On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Philip Hands phil@hands.com wrote:
ha, cool! yeah i bought something called a "Sparki" robot for me and lilyana to play with. which was for about... 2 days. the GUI on that however i have to say is extremely cool. it's block-based like a jigsaw, and it auto-generates actual code which you can then look at to see if it does what you expected.
Sounds somewhat like scratch.
ah! yes that was the name of its competing... thing.
The chibi chip is one of Bunnie's projects, for making it easy to do clever stuff with circuits made out of sticky copper tape and stick-on LEDs and sensors -- I'm awaiting one in the post, having found a UK based seller last week:
https://chibitronics.com/shop/love-to-code-chibi-chip-cable/
nice! wasn't there some sort of... circuit pen that you could use to literally draw your own traces? why am i suggesting that you get one when you know full well that your house - from the downstairs to the upstairs will instantly be filled with stickers and line-drawings on the walls... ha, i know why: because i would love to hear that that actually happened :)
I particularly like his Sauerkraut analogy about always getting the same outcome if you start with the same ingredients.
:)