So I may have found how to post a new blog.
At least I can press enter here. I'm not a big fan of the changes around hear but I've heard good things from the non-computer viewers, and that was what they were going for, there that.
The other week Kari Byron (Mythbusters) posted a tweet about seeing kids build stuff with computers and 3-d printers and her looking for Carmen san Diego when she was their age. She is a little older than I am but I would have to admit the same thing. Not for lack of trying:
I tired to build more things when I was a kid, I asked my parents for balsa wood and materials I could work with safely. I asked for the kids sized bandsaw that was on TV so there could be one I could use safely and with my height at the time. I tired to draw and design things out on paper. I had a cool idea about the little kit electric toy car, that sat around in the den, which I didn't get to try. But some other kids parents did and that kid got a patent on it and got to appear on a discovery channel show. I used months of my allowance to buy a computer design program, that it turned out wasn't really what I was looking for, (something like a bacis 'solidworks' was what I was looking for). It keeps making me think of how I would try to help my offspring along with building things.
