littleBits
littleBits makes a platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks empowering everyone to create inventions, large and small.Electronic building blocks are color-coded, magnetic, and reusable.
littleBits makes technology kits that are fun, easy-to-use, and infinitely creative. The kits are composed of electronic building blocks that are color-coded, magnetic, and make complex technology simple and fun. Together they’re interchangeable in millions of different ways to empower kids to invent anything - from a sibling alarm, to a wireless robot, to a digital instrument.
Resources from littleBits
littleBits Electronics Arduino Coding Kit
Snap modules easily to 3 inputs and 3 outputs on the Arduino module, as well as additional I/O for advanced hardware interaction Communicate with software (Processing, MaxMSP, Flash etc ) Build with 8 Getting Started sketches, including a DIY Etch-...
Base Inventor Kit
The introductory Base Inventor Kit from littleBits includes everything creative kids need to turn their ideas into inventions! With a range of Bits that move, light up, and make noise, kids gain STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathemati...
Code Kit
Code Kit gives you a powerful toolbox to easily teach standards-aligned curriculum, while engaging kids in computational thinking. By building circuits and programming, students get a hands-on understanding of "what's inside the machine" and how it c...