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Code Lab is our best kit yet. It combines everything we’ve learned by bringing coding to over 25,000 kids into one massively fun package. Kids can get started fast- no soldering or electronics experience necessary. With 100 free online projects, kids walk through coding from the ground up, from blinking an LED light to making an interactive random display of pixels when they clap their hands! Better yet, the projects are self-paced and guided with professional videos, so parents and adults don’t have to assist (though you may learn something cool, too!).
- Code Lab with 60+ built-in components
- USB cable
- Instruction and reference book
When you buy a Let's Start Coding kit, you get much more than a box of 'stuff'. Free with every kit is access to our downloadable coding software for Windows, Mac, or Chromebook computers, plus tons of learning content. For Code Lab, this includes:
- 100 sequenced project pages that cover the fundamentals of all coding languages
- Over 2200 lines of example code that can be modified or tinkered with
- Nearly 9 hours of walkthrough videos that accompany the projects,explaining how the code works so kids can make changes of their own
- Code 'challenges' and 'bug hunts' that encourage kids to interact and engage with the code, strenghtening their learning
Using the free software for Windows, Mac, or Chromebook desktops or laptops (no tablets or phones), coders can complete the following projects:
- Blink an LED
- Play Tones on a Speaker
- Hold Button for LED Light
- LED Flashlight
- Cycle LED Color with Button
- Four Note Piano
- LCD screen thermometer
- LED strip music visualizer
- 'Clapper' LED lights that respond to sound
- Random Tone Generator
- Coding in the C++ (see-plus-plus) coding language
- Microcontroller is ATMEGA 328P, like the Arduino Uno board
- Software is compatible with Windows 7, 8, 10 and Mac OSX 10.9 and above, plus Chromebooks.
- Software requires internet connection to code.
- No batteries are required - the board is powered by the USB port.