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Five projects. Three are built around Pip, a red panda who teaches young children how money works and how a computer follows instructions. Two keep track of things I collect.
For children
Three sites hosted by Pip, a red panda. They're free, there's nothing to install, and none of them ask a child to sign up for anything.
Screening Room watch.chanjayjay.com
Short episodes for ages 4 to 7 — what to do with your ang bao money and why we save it, what to do when a feeling gets too big, how a computer follows a set of steps, and why the world works the way it does.
Pip's Playroom play.chanjayjay.com
Games that teach how to think in steps. Younger children put Pip's instructions in order and split pocket money between spending, saving and sharing; older ones write real code and read the real error messages when it breaks.
A book starring your child books.chanjayjay.com
Type a name, pick somewhere for it to happen, and a minute later you have an illustrated picture book with your child in it — about being brave, or starting school, or a new baby at home. Yours to download and keep.
Collecting
Two collections, and the small tools I built to keep track of them.
Banknote Collection chanmoneychan.com
A catalogue of Singapore and Malayan notes — the Straits Settlements and Malaya through to the Orchid, Bird, Ship and Portrait series. Photograph a note and it reads the signature and serial, checks the prefix against the documented run, and writes it up. A grid shows every denomination each issuer ever made against what is held, varieties side by side; graded notes link to their certificate.
Friends keep their own ledgers on it. The galleries are behind a passcode.
Fountain pens pens.chanjayjay.com
Pens, inks, and which pen is currently inked with what — for a handful of friends who still keep track of it on paper. No open list of pen models and their nibs exists, so we are writing one down ourselves.