Piper Computer Kit | with Minecraft: Raspberry Pi edition | Tech Toy of the Year Finalist 2018

It is greatt tool for children to learn computing hands on. Assembling, exploring, solving problems together. Highly recommended.

Just opened the kit to build with my son and disappointed to find that the kit is badly damaged (see pics). I would expect much better quality for the price.

Ok first lets address the price of this item, is it worth 300 quid. Good god no its way over priced for what it is.Secondly lets talk about what the piper is. Simply put its a kit that lets you build you piper following blueprints. You then charge up your battery and start playing.The game is a minecraft game that has its players build very simple circuits like controllers to move your character in the game around along with other flashing lights buzzers, button and other bits. The game is glitchy as hell but still a lot of fun to play. My kids finished the game inside 2 days. It takes about 3 hours if truth be told.So what about when the game is finished. Well then you need to get a keyboard then you can use the raspberry pi operating system to code in scratch, python and other things like sonic pi etc.The pros- this kit has many cons but it is simply a brilliant bit of kit. Kids love it. Yes they get bord of it after a few days but then you can use it to explore what a raspberry pi does.The con- game is glitchy, price is ridiculousIs it worth 300 quid no, would i pay 300 quid. I did and i would again. I run a code club in a primary school and the kids love this game.