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Vigo:
Special Edition I bet, haha.

lordnacho:
I'll sing my own ending

kahlid74:
We have a place in Milwaukee called "Betty Brinn Children's museum" and every time we go I'm always amazed at how they just slap a bunch of buttons on pieces of wood, paint them and then partially connect them.  It's disappointing when I push the horn button on the bus and it doesn't register.  My son could care less as he rolls from one thing to another but it gets annoying for me.

My first question would be what age/s are your children.  The next is how far down the rabbit hole do you want to go.  There are some SUPER cool programming stuff you can do with buttons and Arduino/RaspberryPi/BeagleBone's.  It's pretty straight forward too, not very time consuming once you get the first few done.

As far as getting bored, they would, they always do.  Our children have an even shorter attention span than we do.  Which is why if you do this, involve them from the start and let them help you program it.  Then they'll learn how to build it themselves and will get MUCH more use out of it than you just connecting some buttons and giving it to them.

lordnacho:
Ages 2, 4 and a new one in a few months.  I think you're right about the attention span, we've got some cool toys they just never want to play with anymore.  This would end up in the same situation.

At least that's what I'll tell myself.  Have some weird stuff happening at work, there were layoffs but now postponed.  In the end, I'll probably get hit, so I have to hit the books this summer before the new kid arrives.  I'm falling behind technology-wise working for a corporation, so have to get a couple new programming languages under my belt.

I do have a raspberry pi that ended up in my closet cause it was just too slow for me for anything I wanted.  Maybe someday.

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