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		jsingleton on Aug 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Carmack's son's game in Racket You might find some hardware add-ons make it more fun. GPIO is the killer feature of the Pi. You can use a lot of the HATs from Scratch as well as Python. http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Hardware_That_Can_Connect_t...

bliti on Aug 24, 2015 [–]

I do plan to introduce her to GPIO stuff. Maybe mix it in with a video game of sorts. She does have experience with the Arduino, so the concept of sensors is not new to her.

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