Piper Make Starter Kit

• Grades: 3+
• Number of Students: Recommended 1 per kit
• Number of Lessons: 10
• Contact Hours: 10+
• Additional Resources: Quick Start Guide, Play Piper Make Portal, Piper Make Playbooks

Highlights:

The Piper Make Starter Kit is the base kit for all Piper Make products, including the Raspberry Pi microcontroller which serves as the brains of all the missions you’ll find on the free, drag-and-drop coding platform make.playpiper.com. 

Curriculum or Lesson Plans:

With the Starter Expedition Kit, you will be able to access free 10 self-guided coding lessons on Piper Make – from blinking an LED to making music with resistors. As you help Piperbot and Pip explore Mars in our storyline, you’ll learn computational thinking, basic circuitry, and so much more. Learn more about what you can do with the Piper Make Starter Expedition Kit with the Quick Start Guide. 

For educators, the Piper Make online platform includes tools to facilitate teaching with Piper Make! Resources such as Educator Guides and a full suite of Google collaboration tools including Classroom Share Button, Google Single Sign On (SSO), and Save to Google Drive functions are free and available at make.playpiper.com.

What's Included:

The Piper Make Starter Kit includes the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller and basic breadboarding equipment including:

• 830 Hole Breadboard
• Jumper Wires (M2M)
• Resistors (10)
• Tactile Buttons
• LEDs
• Micro-USB to USB-A cable, 1 meter
• Laser Cut, Laser Etched Wood Base
• Piper Make Stickers

Technical Requirements:

Piper Make is designed to work with Chromebooks, or any other computer using a Chrome browser – just connect to your computer using the included micro-USB to USB-A cable.