Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The $87 Plug and Make Kit includes an Arduino microcomputer, electronic components, and tutorials for building ...

There are plenty of toys and board games that can teach kids about electronics, science and how things work, but few are as effective as an Arduino kit. These bundles include everything you need to ...

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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 ...

If you are a parent or teacher investigating robot kits for children, you likely don’t want a simple solution with a single purpose. You don’t just want the child to experience science, technology, ...

One year ago, a simple and very cool construction kit for children came out; called Strawbees, it lets kids develop their inner engineer by making all kinds of structures out of ordinary drinking ...

Understanding electronics is tricky. Electricity is invisible, the components are cryptic, and the concepts are hard to grasp. That’s where LightUp comes in. This is an AR-based system for teaching ...

Bug Labs is the maker of The Bug, a modular open source system for building devices. With different modules you can add GPS, motion detection or sound to your gadget. They are always releasing new ...