I am not trying to be dismissive or negative just stating observations , as far as driving kids away I got a 5 year old grand daughter that just learned how to solder a DB9 connector for a wiring harness .... I see potential there
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I agree, but that's not all they're doing. Don't be so dismissive; the only thing that will accomplish is make you bitter and drive the kids away from their interests.
-Dave
On 3/17/22 22:13, Lothar baier wrote:
Buying a Bluetooth or zigbee module and tacking it on a mcu module is
not the same as designing a circuit all the way to the circuit board
and then building and testing it just saying
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On 3/17/22 21:56, Lothar baier wrote:
They might be building stuff but nothing that has to do with RF , maybe microcontrollers robots and drones ....
...and Bluetooth and Zigbee and LoRa...They certainly ARE doing RF, just mostly not the same RF that you did. And that is ok!
As far as HAM RADIO goes ( and I am a HAM btw ) 'giving them out "
is about correct ...... if I compare the questions I had to answer
back in 85 when I got my first license in germany and the questions
now ....... well I am not going there but the german DARC pushed more
and more to make things easier to bring more people to the hobby and
it shows
True, all true. But to assert that it's somehow not an area of interest for young people today is patently false.
-Dave
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