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Should I get my son a #Pi-Top for his birthday, or a desktop #raspi + breadboard + grab bag of components?
- mcscx repeated this.
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It sounds like a big part of the draw to the #Pi-Top is supposed to be the curricular material + custom OS + other software that comes with it, but after further research it also sounds like `we'd end up throwing most of that crap away'...
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Descriptions of the curricular material varies between "21 projects!", "20+ projects!", "these 3 projects!", and "a video game that teaches you things!". But there's never any actual description of the "20+", just the 3.
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So presumably the other "17+" are things that come from "CEED Universe" and the other game(s) that are preinstalled.
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The few actual reviews that I see of the #Pi-Top edugame software (+ the bug-reports in their issue-tracker) seem to indicate `it doesn't actually work all that well, the team isn't doing a great job developing/maintaining it, and it's not #open-source so nobody else can fix the bugs when their kids run into them'. "curriculum that can't be adapted or fixed" has always seemed like !education #fail....
