Try PlotBot in your browser

Snap blocks together the way your kid will on the phone later – and watch a simulated PlotBot draw your program on an 80 × 80 mm sheet.

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How this page works

The editor holds the same blocks the real PlotBot offers on its phone page: pen down, go 20 mm forward, turn 90°, repeat four times. Everything hanging under the "Los" ("go") block is the program. Next to it (below it on a phone) you see the robot from above: its base plate, both pairs of arms and the pen.

Press "Draw it" and the arms trace your program. Before that, a dashed line shows what will be drawn; red dots are off the sheet. "Load an example" has ready-made programs such as a house, a star and a flower. Nothing leaves your browser: the page doesn't talk to a robot and doesn't save anything.

The blocks and their messages are in German, just like on the robot itself.

Phone screen showing the Blockly editor: coloured blocks form a small drawing program. A house with a roof and a door, as drawn by PlotBot

The real PlotBot works the same way

PlotBot serves these blocks from its own phone page, with no internet needed. There, "Zeichnen lassen" sends the program to the robot and the pen moves across the paper. The PlotBot-Kit shows you how to build the robot.