Finch, educational robot, BirdBrain Technologies, LLC, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA


The Story of the Finch's Design

Published on Aug 23, 2012

Here's the story of the Finch's design. We cover the initial goal of the program, how we identified what constraints a robot designed for introductory CS education should have, and finally how the Finch meets those constraints.
 

Finch robots promote coding
May 20, 2014

Groveland Elementary students are using robots to explore computer programming. The odd shaped, odd looking Finch Robots will do what you tell them to do. Exactly what you tell them to do. It's a lesson you have to learn if you are going to program computers, robots or any computerized technology. Through a grant from the Minnetonka Schools Foundation, Minnetonka elementary schools are using the robots to make sure our students do not just use the technology of the future, they also build it.
 
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