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Pip is the insane lovechild of a Nintendo Switch and a Raspberry Pi (and I want one).
Pip, from Glasgow’s Curious Chip, is a novel take on teaching kids to code. For starters, much like the Nintendo Switch, it works when you’re out and about, and when you’re sat at a desk. Interestingly, it tries to hide as much of Raspberry Pi’s internals from the user as possible. The device’s UI is similar to a smartphone, and it boasts a browser-based development environment that can be accessed by any computer on the network.

The advantages of this are twofold: firstly, it takes much of the complexity of learning to program away from the user. Deploying some code is as simple as pressing ‘save‘ and then ‘run,’ and you don’t have to actually build your own development environment. It’s all there, ready for you to start coding.