Physical Computing for Beginners

Client: Tracy Gardner, Raspberry Pi Foundation <tracy@raspberrypi.org>

Children and other beginners can understand the computational concepts involved in physical computing (controlling electronics components) before they are ready for the technical APIs provided to control hardware devices. Your task is to design and prototype a visual language or interface for programming the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller that can be used by beginners. The language should use concepts that are close to the kinds of projects that beginners would want to create. Users might drag and drop components such as buttons and LEDs and then click on them to configure how they should behave.