High Tech Delight - Programming the 'Hard' out of Hardware

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Library work focuses on concrete fixes: AVR Girl auto-detects Arduino ports and flashes Firmata, cutting a 30–45 minute Arduino IDE setup to seconds; a hidden “test‑pilot” web app collects board/OS/node reports so contributors verify weird clones and a Linux flash-length bug gets fixed. Created led-js for OLEDs and a CLI Fermata Party to mass‑upload Firmata; documents show Johnny‑Five use, nine distinct error types inspire custom error classes for i18n. Community tooling for Tessel and a $50 sumo kit make workshops actually work.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:28programming the hard out of hardware
3. 4:00background
4. 10:59feelings
5. 17:56making tools, not projects
6. 26:47create a magic first impression
7. 43:18Clearly defined community goals
8. 45:35lesson
9. 46:15javascript rocks for robots
10. 48:28contributions over complaints

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