The Week Junior UK - Issue 189, 27 July 2019

27 July 2019•The Week Junior 23

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he latest gadget to encourage young people in

theircoding projects is the Pi-Top4,which is being

described asa“go-anywhere, do-anything”computer.

It’sabox including the latest Raspberry Pi 4

computer as well asabutton and mi

screen, and itcomes with kits includi

buzzers and otherconnectors.

The Pi-Top4can be programmed

anothercomputer,smartphone or tablet. Several

accessories areavailable, including one that will turn

it intoaremote-control vehicle. The Pi-Top4uses the

Raspberry Pi4mini-computer,whichwasunveiled in

the cheapest and most powerful

s” devices that arebeing made.

eople to buy the Pi-Top4will

r deviceinNovember.

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THE

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The new football season will soon be here, and

thefantasy-football game for the PremierLeague

is returning. As ever,you canpick your squad,

create leagues with friends andfamily,and see

how many points your knowledgecanscore.

WHAT’SINSIDEATURTLE SHELL?

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Youwill have seenaturtle pop its head out of its

shell, but have you ever wondered what’sinside

that shell? Theycan’t crawl out of their shell

because it’sactually part of the animal’s

skeleton. This videoexplains all, including some

surprising details about turtles’ bottoms!

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The gadget uses

Raspberry Pi 4.

M

anyparents orcarers think young people are

spending too much time playing games. Now

that it’sthe summer holidays, you may have been

set screen-time limits to ensureyou don’t spend the

entirebreak indoors.

However,aBritish organisationcalled Internet

Matters, whichcampaigns to help people stay safe

online, hasasuggestion: that moreadults play

games with the young people they’relooking after.It

surveyed 2,000 parents in the UK, and found that

although 44% of them think that gaming together is

away to spend time asafamily,42% say that they

never play games with their children on any device.

“Weknow that parents whoregularly get involved

with their children’sactivities online arebetter placed

to lead them through some of the issues they may

face,” said the boss of Internet Matters, Carolyn

Bunting. “We’reencouraging parents to do something

that may well go against their natureand haveago

at gaming–get involved.”

New sliceofP i-Toptoi nspirecoders

Families urged to get gaming together

Some parents say gaming

as afamily is good.

th

WOW!

Thecheapes

tRaspberry

Picomputer

costsjust

£4.65a

nd is made

in South

Wales.

One of the kits

is avehicle.

DITCH AR IN

HARRYPOTTER:

WIZARDSUNITE

The new HarryPotter

mobile game uses

augmented-reality

(AR) tech, like

Pokémon Go,toput

the game in thereal

world. However,you

canturn AR off in the

settings: it saves your

phone’sbattery life,

and makes itabit

easier tocatch the

game’s“foundables”.