Modkit Micro!

Our friends from Modkit (another great graphical programming environment) are running a Kickstarter campaign to release a new version, called Modkit Micro. We strongly believe that graphical programming tools are important to help a lot of people in their learning experience. And having more graphical tools gives the user more options to chose which fits better his own needs and tastes. So we want to support their effort from here, with this small post. If you want to see more, just visit their Kickstarter page...

Hexy + Minibloq

Our friend Joe from Arcbotics is running a (very) succesful Kickstarter campaign for his new robot, called Hexy. He updated the main page of his Kickstarter project with the following (the red ellipse is ours):

So this post is our small contribution to his campaing. Good luck Hexy!

Nuevo manual en PDF (y ODT) en español

Desde el lanzamiento de Minibloq.v0.81.Beta hemos estado trabajando mucho en la documentación. Por un lado, se actualizó toda la documentación online en inglés. Y ahora tenemos ya listo el manual en PDF en español. Y hay dos buenas noticias al respecto:

• Además de actualizarlo, para que refleje las nuevas características de la v0.81.Beta, se han agregado las descripciones completas de los bloques (las cuales hasta ahora estaban sólo disponibles online -en inglés-).
• No sólo está disponible el PDF, sino también sus fuentes, en formato ODT (de LibreOffice), para que el usuario que lo desee pueda modificarlo, utilizarlo como base para sus actividades de aula, o incluso traducirlo o contribuir de cualquier otra forma a la documentación del proyecto.

Haciendo click en estas imágenes se pueden descargar los documentos, en los dos formatos mencionados:

                  

Maker Faire photos!

A few days after Rodolfo (from RobotGroup) made some demoing of the upcoming Multiplo robots at the Maker Faire Bay Area, here are some photos! The whole demonstration was programmed using both Minibloq and Arduino.

The v0.81 documentation is ready!

We finally have updated all Minibloq's online English documentation, adding the new features from the v.0.81.Beta version. Here are the most important links:

1. On line documentation. Everything is up to date now!
2. On line blocks descriptions.
3. On line examples. Now the code for all the example is deployed with Minibloq, so no need to download  it.
4. Changelog and known issues.

There are also contributions from the users, with tips or troubleshooting. You can take a look to this forum thread from Pierre Segura, for example.

Enjoy!

More videos about Minibloq and Multiplo

We love to post about your work! Everyone is invited to send us links or articles sharing activities and experiencies. This way we can post about your work! There are 2 categories in Minibloq's forum: Classroom experiences and Tutorials where you can tell us about you. So here are some videos about activities in schools using Multiplo and Minibloq. Most of them are built using the Kimtech kit, made by the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional and RobotGroup with Multiplo parts:

Finally, we found this small Scribd book (in Spanish), about Arduino basics, which also mentions Minibloq: http://www.scribd.com/doc/92732075/arduinobasi#download

Maker Faire Bay Area: Robots are coming!

Very few days remains for the Maker Faire Bay Area, and here is a small advance of the new Multiplo robots (the N6.v2.0 and the upcoming N8). Of course, Minibloq will be present there too... Enjoy!