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Make it tiny, and you can pot the whole thing in epoxy and make it essentially indestructible. That might be important in a school environment.
by regularfry 16y ago
Make it tiny, and you can pot the whole thing in epoxy and make it essentially indestructible. That might be important in a school environment.
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- cakeface 16y agoBut then you cannot crack it open and actually see the components that make the thing run. If this is about educating kids on computers I think that it is really useful to be able to see where each part of the system lives and what it looks like.
- regularfry 16y agoI kind of doubt the utility of that with a heavily compacted system like this. I can't find any info on the chipset, but it wouldn't surprise me if the ARM SOC included the graphics driver as well, for instance.
- jeza 16y agoFor $25 a kit, there's no reason why you couldn't give one to each student (or have them buy it as part of their stationary requirements). I'm sure they're not going to destruct their own little project.
- regularfry 16y agoEither you had a significantly different educational experience to me, or your optimism is remarkable in its magnitude :-)