Batman Moleskine – Finally, a notebook for boy teens #BackToSchool
Tomorrow my boy starts school. No, he’s not five; No.1 turned 16 in January, and after two years of Home Ed he’s re-entering the system for his A levels. So the last few weeks have been a weird combination of grumpy denial (I do NOT like being retsricted to school term dates again!), floating sadness (we’re going to miss hi and his mugs of tea) and excited preparations. About the only things we’ve not had to...
Introducing the UDOO Neo – Tech Stuff for Baffled Parents
As any geek parents will know, the original UDOO board was pretty amazing. It was the next logical step on from the fabulously ground-breaking Raspberry Pi, and combined the Pi with Arduino, letting you run the tiny computer as well as control electronic projects. Well, this year the people behind UDOO created a new kickstarter – the UDOO neo. It includes the Raspberry Pi and an Arduino board as before, but this time...
Affordable Laptop? Check the Dell Inspiron 15, it’s under £250!
Okay, so your laptop is groaning, creaking and clattering in an alarming fashion, huffing and puffing when you have the outrageous cheek to expect it to open emails before the kettle has boiled. Your child has clattered the keys to death Minecrafting, and your hard drive is bursting at the seams with your photo library – which you can’t ever look at because the bitter groaning and wheezing begins in earnest when you even...
10 Things Killed By Technology (that I sort of miss…)
I love technology – we owe our entire lifestyle to modern technology, and we’re grateful for it every single day. The internet allows us the amazing flexibility of working from home – and I would never ever have considered home educating four children without the world wide web at my (and their) fingertips. Not just for their unbelievably busy gaming social lives, but for the knowledge that is right there for the...
BAFTA Young Game Designers (YGD) competition – and FREE ‘young game designer’ workshops
BAFTA YGD workshops will take place in Manchester, Newcastle and London in May: Competition entry deadline is Monday 1 June The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is hosting free workshops around the UK to inspire young people to consider a career in games. The workshops, which began in Glasgow in April and take place in Manchester, Newcastle and London in May, are in support of the BAFTA Young Game Designers (YGD)...
Just the Best & Prettiest Kindle Fire HDX Case – Lente Designs review
When the 8yr old got a Kindle Fire HDX for her birthday, I kew it should have been a double-gift, and come with a Kindle Fire HDX case. Because it is utterly pointless anyone at all having a nice tablet if they haven’t got a nice case. Quite apart from the pretty-factor (let’s be honest, tablets are NOT attractive things), there is the serious issue of protection. Having an unprotected tablet around is simply asking for...