Thanks for all of the feedback. I had never heard of the Sparkfun RedBot
nor ChipKit.

In terms of programming these devices, you could use MPLAB,
arduino/ArduBlock or LabVIEW. Which of these tools would be most suitable
for a 12 year old?

To put it another way, for kids who have used Scratch and edited a python
file, would they then ready to take the plunge into the IDEs mentioned in
the recent "[OT] PC Software Development tools?" discussion?

Kevin

On 11 November 2015 at 23:00, Brooke Clarke <brooke@pacific.net> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Did you consider ChipKit?
> http://chipkit.net/
>
> I found out about them because of the home version of LabVIEW <
> http://www.prc68.com/I/LabVIEW.html>.
> It's my understanding it uses not only Arduino shields, but also Pmods
> some of which are based on very sophisticated ICs.
> http://digilentinc.com/Products/Catalog.cfm?NavPath=3D2,401&Cat=3D9
>
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