On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:42:11AM -0800, Ted Dunning wrote: > I have to say one of the most fun conferences I have ever attended was the > third ALife conference. They had a lego play area for children attending. > Happily, very few children were there which allowed the rest of us to > spend many hours building responsive bots. Balancing sticks. Orienting > responders. Line followers. It was awesome.
:-D One very great event for me was attending a soldering+Arduino workshop by Mitch Altman and Jimmie Rodgers (kits included) - usually targeted at school kids it was attended mostly by software engineers who in their daily life don't do a lot of building boards themselves and enjoyed getting LEDs to blink in all sorts of colours. Isabel
