20 Jun
2015
20 Jun
'15
11:38 a.m.
Its pricy, but my 3 and 7 year olds get a kick out of:
http://littlebits.cc
If you watch on eBay, there's a lot of the individual components and kits showing up
after radio shack fire sales.
My kids don't really understand what's going on except that in some ways they are
obviously learning about feedback from, eg, retarding the movement of a servo causing
voltage changes across the rest of the circuit, causing wobble in the audio oscillator...
Meh, and it keeps them busy, without too much work on my part.
Oh, early happy Father's Day where applicable.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 20, 2015, at 4:43 AM, Dave G4UGM <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mark J.
Blair
Sent: 20 June 2015 12:19
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: OT: learner kits (was: Re: using new technology on old
machines)
On Jun 19, 2015, at 19:19 , Tapley, Mark
<mtapley at swri.edu> wrote:
He has a Raspberry Pi, which he pretty much contempts in favor of
his laptop,
which will play the modern version of MineCraft :-P, but
presumably hooking those together might be fun.
I suspect that boards like the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, etc. might get a lot interesting if they can affect the real world.
See if a servo motor adds
some
appeal.
I wonder if this would be of interest..
http://www.elektor.com/arduino-sensor-kit
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
Dave
G4UGM