At Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Ljubljana a summer school takes place every year, within which a workshop »Mobile robot« is organized. At the workshop pupils from elementary and high schools learn about mobile robots and their programming. At this age most of the pupils do not have any knowledge about programming. Therefore, in the past decade new programming languages were developed. These programming languages do not require any special knowledge about programming, because the coding is based on the use of graphical objects. The aim of this diploma thesis was to choose a visual integrated development environment, which supports the Arduino platform, and to modify the chosen visual integrated development environment to support robot programming. Modification of the program was made by inserting new lines of code in the multiple folders of the program’s source code. The end result was modified visual integrated development environment with included blocks of code to program the mobile robot. In order to make a test of the modification the simple a robot moving program was made with the use of the new blocks.
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