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From Minion to Engineer

Teaching a 4th grader about hardware hacking

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November 02, 2013
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Transcript

  1. From Minion to Engineer Teaching a 4th grader about hardware

    hacking Lily and Kyle Maxwell

  2. yada yada yada All opinions are our own and we

    don’t represent anyone. We have complete independence from every product or service or company we talk about. NO PAYOLA

  3. Motivation

  4. Hardware: Arduino

  5. Hardware: Raspberry Pi

  6. Software: Scratch scratch.mit.edu

  7. Software: Scratch for Arduino s4a.cat

  8. Software: Python

  9. Books

  10. Adafruit Learning System learn.adafruit.com

  11. YOU CAN DO IT! https://github.com/technoskald @kylemaxwell