Yay! Another parcel, this time containing lots of CodeBug goodies. There are croc clips, LEDs, and the CodeBug "Star". Now this thing is bright, much brighter than I thought, and it took my phone by surprise. Expect a few videos soon with a...
CODEBUG PROJECTSThis saucy little device only came along in the latter end of 2015, but it captured the imagination of the element14 members very admirably.Thanks to its ease of use and simplicity in getting started, there are projects aplenty to cho...
Exploring the CodeBug device features one of the most interesting possibilities is developing useful tools to teach electronics to newbies, young people and kids. Associating these tools to playable projects, it is possible to involve these persons,...
The CodeBug is a cute, bug shaped board that is pushing to be a key tool for educational purposes, offering an introduction into coding and basic electronics.The front of a CodeBug has a five by five grid of super bright red LEDs, used as the primary...
I resigned myself to the task of finishing my next Codebug Blockly program yesterday and went in track of understanding better something that is either a bug or an as yet non utilized feature!! The right click menu for the Blockly blocks has a "help"...
With its 5x5 LED matrix, a binary coded decimal (BCD) clock is easy to create. BCD is pretty easy - each column represents a digit, with the individual LEDs equating to 1, 2, 4 and 8. If the first two LEDs in a column are lit then that means the...
As you've probably heard, element14 is sponsoring, and entertaining the epic-sized crowds, at Maker Faire Rome, 2015. But this year we're sharing our stand with the dudes from codebug. Even Big CodeBug has made the journey from the UK to Italy, ...
Thanks to spannerspencer and the team at Element14 I was provided with a free CodeBug. It is a very simple but awfully cute little board that makes a great present for 8-year olds and up. I have already purchasedand given away several of these. ...
www.youtube.com/watchIn our previous tutorial we created a digital pet that lived in our pocket. This project was a gentle introduction to hacking with Codebug.For this tutorial we will be going a little further and using it to hack toys! For th...
A few days back i got a codebug in the mail and I immediately saw how easy it was to use it. I gave it to my second year engineering students at the Department Of Electronics Technology at GNDU, Amritsar and before the day was up, they put together a...
I followed the tutorial which found by clicking on Learn, then tutorial and scrolling down... direct link here: http://www.codebug.org.uk/learn/activity/54/fruit-keyboard/ The tutorial leads you through the main steps, with descriptions an...
A CodeBug Interactive Things project IntroductionThe first thoughts when the CodeBug board arrived on the market - and few time before reading the first reviews and technical tweets - was about how to create educational things (or, better, IoT)...
Hey !! Here's my latest CodeBug addition, it's a quick animated display where 3 lines of led's are controlled independantly. There's also a few ideas for fastening CodeBug to clothing in the video below. http://www.codebug.org.uk/exp...
Spinny Blocks A CodeBug had made itself at home in my mail this morning; so I took the little guy in and decided to look after him! Above is the CodeBug simulator showing a short sprite animation, you can see the animation running on a live Code...
As the CodeBugs were finally set free upon a world of engineering plant life, the bug keepers paid us a visit here at element14 Towers to show us inside, outside and all around this quirky and cool create-able. I was fortunate enough to steal a few m...
In the 1990s a craze swept the world, Tamagotchis sometimes known as virtual pets became a big business. They used cheap LCD screens, buttons and microcontrollers to create a pet that would fit into your pocket.With new technologies taking over, the ...
