Right now I’d say 14 and older. A 12 or 13 year old might have the aptitude to get going, but they’d need some help. At some point we’ll expand to leverage a Raspberry Pi and Scratch to build some projects, but that is a distant project.
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If you already have a computer or newer Raspberry Pi, you can likely get enough components to start building and coding for as cheap as $60. Note that you’ll need to add other items later when the time comes to get into connectivity or having a display that can show text.
This is one that I need to work out. Right now the content is copyrighted to protect the work that has been going into this site. I’ll be interacting with an intellectual property lawyer soon to iron out the details of a suggestion form.
We’ve worked very hard to keep everything original here. The goal is that when this site goes live, all the images and schematics will have been created by us. It is highly likely that the code we share will be quite similar to other code that others have created. But that is only because of the simplicity. How many ways can you read the voltage on a specific GPIO pin and display a number to the logs? But if you feel that something on this site infringes on your intellectual property, please let us know in the comments on that page.
The highest voltage used is quite low. And more importantly the amperage is also quite low. If you are using the products as designed you should be quite safe.
We still need to figure out the IP rights for this project. As such, we are starting with the content copyrighted and will research the appropriate labels and settings later.