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That looks neat, a bit pricey though. snap circuits focuses more on the assembly side which is also good : http://www.snapcircuits.net/ http://www.snapcircuits.

by ausjke 11y ago

That looks neat, a bit pricey though. snap circuits focuses more on the assembly side which is also good : http://www.snapcircuits.net/ http://www.snapcircuits.net/

runamok 11y ago
I think it's a pretty fair price especially with the holiday pricing... Just the pi alone sans case, card, cables, power supply, wifi, keyboard w/ touchpad, speaker, etc. is $35 US. http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberrypi2?ICID=rpimain-feature-products http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/ra... Clearly you could put something together yourself for cheaper but then you would not have the cool book to teach the child to do it themselves and refer to.
runamok 11y ago
Also here is a review and more background I am using to make an informed decision as to whether I want to buy this for my nephews... http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/27/kano-ships/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/27/kano-ships/
dogma1138 11y ago
100$ for a RasPi, case, wifi dongle, mmc, cables and keyboard isn't that high, you won't find much cheaper kits even if you are counting in the chinese knockoff's (which aren't necessarily bad, some of the chinese SBC's are one of the better ones as far as performance go on the market especially when PPP goes). The only thing that you can fault them atm is not having enough kit extensions like various IOT and PLC devices or kits that use the GPIO on the Pi but those can come in the future and they much more software design oriented than builder oriented. What is sad tho is that Lego had this and much more like 10 years ago but never got anywhere close to the level of coverage this gets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms They also had a line for schools I remember actually having electromechanical legos to play with in primary school in the mid 90's and it seems they developed them more and more http://ceeo.tufts.edu/documents/journal/1999bemccr.pdf http://ceeo.tufts.edu/documents/journal/1999bemccr.pdf

by ausjke 11y ago

That looks neat, a bit pricey though. snap circuits focuses more on the assembly side which is also good : http://www.snapcircuits.net/ http://www.snapcircuits.net/

runamok 11y ago

I think it's a pretty fair price especially with the holiday pricing... Just the pi alone sans case, card, cables, power supply, wifi, keyboard w/ touchpad, speaker, etc. is $35 US. http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberrypi2?ICID=rpimain-feature-products http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/ra... Clearly you could put something together yourself for cheaper but then you would not have the cool book to teach the child to do it themselves and refer to.

runamok 11y ago

Also here is a review and more background I am using to make an informed decision as to whether I want to buy this for my nephews... http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/27/kano-ships/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/27/kano-ships/

dogma1138 11y ago

100$ for a RasPi, case, wifi dongle, mmc, cables and keyboard isn't that high, you won't find much cheaper kits even if you are counting in the chinese knockoff's (which aren't necessarily bad, some of the chinese SBC's are one of the better ones as far as performance go on the market especially when PPP goes). The only thing that you can fault them atm is not having enough kit extensions like various IOT and PLC devices or kits that use the GPIO on the Pi but those can come in the future and they much more software design oriented than builder oriented. What is sad tho is that Lego had this and much more like 10 years ago but never got anywhere close to the level of coverage this gets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms They also had a line for schools I remember actually having electromechanical legos to play with in primary school in the mid 90's and it seems they developed them more and more http://ceeo.tufts.edu/documents/journal/1999bemccr.pdf http://ceeo.tufts.edu/documents/journal/1999bemccr.pdf