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[John Hanna]

Interesting read…

https://hackaday.com/2025/03/08/physical-computing-used-to-be-a-thing/

 

Regards,

     John

 

[Chhaya, Harshal S.]

 

John,

 

Thanks for sharing this. Interesting perspective, but also wholly wrong.

 

FWIW – I wholly disagree with the premise of the article

 

The authors are in a bubble of hardware hackers – for whom going to the open source FOSDEM conference is a regular thing.

 

In the real world, very few people have the tools to write code, let alone control physical objects like LEDs.

 

For the non-FOSDEM goer (which is MOST of us), turning on an LED or controlling the color of an RGB LED is still a big “a-ha!” moment!

It is exciting to see a line of code – that the coder has written - control the light or play a tone.

The sense of agency is empowering. We have all seen this and experienced this ourselves.

 

Combine a few of these lines and you have yourself a sound-and-light show :)

 

“Physical computing” is still very much a thing. And we should still use it to excite and engage students who are right to ask “why learn to code?”

 

To paraphrase a meme:

 

Tired: print(“Hello World”)

Wired: color.rgb(R, G, B)

 

 

I wish we never get jaded enough to think that interacting with the real world through teachable lines of code is humdrum.

 

Thanks,

- Harshal

 

 

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[Sean Bird]

Wow, impressively well said Harshal!

Thanks,

Sean Bird

[John Hanna]

Tired: print(“Hello World”)

Wired: color.rgb(R, G, B)

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     John

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     John

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