" I want to sell millions of toys, but what I really hope is that a bunch of kids who open them up use the motors and things to build something else... They are my colleagues of the future. " -- Mark Tilden
" Have you figured out the second head fake? " -- Randy Pausch, Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
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- Coding
- Computer Kits / Boards
- Education
- Electronics
- Games / Puzzles
- Hacking Projects
- IoT
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- Misc
- Movies
- Music
- Robotics
- Space
- STEM
- TED Talks
- Toys
- Wellness / Mindfulness
- YouTube Channels
-- - Merchandise
- More Awesome Kids
- Brickfilms - Lego stop-motion tutorial
- Flipbooks - Flipbook tutorial (kit)
- Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life - Disney's animation bible.
- The Magic of Animation - A look at the 12 principles of animation developed by Disney
- Ada Twist, Scientist
- EuroToolbox - especial collection of EU literature for children in French, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish
- Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding (TED Talk)
- Hello Ruby: Journey Inside the Computer (TED Talk)
- Iggy Peck, Architect
- Rosie Revere, Engineer
- What Do You Do with an Idea?
- Wonderbly - Personalised books (former LostMyName)
- One Third Stories - stories the start in english and finish in another language
- Beanz Magazine - Kids, code and computer science magazine
- The Week Junior - printed magazine for children
- OYLA - printed magazine for STEM learning
- Chess is Child's Play
- Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance
- TootScoot - my first bike (?)
- Two Wheeling Tots - Helping you find the best bikes to your little ones
- Woom Bikes - The Apple of kid's bikes (and accessories ;).
- The Backwards Brain Bicycle - can you ride this special bike? (also here)
- Magnic Mcrolights - contactless bike dynamo/lights (video)
- Danny MacAskill - don't try any of this at home!
- Code Club - global network of free coding clubs for 9-13yr olds. (video)
- CoderDojo - global volunteer-led community of free programming clubs for young people between 7 and 17
- WhiteHatJr - Online coding classes for kids between 6 and 17
- Coding Projects in Python - book
- KidsRuby -
- Logo
- Scratch (wiki) - visual programming language developed by the MIT Media Lab.
- ScratchJr - Scratch for 5-7 year olds.
- Try Elixir
- HacketyHack - Gone?
- Coding Resources for Kids
- Teach Kids Programming
- grudelsud/coding4kids
- ilyaresh/coding-for-kids
- jashmenn/teaching-kids-programming
- A Programming flow chart for kids - some ideas about what to learn first
- BitsBox - Monthly coding projects
- Computer Coding - book
- Cube-Composer - puzzle inspired by functional programming
- Functions for kids - blog post
- Daisy the Dinossaur - game
- Primo Toys
- Pygame - set of Python modules designed for writing video games
- LEGO Coding Express - Inspire early learners to explore early coding concepts
- LEGO Microgames - make and share microgames using Unity/Lego.
- PICO-8 - Fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games. Also Awesome-PICO-8
- Code Kids
- Bill Gates early days - Bill Gates remembers his early programming career
- Numerical Computing is Fun - JupyterBook
- Adafruit - open-source hardware company doing boards for educational/hobbyist purposes.
- Raspberry Pi - series of small single-board computers
- Raspberry Pi 400 - complete computer built into a compact keyboard
- Boolean Box - Computer & coding kit for girls
- Kano - Make your own computer
- BBC micro:bit - legacy for the original BBC Make It Digital project in which a million micro:bits were given to UK school children
- Pockit - card sized modular computer, build of blocks (video)
- Circuit Maze - Arrange the tokens to create a real circuit.
- Crazy Circuits - Learn and create!
- Digital - A digital logic designer and circuit simulator.
- Little Bits - Hands-on electronic building blocks (video)
- ShenZhen I/O - Build real world cicuits
- Hevesh5 - domino creations
- Joseph's Machines - youtube channel
- LEGO marble run challenge
- Makeway
- Marble Machines (video) (coursera)
- Marbleocity Coasters - “marble machine” kits which introduce physics concepts / engineering mechanisms
- Robotime - marble run building kits (video)
- Easy Rubik's cube for Kids - simplified Dan Brown method
- Rubik's cube beginner tutorial
- Rubik's Connected - app enabled speed cube (video)
- Rukik's Magic - by Steven Brundage (revealed here)
- Speedcubing
- Juggling/Solving Rukik cubues - Guinness World Records
- Story Time Chess - teach chess through stories (video)
- Why We Cube - a speedcubing documentary
- Why It's Almost Impossible to Solve a Rubik's Cube in Under 3 Seconds - WIRED documentary
- Lego Robot Rubik's Cube Solver
- Fastest robot to solve a Rubik's Cube - Guinness World Records
- Think Fun - Empowering minds through Play.
