OS disaggregated switches also came up last night: http://blogs.gartner.com/andrew-lerner/2014/04/17/network-disaggregation-is-... ^^just a random article on the subject On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Joel <joelgroup@gmail.com> wrote:
Eric and all,
Here are my notes from the STEM discussions.
Snap Circuits - a lego type electronics education kit. I recommend the 300 or 500 size kits. At 8 my son can solo follow plans and build a FM radio receiver that works.
Lightbot - program logic thinking for young kids.
Scratch - visual object programming via flash website. . . . . . . code.org - sample scratch programs
Alice 3 - app is not very stable. . . . . . . - more powerful and complex items
Squeak -
What-if. Xkcd.com
Theoatmeal.com
Rasberry pi robot
Tim included some ther non kid / STEM discussion about the systems tools with Hadoop for rapid system building & clustering.
Since the meeting I found two more I plan to try with my 8 year old. .
Dragonbox Algebra - unique app for learning Math. & Algebra. . IOS & Android.
MIT App Inventor - web app development which will also work on phones & tablets.
Hope this helps,
Joel
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