Lego MINDSTORMS EV3 Programming App Apple iPad. Android Tablets.
The MINDSTORMS® EV3 LEGO® Education programming app provides middle school students with hands-on opportunities to develop their creative and problem-solving skills. EV3 Programming and the EV3 intelligent brick combine building and coding to help students learn programming principles, engineering, teamwork and persistence.
I used this app at Maker Faire to work with introducing robotics to children. As expected kids as young as 3 years old were able to jump on it and immediately take control of the robot. I would say the desktop version requires at least a 7 year old to have the dexterity to control a mouse. At first glance it did not appear to support sensors but then I noticed that the wait block does allow for sensor conditions. This could probably be appropriate for a first year curriculum, or for some simple applications and is great to get kids engaged quickly and as a teaching aid. The ability to save to the cloud is also handy since kids always seem to loose their programs on the laptop. My only complaint is that I can't completely get rid of my laptop app because I can't calibrate my sensors or use myblocks. Hopefully this is in the works for a future version.
Acid studio 9 free download. Sony, a company that is well known in the software world for developing Vegas, ACID, and Sound Forge, has presented a new application: ACID Music Studio, thanks to which it will be much easier to compose, record and mix original music, making it a perfect solution for those musicians that only want to focus on the performance and not the software. The perfect tool to create musicACID Music Studio integrates into a single interface all the elements necessary for musical production: MIDI editor, multi-track audio recorder, support for VST effects and instruments, and the capacity to record the resulting audio on a CD, making it very easy to share the result.The program includes a collection of loops and samples which we can use to compose a track in a matter of minutes. Once we have done that, we can use the sound card's line-in and microphone input to add vocals and guitars.Furthermore, ACID Music Studio integrates an assistant that will help us in each step of the process, helping us to get to know the program and its features a lot better.
Good, but..
The students I work with use this app on their school supplied iPads. They love it and it makes it easy to quick program a mission, test it, make changes, and try again. Now the but. Unless they are using the full program on a computer they don't have access to sensors, math and logic blocks, and My Blocks. I see that this has been a complaint of many reviewers for at least two years. I'm sure there are constraints that Lego is working with. For instance I'm sure they realize it would be hard to sell the program when a fully functional app is free. Oh well. The app works great