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Minibloq v0.8 Alpha’s New Features Kickstart your Arduino Without Programming.

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Minibloq v0.8 Alpha  is an new open source Graphical Development Interface that will kickstart your Arduino Programming without making you write code. As I reported in June of this year Julian da Silva released the Alpha version of the open source Minibloq program to his backers on Kickstarter. I got my copy and within minutes […]

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Makerslide Test pieces shown for the first time

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  Kickstarter backers of the Makerslide project got their first glimpse of the sample batch of Makerslide extrusion. Makerslide extrusions are a low cost alternative for creating bearing surfaces for CNC machine building. Project founder Barton Dring posted pictures of two 4′ long sections of the material on his kickstarter project page. These are samples […]

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Minibloq V0.7 Alpha Test Drive – How I programmed an Arduino without writing code.

By Bill Griggs Posted in General Update , , , , , , , , , , , | 29 Comments »

I took my Arduino for a ride using the new open source Minibloq Graphical Development Interface. As I reported earlier Julian da Silva released the Alpha version of the Minibloq program to his backers on Kickstarter. I got my copy and within minutes I had programmed my Arduino Uno to perform a variety of tasks. […]

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MAKERSLIDE PROJECT FUNDED

By Bill Griggs Posted in General Update , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

  The Makerslide project was successfully funded on Kickstarter. The funding should help ensure a new, supply of affordable linear slides. The project  was funded in just under 48 hours and then continued to gather support. The funding raised was 445%  of the expected goal.  Designer Barton Dring stated he will use the $26,268 to […]

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MINIBLOQ – Making Arduino easier to program

By Bill Griggs Posted in General Update , , , , , , , , , , , | 22 Comments »

Julián da Silva is a Maker and an educator who wants to make it easy for everyone to program Arduino microcontrollers.   The Arduino is the new hot ticket electronics development platform and all sort s of people are making things with them. The Arduino requires programming knowledge which most folks don’t have. Minibloq could […]

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