Coding
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Most home robots aren’t particularly customizable. Now robotics startup Ohbot has unveiled its newest creation Picoh, a blank slate of a robot that can be programmed to do basically whatever you want it to do.
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Learning coding language basics can be as hard as learning a foreign language. There are many toys aimed at giving future coders a kickstart, and the latest is a trainset from consumer robotics startup Innokind.
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The latest robot ball off the Sphero production line is the Sphero Bolt, part toy and part coding tutor. We've been sending the tennis ball-sized spherical gadget zooming around various rooms and obstacle courses to see if it's worth investing in, for you or your kids.
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A rare 175 year-old book containing the world's first computer algorithm by Ada Lovelace – mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron – has been sold at auction in England for £95,000 (US$125,000).
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Teaching our kids to code is vital for our tech-packed future, and there are many different tools available. Entertaining and educational as such things can be, few can claim to be magical. Now Kano has launched a build-it-yourself Harry Potter wireless wand that's used to cast spells on a tablet.
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While it's already possible to relay information via barcodes or QR codes, those codes are entirely visible when included in a document. Using Columbia University's FontCode system, however, users can hide messages within unrelated text via virtually-invisible changes to the displayed letters.
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Eight computing machines spanning 80 years have competed in a race to find numbers in a mathematical sequence. An old WITCH machine and a modern iPhone were among the competitors of the Grand Digital computer race, but the clear winner was a BBC micro:bit with a 9 year-old coder as its "jockey."
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Glasgow's Curious Chip has today launched an edutainment handheld gaming device aimed at getting youngsters coding, tinkering and experimenting. Pip has been created to give the coders and makers of tomorrow the building blocks they need today.
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Parents wanting to get their kids into coding are spoiled for choice, but there aren’t many gadgets for an older audience. Hexa is a six-legged, sensor-laden robot that’s a blank slate for people to program their own functionality into, and share those skills across a social network of tinkerers.
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With an automated future looming, getting our kids interested in coding is becoming just as important as reading, writing and arithmetic. The latest project to join efforts from Fisher-Price, Google and Osmo is Algobrix, a learning platform where youngsters build colorful bots and play with code.
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Thecorpora has launched an Indiegogo campaign to get the Q.bo One robot into the hands of kids, educators, developers and robot enthusiasts. The open source desktop bot is described as easy to build, simple to program and easy to hack.
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Osmo Coding is a game which combines an iPad with physical play pieces to help teach kids logic and problem solving skills. With the help of a young tester, we recently took the game for a spin to see what it’s like.
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