Yes! One thing I never get tired of is taking stuff apart. I can rarely reassemble them, alas, but such is life. I see it as doing my part to ease recycling of

Yes! One thing I never get tired of is taking stuff apart. I can rarely reassemble them, alas, but such is life. I see it as doing my part to ease recycling of electronics. In fact, I let my then 2-yo daughter help me take the family color laser printer apart last year. Great fun, great fun. Now, a couple of things one can do as a curious adult is buying a simple embedded system such as Atmel-based arduino, TI MSP430 Launchpad, or STM8-based devboard, for just a couple of dollars. Set up a toolchain and a LED blinker project, programming in C (asm is a little bit _too_ low level to start with, while Arduino is a little bit too high).