Hardware Meetup and Life Advice
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We had a fairly quiet hardware meetup last night. But I was able to give out some sage life advice for someone who asked what their kids should be learning about. Two things:
Take a look at 3D design. Have a play with one of the many tools out there that you can use to learn about this, for example TinkerCad or BlocksCad. If you are feeling super brave you could even take a look at Blender. These are free to use and you can output things that you can 3D print. A knowledge of the language of 3D design is always going to be useful, whatever you end up doing in real life.
And, talking of language, the next thing you should get kids doing is blogging/journaling. Writing about what you’ve been up to is a very good habit to get into, whether you want the world to see it or not. It gets you used to putting your thoughts into words and gives you a sense of where you are going and what you have done. It is also a great way of dealing with things that have gone wrong. You can write them down, along with a list of the things that you will do different next time and kind of “put the issue to bed”. I write a journal and then take bits out of it for the blog (this thing). I don’t do this for anyone in particular. I do it because I enjoy it and find it useful for me. Your journal can be as simple as a Notepad document that you add to, or you can use one of the online tools (Apple even have a journal app built into their phones now)
More advice in the next Hardware Meetup, which will be in 3 weeks on the 25th of September.
