Children today are growing up with digital technology. Tablets, apps and connected devices are part of everyday life. But how does this technology actually work? 🤔
With the new senseBox:basic, a kit will soon be available that starts exactly here: digital education and basic IT education starting at primary school.
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Basic IT education you can touch
The senseBox:basic was specially developed for a low-threshold introduction to programming and sensor technology. Children learn in a playful and practical way how sensors work, how programs are structured and how environmental data is measured and evaluated. In this way, the pure use of digital technologies becomes a well-founded understanding of how they work.
As a simplified variant of the proven senseBox:edu, senseBox:basic focuses on simple operation, basic sensor projects and a cost-effective entry.
This makes it particularly suitable for:
Primary schools first programming projects working groups and workshops on basic computer education
Programming without prior knowledge with senseBox-Blockly
To make it easy to get started, programming is done with senseBox-Blockly. The software is available free of charge as an app. Programs are intuitively assembled from visual building blocks – without any complicated code. For example, children can:
Read sensor values, program simple processes, develop your own small experiments
This is how you quickly create your own projects.
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Which sensors are included?
The senseBox:basic makes it possible to research environmental phenomena yourself:
BME680 Environmental Sensor – This sensor measures several things: temperature, humidity and air quality.
Light sensor – The light sensor measures the brightness of the environment. Perfect for projects such as automatic light responses, light and shadow experiments, and daytime brightness measurements
Accelerometer – The sensor detects movements and vibrations. This allows children, for example, to program movement projects, determine positions in space or build simple reaction systems.
With a Bluetooth bee and an OLED display, the measured values can be easily transmitted and visualized live.
Free teaching and learning material
There will also be free teaching materials available for senseBox:basic as hardware.
These are available as Open Educational Resources (OER) and contain:
Projects to recreate Teaching ideas Materials for getting started with programming
The collection is continually expanding.
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Online meetup for senseBox:basic
Anyone who would like to find out more about the new senseBox is cordially invited to the free online meetup. There the re:edu team presents the senseBox:basic and answers questions. The senseBox meetup will take place every second Tuesday of the month from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. via Zoom until summer. The first date is April 14th.
Further information about senseBox:basic:https://sensebox.de/de/products-basic
Conclusion – digital education you can touch
With the senseBox:basic, entry into programming, sensor technology and digital technologies is possible from primary school age onwards – simple, practical and with plenty of room for experimentation. In this way, it makes an important contribution to the early promotion of digital skills. After the product was first presented as a preview at Didacta 2026, it is now available in the shop and will be delivered shortly: https://sensebox.kaufen/products/sensebox-basic
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