I arbitrarily decided that Robot Turtles was not a birthday present but something we shall do today (my regularly scheduled day off). I popped it open and read through the instructions this morning. Very high quality printing and construction all around; it feels very durable. The basic game is pretty basic, but you can make it quite complex and add subroutines (via Function Frog). I will have fun, even if the kids don’t.
They might be able to handle Escape From Atlantis too. Not really educational except for general decision making processes, but fun and competitive without being mean.
The Bluetooth protocol is the limiting factor… the speakers have to be, generally, part of a set, and ‘know’ about each other… and be set up for that. Otherwise, nope.
My multi speaker solution right now is a BT receiver plugged into an RF transmitter with two linked speakers, it works, it just seems cumbersome. And now I have an awesome Harmon Kardon speaker that I use straight through my phone.
I thought I’d add an update on my backup as it has only just finished.
That’s right, it took almost a week to do a single backup of around a terabyte.
I know my upload speed is a lot slower than my download speed, but that’s ludicrous.
On the plus side, now that the first backup is complete it shouldn’t be a major problem as the Synology backup system only backs up changed files - and on a daily basis that number is pretty minimal. It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes tonight.
This is arriving in the morning. I thought it would be a nice project for my son and I work on together as the first major upgrade to our desktop computer.