About this Arduino Learning Kit
In order to help young child to get hands-on hardware programming and DIY skill, we released this interesting Plug and Play Arduino learning kit in the summer of 2019 which has following features:
- Package has many easy-to-learn sensors, actuators ,robot car accessories and an Osoyoo UNO board which is fully compatible with Arduino – the world most popular microcontroller to make DIY projects.
- Support Graph Programming Tool Mixly (Similar to Mit Scratch) which is easier to learn for young kids
- The kit includes a Magic I/O board which makes sensor and actuator installation much easier than before
- The Magic I/O board has a build-in motor driver which can replace traditional L298N motor driver board
- The kit comes with step by step tutorial lessons which can guide kid to start from a simple “hello world!” project and eventually make a complex auto driving robot car.
What is Graphical Programming?
Graphical programming, also known as visual programming or block-based programming, is the coding language prescribed in the STEAM Curriculum: Digital Technologies for primary schools.
With graphical programming technology, a program is represented and manipulated graphically rather than as text. A common visual metaphor represents statements and control structures as graphic blocks that can be composed to form programs, allowing programming without having to deal with textual syntax.
In this learning kit, we use Mixly software as graphic programming tool to create project. Mixly is a very powerful graphic programming IDE designed for Arduino. Another similar software is Mit Scratch. Although we don’t teach Scratch in our tutorial, the working principle are similar and our hardware fully supports Scratch.
I recently purchased your Arduino Starter Kit (model 2019015800). I ran your code for lesson 14 (LCD display), but despite having successfully downloaded it to the board, nothing appears on the display. Every connection has been double checked and the board worked fine with the other sensors. The power supply is as suggested at 5V. Any hint?
Thank you.
Vittorio Grandi
Hi I am confused why you need mixly
Mixly is just a Graphic IDE. If you want to use traditional Arduino IDE, it is ok.