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Bit by the very bright bug!

2017-02-28T13:05:07Z

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...(read more)

2015 Year in Review: Top 10 CodeBug Projects

2015-12-23T15:07:34Z

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...(read more)

Teaching electronics with CodeBug: Driving a stepper motor

2015-11-15T15:24:54Z

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,...(read more)

Better Fuel Economy with CodeBug

2015-11-06T07:20:59Z

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...(read more)

Blockly? Google? Google Blockly - wow!! How did I miss That!

2015-10-18T05:13:47Z

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"...(read more)

CodeBug Project: Clock!

2015-10-17T22:48:54Z

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...(read more)

CodeBug is at Maker Faire Rome, 2015

2015-10-17T08:14:54Z

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, ...(read more)

CodeBug Current Consumption Observations with the ADALM1000

2015-10-17T03:50:22Z

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. ...(read more)

RoboCar

2015-10-16T13:03:02Z

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...(read more)

Codebug Line Follower Robot in half an hour... almost

2015-10-10T11:40:50Z

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...(read more)

My experience making a fruit keyboard.

2015-10-09T22:51:03Z

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...(read more)

10 CodeBug Projects in 10 Days: Raspberry Pi Controlled CodeBug with I2C

2015-10-07T20:01:08Z

Introducing CodeBug! What is CodeBug 10 CodeBug Projects in 10 Days Are You a STEM Educator? This project will actually be a little different than our previous projects. Rather than taking advantage of the Blockly interface an...(read more)

QuizBug, a CodeBug IoT educational project making-of

2015-10-04T12:38:34Z

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)...(read more)

10 CodeBug Projects in 10 Days: Pushing Buttons

2015-10-01T15:28:20Z

Introducing CodeBug! What is CodeBug 10 CodeBug Projects in 10 Days Are You a STEM Educator? Getting Started:We start the project by visiting the CodeBug website http://www.codebug.co.uk and creating an account. It only takes ...(read more)

CodeBug 'show n tell' - animating with logic & ideas for attatching to clothes

2015-09-29T22:21:33Z

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...(read more)