The complete kit can be found here - http://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-starter-kit.html
The box it comes in looks like this:
Let's open that thing up:
The black case seems sturdy:
This kit comes with a wifi adapter which is nice if you want to have less cable clutter:
An HDMI cable is included for plugging into a display:
And now onto the main event....
Ir'a incredible to realize how small these boards are getting. This thing is amazing:
The kit also comes with some decent instructions to get started. There are a few more things you'll want to get to use this kit. You'll need a monitor to hook into and you'll want to get a USB keyboard and mouse.
For educational purposes, I would let the students take each piece out of the box separately and see if they can explain how they will all interact together. The board might be a little shocking to some as they may have never seen the inside of a desktop or laptop computer.
I would also have them look up some images of older computers compared to the Raspberry Pi 2 board to see the major size differences. While RAM and hard drives are getting larger in space, the boards and components are getting smaller and smaller.
Depending on their ages, they could also be told about Moore's law and look into it further if they are a little bit older. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
They could also identify all the components on the board and talk through what each piece is used for:
From there, they could place the Pi into the case to get it ready to use. This is a good stopping point for our first look at the Raspberry Pi 2 CanaKit complete starter kit.
Join back next time for part 2 as I'll be hooking the device up to a monitor and booting into the included micro SD card for the first time.
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