UsingRaspberryPi

Below is from a Google group discussion.

Reuse existing monitors in the ICT suite (yes, we unplug them every week - another good lesson for the kids: many didn't know "lefty loosey, righty tighty" for example).

Unfortunately those monitors are all VGA so I had to purchase the adaptors. In bulk from alibaba made it such that they were cheap (GBP 3/ea), otherwise, they're rather costly (GBP ~9).

We're coding directly on the Pi:

• i didn't pre-load anything above and beyond NOOBS: it now comes with minecraft already included, among other nice goodies (sonicpi, scratch, idle2, idle3, java!)
• they review and hack minecraft scripts. I'm indebted to MattHawkinsUK for resources like

http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2014/06/building-a-castle-in-minecraft-with-python/ (wget https://bitbucket.org/MattHawkinsUK/rpispy-misc/raw/master/minecraft/castle.py) http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2014/01/berry-bookies-a-horse-racing-game-for-the-berryclip/ (wget https://bitbucket.org/MattHawkinsUK/rpispy-berryclip/raw/master/berry_bookies/berry_bookies.py)

• they examine the code used in ./python_games - the kids make copies and then, carefully, make mods.

The berryclip example above requires soldering a small PCB - stand-in for the microbits but even 10 welds is not the easiest thing to coordinate.