Secret agent coding kit: Spy vs. sPi

Did you grow up wanting to be a secret agent, like James Bond or the La Femme Nikita? If so, Dexter Industries has just the spy kit.

"Spy vs. sPi is a series of engineering adventures designed by actual spies, so players will face real-life engineering challenges they’ll solve just like spies do," says Dexter Industries.

Secret sleuths receive Top Secret mission envelopes. To crack the mission each spy has to use a GrovePi Kit, Raspberry Pi and an assortment of sensors.

If you should choose to accept this mission, you'll need to head over their Kickstarter page. There you'll find further instructions on how to pledge yourself to the mission.

• Learn more: Spy v. sPi Robot Coding Missions: Code. Capture. Defend

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Secret agent Kit for Raspberry Pi

The classic cartoon Spy vs. Spy by Mad Magazine served as inspiration. Two identical secret agents are always laying booby-traps for each other. (There was also a great two-player Spy vs. Spy game released for the Commodore 64 and NES if you're looking for some retro gaming fun).

“Spy v. sPi can be played individually or in teams, at home, in a classroom, or a workshop,” says GrovePi. “In it, each “spy” is assigned a series of missions, each requiring them to write code to control an assortment of sensors that will allow them to protect their ‘jewel’ in different ways, or capture the ‘jewel’ of a competing spy.”

The GrovePi serves as a base for the kit. An "easy-to-build robot kit" that uses the Raspberry Pi as a controller. Sleuths use the equipment to program different sensors and components to complete the mission.

Scratch or Python is used to complete projects. "The missions include bonus content available on our website that includes videos and helpful resources spies will find valuable along the way," says GrovePi. "Everyone that receives the printed missions will also have access to our online portal, including electronic versions of the missions. The electronic versions follow an online learning style format and are non-printable."

La Femme Nikita was always better than Bond btw ;-)