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CrowPi L Raspberry Pi Laptop Review: A Lean Mean STEM Learning Machine:
The CrowPi L is a powerful Raspberry-Pi powered laptop and effective STEM kit for kids, but you'll need to pay a premium to take advantage of the available hardware tutorials the system has to offer.
The CrowPi L is a Raspberry Pi-powered laptop built to educate, engage and entertain young minds and usher them into the world of programming and electronics. It incorporates fun activities and interactive lessons to teach kids how to code. The kit includes lots of tutorials to try and a wide range of projects that would appeal to a variety of different interests. From lessons on how to design and program games, to hands-on projects that explain electronic concepts and how circuitry works, there's a lot for kids to learn and enjoy.
[...] The CrowPi L is available in a few different configurations. You can choose from the basic model or advanced model, which costs about $60 more because it includes the Crowtail Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi. Shipped in a separate box, this kit contains the different motors and sensors you will need for the Letscode (Elecrow's custom version of the Scratch programming language) and Python hardware projects.
[...] While the previous versions of the CrowPi came packed with built-in modules, the CrowPi L's design has been simplified to look like a regular laptop. It has an all-white exterior with a light gray interior that surrounds the 11.6-inch display and white keyboard keys. It is a compact system that looks sleek and could nicely double up as a child's first laptop.
At 11.46 x 7.5 x 1.8 inches, the CrowPi L is just the right size to fit on a child's lap and is light enough (at a little over 2 pounds) for them to carry around. The plastic chassis feels very strong and solid. But it is not a quiet system. You can hear the fan humming underneath so you have to be careful not to put it in a place that will obstruct the airflow.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by crafoo on Friday July 15 2022, @12:50PM (4 children)
#300 + $160. What a joke. $250 for a AMD silver HP with far superior capabilities. I can install Python myself and add a USB MPIO breakout for blinking lights and reading a humidity sensor LMAO. Come on. Stop robbing educational systems. Please just fuck off and try doing something useful. Go visit Africa and help fertilize their soil.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Friday July 15 2022, @01:27PM (1 child)
Butbutbutbut... it's Raspberry PI!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by RamiK on Friday July 15 2022, @05:20PM
Raspberry Pi are popular because:
1. They can be given to the whole classrooms where teachers are able to give work assignments to the class without having to deal with specific hardware and software incompatibilities.
2. The boards come from a non-profit foundation so the schools can get government aid and a write-off by ordering the boards for their students.
3. The diy media home center utility (and other hobbyist projects) make sure the boards sell enough so that the production would scale and keep the prices down.
This laptop mostly sits between no1 and no2.
compiling...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 15 2022, @09:21PM
Chromebooks might be much better for learning a variety of programming languages and also being a useful school laptop with a browser.
If you really need to learn monkeying with hardware, lights, motors, censors, etc, get a cheap microcontroller and breadboard.
Young people won't believe you if you say you're older than Google. (born before 1998-09-03)
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 19 2022, @12:45PM
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/07/19/crowpi-l-raspberry-pi-4-laptop-review-part-1-unboxing-and-teardown/ [cnx-software.com]
It has some nice design choices. But what's really nice is when it falls out of the sky and into your lap for free, as a reviewer.
On a related note, the only way for a Raspberry Pi 5 to be truly exciting would be for them to immediately jump to a smaller node, like 16/14/12nm. Which doesn't seem likely given how long they stuck around on 40nm.
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