Robotiky: Make coding into child's play
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Robotiky: Make coding into child's play
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#2Those bump sensors would be snapped off in ten minutes in my household. How hard would it have been for them to slap a Sharp Infrared sensor or two on there?
http://www.sharpsme.com/optoelectronics/sensors/distance-mea...
Having come back from Botball, I have to say that overall this robot doesn't feel fully baked.
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#3So it's pretty much a physical Logo?
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#4£80 for a robot reward seems a bit too high.
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#5Lost interest when I saw rewards that include "logins" and "licenses" combined with no mention of plans to open source.
I don't mind (and on occasion actually enjoy) paying to help develop or maintain software, ditto to help develop, maintain, or manufacture hardware. But something like this should be fully hackable, and these days I won't pay for anything less.
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#6Sweet, the wheels it uses are from K'NEX.
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#7Personally I really like the Lego NXT sets. All three of my younger brothers had the opportunity to use them through after school programs and it was a great introduction to simple programming.
I guess the disadvantage is the higher price point.
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#8Their very first argument is "But we also know that kids love playing games, interacting with real objects, and making things."
Childhood should be about goofing off on tricycles, playing tag, and creating awesome Lego towers from a big box of blocks. I love programming now, but if I had started coding as young as the children in the video, I don't know if I'd be as jazzed about it as an adult.
Maybe the kids who play with these programmer-esque type of toys can potentially write better code when they're adults, but is it possible that the kids playing outside, reading the Magic Treehouse, or drawing pictures will be more well rounded, more cooperative, and overall better colleagues?
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#9Their very first argument is "But we also know that kids love playing games, interacting with real objects, and making things." Childhood should be about goofing off on tricycles, playing tag, and creating awesome Lego towers from a big box of blocks. I love programming now, but if I had started coding as young as the children in the video, I don't know if I'd be as jazzed about it as an adult. Maybe the kids who pla…
children have no lack of free time, and if this is just another activity they enjoy, it will give them access to learning important skills for their future
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#10It looks great but their is a lack of an About Us section on the website.
I'm worried about the website not being maintained and the Robotiky becoming an expensive paperweight.