You might try: https://www.microbit.co.uk/td/quick-start/ I'm not a big fan of the MicroBit so far, though. I find it to be a poor substitute for the Raspberry Pi for programming instruction and a poor substitute for the Arduino for science/electrical engineering instruction. There is a valid point for the latter than the cost per student is much less, though. Best wishes, -Adam On 8/29/2017 4:53 PM, Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I'm thinking about picking up a couple for my kids (and maybe one for me as well).
I'd love to find a "Teachers guide" for it. Maybe talk to some of the other parents in the complex I live in and do like weekly classes for these.
Anyone know if some type of teachers guide exists?
I'll have to look through the website and see how I could try to convince some of the various parents in the area how having the kids learn to use/program these would be helpful to them.
Joe
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 9:49 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 8/28/2017 8:27 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 08/28/2017 06:32 PM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I know it's a hard sell compared to the $5 Raspberry Pi zero, but
The BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized codeable computer with motion detection, a built-in compass and Bluetooth technology, which was given free to every child in year 7 or equivalent across the UK in 2016. I won one of these a about a year before they were readily available here in the US. I've gotten to play with it a fair bit.
It's actually more like the original vision of the Raspberry Pi - an ARM based computer programmed with Python. I guess there are other options, but I only use MicroPython on my Linux box to program it.
Hardware wise, it's more like an Arduino than a Raspi. Or maybe somewhere between the two.
It's interesting and has some different features including to buttons and a 5x5 LED array, accelerator, a compass, and some wireless com options.
- Derrik
As someone who has a representation of many of the available embedded solution boards (St8m, ST32, a ton of Arduinos, several ATMEL oards, Several PIs, Beaglebone etc...) My first reaction was oh just what we need, yet another board option and form factor... but I took a closer look and I think its cool. I'll be getting one.
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