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Ask HN: What are some hobby tech projects for a tech-savvy teenager?

by ParallelThread on 9/25/23, 6:19 PM with 2 comments

• by bosky101 on 9/25/23, 6:28 PM

  - creating their version of Google homepage, there is plenty to go down the rabbit hole beginning with the homepage

  - creating home/iot alerts maybe with zapier/email/twilio

  - creating a chatbot based on a pdf

  - creating an RSVP site for your upcoming family _

  - creating a browser extension

  - creating a guest wifi login system with credits/timeouts

  - creating a Dropbox alternative with S3

  - a website that tells you which day of the week you were born

  You're welcome

• by dominicdoty on 9/25/23, 6:57 PM

  If they're interested in software and hardware, robotics is a fun place to start.

  Line following, object avoidance, maze solving, all sorts of cool options.

  A relatively cheap option would be the micro:bit [1] and a chassis [2]. The micro:bit can run CircuitPython [3] which is an simplified version of Python that can run on embedded systems.

  This setup offers lots of room for growth from graphical programming, to circuitpython, and then on to C programming.

  [1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/4781

  [2] https://www.adafruit.com/product/4575

  [3] https://circuitpython.org/board/microbit_v2/