Mike

On Friday, 19 December 2014, Karl Terauds <karl@cosmicparrot.com.au> wrote:

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:luv-main-bounces@luv.asn.au] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 2:30 PM
To: luv-main@luv.asn.au
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?
>

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