I definitely agree with your point, but I must say that I would have loved to be able to play with Arduinos and Android programming when I was a kid. There are

I definitely agree with your point, but I must say that I would have loved to be able to play with Arduinos and Android programming when I was a kid. There are so many amazing things you can do nowadays for not much money that it is still so much better for kids now in terms of tinkering IMO. You can order so many cheap boards on ebay from China, it's crazy. When I was a kid it was impossible to find datasheets for anything, now you can find more information than anyone can handle on the internet for free. You can even watch youtube videos on how to hack all those NDA locked things.