Hi Would it not be cheaper to provide each attendee a raspberry pi and provide instruction in the basics of linux installation and operation?
Cheers Karl -----Original Message----- From: luv-main [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 2:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: building PCs etc Hi there, I just found this in my SPAM box - don't know why - sounds like a good idea to me - I have access to lots of PCs at the local mens shed where they get pulled apart for re-use. I like the Lego comment. Mike I am in the process of draughting a note to ctte about re-starting a developers group for programmers etc. On 10/12/14 13:49, Russell Coker wrote: > http://www.kidsunlimited.com.au/ > > This company is offering a course for kids to teach them to build a PC. It > costs $1250 and they end up with a PC that's very similar to something that > Dell sells for $800, so that makes it about $400 for a day of training (not > bad for corporate training rates but not cheap either). > > Maybe we should offer something vaguely similar at the LUV beginner's > meetings. We could make it a BYO hardware event. We could offer free PCs of > the P4 vintage (I could donate 2-3 PCs to the cause and I'm sure others could > too). Then kids (and anyone else who wants to learn) can install Linux and > set the PC up for doing things. > > The assembling new hardware bit seems like a bad idea as it involves a > significant amount of money and issues with getting paid in advance etc. But > the amount of learning involved in assembling a PC isn't that great. It's 5-7 > separate parts for a typical PC if you consider DIMMs to be 1 part and CPU+fan > to be another. Assembling a PC nowadays has the complexity of a Lego kit > aimed at 5yos. > > Taking old PCs apart has some educational value as kids can break open > packages and look inside them and they can touch pins on the CPUs etc. If we > were going to do an educational PC disassembly event then I'd be happy to take > the bits to e-waste and I could donate some broken PCs to the cause. > > > What do you think? > > Lev, how does this fit in with what we can do at VPAC? > _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
