Kids thrill to the power of making their toys do their bidding, yet they also delight in toys that surprise them with new responses. These toys for the very youngest technoheads-to-be tempt kids into ...

There are plenty of toys and board games that can teach kids about electronics, science and how things work, but few are as effective as an Arduino kit. These bundles include everything you need to ...

Unlike our youths spent laboriously learning to pluck letters on a desktop keyboard and having very little technological knowledge outside of changing our AIM away message, the children of today are ...

When it comes to introducing the world of programming, coding and hackery, we all know what platforms to go to: Raspberry Pi, Arduino... Sphero? This little white ball, controllable with your ...

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Dan Shapiro’s Robot Turtles board game Kickstarter showed there is serious appetite for kids’ games that aren’t just fun to play with but also sneakily teach core coding principles. Instead of the $25 ...

From beating the best human players at chess, to flying planes, to running stock market transactions, computers are now used in virtually every facet of modern-day life. But children aren't being ...

In a previous article, we looked at connecting various kinds of Arduino hardware to your Mac. Here's how to get started programming on them to create your own projects. In order to program your ...