Minibloq is a graphical development environment for Arduino

Arduino

Arduino is an open-source single-board microcontroller, descendant of the open-source Wiring platform, designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. The hardware consists of a simple open hardware design for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR...

 and other platforms. Its main objective is to help in teaching programming. It is specially used in robotics at high school.

How it works

Minibloq is a code generator. Every code block is configured in XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

. In its first version, permits to see the generating code (for this purpose uses Scintilla

Scintilla

Scintilla may refer to:*Scintilla , a fictional character in the Marvel Universe*Scintilla , an open-source code-editing component...

). Here are some examples of code generated for Arduino

Arduino

Arduino is an open-source single-board microcontroller, descendant of the open-source Wiring platform, designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. The hardware consists of a simple open hardware design for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR...

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Platforms

Although this software was developed for Windows, it is not limited to it.

External links

• Official web site of Minibloq
• Official web site Multiplo
• Official site of program Conectar Igualdad
• Decreto 459/10 del Ministerio de Educación de la Nación Argentina

Web articles

• Hack a Day (en inglés)