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Also FlowPaw instantly became a KickStater Staff Pick!

“FlowPaw : Learn computer coding by building your own gizmos by DSP Robotics” ☺ http://t.co/CPj9ie5cHW

— KSR Staff Picks (@ksr_staff) October 21, 2014

Thanks to the staff and pupils of:

Crich Junior School,  Tupton Hall School & Brookburn Community Primary School

Currently we support around 10 Click Boards for the FlowPaw Claws:

We have 10 more planned in the next few weeks

Here’s something really cool – the SpeakUp Click board for FlowPaw does Speech Recognition! Record spoken phrases into the SpeakUp Click board using the recording software that comes with it. Then plug it into your FlowPaw and talk to it! It then outputs an index (1,2,3,4 etc.) depending on the phrase you say.

We used it here to play music tracks on Spotify using FlowStone

Here’s the video:

Having fun with the FlowPaw & FlowStone today we made a Finger Synth! This is a great way to learn about programming, music, and frequencies.

Here the video of it working:

Continuing our game theme we added Pong today, but with a difference. You use the FlowPaw bard as the games controller, by tilting the board using the accelerometer Claw you can control the Pong bat. There is even a two player mode using two FlowPaws..

Pong running in app. mode.

You also get full access to the FlowStone code running in real-time so you can modify the game, change the graphics etc.

Here’s the video:

This is the short version for the more complete longer version go to < here >

We are adding lots of example files into the FlowPaw/FlowStone install to get you going straight out of the box, today’s addition is Space Invaders!

Using the Accelerometer Claw on the FlowPaw board to control your ship left and right (by tilting the board) and use the buttons for fire etc. Also the FlowPaw buzzer plays the game sounds.

As this is in FlowStone the code is accessible so you can change the graphics and tweak the code as much as you like! Or just enjoy playing!

Here’s the Video:

We just received the first batch of the full production boards this week!

These are the Rev 1.01 PCB’s with the slightly modified expansion connector:

We made these with a 10 way header so it works with standard ribbon cables and also added a 5V & GND header so that you can power the board from an external 5V source or use the 5V for external sensors if necessary.

Here’s the new packaging for the FlowPaw that arrived today..

The cool thing, that you can’t see on the photo above, is the subtle embossing on the box:

also on the bottom:

cool..