Monday 5 June 2017

The Boson kit is a modular robotics set that will teach kids STEM topics and coding

It feels like robotics kits are everywhere these days, as companies compete to figure out the best way to turn basic robotics, electronics, and coding concepts into a toy or game to get kids to learn STEM skills under the guise of having fun.

Boson, from DRFRobot, is the latest of these, and it has all the trappings of a STEM learning toy: colorful plastic, simple design, and powerful possibilities for those willing to learn the system. At its core, Boson is a block coding tool similar to Tynker or Blockly, but built in the real world with various physically connected blocks instead of virtual representations.

The Boson modules are divided into four kinds, easily identifiable by color: blue ones are for inputs, green for outputs,...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/6/5/15739490/boson-modular-robotic-kit-educational-stem-lego-stem-coding-kickstarter

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-boson-kit-is-modular-robotics-set.html

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