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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