Block programming, also known as block-based coding, is a visual programming approach where users create programs by dragging and dropping pre-defined blocks of code instead of writing text-based ...

Abstract: The information society is a reality nowadays, and computational thinking has become a relevant competence for everybody, regardless of age, social status, and primary activity. Information ...

"Elevate Your Arduino Experience with VS Code and PlatformIO" Getting started by tackling the hardest tasks first makes simpler tasks feel effortless. While the Arduino IDE is considered the best ...

Dan Shapiro’s Robot Turtles board game Kickstarter showed there is serious appetite for kids’ games that aren’t just fun to play with but also sneakily teach core coding principles. Instead of the $25 ...

Abstract: There is agreement on the importance of teaching programming as part of the mandatory basic education (i.e., initial, primary and secondary school), as it gives tools to problem solving and ...

The ATtiny10 – along with its younger siblings that go by the names ATtiny 4, 5, and 9 – are the smallest microcontrollers Atmel makes. With only 32 bytes of RAM and 1 kB of Flash, there’s still whole ...

Arduino is a popular brand of open-source microcontrollers that can be used for a variety of DIY projects, from educational settings to home theater to smart home management. The microcontrollers are ...

Seeed Studio XIAO 7.5″ ePaper Panel interfaces an XIAO ESP32-C3 USB-C board and mainly targets the Smart Home market with support for ESPHome, but the monochrome ePaper display is also programmable ...

You know how when you were a kid, the box something came in was almost as fun as the toy itself? Well, that doesn't have to change as you get older -- provided you've retained that creative spark. Ben ...