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I started working on a similar idea, called "Wildcard"... The idea was to create a lower cost alternative to Lego Mindstorms for programming simple robots. So "⬆5" would tell a robot to move forward 5 rotations. The other idea I was playing with was to remove the need to type at a keyboard... instead, a child would have a deck of cards with all the syntax they'd need, then they'd lay out their program out on a table or floor, and then use a camera + computer vision to read in the program.

The idea was if we issued one robot to each child, it would be cheaper to program the robot with a camera and deck of "code cards" than to also have to give budget for giving them a tablet or chromebook, too.

Here's my original proof of concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSOfMSS9aFY

And the code is up on GitHub: https://github.com/hugs/wildcard