DuinoBlocks: Desenho e Implementação de um Ambiente de Programação Visual para Robótica Educacional

Abstract

This paper presents the design and implementation of DuinoBlocks, a visual programming environment developed for the Arduino robotics hardware.The aims of the environment is to facilitate the process of learning programming Arduino hardware.DuinoBlocks is able to run on different machines with different operating systems including the PROUCA personal computers distributed by the Federal Government of Brazil to different schools.During the process of developing DuinoBlocks some bibliographic studies about visual programming languages were carried on.Tests conducted with the environment have shown that teachers and others feel more comfortable in working with this environment compared with the textual language of the Arduino (Wiring).