Photo: Signe Brewster. The Lego Boost robotics kit offers the best overall experience for those with no programming experience who want to start building robots. The 847-piece kit consists of Lego ...

My experiences just with the Lego Mindstorms robotics kit tool, ... SSPA offers up 10 Stages (chapters) that use a comic book format to teach programming with the Scratch programming tool.

On the programming front, kids use Makeblock’s Scratch 2.0-based mBlock software for PCs and mobile devices. This tool provides a drag-and-drop environment where kids string together blocks of code.

Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds. But a new system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turns building video games into child’s play. The system is ...

Scratch comes ready to interoperate with an external sensor kit called a PicoBoard. This $50 circuit board includes a microcontroller, a button, a slider, a light sensor, a microphone, and four ...

Ever wondered how much it really costs to build a Lamborghini turbo kit from scratch? In this video, we break down the expenses and challenges of creating a "cheap" turbo kit—and spoiler alert ...

Scratch saves its finished files in its own .SB format, but users can upload their finished products to the Scratch home page with the click of a button, a very Web 2.0 addition.

Harvard University is offering a free online course titled "Introduction to Programming with Scratch" that anyone can join. This self-paced course is part of Harvard's extensive range of free ...

Lego’s Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit is designed to let kids build and design robots. The set has 949 pieces, including a color sensor, distance sensor, four motors, and Lego’s Bluetooth ...

As someone who’s actually taught children programming essentials, block-based coding and having kids design paths for a character to follow all sounds very familiar: MIT’s Scratch programming ...

Start your learning journey with the CrowPi2 All-in-1 Raspberry Pi & STEM Learning Platform Advanced Kit for $449.99 (reg. $459), the Basic Kit at $319.99 (reg. $329), or the Deluxe Kit at $523.99 ...