Gadgetory

so I kind of got to you guys a bit of a bit of a secret it's dirty dirty secret haven't shared much online I don't know the code and not just like I can only codes like small things like I'm not a code at all I've tried I failed tried and failed again I've got three different books on JavaScript to learn how to code and I feel like it's a big gap in my geek cred so I'm gonna fix myself I'm gonna better myself and I got something that looks looks kind of fun that'll help me learn how to code we got Berto off camera Berto can oh so supposedly reason I was kind of attracted to Cano aside from its it's pretty red box is that it makes coding super simple it's drag-and-drop coding like scratch which which for me makes sense if you use JavaScript if you're more advanced and it'll work with a Mac or a PC the self-contained computer with ports go take a look we've got make a lightboard stickers which one which one looks like me let's go the guy who's so pale you see through just like just like me and and Berto off camera from berkos bulletin all right so so you got going on here all right essentially this is a single board computer with the LED array just snap on top of it but it looks like Santa fancy so pull that out to the side we got some batteries it's got three USB ports on there for accessories we got Mike USB charging cable you got a case to hold it in and more stuff for that case more things for the case and we got this thing I love this is we'll figure out what this is all right here is the pixel brain cases oh it's a mode dial and these are joystick buttons case you're wondering so far so good I haven't broken yet it's got first impression buttons are very clicky nice it's like an old-school HTC phone now had the joystick all right this one push that in there all right time for the mode dial go ahead and do that each turn sends a signal to the brain and it snatch it like this okay now that you like that all right place a battery in shiny connectors first so there third there there's that and there's that I think that's the shiny connector all right all right powered on great now keep it strong and safe let's make a case all right so to front the case on a flat surface I can do that all right make sure the port speak out see the port speaking out you see it mark you see him that's what he's kept falling out because it didn't have the case to keep it in so wasn't my mistake I'm gonna try and plug it in because I've got a newer generation MacBook Pro okay dongle life all right so nothing has changed is exactly the same that's said if we had before let's plug this in all right so now I'm in the critic I can build ones different stuff in their training apps let's go to make a light show okay so I've got the canvas or I can go into the JavaScript if I want to do that but I am not that good so I've got these golden diamonds some what to do I'll push next all right so control this is control so every one seconds do something so what I wanted to do when the app start every one second I'll go to light board turn light on to then drive that there you go I did something look I did that I so I went through and did some of the challenges that you can tell by my proper rainbow in my light challenge I'm probably the best coder that's ever lived so they set it up kind of a cool way you've got a canvas where it's heard a lot of the drag-and-drop stuff like I said like scratch you go and you can see how things connect and they have different colors and you go and drag things down below or off to the right and the program will execute them and if you want to see if the JavaScript is you can see that as well if you want to sort of learn the JavaScript or if you already know you can program directly into there but it was really simple and it starts off very simply I started off just lighting one pixel that I moved that pixel around then I created a light strip and I got to change colors and I got to do a little little color dance and serve goes to show and you can have a foundation for coding you know strip using this drag-and-drop framework ultimately you'll learn some JavaScript as well as you're going to look which is kind of cool to see so as you go through and finish your own challenges or if you decide to create your own project on the candle kit you could also share it around lang community which they've appropriately called Kanna world you can check out other people have created you can leave a comment or decide to remix other creations you can use what other people have done you can improve or modify and make it better and show your programming skills you can use across multiple platforms either Mac or PC can't oh don't care this was it was the Meccano asked me to take a look at this and something that I wanted to try they did spawn to the video something something I really wanted to learn and I want to sort of share kind of share it with you guys so this is something that you want to try we'll put a link here and link to it down below they also be a five dollar off coupon down there cupen if you want to try it so if you guys go to code leave in the comments down below give me a thumbs up cuz I tried I'm really trying to learn how to code and if I feel the encouragement the community love I will share the stuff that I'm making with Meccano with you guys and you guys need some advice I'm learning how to code you