[TriEmbed] Learning (Electronics Engineering) Curve

Michael Wayne michael.wayne at georgewaynellc.com
Thu Apr 16 10:32:41 CDT 2015


Go ahead and expand on that narrative, Burr...more than happy to put it in
my Kickstarter project along with 6LoWPAN/CoAP :-)
On Apr 16, 2015 11:27 AM, "Burr Sutter" <burrsutter at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Anything we can do to get Real Stuff in the hands of kids and adults is
> what matters.  If you have
> any ideas on how I can help with that, let me know."
>
> I feel that this paradigm is upon us.  The massive upsurge of the Arduino
> ecosystem, the Raspberry Pi universe (Kano ready for the masses),
> LittleBits and Lego Mindstorms is creating of new generation of adults/kids
> who are touching electronics for the very first time.     A percentage of
> those individuals will wish to then design/craft real products for sale on
> kickstarter, design custom embedded solutions for enterprise customers or
> simply bring clean drinking water to remote villages.
>
> I think it is time to start describing the path from "maker" to
> production-ready "engineer" - perhaps describing "engineer" as
> - product designer/engineer - some one who wishes to sell 50,000 units of
> some new widget
> - systems integrator/embedded "design house" - building custom solutions
> for large organizations (.gov, .edu, .com)
> - engineers for a better world - helping to fix fundamental challenges
> that impact our world (read Hieroglyph)
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Terry King <terry at terryking.us> wrote:
>
>> QUOTE:
>> For one thing, university bookstores need to start carrying maker
>> products to reduce the
>> engineering learning curve.
>> /QUOTE
>>
>> I am VERY happy to say that every incoming Electrical Engineering and
>> Computer Science student at
>> the University of Connecticut goes to the campus bookstore and buys this
>> kit:
>>
>> http://arduino-info.wikispaces.com/YourDuinoEngStarter
>>
>> I sold them 800 of those kits last year and they just told me another 800
>> this year. Some other
>> Universities use it also.
>>
>> This is my happy revenge for 1960 when I dropped OUT of Uconn because I
>> realized they weren't
>> going to let me TOUCH anything electrical until Senior year.  So 55 years
>> later, it's the way I
>> wanted it to be back then :-)
>>
>> 100 years ago, A. C. Gilbert patented the erector set:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_Set
>>
>> My friend Mark and I called him ..'the Old Man'.  Mark's father Dick was
>> Sales Manager of AC
>> Gilbert and on weekends we'd go down to the idle factory. The Old Man
>> would be puttering around in
>> the back, Making Things. There were bins and bins of PARTS to make
>> American Flyer Trains and
>> Erector Sets. Sometimes the Old Man would pull some part out of a bin,
>> hand it to us and say "Hey
>> Kid, What's That?".  "Uh, we'd say. that's an armature for something..
>> maybe a train engine".
>> "OK, so what's THIS?" Another part.  The Old Man gave us PARTS, He never
>> said "I'm going to teach
>> you something." He and Dick would look at us and laugh.  We would make
>> stuff out of parts. Mark
>> put together the 'truck' of an American Flyer Diesel Locomotive that we
>> ran by itself on the
>> tracks in Marks bedroom. It went like hell, especially after we put two
>> transformers in series.
>>
>> I was years later before I realized how much people like the Old Man and
>> my Dad's Ham Radio
>> buddies went out of their way and put stuff in the hands of us kids. I am
>> SO happy to be building
>> Erector Sets in the Science Fiction Future of 2015.
>>
>> Anything we can do to get Real Stuff in the hands of kids and adults is
>> what matters.  If you have
>> any ideas on how I can help with that, let me know.
>>
>> Regards, Terry King
>> ...In the Woods in Vermont USA
>> terry at terryking.us
>>
>> -The One who Dies with the most Parts LOSES. What do you need??
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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