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I love this idea. There are some weird things showing up on Aliexpress but are limited in various ways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bODiZ5bP84 https://www.

• K0balt 1y ago
  Something like that would BOM at about $30usd as an assembled board with a 128gb SD card. A 3d printed case maybe another $30 with key caps. If it became popular it could wholesale for $29 in injection molded batch production. I could see it at $69 retail. At that price it could compete favorably with other “laptop” toys, but with vastly more depth. I guess the real question is whether you could find enough of the software for free, or even maybe to a parental managed App Store with legacy stuff selling for <5 so that rights holders would get something? Is dos 6 or windows3.11 open source yet? Qbasic? I could see a toy company doing something like this profitably, especially with an App Store model, but it would be niche to parents who are actively taking responsibility about what goes into their kids education, so that would limit the market quite a bit. I still think it’s a big market though, I mean, educational toys are definitely a segment. If it was well built it could last a kid for quite a few years. Might have to make it water resistant though, so conformal coating and add $20 to the build. Still less than $100 retail I think. I would buy it at that. But I’m probably not a good sample.