![]() ![]() Learn More Awards Legal and Privacy Subscribe Today! We try to make technology fun, interesting, and understandable to kids and their adults. It's for kids, parents, teachers, and adults who want to learn and have fun with technology.īeanz magazine is published by Kids Code & Computer Science, Inc., a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to publishing a kids magazine about science, technology, engineering, art, and math to engage kids anywhere. Learn More Wonder WorkshopĪ bi-monthly magazine published 6 times a year, the magazine explores computer science and software programming. Add lights and animal sounds for more fun. Watch everyone scatter as Dot moves around. With family or friends, program Dot to move around the room and pick Duck Duck Goose. And it might be a good excuse to make a mess in your room. But you can add a bulldozer bar to Dash then program it to move around a room and push anything on the floor into a designated area. Okay this project sounds like a sneaky parent trying to make cleaning up a room fun, like accidentally slipping vegetables into a milkshake when you make one. Then use the Blockly app to program the Dash and Dot robots to either not knock down all your pins or to knock them all down. Use painter’s tape to create a grid to set up your pins. Plan ahead to have Dash run around and shoot video to tell a story. If you have a smartphone with video capability, you can attach a smartphone mount to Dash then program Dash to shoot video from its point of view. Then use Blockly to program the Dash and Dot robots so they don’t blunder through your artwork and knock everything over. Take about 30 minutes to set up dominoes, Jenga blocks, and other materials to create artwork. If you have Dash and Dot, these might fun projects to try. There are a number of projects the Wonder Workshop group has collected on their website. The combination of steps determines how the robot will move, when it will move, and what it will do. Or create a step and move the robot 10 spaces backwards. ![]() With Blockly you create a step, for example, play a sound, then define the sound as a lion roar. The Dash and Dot robots can be programmed with Blockly, a fairly easy language to master like Scratch. Kids play with them to have fun and learn about technology. Dash and Dot robots are cute round robots from the Wonder Workshop for kids elementary school age. ![]()
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