All about the calendar
Arriving just in time for Christmas, The Pi Hut’s Maker Advent Calendar contains all sorts of maker-y goodness to enhance the Festive season. The Calendar comes as a large box with a cardboard wrapper and will make an excellent gift – the packaging is just so lovely, and definitely on the “cute” side. Inside the main box, you will find 12 small boxes with tabs to help you pull them out. Inside each of those smaller boxes is the contents of the Calendar. The initial box, number 1, contains a Raspberry Pi Pico H (that’s the one with the headers already soldered on), a USB cable to plug it into your computer, and a breadboard.
Little boxes, little boxes
Subsequent small box contents then add onto those basic building blocks to help you explore lighting up LEDs, reading button presses, detecting sensor changes and much more. I’ve taken a look at the contents of each of the smaller boxes (which you can find here, if you really must and if you want to spoil the surprise!). For your £40, you certainly get a lot. Some people have said it’s a bit expensive, but I actually find it to be “about right”.
Adorable, isn’t it? The Pico H comes in its very own anti-static box!
Of course, no box/kit worth its price tag would be without written material to go along with the components. The Pi Hut have promised that the material will be available from 1st December, and it’ll be interesting to see what they come up with. It might have been a good idea to have the first few pages available before, just as a preview, but I expect they’re still working on them at the moment.
Getting the kit
I look forward to getting “stuck in” with the Calendar, its components and the worksheets. It’ll be interesting to see whether they go for MicroPython or CircuitPython!
The Calendar is still available for pre-order for the next few days and you can find it here.