UK based start-up Robotiky have just launched a Kickstarter to promote coding to young children all over the world.
They have built a small programmable robot that uses online tutorials and games to guide young users through the otherwise confusing world of computing and robotics.
Unlike a lot of start-ups, Robotiky is giving you a chance to “try before you buy” by providing a demo of their software at robotiky.com/demo
It is really simple to get started. After playing all the way through you suddenly realise that you understand what a “for loop” is and what “if loops” do – even if you had absolutely no clue what they were beforehand.
In fact the only downside was that we didn’t have one of the robots to run the programs on!
Robotiky was founded by two Cambridge graduates Matt Screeton and John Ginger with a helping hand from Entrepreneur First. Although they have only been working on this project for just over 2 months now they have already formed a company, made prototypes, developed the software and trialled robotiky with hundreds of children across the UK!
Prior to publicly launching on Kickstarter they had already found themselves with global interest.
Screeton said:
“We posted the link on a couple of computing and teaching forums hoping that a few people would give us some preliminary feedback. What we weren’t expecting to happen was for teachers, not only in the UK, but also America and even as far afield as New Zealand and Australia, to start using it with their classes before the demo was even finished and without a robot!”
Their next big move is appearing with ARM at the international Big Bang Fair held in Birmingham from Thursday 13th until Sunday 16th. Over 70,000 children, teachers and parents will be in attendance!
So check out their campaign Kickstarter and see what you think!
