ROBBO Roboplatform

2023: Inclusion in the GISP

ROBBO received a certificate from the ST-1 Chamber of Commerce and Industry and an opinion from the Ministry of Industry and Trade on the compliance of decisions with the requirements of Resolution 719 for products produced in Russia. The list includes seven decisions of the company. The company announced this on December 6, 2023.

The conclusion on confirmation of production in Russia was received by: "ROBBO Roboplatform," "ROBBO Laboratory," "ROBBO Set of extensions for roboplatform," "ROBBO Set of extensions for Laboratory," "ROBBO Circuitry," "ROBBO Dancing robot," "ROBBO Dancing robot set of materials for assembly." Read more here.

2017: Robotic Designer "ROBBO Roboplatform"

The Russian developer of children's robotic designers "ROBBO" completely updated the product line in the summer of 2017: now the company has two main global products - the robotic designer "ROBBO Roboplatform" and the children's IoT solution "ROBBO Laboratory." The launch of the product line will allow the company to concentrate on the export of technologies and reduce the cost of product development and technical support by transferring the ROBBO production in Russia and in the Finnish representative office of the company to a single global product.

ROBBO Roboplatform is a robotic designer that has become smaller - now the Arduino board is soldered directly into the body of ROBBO Roboplatform, so the device has become more stable and compact. The set of sensors has been expanded: the set includes a light, touch, headlamp sensor, two line sensors and an infrared distance sensor. There is also a workpiece for self-assembly. Motor power control units have also been added, both together and separately. Thanks to the installation of special encoders on motors, it became possible to set the exact angle of rotation for the robot.

ROBBO Laboratory has combined two old devices - ROBBO Laboratory and Digital Laboratory. It is a portable modular system that includes a programmable unit and makes it possible to collect and analyze data from the environment using light and sound sensors. The new version adds two analog ports and one digital port for connecting external sensors. The control buttons received a new rounded design and labels for all controls. ROBBO Laboratory now connects to a computer via USB or micro USB, two lines of Arduino ports are displayed on the device, which can be used directly from the Scratch software environment. It also became possible to connect additional modules (shields) compatible with Arduino. The new version has additional switches, so the device can be used as an Arduino Uno board.

2015: ScratchDuino 2.0

ScratchDuino - software for the children's educational robotic complex.

On December 7, 2015, the ScratchDuino project announced the release of ScratchDuino 2.0 software for the ScratchDuino children's educational robotic complex. It was created in the Scratch 2.0 programming language.

The update includes features that make it easier to work with ScratchDuino.Lab and ScratchDuino.Robofuel form products.

ScratchDuino Basic Kit (2014)

ScratchDuino 2.0 made it easier to install and update software. Cross-platform is provided - the software is supported by the most common versions of GNU/Linux - Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. All versions of Windows are supported, from Windows XP to Windows 10. Full support for Apple MacOS X is organized. In all operating systems, the software works with the same set of functionality.

A functional innovation of ScratchDuino 2.0 is the emergence of the possibility of simultaneous work with the Robofuel form - that is, the robot itself, and the ScratchDuino Laboratory - a software and hardware module with an Arduino microcontroller that controls the Robofuel form. At the request of children who use ScratchDuino in robotics classes, the development company added to this version the possibility of additional input of the program for controlling the robot using the buttons of the Laboratory. To facilitate the educational process in the main Scratch working window, the blocks related to ScratchDuino devices are placed in a separate group.

The second refinement is the addition of automatic detection of connected devices. Now the platform allows you to simply connect and disconnect a robot or Lab using a USB cable or Bluetooth. In version 2.0, devices are automatically detected and connected to the Scratch environment, and the connection status can be observed in the control panel.

The control panel allows one button to return the factory firmware to support Scratch in the Arduino microcontroller - the "brain" of the ScratchDuino robot. This feature makes it much easier to work with the device in circles and in school, when younger students use the Scratch programming environment, and older students already write "adult" code using the Arduino IDE and load their own firmware into robots, making the most of the openness of the software and hardware of the ScratchDuino designer.

Robotics