This event was impressively organized, even though the software was very alpha and untested and hard to make work. I posted some photos here: http://www.smashc

This event was impressively organized, even though the software was very alpha and untested and hard to make work. I posted some photos here: http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/micro-controllers-soder-pizza-and-beer http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/micro-controllers-sod... I should also add, the headline here on Hacker News is misleading. Yes, the demo connects the Verbalizer to Google Search, but you can do a hell of a lot else with it. That's the whole point. You could argue that it's basically a glorified microphone, but one that's got a bunch of points of control added to it. The 2 women sitting across from us connected a heat sensor to to the Verbalizer, so they started getting heat data from it and feeding it into their laptop. They didn't have time to do anything cool with that input, but clearly, this is an area that is wide open for experimentation. By the way, all of the equipment was given to us for free. Even the sodering iron was given to us for free. I guess Google was throwing around some marketing dollars. This is the most impressive free event I've been to in months.