Many of the people that work in technology are interested in gadgets and hardware as much as software. Not all of us, but many of us have had side projects where we've melded hardware and software together. For those of us that are older, and started working with computers decades ago, that might have been the only way that we could get a computer system to work.
I'm glad that I still find people interested in hardware. My son recently built his own gaming computer from parts, and I'm hoping to distract him from some games and get him to help me build some robots with a Raspberry Pi computer and BrickPi add on board. However it's not just kids as I've seen a number of people at Red Gate working with hardware to build a variety of interesting projects.
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