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Thanks for the shout-out.

Thanks for asking I could give a better explanation. We mean the participant ships a project (like shipping code) and we physically ship them materials (like a drawing machine in t…

I really like Bart Dring's work but haven't seen this one before. Thanks for sharing!

That's correct! The machine is in exchange for sharing your art program.

For the last few years, I've been working at a non-profit called Hack Club developing tools to support self-motivated teens to learn about technology and build community with other…

Blot is completely open source (hardware and software). You can find the GitHub here: https://github.com/hackclub/blot I spent the last year building Blot with teenagers in the Hac…

We built an editor for making simple (but complete and fun) games to help young folks (or anyone) learn to code. It's at sprig.hackclub.com If your son shares the game publicly as …

I've built a number of bidirectional editors, often with CodeMirror. You could check out my bidirectional circuit design tool: https://github.com/leomcelroy/svg-pcb Paper on it her…

It's not, we'll do our best to ship everywhere we can.

Many people who in retrospect are truly innovative almost definitionally spend their time doing things other people don't regard as valuable (at first at least). As an extreme exam…

As others pointed out when fully assembled most of the board is covered (but visible). We designed the board to function like a devkit for the pico as well so unused pins are broke…

Amazing! Your son has been such a valuable contributor. I also love the games he made.

Give it a try! I'd love to see the game you make.

Thanks! I've been really strongly influenced by great constructionists like Brian Silverman (who worked on Scratch and early Lego Mindstorms). He also helped consult on Sprig actua…

We chose the aesthetic of the bare PCB to help demystify the technology. The console is also designed to be repurposed as a hardware devkit (there are breakout pads and what not).

This is an interesting point. One of the major things we're trying to demonstrate with Hack Club is we box people in too much based on their age. Especially young people who genera…

If you want to check out some of the games people have made you can find them here: https://sprig.hackclub.com/gallery

I think it's a well executed project and the UI design on the editor is nicely done. We focused a lot on the API of our game engine and honed in on having a small construction kit …

Thank you! I found the other fantasy consoles quite inspiring, PuzzleScript too.

There are some backing covers which are laser cut. It's possible to swap with a 3D printed cover and use the same mounting holes.

We debated running JS (Kaluma) or micropython on the Pico. We started with Kaluma because the editor is in the browser. After we got some game submissions though we realized we'd h…

Haha thanks. Hack Club certainly has adults involved (like myself) but we structure projects so teens can be core contributors (the rest of the core engineering staff on Sprig are …

The idea is to help people learn programming by making it easier for them to think of and execute projects which they share with others. In this case those projects are the making …