[hackerspaces] littlebits

[Joshua Pritt]

We keep the standard and expansion pack at the Melbourne Makerspace for the
younglings.
Then one of our members created the "pencil box projects" for the older
kids/adults.  Each pencil box holds an arduino and a servo, or a raspberry
pi and an LCD screen, etc. so that there are 48 separate, self contained
projects that anyone can walk in off the street and follow the instructions
he painstakingly wrote up on his website to learn more about these things
for free.
https://48projectsblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/22/easy-intermediate-advanced-project-list/

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Chris Weiss <cweiss at gmail.com> wrote:

> we have some at archreactor, they are great for kids, but they are kind of
> expensive and some of the parts are easy to break.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:22 PM Mars Brown <itcamefrommars at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've used the korg audio ones for teaching basics of sound synthesis...
>> bought a bunch of other components cheap when radio shack had them and was
>> closing stores.
>>
>> For me they are a little expensive for what you get... as I like to build
>> stuff from scratch.  But they are easy to use and quick to slap ideas
>> together for basic stuff... but I wouldn't have bought them if it wasn't
>> just great for teaching.
>>
>> I guess I would say it depends on your experience level w homebrewing
>> circuits or how much money you wanna spend.
>> the same parts to do the same things would cost much much less... but the
>> time saved in throwing little circuits together might be worth it to you.
>>
>> I think they are great... just wish there were more customizable options
>> (blank boards of different types/sockets) for stuff that fits their system
>> and maybe priced a little better.
>>
>>
>>
>> hope that helps some :).
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Xer0Dynamite <dreamingforward at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone tried or evaluated these kits?
>>>
>>> http://littlebits.cc/
>>>
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