Great news today. We’re happy to announce that roBlocks (Cubelets development name) received a $100,000 “Phase I” Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation. The award is to investigate programming languages appropriate for children to modify the behavior of individual blocks. We’ll be building a few different frameworks for end-user programming and testing with a bunch of smart kids. Fun!
Introducing the principles of better thinking.
Years ago, someone asked us what Cubelets were for. Our answer wasn’t well-articulated – and it likely involved excessive hand waving. Eventually, we went with