I described how to take advantage of Living in the Golden Age of Electronic Making for HVOpen:
Although you don’t get my patter, perhaps the linkies will make up for the silence:
I filled a table with Show-n-Tell widgets and a good time was had by all: hardly anybody fell asleep.
[Update: The talk addressed folks interested in starting out with electronic projects who have no test equipment at all. The choices would be different for other audiences, but … boat anchors aren’t appropriate here.]