Author:Smith, Andrew CDate:Nov 2009This paper describes an alternative programming system which can be constructed with minimal mechanical and electronic knowledge in an environment such as FabLab. This sytem, dubbed GameBlocks, makes use of tangible interfaces to control the ...Read more
Author:Smith, Andrew CDate:Feb 2007In this paper the implementation of GameBlocks is explained, a novel digital manipulative system for coding simple programme sequences to control a toy robot. A contact-less, magnetic field-based mechanism for transferring information about ...Read more