Some 20 years ago I attended a course on how to brew beer. Real beer, starting with barley, wheat, yeast, brew kettles …
I bought some brewing equipment and started brewing my own beer. Apart from a stupid idea, (why brew beer in a country that has plenty of breweries), I soon found out that brewing is labor intensive.
Instead of quitting right away (the most sensible thing to do), I tried to reduce the effort. I switched from a gas heated kettle to an electric one.
The next step was to control the temperature. I got an arduino and a temp-sensor. This got me interested in microcontrollers.
It appealed to my childish nature, that I could get quick results with little coding. Blinking a led, really lightens up my day! And a beer of course.
Guess, even for a technically skilled audiance, story-telling, renders a manual less boring ...