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Introduction/Definition/etc
NVCC tries STEM
(Science Tech Engineering and Math)
for kids only, apparently, including
Kano crowd funded RaspberryPi
classes...
Body
Seeing flyers for events, and
classes, through Active.com/org/
for about $100 plus you need
a Kano Raspberry Pi computer,
(scholarships available for only
Alexandria campus), and
other gotchas likely...
Kano, it turns out is popularizing
and packaging the Raspberry Pi
single board computer, giving
it accessories, a keyboard,
memory card with Kanux
(their Linux Distro, built off
of everything else out there)
and some modules to plug in
for sensors, etc...
Neat enough for gadget people,
at $260 for the one with HDMI
monitor, rather pricey,
but there is one without the
display, for about $150,
though a RPi3 board alone
is about $40, integrating stuff,
for the newbie,
and learning basic Linux from
a M$ dominated school and library
environments may be a challenge,
one of many in STEAM,
which includes Art...
Looking quickly, they have some tools
for making a bootable uSD card
from MacOS and even Linux,
but didn't make packages for ARM,
the host machine they are teaching people
to use, so can't really give help peer to
peer to another, recompiling the tool,
may be an option, as it's supposedly
open source, so learn to use the Open
Source project management tools
(github?) with the HeadQuarters
in London, and some staff there...
Trouble Ticket, create an ARM version
to make the uSD card for anothers on
the RPi distros, as it's not x86 nor
x86_64 based architecture...
Digging further, it's Wozniak
helping fund the crowdsourcing,
and from Apple I & II fame,
teaching and going back to it's roots.
As the new iPhone8 comes
out , and Apple Health Kit
seems to not work with
Kitchen IQ BlueTooth
and wifi digital kitchen
scales (yet untried, not available
locally, yet, must order online,
and pay, then pray to
actually get one delivered...)
Maybe develop your own scale,
IOIO Android list mentions
scales, load measuring, and
learning PICs, might be interesting,
but dumps you into a BASIC
like PIC, by MicroChip, so
besides barf, more to learn there,
and then communication
with FTDI chips, and other
proprietary type BlueTooth SIG
where developer information isn't
exactly open and public,
buying documents for the specs,
chips, and even unlocking the
VideoCore on RPi is a
BroadComm (an ARM Holdings
Licensee) as an extra cost
item, last I knew...
Original Text
(see how it progresses)
Modified Text
(changes over time?)
What's Missing?
Lots of stuff, costs of individual items,
(look it up, and provide for others?)
teaching documents for a curricullum (sp?),
to be found, and open specs on the
special sauces/ devices added to
the kit(s)...
What Can Be Found?
Base RPis in some places
(MicroCenter, online like
AdaFruit.com, SparkFun,
Newark/Element14, etc),
older RPi2, and originals, but
single core, so if you are to burn out
the limited smoke in something learning
to integrate the GPIO pins, start smaller
and cheaper, perhaps...
Accessories exist, what's special for
the Kano versions? Open Specs available?
Diagnosing any problems, like with other
stuff?
What Can Not Be Found?
More than money based material about
the classes and systems, likely a buy
in to the trainer's teacher's materials,
above anyone individual's price point,
so self study, and DIY not possible?
Or are the all available online, for free?
How To Analyze?
Ways of looking at stuff...
Lenses
Students
How to get into tech that
is so capital intensive...
Play with bots?
Build Bots?
Battle Bots?
Bomb out?
Parents
How expensive is it?
And then I have to get the Kano
system too?
What if it breaks?
Will Target take it back?
Other Adults
Only for kids?
How do we help them learn,
if not even allowed in?
So much for family and community
values...
Techies
Old hat by now,
maybe a few bells and whistles,
but toy level learning,
but a start...
Assumptions
DIY involves you learning
by doing, and improvising,
kind of like Marines but with
hardware, software, and
technology, instead of the
battlefield...
Patience is a virtue,
persistence in keeping at it,
Arduino kits exist too,
but how to interface those,
so a RPi talking to an Arduino
talking to a Bluetooth enabled
robot, and program it to say
play basketball, chess, tick tack
toe, hop scotch, etc...
Constructionist learning is
for everyone...
Kids start out with it, then taught
Flowers are Red and Green
(cue up Harry Chapin's educational
experiences song...)
Time Limits
Normal constraints of school,
and other demands, surviving
as a disabled person, attacks
to food from Islamic extremists,
ICE raids in Sanctuary Cities,
and other disasters like politics,
and Lost Vegas shootings,
all the negative press, and hide
in technology for a while?
