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Haha thanks. Hack Club certainly has adults involved (like myself) but we structure projects so teens can be core contributors (the rest of the core engineering
by apexedison 4y ago
Haha thanks. Hack Club certainly has adults involved (like myself) but we structure projects so teens can be core contributors (the rest of the core engineering staff on Sprig are all less than 20 years old and I'd say 95% of the games in the library are from teenagers).
As for Sprig itself the only part that is limited to teens is that we give the console away for free to teenagers who submit games to the gallery. Otherwise anyone can make games and submit them.
- invalidusernam3 4y agoWould be nice if you sold them to us old people at a 2x cost so we can get one and pay for one for a teen
- rytor718 4y agoI second this but mostly because I'm an unrepentant nerd who REALLY wants one of these to show off at my tech workshops for kids :D
- incanus77 4y agoYeah, being able to access even one to give hands-on could be pretty valuable.
- hathawsh 4y agoIt appears the project hasn't optimized for production (yet?). For now, I can't help but think it may be possible to cobble together a Sprig using inexpensive Pi Pico HATs and 3D printing. Here's the schematic: https://github.com/hackclub/sprig/blob/main/docs/GROWING_A_SPRIG.md https://github.com/hackclub/sprig/blob/main/docs/GROWING_A_S...
- incanus77 4y agoYeah, I'm sure it could. But even being able to buy a fabbed board (it's all through-hole components) would move things along. And I find the non-optimization pretty endearing, since it enhances the approachability and ability to understand the whole system.
- dopidopHN 4y agoYeah that would solve a kinda chicken and egg issue.