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Why coding is so important to kids?

In recent years, “learning to code” has always been big popularity, then someone will ask: “why is coding so important to kids?”We acknowledge that coding is the DNA of the digital world, it’s not hard for us to find everything around us, including phone Apps, websites, and even many home appliances rely on coding to work. So that’s why programmers are in high demand. Developing a coding literacy will affect kids a lot, it makes kids a better thinker, they will think logically to find a perfect solution when encountering things. Also once kids know how to program, a whole world full of possibilities will open, they may create their own game or App instead

I work as the sales&Marketing manager in Elecrow company. One of its business is to develop STEAM education products. So I learned lots of new knowledge in this area both from my working career and the after-work activities. In this article, I will talk about the topic of why teach kids to code according to my personal experience and independent thinking.

I was born in 1991, a poor village inside a rural mountain area in China. When I was a child, my parents

Recently, a lot of smart home applications are going on, people prefer to move from traditional way of controlling stuff into more automatic way.
For example, TVs and Air conditioners till today are being used with a dedicated remote controller. In our tutorial today - we are going to change it!We gonna teach you how to use Arduino Crowtail LED in order to capture the existing code from your TV remote and send it programatically using a push of a button!

The last time we did the first version of Sundancer and received many good feedback, so this time we will make a new ones which is more elegant and cool Sundancer.

This time we will use acrylic materials to build this project. Below is a butterfly-shaped box that can be used to hide the main control board and other things to make it look simpler and more beautiful. Of course, if you have a small charger, you can put it inside, so that the Sundancer is dancinf like a magic!

You need to open your circuit design software before you start your project cause you must know how the electrical circuits will work as an electronics engineer. I know that choosing the right one from a multitude of software is a tangled thing. Here we list the most popular 10 ones for your reference.

1.Eagle（Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor）

It provides the best of both worlds: the quality of a first-tier

More and more devices have USB-C ports as the main interface. Compared to the USB Type-A port, the USB-c port provides a range of powerful features that enable a variety of roles. Smartphones have switched to new USB-C ports due to their faster charging and data transfer capabilities, and many modern laptops have USB-C ports. As mentioned earlier, Apple's MacBook Pro fully embraces this powerful new technology and only supports the USB-C port. According to the site, Apple will likely have its 2019 series of iPhones come with USB Type-C support.

Not all of us we’re able to buy or get CrowPi for our own, In Elecrow, we care about all our customers so we crafted a special tutorial on how to use Minecraft magic blocks with NFC chips without CrowPi! Follow this instructions step by step on your fresh new raspberry pi image in order to get the RFID working on your raspberry pi with RC-522 module and be able to play using RFID Module and the NFC chips! https://github.com/Elecrow-keen/CrowPi.git clone and install the RC-522 driver from the Drivers/RFID/ directory using the command "python setup.py install"

Hey guys,we’ll have a seven-day Chinese Spring Festival holiday from 4^th Feb. 2019 to 11^th Feb. 2019. In the meantime, we can not process the orders but you can still place the orders because the perfect arrangements internally so that they can be processed efficiently as soon as we get back on 11^th Feb. This is a chart for checking our schedule easily. Here's our explanation of what's on the agenda. 1.For

Considering the wide use of micro:bit and electromagnetic lock, we made a video that combines the two to apply in life. What electromagnetic lock is? Electromagnetic lock is a locking device that consists of an electromagnet and an armature plate. There are two main types of electric locking devices. Locking devices can be either "fail safe" or "fail secure". Electromagnetic locks are fail-safe by design. (Fail-safe means that if the power goes off the door will be unlocked).

As Christmas is coming, we at Elecrow cannot forget even for a moment our hard effort during the year on working on our CrowPi, from sketching an idea to a reality of successful Kick-starter campaign! We decided to celebrate this Christmas with a special xmas special project using the CrowPi! We all know that during Christmas there is nothing better than sitting under the tree with the entire family and singing Christmas songs, why sing alone when you can have a melody singing for you? Our special project will allow your CrowPi to “sing” some Christmas songs for you using the on-board buzzer. We’ve already created an example that