This respoitory holds code for the North Ainslie Primary School after-school code club. The aim of the club is to expose students to computational thinking by teaching programming and robotics skills. Programming languages considered are Scratch (block-based), Python and C.
- LittleBits Droid Inventor Kit (https://littlebits.com/products/droid-inventor-kit)
- LittleBits Arduino board (https://core-electronics.com.au/arduino-32512.html) -- see notes for setting up
- Other LittleBits bits and pieces (motors, servos, lights, etc)
- Other Arduino development boards (e.g., Elegoo Nano), breadboard and various components
- Either Arduino IDE (https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software) installed locally
- Or web-based IDE, e.g., Codebender (https://codebender.cc/) or Arduino Create (https://create.arduino.cc)
For Google ChromeBooks used within the school there is an Arduino Create education plan, which allows cloud-based editing and programming of various Arduino boards. Codebender also has an edu monthly plan.