In a time when technology is rapidly changing, the MIT App Inventor provides an excellent example of how to democratize the process of creation.

App Inventor — a Google cast-out that is now maintained by MIT — is a graphical tool that unlocks the power of an Android handset to those with the most basic of programming understanding.

However, as the video above shows, you can also create your own simple apps for your Arduino project using MIT App Inventor. Dejan Nedelkovski uses two examples: controlling a simple LED and ...

After struggling for almost six months to become somewhat proficient at Python, I was extremely impressed with how much I could do using the MIT App Inventor platform.

With App Inventor — a joint project of MIT’s Media Lab and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory — anyone can build an app for an Android phone just by using a web browser ...