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I think an emphasis needs to be put into developing a hobby for engineers. Yes, it’s good that they can be l33t at what they do, however having a hobby will increase the chance of the engineer finding a new way to integrate two areas of life together. Even if they failed to do so, someone with an interest in the area will make the integration easier as the terminology, techniques and etc that belongs in the niche group can be understood by such a hybrid person.

As technology develops, co processing with a specialized processor that accelerate certain hobbyist’s functions, you can bet that there are going to be more and more two guys in a garage, dreaming and realizing new hardware. You can expect everyone who knows how to program an FPGA (Which is all engineering graduate nowadays) to try and attempt it at least once in their lifetime.

For this to happen, there needs to be a port used for I/O communication(Which most machien already has, just not enough pins). Hot swappable cpu like the SD card nowadays. Some hardware interconnection technology needs to be developed to ensure that the pin contacts are secure.