Open Roberta Lab - Visual Online Programming Environment for Computer Kids
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Cloud-hosted Open Roberta Lab provides a browser-based visual IDE that compiles block programs into Java for LEGO Mindstorms EV3 and runs a built-in simulator, using a token-based Wi‑Fi workflow to load code to bricks. It ships as open source, funded by Google, aims to remove installs and admin overhead, and exposes the NEPO language and a hardware abstraction layer so schools can add devices. Claims include 30,000 participants and hundreds of documented courses.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:20Agenda
- 4:16Current situation
- 6:02Online coding
- 9:15Hardware
- 10:53Roberta
- 12:15What we have achieved
- 13:41About Open Roberta
- 14:46Partners
- 15:36Training
- 16:50Physics and Mathematics
- 18:24Teachers
- 20:49Data Privacy
- 23:13Open Roberta
- 24:15Reducing complexity
- 24:56What it is
- 26:01Source code
- 26:48What we are providing
- 27:43How it looks like
- 30:38Simulations
- 35:23Under the hood
- 38:33Disco light
- 39:43Study
- 43:43How you are reaching us
- 46:53How you connect
- 48:48Data control
- 49:58Roberta Robot
- 50:53Future vision
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