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03-31-2016, 05:20 PM
A dancing, laser beam-shooting robot aspires to teach kids how to code
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The Codeybot*dances, plays music, changes colors and even shoots laser beams — all to entice little tykes to start programming.
The coding toy from Shenzhen-based startup Makeblock is just the latest on the edutainment bandwagon taking things up a techie **tch. It joins a*talking, projectile-firing robot (http://qz.com/538059/theres-a-new-robot-that-teaches-kids-about-coding-but-its-also-awesome-2/), a remote-controlled origami robot (https://www.techinasia.com/kamibot-korea-edtech-coding-robot),*code-teaching drones (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/728836843/codrone-learn-to-code-with-programmable-drone), and even a crawly "Code-a-Pillar (http://mashable.com/2016/01/06/code-a-pillar/#QWx1dnmuv5qB?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)" in a trend of*code-teaching toys that seems to have become all the rage in the past few months alone.
SEE ALSO: Adorable Code-a-Pillar teaches 3-year-olds the basics of coding (http://mashable.com/2016/01/06/code-a-pillar/)
Within 24 hours of launching on Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1818505613/1758033653?token=9e6148cd) on Tuesday, the Codeybot has already reached nearly 90% of its $100,000 funding goal.
Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/codeybot-kickstarter/)
More about Codeybot (http://mashable.com/category/codeybot/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Toys (http://mashable.com/category/toys/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Coding (http://mashable.com/category/coding/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Startups (http://mashable.com/startups/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Makeblock (http://mashable.com/category/makeblock/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/7sJ8dDQAZTg
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The Codeybot*dances, plays music, changes colors and even shoots laser beams — all to entice little tykes to start programming.
The coding toy from Shenzhen-based startup Makeblock is just the latest on the edutainment bandwagon taking things up a techie **tch. It joins a*talking, projectile-firing robot (http://qz.com/538059/theres-a-new-robot-that-teaches-kids-about-coding-but-its-also-awesome-2/), a remote-controlled origami robot (https://www.techinasia.com/kamibot-korea-edtech-coding-robot),*code-teaching drones (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/728836843/codrone-learn-to-code-with-programmable-drone), and even a crawly "Code-a-Pillar (http://mashable.com/2016/01/06/code-a-pillar/#QWx1dnmuv5qB?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)" in a trend of*code-teaching toys that seems to have become all the rage in the past few months alone.
SEE ALSO: Adorable Code-a-Pillar teaches 3-year-olds the basics of coding (http://mashable.com/2016/01/06/code-a-pillar/)
Within 24 hours of launching on Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1818505613/1758033653?token=9e6148cd) on Tuesday, the Codeybot has already reached nearly 90% of its $100,000 funding goal.
Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/codeybot-kickstarter/)
More about Codeybot (http://mashable.com/category/codeybot/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Toys (http://mashable.com/category/toys/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Coding (http://mashable.com/category/coding/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Startups (http://mashable.com/startups/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Makeblock (http://mashable.com/category/makeblock/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/7sJ8dDQAZTg