I have two Raspberry Pi 3b+ that I originally bought for the kids. Have unsuccessfully tried selling them recently, so may as well use them.
Can anyone suggest some fun pi projects suitable for a 9 year old boy to get started?
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Grab a dev shield and wire up lights and sensors and motors. Program with Scratch.
What's he in to? Robots? Lego? Video games? Coding? TV? The weather? Racing / RC cars?
There's lots that can be done with a Raspberry Pi as a base, depends on what direction he wants to take.
Make a trampoline jump monitoring system?
https://grafana.com/blog/2019/06/04/monitorama-preview-observability-talks/
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