[Linux-aus] Programs for education

[David Lyon]

On 2013-11-01 09:49, Paul Shirren wrote:
> On 1/11/2013 6:42 am, Greg Cockburn wrote:
>> My interest lies in how to get my sons interested in the *right* side 
>> of
>> the computer.
> 
> If by right side you mean learning how things work, then Raspberry Pi 
> or
> hardware hacking with stuff like Arduino are the way to go. See if 
> they
> get into it or not. You can't force it, you either like tinkering with
> this stuff or you don't.

I recently upgraded my 8-bit car computer to Raspberry-Pi. There's 
still a few things to do but I gave a talk on it at last months Sydney 
Linux User Group:

  - 
https://bitbucket.org/djlyon/cardashery/src/884a4c18f1b5abb4a4099d8f8893a9ca3d6eee95/RaspberryPi%20Car%20Computer.pdf?at=default

Linux Hacking is just as active now as ever.

Regards

David