Kickstarter campaign launched!

FUNDING SUCCESSFUL! Yesterday Minibloq successfully raised its funding goal @Kickstarter. Thanks! I will have news soon.


UPDATE #3: Yesterday we have reached our Kickstarter goal. Many thanks again for all your support!

UPDATE #2: Thanks to Sparkfun for their support! Here is a link to the article in their blog.

UPDATE #1: Thanks to Seeedstudio for their support. Seeeduino is going to be included in the official Minibloq package. Here is a link to the article in their blog too.

Today is a great day! the release is coming! This is the link to Minibloq in Kickstarter:

Any help making this public (Twitter, Facebook, blogs...) is very very welcome and will accelerate the project. Thanks!

Minibloq-RG tested in an touch Intel/Exo Classmate

This time was the turn of another netbook used in education: an Intel Classmate, shipped with Windows 7 and equiped with a pen-based touch screen. The target is a RobotGroup's DuinoBot.Kids (a not yet released Arduino-compatible robot controller, but as I was one of the designers, I have one :) here), and I'm running Minibloq-RG, the own RobotGroup's version (open source too!, which will be available together with the Minibloq standard version).

Here are the results:

Minibloq is running in the OLPC XO!

Working hard, as release day is approaching. This week (and thanks to Wine) Minibloq finally ran in an OLPC XO. As Wine is a compatibility layer, not a full emulator, the performance is pretty good! For the release, I will try to improve the GUI to make it more readable in small screens. Here is a small home-made video, programming an Arduino UNO:

And here is another test, with Mutliplo hardware (the new DuinoBot.Kids controller, with a basic Multiplo robot):