Peter Mathijssen

@petermathijssen.bsky.social

🤓 I am a block-a-holic https://petermathijssen.nl

We like to tell everyone about a very cool feature added by Sam McHardy, block search. You can then enter a word that would appear on the block. It searches for the word both in the built-in block palette and in all of the built-in libraries. This is a super useful feature. Thanks, Sam!

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This was an event called "Computer Science Showcase" in Boston. The activity was called "Open the Puzzle Box". Kids had to answer riddles and solve coding problems. The final riddle answer was sent to a micro:bit inside the treasure box. If correct, the box would open and NeoPixels would flash.

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Sur-Face - combining Snap's 3D Beetle extension with MediaComp: Print a photo in 16 isometric layers of brightness levels, a topographic model of the pixel values - a tangible bar chart. When you first hold it in your hands it looks and feels like drunk LEGO, until you turn it into the light...

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Aufgepasst IuM Lehrer:innen in BW: am 1.6.2026 starten wir snap.schule - eine freie, offene und datenschutzkonforme Plattform fĂĽr den Informatikunterricht. Made in BW, gehostet in Brandenburg, wissenschaftlich begleitet in Bayern. Jetzt bookmarken!

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The interactive light table from Citilab arrives at CornellĂ  nursery schools. Children in the nursery schools can now experiment with the light table designed by Citilab and assembled by the teachers. The Table is programmed using MicroBlocks.

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