Reminds me of what Frithjof Bergmann called our "poverty of desire" in his (excellent) book: New Work New Culture: Work We Want and a Culture that Strengthens Us

My favorite:

Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY

If you're interested in kids + computers + education, this 1955 Technology in Education House Committee Meeting is a surprisingly great watch, and has Kay alongside Seymour Papert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwsQn1Rs-4A

1995, not 1955.

Ha! Thanks for the correction. Comment's no longer editable.

I was inspired by my Maslow CNC to build this polar plotter: https://derekenos.com/project-weezel

Wow, this looks so cool. Do you have a BOM or some schematics or even source code lying around? I would be interested to try something like this myself.

That's awesome! What things worked surprisingly well or poorly, and what problems did you run into?

Here's the source for my relatively recent ESP32-based Etch-a-Sketch build: https://github.com/derekenos/iome/tree/master/appliances/ske...

More pics/vids: https://derekenos.com/project-sketchy

I found working with relatively simple 8-bit microcontroller architectures (e.g. Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC), studying the datasheets and programming them in assembly, to be an effective and gratifying introduction to the basics of CPU architecture.