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I'd bring my Split ergonomic keyboards I've built/am working on.

I'd love to get others into the hobby or crowd source help in coding QMK from those who are already in it. Online forums are a great resource but for some there's no replacing an in-person teacher.

I'll hopefully come back and edit this post when I get home to share a picture.

I'd like to bring a tall ship sailor. Preferably from the 18th or 19th century. I bet they'd have some interesting work stories to tell.

I own a sextant. I have other cool stuff, but that's the one that probably has the most universal appeal.

This has been a very cool thread.

You know, I think an adult show and tell wouldn't be too different to a kids one, we don't change that much in what we find cool from 7 to 70.

I'd bring some pets, I have geckos that are an all female species and reproduce only through parthenogenesis, most people find them cool.

If we could go outdoors I could probably bring my bootleg pelican case full of ham radio equipment, deploy an HF station and try making some contacts while explaining how each of the parts works

I'm an antenna engineer. I'd bring an antenna because after hearing a lot of adult show-and-tells I figure people could probably use some sleep.

I play Warhammer and D&D...and have extensive mini collections. I'm envisioning a diorama.

Or a few of my favorite knives and a good whetstone, to show how easy it is to do and teach a good skill!

my laptop so i can show off gnome and emacs (and my trackball!)

Probably, my grandfather's blades as they tell pretty incredible stories. In order of when he was received them:

• USMC Kabar knife. He was issued the knife when he joined in WW2. He was lucky to avoid combat. Really, really lucky. He was on a troop transport en route to Kyushu when the surrender was signed on the USS Missouri and Operation Downfall was cancelled.

He went on to join the rubber industry, working for a major manufacturer in Indonesia. He kept his Kabar with him and used it a lot but never in violence. The combat knife became a tool of agriculture. The original leather rotted away in the tropical heat and humidity, was replaced with an improvised aluminum one. He was an avid gardener in his retirement and continued to use it somewhat like a hori-hori. The aluminum handle is falling off at this point, so, I'm going to eventually replace it with one made from olive wood to complete the "swords to plowshares" symbolism physically.

• Indonesian Parang. This blade is similar to a machete in design, about 20-24in (~51-61cm). My grandfather was given this blade at the rubber plantation by a deeply despondent man. The man had been pressured into taking part in an honor killing but didn't have a violent bone in his body. Not knowing what to do and not wanting to murder another human being, he came to my grandfather who was well-respected in the community (he was ceremonially adopted by the local tribe). They came up with a solution. If he didn't have his parang, he couldn't perform the killing. So, he left it in my grandfather's hands, making him promise to never return it.

While that man is probably long gone, I keep that promise myself and strive to ensure that the blade is never used for violence. Perhaps I'll see if I can figure out a good mount for it to permanently prevent its removal from the scabbard. Its continued existence, to me, provides tangible evidence that there's always another way.

Probably either a Ken Payne bronze called The Trail of Change or my Ibanez s521 guitar with the ocean fade paint job.

Inherited it from a family member who loved southwestern and native American culture and history they shared with me so it's some sentiment along with an interesting statue.

Most of what I own is minimal and function over form but I just think it looks awesome and is fun

I'd bring my best girl Laika, because she's awesome and I don't have any interesting junk.

I'd bring my Moog Theramini. Nothing like playing the air waves! It's magic science!

I'd bring an amateur radio. Fun device that gives you access to an alternate method of communication. They're old fashioned, but amateur radio gets used here and there in emergencies. I think it's more of a precautionary thing from a practical perspective, but it's still cool.

Probably a synthesizer. MEGAfm would be the coolest, but I imagine my desktop Hydrasynth would be more impressive.

I'd bring some beer that I make in my garage.