Arduino microcontrollers have added Python to the range of compatible programming languages. Others can be used, and not just Arduino's own IDE app.

However, it was a challenge trying to teach my 10-year-old Arduino programming. That said, I observed he could zip through the Python tutorials on code academy pretty easily.

Here's a closer look at the programming behind my animatronic mouth. Using Arduino, Python, and a few open-source libraries, I take a typed sentence and convert it into an animation sequence. # ...