OT and getting further OT all the time!

[Tom Jennings]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

>> More interesting stuff is out there, you have to dig, and it's
>> all on web sites.  It's not necessarily as low-level as building
>> your own PC from transistors, but people will always hack.
>
> And it's growing.  And it's getting more technical.  And more hackly.
> Dare I say we are witnessing a resurgence of sorts?

It's true, we are. The PIC and it's embeddable products, along
with software like MAX/MSP are making a big revolution in
"end-user" making of things (not sure if a lot of it is quite
hackish but its' heading that way).

It's more assembling of subassemblies, and not always delving into
the innards "like we do" but it's results-oriented, and the
VLSI-cookie-glued-to-a-board is normal to the kids who grew up
with this stuff (not our stuff).