While the main Stubby build is completed, it is far from over as a development and teaching platform.  My goal, and the objective of my entry to The Hackaday Prize, is to use Stubby to help teach children basic programming concepts such as calling functions, creating and reading variables, executing control loops, and checking conditional logic. When you are learning to program for the first time, it is much more exciting to see an actual robot bow to your wishes, rather than see 'Hello, World' printing in a text console.

In order to do this, there are a few things which need to be done:

• Replace XBee with a bluetooth module to allow bi-directional communication with a computer
• Connect various sensors (Ultrasonic distance sensor, light sensors, etc)
• Design and implement an API for use with various introductory programming languages (I am thinking things like Python and Wiring at this point) to allow simple interaction with Stubby via a custom program.

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