This looks awesome and the visual programming kit makes it even cooler for kids. I have a six year old daughter and a three year old son and we've been doing WeDo LEGOs for just over a year now and I'm looking for the "next step." This seems like a good possibility.
Another option I'm considering is arduino so we can disconnect the LEGO usb hub from the computer and get a more autonomous experience. The hard part about that is that I don't know of any visual languages I could use with Arduino. If anyone has some ideas that might support this, I'd appreciate sharing.
I'm going to look into the project page link that hausen shared, really glad to see this!
EDIT: Does anyone know how practical it would be for someone like me to do this? I have 0 electronics experience, but they provide the plans for the board, is it easy to get the board built? Sorry for total newb question here, but I'm genuinely interested in doing something like this.
I just got a pololu zumo robot for prototyping an industrial application at work. My daughter is only 3, but if she were 5-12 it would be a likely gift for her this Christmas. Just snap an arduino uno on top and you are literally off to the races. Not sure about the visual options there, but the example programs are an excellent hacking off point.
That looks really cool, I'm going to look into it further. It looks like the programming is C-based, do you know if there are any visual languages that could be used with it for kids?
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This looks awesome and the visual programming kit makes it even cooler for kids. I have a six year old daughter and a three year old son and we've been doing WeDo LEGOs for just over a year now and I'm looking for the "next step." This seems like a good possibility.
Another option I'm considering is arduino so we can disconnect the LEGO usb hub from the computer and get a more autonomous experience. The hard part about that is that I don't know of any visual languages I could use with Arduino. If anyone has some ideas that might support this, I'd appreciate sharing.
I'm going to look into the project page link that hausen shared, really glad to see this!
EDIT: Does anyone know how practical it would be for someone like me to do this? I have 0 electronics experience, but they provide the plans for the board, is it easy to get the board built? Sorry for total newb question here, but I'm genuinely interested in doing something like this.
I just got a pololu zumo robot for prototyping an industrial application at work. My daughter is only 3, but if she were 5-12 it would be a likely gift for her this Christmas. Just snap an arduino uno on top and you are literally off to the races. Not sure about the visual options there, but the example programs are an excellent hacking off point.
Ok, that's pretty neat, going on my Christmas list ;) Thanks for sharing!
Visual languages: ardublock, simulink Arduino robot: look at the sparkling redbot
Awesome, thanks!
Sorry, autocorrect.
Look for the 'sparkfun redbot'
That looks really cool, I'm going to look into it further. It looks like the programming is C-based, do you know if there are any visual languages that could be used with it for kids?
yes it's c based. Look in to ardublock, it's a plugin that creates a visual language on top of the ide