I am sure this will capture her son :-) I may well 'donate' an Arduino or TI MSP device to see how he gets on with it, but I am sure it will go down well. Co-indentally, his father is...a techie ! So, what am I trying to say after this ramble ? I think, as Morgaine says above, that we can't force kids to want to use it. Many of the things that the Pi can possibly do can be done by a mobile phone, probably better and faster. My relatively inexpensive mobile has a dual core processor running at 1.2 Ghz and could run rings around the Pi power wise. I think what the Pi can do, is to improve the options and chances for people that are the self selected techie - the poorer family that may not be able to afford a second PC, or even a first PC for the child to play on, could probably fund a raspberry Pi, along with the bits that are needed coming from aunts and uncles. The kids that may be on the periphery of an interest may be wiling to get one as a birthday present to 'try it out' and then become hooked, either directly in terms of the technology for the technologies sake, or for a person interested in design that can see possibilities in the area of wearable computing, or even in a year or two as the 'internet of things' gathers pace, as a