This looks like a really cool coding project
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iocube/iocube-unleash-creativity-with-robotic-modules
It looks cool! I don’t know enough to weigh in as I don’t have a lot of robotics experience, and tend to do classical and theoretical computing. If you wanted to try to DIY something like this, evelyn gave me some tiny screens. i’d like to keep one or two but you’d be welcome to 2 or 3 of them