Abstract

This paper gives an overview of the existing single-board computers under 100$ on the market, which are more or less suitable to fulfil the digital competences of the curricula of individual school types from primary to high school. For this purpose, a quantitative analysis of single-board computers under 100$ available on the market was carried out and the characteristics of the relevant products were extracted from the technical documents of the products and binarized using a qualitative deductive meta-analysis. The resulting skill- and property- fulfilment was supplemented horizontally with the snapshot price information, combined, and ranked vertically. The resulting list of more or less suitable products was presented in a network graphic, taking into account a horizontal dynamic price weighting, in order to allow the decision-maker to take into account his own financial possibilities of possibly limited budgets in his decision. The study points out that the market for single-board computers is divided into 2 different product types and that the SOC variants can definitely replace a PC. Furthermore, it was found that there are currently no learning stets that match the price and content requirements of the curricula. The study concludes with a summary and an outlook.