We Got Served (blog) How to: Build a Raspberry Pi 3 retro gaming PC your kids will love We Got Served (blog) So, we set about researching simple and cheap options for building a retro gaming PC that could play the classics I remember from my youth. The Raspberry Pi 3 looked like an ideal choice
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talkiepi is a single-button, push-to-talk walkie-talkie build that allows users to talk with their friends easily over WiFi, without the confusion of frequency dials, random buttons, and all the other clicky, turny, pushy options that caused me to break my own walkie-talkies as a child. It’s the brainchild of Daniel Chote , native New Zealander, self-proclaimed Code Monkey and all-round Wonder Dad, currently residing in the USA. Whereas many parents would simply hop on the internet and purchase their kids a set of walkie-talkies, Daniel decided to make his own
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Hackaday Raspberry Pi Walkie Talkie Mumbles To Friends Hackaday His kids wanted walkie talkies, so [Daniel Chote] built one. The TalkiePi is a neat project built around a Raspberry Pi running Mumble, the open-source voice chat system that his kids can share with their siblings and friends.
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Camp Bestival is the family-oriented version of the more adult-focused Bestival, and attracts 30,000 parents and children each year. Everything has been designed with families in mind, including shows and activity tents, all set within the beautiful grounds of Lulworth Castle. This year’s theme was Space .
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Raspberry Pi at Camp Bestival
In my day, you were lucky if you had some broken Clackers and a half-sucked, flocculent gobstopper in your trouser pockets. But here I am, half a century later, watching a swarm of school pupils running around the playground with entire computers attached to them.
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Computing and weather stations at Eastlea Community School
We keep a very close eye on the annual Tech4Good competition, and especially the children who are nominated for their BT Young Pioneer award; there are some fiercely smart kids there doing some hugely impressive work. This year’s was a very close field (I would not like to have been judging – there were some extraordinary projects presented).
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Nine-year-old inventor’s award-winning asthma monitor
Pocket-lint.com 5 fun Raspberry Pi projects you can do with your kids Pocket-lint.com Like the BBC Micro in its day, the Raspberry Pi mini-computer is an accessible way to get children and families into the world of computer hardware and coding/programming. It costs around £30 and is about the size of a credit card.
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YouTuber buildxyz is happy for his kids to play video games, but he’s keen for them to have a properly decent selection, and he wanted something that would look a little better in his living room than your average games console. He also wanted a no-nonsense way to retain parental control over the amount of time the children spend engaging with this particular kind of entertainment.
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Wall-mounted Raspberry Pi games console for kids
Learn Engineering by Playing Minecraft with this Piper Raspberry Pi Computer Kit The Escapist Minecraft masters, this is your moment.
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Lifehacker The Kano Screen Kit Is a Fun to Build, Compact Display for the Raspberry Pi Lifehacker We're all surrounded by screens, but few of us know how they really work. If you're looking to teach your kids how displays work (or learn for yourself!) and you need a display for a Raspberry Pi , the Kano Screen Kit is a reasonably priced, portable ..
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