Short Project Description


Short Project Description


The concept of graphical programming enables teenagers and even younger children with creative access to computers. Scratch, a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, provides not only the tool, but creates also a very inspiring environment for children, teachers and parents alike.
But sometimes creativity goes beyond creating "only" a program - physical interaction, tangible results become essential.

On the other hand, the Arduino project is quite famous and I'm impressed how well documented these microcontroller boards are, how easy they are to come by and how many slightly modified clones are around - all of them (Arduinos and clones) with a reasonable price tag. So it seems a good idea bringing Scratch and Arduino together.

This blog describes the advances step by step of setting up a robot controlled by an Arduino and easily programmed through a graphical enviroment. This project might be interesting to hobbyists, teachers, educators and parents (like me).

To allow for a maximum of creativity and flexibility the robot will use LEGO Technic / Education as the mechanical robotics platform.

Wednesday 30 December 2015

RELOADED: Graphical Programming the Arduino

Makeblock (http://makeblock.cc) introduced with mBlock  a new kid on the block (nice pun...) when it comes to graphical programming the Arduino.

The features of Scratch, Ardublock, mBlock and Minibloq are shortly described and compared in the following blog: http://www.makeblock.cc/showcase/graphical-programming-software-comparison/

And by the way: The Ardublock website has moved to http://ardublock.heqichen.cn/blog/en/ - repositories can be found:
Please make sure you are really using the right version for your purpose. But once installed it just works like charm...

 
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