{"id":2273,"date":"2011-05-04T03:17:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T09:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2014-08-28T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T08:58:24","slug":"minibloq-graphical-programming-environment-for-arduino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/minibloq-graphical-programming-environment-for-arduino\/","title":{"rendered":"Minibloq: graphical programming environment for Arduino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We have committed ourselves to facilitating the open source hardware community since the company established. Mostly, we concentrate on developing hardware aspect and providing those kinds of service related.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, there is an intelligent idea comes from software aspect that really catch our eyes. Juli\u00e1n da Silva who has been working in educational robotics since 1994 recently introduced <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minibloq.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Minibloq<\/a><\/span> project in the Kickstarter. This is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/791396812\/minibloq-graphical-programming-environment-for-ard\" target=\"_blank\">link to Minibloq in Kickstarter<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Basically, Minibloq is a graphical programming environment for Arduino or other type of hardware devices, such as DuinoBot or Maple. The goal is to bring Arduino and other platforms closer to primary schools, kids and beginners. Sounds familiar with the purpose of Grove series products, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Moreover, Minibloq has several features that may be extremely helpful to achieve the targets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Easy to use: Obviously, with the help of advanced interface, just a few clicks then the program start running.<\/li>\n<li>Free and open sources: Free is good to lower the thresholds and open sources is even better. The spirit of OSHW.<\/li>\n<li>Portable: Minibloq is installation-free and even can run from a flash drive. It is suitable for low-end computers and netbooks, such as OLPC XO and the Intel Classmate netbooks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I\u2019d like put some pictures below that show how Minibloq looks like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BlinkHardwareMessagesCode.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2274\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BlinkHardwareMessagesCode.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BlinkHardwareMessagesCode.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BlinkHardwareMessagesCode-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BlinkHardwareMessagesCode-150x86.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/LogicPicker.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2275\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/LogicPicker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/LogicPicker.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/LogicPicker-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/LogicPicker-150x86.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DuinoBotKids_Heart.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2276\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DuinoBotKids_Heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DuinoBotKids_Heart.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DuinoBotKids_Heart-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DuinoBotKids_Heart-150x86.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Imagine that, kids can play Arduino-kind stuff just like they do with their toy car right now. And beginners who have no experience in programming may be able to involve in DIY gadgets with the help of Minibloq and Grove (I may like to say:).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As always, your support will be crucial to determine the result of that project. Every bit helps and every comment can make our Grove products better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have committed ourselves to facilitating the open source hardware community since the company established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arduino"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - 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