£15 computer !!
David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the co-developer of Elite.
Over his career his studio has brought us the Rollercoaster Tycoon series, Thrillville, Lost Winds, and most recently Kinectimals. In the background, however, Braben has been trying to tackle another problem: getting programming and general learning of how computers work back into schools. http://www.geek.com/articles/games/g...or-25-2011055/ |
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That is impressive.
However my son learnt about PC components at school last year (year 5- 11yo)......are they not teaching this in other schools?:confused: |
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I think he is quite right. I've seen that in schools they teach many things such as creating a website, making an access database, using graphs in excel, etc but nothing such as basic programming.
I remember when I was at school we started with programming a turtle to draw patterns and looked at simple code building. This pocket sized PC is a great way of getting kids involved in how computers operate. |
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I wouldnt mind one of those myself. I could think of loads of uses for them.
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Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
The teaching of IT in our schools has recently been heavily criticised:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16157519 Will this make a difference, both inside and outside of the education sector? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16316439 Quote:
The start of a revolution even? |
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I was looking at it this morning.. Put one on a USB caddy and you have an ultra cheap NAS or with Servio running a cheap DLNA server.
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Brilliant idea. The possibilities are endless.
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Yes, and it's nice that a UK based organisation is behind this. Wouldn't it be great if this is the start of something huge!
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It looks quite impressive, and as Osem says it's great to see a UK firm behind it. Will keep an eye on it thanks for the heads up :)
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Good for another UK firm too it seems as ARM makes the chips.
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It would be excellent if it had 2 ethernet ports, Think of the linux based router you could build with that :)
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It's got a USB 2 port so easy enough to add another NIC/WNIC for router usage
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Haven't we discused this device in another thread? I recall a discussion about it a few weeks back...
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A search for Raspberry doesn't bring anything up
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