Computer Engineering for Babies Book

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babyengineering/computer-engineering-for-babies

by kakkan • 5 years ago

36 18 5 years ago

mysterydip• 5 years ago

Looks like the perfect book for my toddlers that love light switches. One question I don't see answered is what type of battery is it? We are trying to avoid coin batteries with their curious mouths.

crobertsbmw7• 5 years ago

It uses a small CR2320 battery. To access the battery you'll need to remove a sticker on the back cover, and then the battery is glued in with hot glue, so you'll need some pliers to remove the glue, and then you'll need a small tool to push the battery out of the circuit board. Rest assured, it's not going to be an easy battery to remove.

1024core• 5 years ago

With children, that's a risky belief.

mandmandam2• 5 years ago

Congratulations on your success with this! If shipping to my country weren't $20 I'd order one like a shot.

Would you mind telling me how you rate Jellop? I see them on a lot of successful Kickstarters, and would love to hear about the real experience of them.

crobertsbmw7• 5 years ago

They have been great. I feel like they run a good honest transparent operation. I think they are also pretty picky about which projects they take on; I applied before the campaign and they didn’t want to get on board, but that changed after the project raised 150k.

mandmandam2• 5 years ago

Oh wow, you raised 150k without them? Nice work!

crobertsbmw7• 5 years ago

Thanks for posting this! I’m the guy behind the project, and I’ll try to answer any questions about the project here.

miccah• 5 years ago

Nice job! From the video it looks like many of the pages share the same buttons. I'm curious how you detect which page is open to operate the corresponding circuit?

detaro3• 5 years ago

@OP: Show HN is for things you (i.e. the person submitting) made, and also explicitly not for crowdfunding: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

crobertsbmw7• 5 years ago

I’m not the OP, just the project owner. Although I did do a Show HN when it launched.

detaro3• 5 years ago

which is why addressed OP with my comment.

karmakaze• 5 years ago

I love the 'fridge light' NOT page.

It wouldn't take much more to make this useful for older people, e.g. farther non-obvious separation of buttons (e.g. across pages), or in time. Humans are really bad about associating unrelated things from too few samples or missing recurring things just outside our window of attention.

quickthrower2• 5 years ago

Nice. And why didn’t I think of this? Ha ha!

Computer Engineering for Babies Book

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