{"id":272,"date":"2016-11-23T22:03:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T03:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=272"},"modified":"2016-12-03T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T14:53:21","slug":"maker-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2016\/11\/23\/maker-encouragement\/","title":{"rendered":"Maker Encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My kids wanted to build a gaming computer. I thought this is a wonderful exercise in which they can learn how computer hardware works. Also, there is a little bit of project planning skills involved as well. They will need to decide on a list of required parts, be able to research the advantages and disadvantages of each part while they go through a selection process for each part. The final assembly process will also teach them the essential parts of a physical computer.<\/p>\n<p>To encourage them, I told them that I will subsidize 50% of the cost of the computer up to $1000 CAD. If they decide to take this offer, then this is also their Christmas present.<\/p>\n<p>Since these are gaming computers, there are certain conditions for these boxes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These computers must only be used for games only.<\/li>\n<li>For regular school work, video editing, research, and other day-to-day consumption of the Internet, this must be done with their regular computers today, which are Macs.<\/li>\n<li>These gaming boxes will be powered off when not in use.<\/li>\n<li>There should be no personal information, emails, photos, and family contacts stored on these computers.<\/li>\n<li>These computers will also not have access to other family computers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;ll help them with the parts selection as well as the process of building the computer. I look forward to seeing what they are going to build!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My kids wanted to build a gaming computer. I thought this is a wonderful exercise in which they can learn how computer hardware works. Also, there is a little bit of project planning skills involved as well. They will need to decide on a list of required parts, be able to research the advantages and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2016\/11\/23\/maker-encouragement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maker Encouragement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,40,41],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computer","tag-kids","tag-parenting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/images.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-4o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}