Ayah Bdeir wrote The Internet as Material Empowering the Next Phase of Connected Hardware Innovation as a way to introduce the iPad generation to digital legos. This is a resource that should be in every elementary school across America.
Lego turned the cement block into a toy that we have all played with growing up. Ayah is doing the same for the circuit board.
littleBits Electronics has launched a revolution in the open hardware movement that somehow remains in a ‘quite’ mode.
Her idea needs a bigger platform like for example the Gates Foundation to be catapulted across a national audience.
littleBits has a product solution for children that is the next step to the Raspberry Pi’s breadboard. Microsoft has really embraced Raspberry Pi and breadboards for their IoT projects.