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 ...

Lego Education worked to make this kit welcoming to young girls, ... With SPIKE Prime, students can use the Scratch programming language to build toys that can move around based on their program.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new $330 Spike Prime kit is targeted toward children in grades 6–8. It includes over 500 Technic pieces, and it’s programmed using a Lego-made app built off the Scratch language.Lego is ...

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.

If you want to try your hand at Scratch, then get the 2023 Coding with Scratch Programming Bundle for just $25, marked down from $1,000. Prices subject to change.

Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer ...

If you want to try a Scratch-inspired take on microcontroller programming, check out MicroBlocks. It will work with several common boards, including the micro:bit and the Raspberry Pi Pico.