NylonLabs for schools
The Education Licence is free for schools. It covers six apps for teaching, with no limits on the number of projects.
The terms are a draft and will be published before the licence is offered. It is for classroom use, not commercial work.
What is included
ZoetropeFilms drawn by code, and a Workshop to animate by hand: puppets, frames, sound and lessons.ScribeWrite documents: text, pictures and tables, saved as files or PDF.LatticeSpreadsheets: tables, formulas and charts.PodiumSlides and presentations for the classroom and the meeting room.BreadboardRobotics: draw a virtual circuit, test it, then run it on an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi.AtlasBusiness planner, roadmap and task tracker: manage business production and investor steps.
Teaching animation with Zoetrope
The Workshop
Students pose puppets with bones, frame by frame, with onion skin and in-betweens on request.
Make your own
A rigger and an asset maker: draw a character or cut one out of a photo, then give it bones.
Lessons included
Five lessons in the app, a Simple mode for younger classes and a printable teacher pack.
On school computers
The apps run on Windows 10 and 11 and need no account and no internet connection once installed. Browser versions of Scribe, Lattice and Podium for Chromebooks are being tested.