The ultimate goal of this Project is to finish this educational application to enable anyone to use the Vector's SDK even without technical background or programming skills. Main instrument to achieve this goal is called Vector's CodeLab - a Blockly based coding enviroment which allows executing various commands through creating a simple programs by stacking graphical blocks together. This CodeLab enviroment and Vector Robot combined creates an ideal platform for young to develop variety of their skills and their love towards technology and robotics. I want this software to be available to anyone for free of charge, as I believe the education should be fun, playful and free.
In case you're here for downloads, the links are right there:
You can take a look at some screenshot in GALLERY:
There's an example of how the Codelab looks like:
To give you an deeper insight of what is happening under the hood, here is the project's ROADMAP.
History of all the notable changes is being documented with every release in the CHANGELOG.
I would like to thank to following people, without whom I couldn't have achieved what I achieved:
- Google Blockly developers for Blockly, which is simply awesome
- Wayne Venables for his Anki.Vector.SDK and his VectorExplorer app, which inspired me so incredibly much. (I did my best, to achieve similar "look & feel")
- zaront, his Vector SDK and his own Vector.Explorer app
- mahApps.metro framework and its developers for speeding the boring things up for me
- instantiator and his VectorPlus for realizing lots of inspirational ideas
- Colin Twigg for being an inspiration to me with his great ideas
- Randall Maas for all the hard work he has done for the Vector community
- Gooey Chickenman for all the efforts put into project Victor
- Digital Dream Labs for their necromancy skills while bringing the Vector Robot back from the dead
- Anki, Inc. for everything, what a pity guys, you've rocked. The legendary is literal here, thanks for your legacy
- and finally, to my family for the infinite patience, infinite support and inifinite love, whithout whom I would have never gotten this project so far
- and Thank You, for reading this through, and for your interrest in this project.
All rights reserved. I don't know guys, it is AS IS, CC-BY-NC-ND, CC-TV, WTFPL, something like that. Educational and non-commercial is all fine, for commercial, you'll need to get in touch with me.
Thanks for reading up to this point. In case you like this project, go ahead and try it out yourself. In case you already use the software, let me know what you thinking, through the Feedback form in the application.
STAY TUNED!
Cheers,
cyb3rdog