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How ironic that these days there are many millions of computers chock full of nifty devices like that, that are dedicated to individual users, that are all butt
by greenbit 4y ago
How ironic that these days there are many millions of computers chock full of nifty devices like that, that are dedicated to individual users, that are all buttoned up so tightly with multi-user protected operating systems that it's virtually impossible for a kid to discover the sense of power you get from banging directly on the metal. Sure, you can still get there, but the road is now very much longer and full of non obvious steps. With good old debug.exe, the curtain was right there for anyone to pull back.
- unnouinceput 4y agoYou know, DOS is still there and you can bang directly in the metal inside a virtual machine. But nowadays you can do this even way better in Arduino/RaspberryPi, having even more hardware exposed. Sure, the road is a bit longer, but also the power rush you get from seeing your little nifty cobbled together wires that, once coupled with a serial->usb converter, your fiddling with switches will do on the screen, is very intoxicating.