As an engineer, I constantly feel the need to learn new things in order to keep the "saw sharp". Since I write code for a living, I often feel dissatisfied by the notion that everything I create is "virtual". The only way to interact with the things that I create are with a keyboard and mouse. The thought of this often makes me wonder if I would have been happier in a profession where I built things with my hands. People tend to appreciate things more that they can hold and physically interact with. So naturally, this led me to the idea of "How can I make software take on a more physical presence?". Of course I immediately thought of robotics, so I typed the term "robotics" into Google and I discovered the term "Physical Computing". According to Wikipedia, the definition of physical computing is: Physical computing, in the broadest sense, means building interactive physical systems by the use of software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world. While this definitio... [More]