Learn to program playfully with the Calliope mini and many exciting projects. Program cool games and building projects. Think programming is boring? Not with the new Calliope mini. You use computers, tablets, smartphones, and more every day and want to finally engage with what’s behind them? If you want to program cool light effects or a real game, the Calliope mini and this book are just right for you, as here you will discover, beyond all the dry curricula, what makes programming with the new board so fascinating.

One special feature of the Calliope mini is the many additional components that are already built-in: a grid of 25 LEDs, two buttons, an RGB LED for colorful lights, a speaker, a motion sensor, and much more. All these components need to be added separately with other microcontrollers.