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Here, you will find pointers to several carefully hand-picked, simple-to-learn and ready-to-use, free cloud-based prototyping & simulation tools for students to learn and innovate. These tools can be used for designing web-sites; writing story books; blogging articles; visual story-telling; movie-making; modelling 3D objects; simulating hardware devices, robots and aircraft; prototyping; programming; building mobile apps; creating virtual & augmented reality experiences; visualizing, monitoring & controlling IoT devices; playing artificial intelligence games; building Alexa skills; etc. All you need is a web-browser running on your computer to use these tools. Self-learning online tutorials with examples are made available by each tool provider.
With these cloud tools, student innovators are no more restricted to the physical confines of their school or ATL in order to learn and innovate. They can learn right from their homes...
A web page-creation tool that makes it possible for anyone to create simple web sites that support collaboration between different editors.
The Wix website builder is a simplified way to create a website. It runs in your web browser (no need to install any software) and already provides its own web hosting. You sign up, select a template design, and start creating.
WordPress is a free personal publishing platform. It is an easy to use, fast and flexible. It comes with a great set of features, designed to make your experience as a publisher as pleasant as possible.
Storyline Creator is an elegant writing tool for authors, for stories ranging from short stories to novels. It makes it a breeze to draft ideas and to organize your scenes, characters and researched material - so you can focus on the plot and the creativity instead of the paper war.
Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is a fast, easy and free way for authors and publishers to keep control and publish their books worldwide as ebook or as paper-back books.
A tool for creating stories using photos, videos and web pages.
A simple tool for creating music using artificial intelligence technology. You don't need any prior skills in composing music to create one...
A tool for creating music using artificial intelligence technology. You don't need any prior skills in composing music to create one...
A simple tool to learn programming the fun way - through stories, games and animations.
A tool for programming the Arduino micro-controller board. You still need a physical Arduino board in order to upload the code.
A free online collection of software tools that help people to think, create and make. The Tinkercad Arduino Simulaor allows one to design circuits involving arduino micro-controller, sensors and actuators and simulate their working on the cloud - without needing physical hardware devices.
A tool for building mobile apps using visual block programming approach.
An IoT platform that allows application developers to aggregate, visualize, and analyze live sensor data streams in the cloud and also act on the data by triggering remote devices or send tweets. The tool still requires IoT devices or IoT device simulators to send data to the ThingSpeak IoT Platform.
The Hive Public MQTT Broker allows for exchange of MQTT messages between MQTT client applications.
Tour Creator makes it easy to build immersive, 360° tours right from your computer.
Panoform is a tool which allows anyone to become a VR creator. All you need to get started in some paper, crayons, and a mobile device.
Thousands of teachers and students are creating Augmented Reality experiences in their classrooms. It is so easy to create that grade school kids can do it.
A tool that enables designers and developers to create fully-customisable Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality experiences.
An open source robot simulator that provides a complete development environment to model, program and simulate robots.
A simple robot simulator that can be programmed using Scratch-like visual programming interface. You can have your robot up and moving around in matter of minutes and have a lot of fun !
A free tool that introduces machine learning to children by providing hands-on experiences for training machine learning systems and building things with them.
A free tool that introduces artificial intelligence (face recognition, object detection, posture recognition and audio recognition) to children by in an extremely simple way. Your AI mode can be running in just a few minutes of setup time.
AI Experiments is a showcase for simple experiments that make it easier for anyone to start exploring machine learning, through pictures, drawings, language, music, and more.
A free, online flight simulator, with global scenery, that runs in your web browser. Whether you are a licensed pilot practicing VFR, an aviation enthusiast or just looking for some fun flying in beautiful landscapes, you can enjoy any of the 20 available aircraft, ranging from para-glider to airliners, absolutely anywhere in the world.
SketchUp is 3D modeling and graphic design tool which allows you to easily and quickly create all kinds of 3D models. SketchUp Make is a free version of the tool.
TinkerCad Code Blocks is an extremely simple 3D modeling tool that allows you to easily and quickly create all kinds of 3D models using Scratch-like visual programming interface. Have fun creating interesting 3D models. You can also export the 3D models and have them 3D printed.
Love playing video games? Learn to create your own games and enjoy playing them. Game development from beginner to advanced stages.
Alexa skills are like apps. Skills are voice-driven Alexa capabilities. You can enable Alexa skills on your Echo device or on your Alexa App to bring voice activated experiences to life. Use Amazon Blueprints tool to create voice activated experiences in just a matter of minutes.
Canvanizer is a business model canvas creation tool that helps innovators come up with a clear and documented business model to take their innovations to their market.
Use this Government of India web-site to search for existing patents, or file an application to patent your innovation here.