We’re changing our name! roBlocks was a good name for our kit when it was just a research project, but it’s too similar to ROBLOX, a video game company. We haven’t settled on the new name yet, so please answer our poll and let us know if you think one is better than the others. Please email any suggestions to Eric (eric@roblocks.org). If we pick your idea, we’ll send you a free 8-block kit as soon as they’re ready.
Update (March 21, 2009): Thank you for all of the suggestions and votes. We’ve picked a name! But I can’t tell you what it is yet so I don’t make the same mistake as last time. But stay tuned, I’ll post the news here as soon as I’m allowed.
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Great news today. We’re happy to announce that roBlocks received a $100,000 “Phase I” Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation. The award is to investigate programming languages appropriate for children to modify the behavior of individual blocks. We’ll be building a few different frameworks for end-user programming and testing with a bunch of smart kids. Fun!
