally) was that being open you could see how it was put together physically as well as logically. The big disadvantage was the size - with each little PCB having the components, connectors and a little schematic for that part, it was easy to construct something that was longer than the table.
black box records you. Oh, hang on...
this forming the basis for Project Cyborg 3.0 when Kevin Warwick gets to it.
The real problem is when parents let their children sit in front of a TV or computer all day. There's a lot more to life than just staring at screens.
/.)
Yes. The sadest part about the article is the start in life here which encourages inactivity and couch/PC potato behaviour. With the much reported obesity worries, I would rather see an article about kids that prefer to be active, even if they can use Linux. (Although granted, such a story would probably not make
I think the view from a moving train would be much nicer then a static office window anyday!
Unless you work here, which shares buildings with this.