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esawers

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#252757 10-Jul-2019 14:39

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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#2274009 10-Jul-2019 14:41

retropie

minecraft server thing that I dont really understand

are the 2 things that kids I know use them for.

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#2274016 10-Jul-2019 14:56

Check library for books such as Raspberry Pi For Kids (Dummies series)

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#2274095 10-Jul-2019 15:30

Grab a dev shield and wire up lights and sensors and motors. Program with Scratch.

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#2274146 10-Jul-2019 15:54

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.

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#2274152 10-Jul-2019 16:18

Make a trampoline jump monitoring system?

https://youtu.be/Xj-TwAZtWHQ

https://grafana.com/blog/2019/06/04/monitorama-preview-observability-talks/

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