
TOOLBOX
My kids want their own computers and they love
building kits, so I was thrilled to see a workshop
full of families building this Raspberry Pi-based
kit at Maker Faire. At home, my 9-year-old
son and I had fun following the giant blueprint
to assemble the laser-cut case and connect
the peripheral display and speaker. But this
kit does a lot more. It’s programmed with
a Minecraft-based “mission” that requires
you to build simple pushbutton circuits on
a breadboard to solve challenges within the
game, then use those buttons for game play.
The new, improved version adds a bigger
LCD, built-in speaker with volume pot,
rock-solid mounting ...