1. The document discusses why play is important, noting that play allows humanity to advance by being playful, rebellious, and immature. 2. It introduces Arduino as an open-source electronics prototyping platform that allows people to create goal-oriented machines like robots. 3. Playing with Arduino and robots is presented as a fun way to engage one's brain and bring ideas to life.

1. Why Play...
(with Arduino.. and Robots!)
Slides Prepared for Women Tech Makers Baguio 2016
University of Cordillera March 12, 2016

3. What is play?
Why should we do it?
(aside from it’s fun)

7. “Play is just doing it for its own sake, it doesn’t
have a particular purpose, and that’s what’s
great about play. If its purpose is more important
than the act of doing it, it’s probably not play”

8. STUART BROWN TED TALK VIDEO CLIP

9. Why play?

10. Why play?
1. So we won’t murder

11. Why play?
1. So we won’t murder others
2. So that we won’t die in fear

12. Why play?
1. So we won’t murder others
2. So that we won’t die in fear
3. If we play, we might get
hired by NASA

13. “Humanity has advanced, when it has
advanced, not because it has been
sober, responsible, and cautious, but
because it has been playful, rebellious,
and immature.”

14. “Play is the only way the highest
intelligence of humankind can unfold“

15. “Men do not quit playing
because they grow old; they
grow old because they quit
playing.”

16. Why play?
1. So we won’t murder others
2. So we won’t die in fear
3. If we play, we might get hired by NASA

17. Why play?
1. So we won’t murder others
2. So we won’t die in fear
3. If we play, we might get hired by NASA
4. To advance humanity
5. So that the highest intelligence of
humankind can unfold
6. So that we stay youthful (and
beautiful) forever!

20. Open-source electronics
prototyping platform

27. Fully open-sourced hardware/software!
Awesome software!
Relatively cheap hardware!

31. Goal-oriented machines that can sense,
plan, act in a continuous loop in effort to
achieve their goal.

32. Can’t do

33. Won’t do

34. Shouldn’t do

35. THE QUEEN OF SH*TTY ROBOTS
VIDEO CLIP

36. - What is play? why play (aside from it’s fun)
- Arduino, examples
- Robots, examples
- Playing with Arduino and
Robots is a fun way to
engage your brain and bring
your ideas to life.

37. http://fb.com/nanicalabs
http://nanica.io
http://mithi.xyz

38. Thank you for listening!