Friday Humor - The Propeller DEMO Board in the eyes of a 7 year old

Beau Schwabe

My daughters' interpretation of a Propeller Demo Board. It took me at least two other times of her going through her speech before I thought to grab the camera. (grrr) In a few of the non-recorded speeches, the SMT resistors were little cars in a parking lot.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=arKI13QnFKs

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Beau Schwabe

IC Layout Engineer
Parallax, Inc.

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Beau,

I can see that! Have she been in an airplane yet? I was picturing something like this.
(Hopefully my youtube specific time link works.. 3m46s)

OBC

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erco

A very articulate and imaginative little girl you have there! The apple didn't fall far from the tree! Neat vid, thanks for posting.

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Jay B. Harlow

When I got my Propeller Demo board, my 8 year-old was convinced that ALL integrated circuits were Propellers.

I had to explain to him that only certain ICs were propellers and what a propeller is, as opposed to other ICs. This led into other electronic components.

Oh! before the demo board arrived, he would start a rant on getting helicopters that flew around my train layout whenever I brought up Propellers.


I have since got him a Snap Rover: http://www.fatbraintoys.com/toy_companies/elenco_electronics_inc/snap_rover.cfm which he very much enjoys, so for birthday in August I'll need to foster that interest.

Jay

WBA Consulting

Very nice! My 4 year old daughter, who has already shown cognitive ability that greatly surpasses mine, is inexplicably drawn to every item in my project box that has a switch or button. When working with a demo board, I have to keep an eye on her because she struggles to not push the reset button. LOL On our getaway trip for her 4th birthday in January, she was in the back seat playing with our Garmin Nuvi GPS. (She likes watching the screen move, seeing new things pop into it, and letting us know "there is a park over there", etc. ) All of a sudden we heard music and asked what she had. She replied the GPS. Of course we were dumbfounded. Come to find out, our GPS also has a built in MP3 player and she had found out how to dig into the menus to start the music. (4 layers of menus!!) We also found out that she figured out how to change the guidance voice. Keep in mind she can't read yet (learning right now actually though) so she navigated all of this simply using the icons next to the text (IE: the music note next to the text "MP3 player". Scares us to think how true it is about kids' brains being like sponges.

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Andrew Williams
WBA Consulting
WBA-TH1M Sensirion SHT11 Module
My Prop projects: Reverse Geo-Cache Box, Custom Metronome, Micro Plunge Logger

HollyMinkowski

That's really cute!

You know, the sm resistors actually do look like cars in
a parking lot seen from up above.

Ravenkallen

I always thought that ics looked like bugs.

HollyMinkowski

Was just reading the DailyMail and found this story.
A sonogram of a baby boy giving a thumbs up! Now
this is really cute. This kid is going places

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1280187/Im-doing-fine-mum-Unborn-babys-thumbs-womb-captured-hospital-scan.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Whit

Thanks for sharing this Beau. Very cute and honestly makes about as much sense as the real explaination. It really is a bit mysterious how all those little do-dads do all that they can do.

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