The Kookaberry is a digital educational tool that sits between the Raspberry Pi and micro:bit in both functionality and price point.

The Kookaberry was designed in Australia as a low cost open source technology platform for primary school teachers and students to use in conjunction with their normal lesson plans.

Its low cost sensors; data logging capability; screen; and ease of programming for specific applications; make it an ideal tool for STEM activities in secondary schools as well.

It has the benefit of being influenced by many competent and successful examples such as the Arduino and microBit. a tour around the Kookaberry →

A fundamental design philosophy of the Kookaberry is that it needs to come out of its box and be used in a learning plan, then packed away all in under an hour.

No software coding... just run engaging and fun STEM applications that make students think and enquire about what is being achieved – and have fun at the same time

The Kookaberry is a microcontroller-based digital system with a lot of added features to make it easy to collect, measure and analyse data; and to process that data for display on its screen, or to control external devices.

Compared to the micro:bit upon which it is based, it has

• a screen,

• a memory chip to store pre-coded applications and data logged when it is measuring something,

• plugs and sockets for attaching input and output devices - collectively called “peripherals” in Kookaberry speak,

• an on-board MicroPython compiler which means you don’t have to be connected to the Internet to load, code and run applications,

• a USB interface which makes it easy to connect to a PC to drag-and-drop application files, and to take Excel data files out of memory for graphing and analysis,

• an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which is installed on a PC to which a Kookaberry is connected. The IDE allows the user to load, display, modify, and run the code driving the applications in real time.

• a teachers’ window where the screen on a connected Kookaberry can be viewed in a separate window on the teacher’s PC and displayed on a monitor or smart board.

All other functions, including loading, editing and running of MicroPython files, can be run in both Windows and Mac environments through the USB interface.

See here for more: https://auststem.com.au/exploring-the-kookaberry/