Links
Background
RPi3in2016
PreTeenPatience2015
WeldingBasics2013
3DPrinter2012
GeekingOutWithRaspberryPi2012
OneLaptopPerChildoplcorg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructionism_(learning_theory)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak
Harry Chapin's Flowers are Red
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y5t-dAa6UA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Chapin
NVCC SySTEMic
http://www.nvcc.edu/systemic/
https://www.activekids.com/alexandria-va/computers/camp/coding-with-kano-2017?int=
https://www.activekids.com/annandale-va/computers/camp/coding-with-kano-2017?int=
Kano
http://developers.kano.me/
https://help.kano.me/hc/en-us/articles/115000252425-Re-Install-Kano-OS-Software
https://etcher.io/
https://etcher.io/cli/
https://github.com/resin-io/etcher
http://developers.kano.me/2014/10/28/about/
http://www.nvcc.edu/systemic/contacts/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_(computer)
Kano at Target.com
Kano Computer Kit Complete ~$250
https://www.target.com/p/kano-computer-kit-complete/-/A-52695340#lnk=sametab
Kano Computer Kit ~$150
https://www.target.com/p/kano-computer-kit/-/A-52695347#lnk=sametab
Kano 10.1 Inch HDMI Screen Kit ~$150
https://www.target.com/p/kano-screen-kit/-/A-52695319#lnk=sametab
Kano Pixel Kit ~$80
https://www.target.com/p/kano-pixel-kit/-/A-52695352#lnk=sametab
Kano Motion Sensor Kit ~$30
https://www.target.com/p/kano-motion-sensor-kit/-/A-52695353#lnk=sametab
vendors other than Target probably exist,
go searching...
Some might even be in stock...
And realizing the web is international,
$=USD above,
elsewhere UK, EU, etc
+/- exchange rates +/- Shipping & Handling
YMMV...
And buyer beware, as always...
Kano at BestBuy.com
checking on clearance items, saw a
Kano or two at one Best Buy,
though not finding the whole complete
with screen kit, and photo(s) misleading
to show a display monitor on this one,
imnsho...
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/kano-computer-kit/6078103.p?skuId=6078103
Other Options
MicroCenter shows some cheaper kits
for Raspberry Pis,
some including the display,
so maybe compare with those?
http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntt=Raspberry+Pi+3+Model+B
PiTop is a little bit more than the Kano,
and might be worth comparing...
http://www.microcenter.com/product/463789/Laptop_Kit_-_Green
Other RPi starter kits are significantly less,
so maybe check into those, what they have,
what they don't have (display size and type?)
and try building a MicroSD (uSD) card
with the open hardware,
instead of the proprietary and costly stuff...
The Kano display, but not the keyboard
seem to be available separately,
so more compatibility and other stuff
to learn, Kickstarter was mostly 2013
and now years later it is out, how
does it compare with One Laptop
Per Child XO-1s for implementation?
Availability? BogoMIPS?
Reliability?
Parts availability and servicing?
Community of developers?
Scratch platform?
Squeak?
TurtleArt?
etc
http://www.microcenter.com/product/463671/Raspberry_Pi_3_Complete_Starter_Kit_-_32_GB_Edition
The Cana Kit is around $80,
does that do enough?
What size uSD card?
What accessories?
What amperage power supply?
How many ports?
Plug types?
Did you read the HDMI display
as a port, or including a display
(read as buy separately hardware)?
So you need to still plug it into
something, no TV watching
while doing homework,
multitasking only goes so far
in learning...
If the goal is to learn, how about
learning how to make kits and
new stuff?
How do you integrate stuff?
How to determine compatibility?
What standards and specs are they
built off of?
What interfacing is needed for GPIO
pins?
What software works with it?
How about the BlueTooth?
Version numbers?
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
Some technology, now years after
most were doing it elsewhere,
like NoVA-LABs, and other HackerSpaces,
some delays and learning yet to happen,
not sure whether night or weekend
classes at a community college lab,
for kids only, is all of that, but will see...
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
Did you get the experimental CLI to work?
Can you get the CLI and
other executeables
(sp?) compiled for ARM chips,
like the host RPi3?
What did you learn?
(Other than how to pay?)
Do you get college credit for it?
How about High School or Middle School
credit?
Does it prepare you for a FIRST Robotics team?
What other skills would you learn, for the
say $600 or so dollars it might take to do the
coding camp?
License
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Non Commercial, Non Derivative,
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unless otherwise explicitly stated
Page History
20171009 JerrySpaceIdea
- Adding Kano at BestBuy.com
- other changes necessary, but not
- enough energy with what's already on
- my plate/backlog...
- more, when if energy, before swamped
- with other stuff, will see...
- TBD
20171004 Jerry
- Jerry created this page to make situations
- more uniform across case$...
- looking into a flyer about a class with RPi Kano
- and doing some sanity checks on it above
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