Neuron Artist Kit | Makeblock

Hi all,

Makeblock has announced a new kit -Neuron Artist Kit- for Neuron series last week. I found the opportunity to review the kit in detail and I built a few sample projects. I’m sure you’ll love it because I can say that there is no limit to what you can do with it. :)

The Neuron Artist Kit is suitable for children aged 6 and above. It’s designed to teach programming to children for them to gain their design skills. The kit includes 8 programmable electronic blocks. With them, you can build games, animations, creative projects with them.

Guide For Each Block

There are colored guides describing how each electronic block works. It also shows how the module works with an example.(It will allow us to work very easily in group works/workshop)

Connecting the Neuron Blocks

It’s very easy to connect the Neuron blocks together! Thanks to its magnetic structure, you can easily connect them to each other. They are also grouped as INPUT, OUTPUT, and Energy & Communications blocks according to their colors. As an example, the orange colored blocks are INPUT, the blue colored blocks are OUTPUT and the green colored blocks are ENERGY & COMMUNICATION blocks.

• Let’s look at the Neuron blocks:
• Smart Power: It gives power to other blocks
• Sound sensor: It is used to measure the sound intensity of the environment.
• Ranging sensor: It measures the distance.
• Buzzer: It makes a sound when it receives a signal.
• LED Strip Driver: It runs the LED Strip block

Programming

ou can program the Neuron Blocks with your computer and your smart devices. For computers; you need to download the mBlock(based on Scratch 3.0) into your computer. For smart devices; you need to download the Neuron App from App store or Google play.

Programming with both mBlock and Neuron App is quite easy and fun. You can develop creative projects, animations and games by dragging and dropping the code blocks.

Creative Projects

Let’s examine the projects within the Neuron Artist Kit. Six different projects can be done with cardboard papers in the kit. They are; Led Sword, Ukulele, Xylophone, Cloud Lantern, Infinity Band, Magical Drum.

• LED Sword: It will glow in different colors as commanded. You can write programs to change the color!
• Ukulele: It can glow in different colors and the buzzer makes different sounds.
• Xylophone: It can make different sounds based on the distance.
• Cloud Lantern: It will light up in different colors based on distance.
• Infinity Band: It can change its facial expressions based on the sound or the distance.
• Magical Drum: It can change its sound and colors.

To learn more please visit The Neuron Artist Kit on Amazon.