I'm really hoping for Fediverse help here.

I have a 14 year old niece. She's incredibly smart and extremely motivated when it comes to engineering things.

I want to get her some electronics stuff, like an Arduino kit, but maybe something with wearables, etc. to make it more relevant to her than just a breadboard.

She'll also need some books on electronics, since she doesn't have the background in that.

Sadly, some limitations:

- I can't help her. Her mother won't let my wife or I talk to her. This gift itself will have to be given through a third party.

- She has a learning disability around reading- likely dyslexia, and so we need material that's easy to read

- Her English is not amazing, especially because of the learning disability.

So I'm looking for a kit with a ton of instructional material. Programming, electronics, breadboard, the whole kit and kaboodle.

If you have ideas, please share, and boost!

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Head up, #maker #3DPrinter fans. The just-announced BambuLab lockdown on our printers is on it way - but you can still enroll your printer (with the usual caveats) to run rootable firmware.

Read BambuLab's post here: blog.bambulab.com/firmware-upd…

Buuuuuuut,

You can still go through the opt-out procedure (or just not upgrade your printer)

bambulab.com/en-us/third-party…

Or, y'know, you could get the keys... hackaday.com/2025/01/19/bambu-… ;)

And I'd recommend X1 Plus firmware :) github.com/X1Plus/X1Plus

#OwnIt #RightToRepair

Firmware Update Introducing New Authorization Control System

Launching first for X Series printers, with P and A Series updates planned for future release

^{Bambu Kidd (Bambu Lab Blog)}

The Maker's Bill of Rights - discovered in the Design Museum, #london

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