Simon's demo ideas
Simon Ritter: Building weird stuff, especially with wood, is always interesting to me to put into a presentation. It's a good idea to come up with some original ideas about how you can apply the tech, and the weirder they are the better!
Many people, in their day job, have to do specific things: writing systems that deal with accounts, writing systems that deal with a web page, and things like that.
That stuff is not terribly exciting. If you can show them something that they could do with that tech, and suddenly it's completely out of the realm of what they normally do, it can be very good in terms of promoting a tech, and just helping people to see tech in a different light.
Geertjan Wielenga: You're actually quite well known for doing presentations with objects and soldering stuff together. Can you mention a couple of them to illustrate this?
Simon Ritter: I think the first one that I came up with was way back when I started with the evangelism team...