Jade Support

The Jade Robot™, from Mimetics, is an advanced yet easy-to-use educational robot designed for youth, educators and school groups.

Jade Support: Advanced Learning Tool for the Jade Robot™

'Jade Support' is a Chrome extension meant to assist with the utilization of the Jade Robot™ from Mimetics. It's a tool developed to promote core learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. The extension allows interaction with the robot, facilitating programming, data collection, and user application development. It also enables cloud-based community interaction, GitHub project storage, and sharing, among other features.
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Extension stats

Users: 2,000+
Rating: 5.00
(8)
Version: 0.10.3.1 (Last updated: 2021-02-12)
Creation date: 2019-10-15
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • webview
  • identity
  • serial
  • storage
  • fileSystem
  • clipboardRead
  • clipboardWrite
  • https://accounts.google.com/*
  • https://userdata.cloud.mimetics.ca/*
  • See more
Size: 5.63M
URLs: Website

Other platforms

AC Support (v1.4.4)
4.25 (278) 76,526+
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Extension summary

It is the first educational robot with a working spectrometer, bringing real hands-on science data collection to all users.

Featuring: • Programming options that grow with the user: On Robot -> Scratch -> C • Bluetooth® application development and debug • Cloud-based community with hundreds of example applications and forums • GitHub project storage and sharing

The Jade Robot™ has been designed and tested to support core learning for “ages 8 to 80”, making it an invaluable teaching tool for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

You can purchase your own Jade Robot™ by visiting www.mimetics.ca!

This application will request various permissions to interact with your Jade Robot™ and your computer. Bluetooth and serial access are used to communicate with the Jade Robot™. Clipboard and context menu permissions are used to implement a friendly user interface. Local storage is used to store recently project history. File system access is used to upload media files on request. Google identity provider is used to authenticate to your Google account. Alternatively, access to Microsoft authentication services is used to authenticate to your Microsoft OneDrive account.

Google Profile access is used to provide a friendly user experience and Google Drive permissions are used to store user projects as well as provide access to sample projects.

User reviews

Amazing approach to teaching robotics. I love it!
by STEM Laptop, 2019-11-18

Epic coding
by Akshat Gandhi, 2016-03-04
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Jade Support requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Jade Support has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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