- Quizzity - guess the location of capitals and big cities around the world.
- Hackaday.com
- Hackaday.io
- Hackerspaces (documentary)
- Hacksters.io - The world's hardware developer network.
- Make: Magazine / Projects
- The Thinkering Studio / Projects
- Raspberry Pi
- The CoasterDad - “Why don’t we build our own roller coaster, Dad?”
- Kid's room Spacecraft
- Mission Control Desk
- Spaceship Panel
- Live Train Station Sign
- Web sites and fairy lights
- Making a Steam Engine
- Adafruit.io - the easiest way to interact with your IoT data
- Twine - Listen to your world, talk to the Internet
- PaperSignals - build-it-yourself objects that you control with your voice. (Google)
- Duolingo ABC - Fun reading lessons for kids
- Duolingo - Learn a language for free.
- hiperlink.academy - an experimental internet native school.
- Skillshare - find what fascinates you
- TypingClub - Learn touch typing for free!
- Learn Quick - Learn new things every week
- IdeaPaint - Write on your walls!
- Lightboard - Write on your videos! (video)
- Light Painting - Write on your photos!
- Top 10 Lego Machines
- Walkie talkies - A begginers guide to families
- Learning Music - Learn the fundamentals of music making right in your browser.
- Learning Synths - Get started with synthesis using a web-based synth and accompanying lessons.
- 13 Levels of Beatboxing - WIRED/Butterscotch
- BlipBlox - A synthesizer and beatbox designed to promote creativity and audio exploration.
- Circuit Bending - DIY/maker version of BlipBlox ;-)
- Bandimal - Your kid's first music composer.
- Loopimal - Build loops. Build sequences. Make music.
- Everyday Looper - Looper app (great demo by Edouard Joguet)
- Foot Loose
- Super Mario
- Acapella App - Multi-track video-music maker
- Canon in D - beatbox multitrack
- Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing - by Jacob Collier
- Super Mario A Capella
- Stay with Me - How to build a vocal arrangement
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight
- Pocket Operators - Small, ultra portable music devices, with studio quality sound.
- LEGO Mindstorms
- BrickPi - connects LEGO Mindstorms with the Raspberry Pi
- Pi Wars - International, challenge-based robotics competition
- RedRobotics - advanced robotics controller for your Raspberry Pi
- Root - Coding robot by iRobot
- VexRobotics
- Vincross - Can you robot?
- Tinkerbots - Robot toys
- HummingBird / Finch
- Astro Pi - Your code onboard the International Space Station!
- Mission to Mars Student Challenge - students exploring Mars with NASA scientists
- Mathigon - Interactive Maths.
- NRICH - enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners.(University of Cambridge)
- KiwiCo - STEM Projects for Kids of all ages.
- LEGO Education : pre | primary | secondary
- LEGO Simple Machines - Discover how the world works
- STEM Resources for Kids - list
- The London School of Mathematics & Programming
- Topic : Children - A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of children.
- Search results for kids (> 2000)
- Really achieving your childhood dreams - Randy Pausch (aka The last lecture)
- Programming as Performance - Sam Aaron - Sonic Pi
- A delightful way to teach kids about computers - Linda Liukas (+books)
- Crawling into a computer - Linda Liukas (+books)
- Easy DIY projects for kid engineers - Fawn Qiw
- The linguistic genius of babies - Patricia Kuhl
- Goldieblox - Award-winning construction toys for girls! #morethanjustaprincess #giveagirlatoolbox
- Makedo - Cardboard construction toolkit
- Melissa & Doug - Timeless toys for todlers.
- Microbrite - Mi first microscope (?)
- Montessori Toys - Toys with a purpose
- Pixlplay - my first camera (?)
- Top 5 Educational Toys
- Breath like a Bear - mindful moments for kids (book)
- Cosmic Kids Yoga - Yoga, mindfulness and relaxation for kids.
- mud+bloom - connecting children with nature
- ParkRun Junior - Parkrun for kids .. go find yours now!
- The Workout Badges - exercise and keep fit!
- Blippi - Educational Videos for Kids
- Boxlapse - weekly timelapse vegs.
- Crash Couse Kids - From the creators of Crash Course
- Elmo Celebritie's songs - by Sesame Street
- LEGO channel - of course, they're on youtube too =)
- Physics Girl - adventures into the physical sciences.
- R3 Music Box - great collection if you need lullabiezz.
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- Octocat Baby - Yep, that's my team ;)
- Octocat Tee
- Google Merchandise Kids - US
- Google Merchandise Kids - EU
- Shop NASA