DIY educational kit using Legos and Espruino Pico #2130
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Posted at 2015-05-20 by Stevie Very cool project! I think I will adapt that for my kids... |
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Posted at 2015-05-20 by LawrenceGrif @ytai very good, kids just love physical computing |
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Posted at 2015-05-20 by @gfwilliams That's fantastic - thanks for posting it up! Would it be ok if you contributed your Servo block back? I imagine it'd be really handy! |
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Posted at 2015-05-20 by @allObjects Very creative - liked to read the blog entry very much: exposing the kids without pushing them into a limiting mold. When and how to enable and support new worlds for a child are significant parenting decisions. A great example for connecting software and hardware ^2 and ^3: electrical, mechanical, and construction 'hardware'. |
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Posted at 2015-05-20 by ytai I would love to. It isn't much more then mapping the value from degrees to duty-cycle and adding the { freq: 50 } to analogWrite(...). |
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Posted at 2015-05-21 by @gfwilliams Congratulations on hitting Hackaday! Yes, the non-calibration of servos is a pain - but I'd be tempted to not even bother trying to get an angle in degrees (what if you're using 2 different types of servos?). Maybe use a percentage instead (and just 1ms-2ms pulse widths, which everything handles). Or maybe -1 to +1, so you can feed the value of I imagine that for most things it'd actually be more educational and fun just using trial and error to find the right numbers? |
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Posted at 2015-05-22 by Stevie And @gfwilliams: Congratulations for adding Java to Espruino. I missed that. Is it running in parallel to JavaScript or alternatively? :-). |
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Posted at 2015-05-24 by the1laz @stevie - A pretty disappointing mistake by hackaday considering that they still haven't fixed it despite comments pointing it out. Also, they featured the Pico kickstarter! |
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Posted at 2015-05-26 by @gfwilliams I know... To be honest they don't really seem to like Espruino that much. I don't think the editors really 'get it'. ... of course they love Tessel now, but they also totally didn't read between the lines of Tessel's announcement - it looks like they're making Tessel an Open Source project because they no longer intend to work on it full-time - I believe they ran out of VC money. I guess we'll see what happens over the next year or so though... |
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Posted at 2015-05-20 by ytai
Just posted a little article about my positive experience with the Espruino for getting my 7-year old into programming.
I made him a few electrical Lego bricks that he can use in his projects and write code to control them using Blockly with some custom blocks.
http://ytai-mer.blogspot.com/2015/05/electro-legos.html
Many thanks to the developers for the good work!
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