Programming & Robotics

Learn to CODE!

Select one or all of the coding programs below!

Angry Birds http://learn.code.org/hoc/1

Code with Frozen http://studio.code.org/s/frozen/stage/1/puzzle/1

Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/

LightBot http://lightbot.com/hour-of-code.html

Code Avengers http://www.codeavengers.com/

Code Academy http://www.codecademy.com/

LittleBits

LittleBits is a platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks that empower you to invent anything, from your own remote controlled car, to a smart home device. The Bits snap together with magnets, no soldering, no wiring, no programming needed.

How it Works

Use your Chromebook to follow the link to this LittleBit PDF that explains the individual modules

Ideas for Future Projects

Dash & Dot Robots

Meet Dash "Dash is a real robot, charged and ready to play out of the box. Responding to voice, navigating objects, dancing, and singing, Dash is the robot you always dreamed of having. Use Wonder, Blockly, and other apps to create new behaviors for Dash — doing more with robotics than ever possible. "

Meet Dot "Dot is a clever little robot with multiple sensors and a quirky personality! Dot and Dash can play on their own or together!"

We use the Blockly app for programming Dash & Dot. "Take on coding challenges and make your own programs for Dash & Dot using Blockly. Transform Dot into an alarm, play tag with Dash, or use Dot to control Dash. Programming lets you turn your silliest or most ambitious ideas into reality "

Video Introduction to Dash & Dot

Makey Makey

Makey Makey is an invention kit for the 21st century. Turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. It's a simple Invention Kit for Beginners and Experts doing art, engineering, and everything inbetween:



The kit will include everything you see above: Makey Makey, Alligator Clips, USB Cable.


How Does it Work?

Alligator Clip two objects to the Makey Makey board. For example, you and a banana.



When you touch the banana, you make a connection, and Makey Makey sends the computer a keyboard message. The computer just thinks Makey Makey is a regular keyboard (or mouse). Therefore it works with all programs and webpages, because all programs and webpages take keyboard and mouse input.


Make + Key = Makey Makey!


Who is Makey Makey For?

Artists, Kids, Educators, Engineers, Designers, Inventors, Makers... Really it is for everyone. Here is a photo of an 8-year-old using Makey Makey:



She invented a "knife-and-log" interface for cutting virtual wood in an online game.


What materials work with Makey Makey?

Any material that can conduct at least a tiny bit of electricity will work. Here are some materials people have used in our workshops including Ketchup, Pencil Graphite, Finger Paint, Lemons, etc.:



Other materials that work great: Plants, Coins, Your Grandma, Silverware, Anything that is Wet, Most Foods, Cats and Dogs, Aluminum Foil, Rain, and hundreds more...


Why Are You Creating Makey Makey?

We believe that everyone is creative, inventive, and imaginative. We believe that everyone can create the future and change the world. So we have dedicated our lives to making easy-to-use invention kits. We believe that the whole world is a construction kit, if we choose to see it that way.


We are inspired by the Maker Movement. We want to help people start to think of themselves as Makers and agents of change. When you have the "Maker's Mindset," you know you can change the world.