O4. Resources Review Germany
April 27 th , 2016
Title: AMICI Programming environment with an iconic interface for Arduino LilyPad
and Smart Textile
Description: A short, but significant resource description:
visual programming language which enables programming novices to program Arduino
boards without having to master the textual programming language Arduino. Amici
builds on the Arduino IDE (further information can be found at arduino.cc). It was
developed in the European research projct EduWear.
Link: Link to the resource: http://dimeb.informatik.uni-bremen.de/eduwear/
Further resources can be accessed at the Website of the research group “Digital media
in education” at the University of Bremen (Prof. Dr. Heidi Schelhowe):
http://dimeb.informatik.uni-bremen.de/eduwear/resources/
License: What kind of licensing system the resource has
Since the Arduino software is open-source Amici is open as well (source code on
request), released under the GPL.
Languages: English, German, Portuguese, Danish
Target groups: main target groups of this resource: novices to programming
Known uses: Examples of the use of the resource, if they exist (including videos, text
based descriptions, links, etc.)
Pedagogical level: pedagogical level of resource:
TACCLE Classification: The classification of the resource taking into account TACCLE
ontology (Algorithms, using logic, controling things, creating and debugging)
Quality: Perceived quality of the resource [scale 1-5]
Open comments: Reviewer’s comments
