for educators

A class set with no accounts in it.

Ten Atlas handhelds and one Library base station make a room: one film or one lesson on every screen, frame-locked, with the sound out loud, and the school wifi never touched. There are no student accounts because there are no accounts. Nothing to provision, nothing to consent to, no data leaving the room, and nothing for a district privacy review to lose sleep over.

The devices are made, flashed and repaired in Hamilton, Ontario, by the same people who teach with them at our own camps. This page is what a set costs, what to do with it on a Tuesday, and what happens when a unit misbehaves.

01

The classroom set

10 Atlas + 1 Library

Enough for a class working in pairs, with the Library serving films, books, audiobooks, and whole course materials to every screen at once. Load your own curriculum onto its card and it is your curriculum, on their screens, with the internet out of the picture.

Atlas $129.99 each · Library $89.99
Ten and one is $1,389.89 of hardware at singles pricing. Write to us through printandplay.ca for the class-set rate, or come by the shop.
02

What to do with it on a Tuesday

A complete first period, ready to run: power on, tour the modes, play head to head over Bluetooth, meet Mouse, and finish with the thing no other device in the school lets them do: updating their own firmware from a browser. Timed to 45 minutes, works in pairs, needs one laptop at the front.

After the first period

Mouse is the syllabus

The flagship game teaches programming as rules, not clicks: a mouse, a crumb, and a hundred proven levels. A class can run a chapter a week, and the levels are identical on every unit, so the whole room compares solutions to the same puzzle.

The longer arc

The Academy tree

Ten pathways and thirty-seven badges, from a first 3D print to soldering a whole Atlas, each one a readable document with checkpoints. Passing means showing a person. The tree is printable as a wall poster for the classroom.

Your own material

The Library carries courses

Its card holds course lessons and curriculums alongside the books and films. Documents read on every Atlas through the Reader, so a handout is loaded once and appears in thirty hands.

03

Running a fleet of thirty

The whole routine is a powered USB hub, a browser, and the kids themselves.

  1. Charging. Atlas charges over USB from any powered hub or cart. Top the set up overnight or during the previous period and it is ready when the bell goes.
  2. Updating. Flashing is a browser page, not an install: plug in, open installatlas.com, click Update. It keeps every unit's saves and packs. A class can update its own fleet in one period, and honestly, they should: doing it is the point.
  3. Pairing the room. The Library and the Atlases version together. Update both in the same sitting and the room protocol just works; the flasher labels the matching pair.
  4. Naming. Number the shells with a paint pen or label maker. There are no accounts to assign, so the unit in the hand is the whole identity system.
When a unit won't boot: plug it in, open the flasher, choose Fresh install. Two minutes later it is factory-new. If it still won't, the people who built it are at 162 Locke Street South, Hamilton, and they answer.
04

For the procurement form

Origin

A domestic supplier

Every Atlas is made in our Hamilton, Ontario storefront: designed, printed, assembled, flashed, taught and repaired at 162 Locke Street South, in recyclable materials we source Canadian when we can, around hand-assembled electronics. For boards with domestic-supplier preferences, Atlas qualifies as few devices in this category can.

Privacy

No student data, structurally

Student work lives on the unit in the hand, and course material lives on a card the teacher owns. There are no accounts, no cloud and no telemetry, so the devices cannot collect what they have no way to send, and there is nothing here for a district review to find.

Lifecycle

Repairable, not disposable

Open-source firmware, printable shells, and a manufacturer with a street address. Units are repaired, reflashed and reprinted rather than replaced, and the platform updates free from a browser.