Is there anyone younger than fifty on this forum besides me?? I feel overwhelmed by older folks reminiscing about the 1900's here... I'm from the early 2000's so I feel left out 
Is Arduino something that usually attracts the younger generation, or mostly only the older generations? Maybe young people can't be bothered because it's "easier" to buy everything pre-made from China...
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There are plenty of young people who post here - just look at the number of "Do my homework for me" threads. But they come and go like mayflies.
There aren't many people answering questions though. The last time I counted it was around fifty to sixty in the English speaking forums. I get the impression that the majority of those folks were born last century, many of them quite a while ago.
Indeed. It was much more fun when electronic projects generally used around 350 volts or sometimes rectified mains voltage instead of the 3.3 volts or so of today. If you now mention such a project here, you'll get all sorts of safety advice and plees to abandon it at once. Those were the days when men were men.
I was born before the transistor was invented and discovered electricity by sticking a paper clip in an electrical outlet. 
Bell Labs awarded us winners in a local science fair with a kit that allowed one to make a solar cell, including "doping" the silicon wafer and plating the wafer with nickel for the attachment of leads. I'm sure I was exposed to some chemicals that would have the lawyers advertising on late night TV.
I just recently tossed the schematics for an amplifier I built using 6V6s 
. I still have a couple of output transformers for a pair of 6V6s - they will probably go in the next purge.
I'm over 60.
When I read the title I was thinking "young" means teen or pre-teen and I have the impression that there are LOTs of "kids" playing-around with the Arduino.
And I'm pretty sure it's used in some schools, maybe mostly in a robotics class?
In college, the classes are more likely to be centered around microprocessor or microcontroller chips, and assembly language programming to understand the machine code instruction set, rather than around a microcontroller board and C++.
Once in awhile we'll get a question from a university student, but these are usually art students or something like that. If an electronic engineering student has a question, it's probably a difficult problem and they are unlikely to go looking for answers on a hobby forum.
P.S.
We DON'T see a lot of "immature writing" using text-message style abbreviations (like "U" instead if "you").
Here is a design for a valve/tube radio which, for economy and simplicity, dispenses with a high voltage transformer and just uses rectified mains. Remembering that, in those days, 2 pin reversible mains plugs were common, look at the antenna which may, for example, have been draped over the young constructor's bed. Or he/she may have been listening to a pirate radio station on headphones while in the bath tub.
I've probably shown this picture elsewhere in the forum.
I will take your old stuff
I'm a touch under 50, but not much
I'm one of those 50+ y-o people here (working professionally as an engineering Lead and also a freelancer) but I understand how you feel. I used to hang out on a couple of hobby machinist forums and the majority of people there were either retired or about to retire and I just felt like the new kid on the block all the time 
I remember hiring a couple of kids out of college whose Senior projects were Arduino-based, so yes.
In fourth grade, we discovered that if you put the plug for the classroom phonograph in the wall a certain way, the record spindle would give you a shock, but only if you weren't wearing rubber soled shoes. We also discovered that if you formed a line holding hands and the last person in line was barefoot, if the line was long enough, you could hold on to the spindle. So the game was to see who could stay in line the longest as people would drop off.
4th grade impedance class. 
I guess some were not so lucky that they could report later about such experiments. Those were also the days before earth leakage circuit breakers were available. I was fortunate in that I chose to build a design, incidentally by the same author as that of the 2 valve radio, which did incorporate a mains transformer. It was actually a 6V6 based amplifier, hence my screen name here. I still have the book which includes the schematic:
Fun-With-Radio-4-Davy.pdf (2.9 MB)
Shocking
Hi,
I'm over 70, but using Arduino/ESPs, etc , I feel like I'm still 16.
I've been young longer than many here...
Hey, we can be as immature as anyone
I also think that it is a matter of who has free time available.
Yeah, its easy to find project time when you're retired. I don't watch TV, becoming a couch tater is the beginning of the end.
Hello everyone and OM's
In my youth I built the "rock-paper-scissors" game using relays.
wbr Paul
I would have come up with R/P/S but ROCKS hadn't been invented yet ...
