I GAVE MY CATS 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY

Rather more successfully, I gave my 10-year-old an introduction to real-world coding by putting her in charge of the Jimu Tankbot (see p29). Using drag-and-drop lines of Scratch-style code, this trundling titan can be programmed to navigate around obstructions and pick up small objects with help from its IR sensor. It comes as a neat little kit, and the assembly instructions – complicated but clear – are part of the same app you use to code it. Cats be like, whatevs. Richard Purvis, Production Editor