Fun projects for a two year old??
cbmeeks
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While my 2 year old son loves to point out the colors of my VGA circuit, there isn't much else for him to do. (BTW, a good portion of my homebrew computer will be devoted to my son...a computer for 4 year olds....LOL)
Anyway, anyone have any ideas on how they can use an SX with their small children? I was thinking about a Speak-n-Spell box like I had when I was a kid.
Thanks
cbmeeks
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Anyway, anyone have any ideas on how they can use an SX with their small children? I was thinking about a Speak-n-Spell box like I had when I was a kid.
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cbmeeks
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Like match the colors and patterns. I'm not sure but I used to play games like that on old computers back in the day.
(btw) Off topic, but the first 3 Metroid games where the greatest 2d games ever made!
Metroid on the NES still gives me chills.
--Andrew Arsenault
One day, I will finish my Metroid Classic project.
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Coders' Hangout
A place for programmers to hangout!
http://www.codershangout.com
METROID?
Metroid Classic
How about an SX based nini-organ that could record a song and play it back. You could asign a light to each note and maybe store a song like twincle twincle·little star that when played would light which note to press. I would use tri-colored Led's so if the organ light is yellow for a note and he presses it, it would glow green. If he presses a wrong key it would glow red. You could control the speed at which it plays so as he gets better he could speed it up. Also, I would definetly add an earphone jack. A four year old might never get tired of hearing the same song but you might. You could store wrong key hits and time duration in an eprom and download it to your computer and monitor progress by sending the numbers to a spreadsheet and graphing it out.
Best,
Jim W.
Rather than teach kids to ape a machine, I would like to see kids be allowed to program machines. So, I love the keyboard record / play idea.
I had an idea some time ago for a little toy car that is programmable. There would be a brain button which, when pushed, would cause the car to say "Learning!". Then presses on any of the forward, back, left, right, stop buttons would cause that action to be said, but no movement would occur until the go button is pressed. Then the sequence that was programmed would be acted out by the car.
The next level version has sensors in the bumpers. When learning, a press on the front right bumper would cause it to say "When my front right bumper is hit, " and then the following commands, up to the go, would be executed only when that bumper was pressed. Bumper combinations could be managed as distinct events. E.g. "When both of my front bumpers are hit at the same time," "Back" "Turn Left" "Forward" "Go!"
In one mode, the car would describe what it was doing, in another, it would just do it.
Other possibilities include range sensors, detection of the light from a supplied pointer or just increased or decreased light levels.
I think young (including very young) and old could have a lot of fun with that toy.
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