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Aluminum GT2 Timing Pulley - 6mm Belt - 36 Tooth - 8mm Bore

Music & sound add-on pack for Arduino

Super Bright Red 5mm LED (25 pack)

6 Comments

1. 

   Now they just need to make it be able to target C, give it a LCARS skin, and release it for ‘droid.

   Comment by AMS — June 1, 2012 @ 12:06 am

2. 

   It looks like another version of Scratch…

   Comment by callum — June 1, 2012 @ 2:56 am

3. 

   There are lots of these graphical/visual programming languages/environments coming out lately. I know at least 3 for arduino (before finishing coffee, more may be recalled afterwards).

   I wonder how good these are – individually and collectively – for learning and for building applications. Does the learning translate well to traditional, production languages? How well do individual environments perform for real usage by students?

   Does anyone have a listing and/or comparison of current VPLs for arduino and similar embedded development?
   Q for educators – what is your experience with these in teaching noobs and moving them beyond basics?

   Comment by MauiJerry — June 1, 2012 @ 3:32 pm

4. 

   @jerry- this sounds like a great article you could write up comparing these for educators, we’d love to run it here on adafruit.

   Comment by adafruit — June 1, 2012 @ 3:40 pm

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   The blocks look almost identical to the ones in Google (now MIT) Appinventor, but it looks like it only implements a *tiny* bit of actual language; the examples seem to be about using it to add user scripting to existing systems, rather than to write entire applications with (which sounds about right, actually, Appinventor is seductive at first and gets really frustrating about the time you actually fill the page…)

   Comment by _Mark_ — June 1, 2012 @ 4:15 pm

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   Call me crazy but that IF statement is harder on the eyes than a real IF statement in C.

   Comment by Denbo — June 2, 2012 @ 2:59 pm

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