I want to buy Ollo Excel, but why is there no desktop application?
Why are they working with a page called Steamcup? This is really not reassuring! 
Why was the production of Robotis Dream sets discontinued?
Hello,
ROBOTISâ newest generation of STEAMCUP products is designed to be accessible to as many people as possible. In order to achieve this, ROBOTIS has chosen to support programming through the online STEAMCUP platform, in order to allow people to program and control their robots using any internet capable device, including smartphones and tablets.
The new OLLO kits are a more modern update to the existing ROBOTIS Dream educational kits.
The On-Line versions of the new R-BLOCK and R-MOTION tools are accessible at this web link https://enjoy.steamcup.org/. The on-line tools are the most up-to-date versions. You do not have to register with STEAMCUP.ORG to use these tools. They have IMPORT/EXPORT tools to save your work onto your local disk drives, or if you register (at no cost) you can save your work on the ROBOTIS web server.
There are also Off-Line versions of these tools accessible at this ROBOTIS post shown below. Essentially you set up your own PC to become a local web server for the Off-Line versions.
but they tend to be a couple of version OLDER than the on-line tools.
There also are Mobile Apps version of STEAMCUP for Android and iOS devices. The Firmware on RB-86 and RB-88 can only be updated via the Mobile App version of STEAMCUP.
The OLLO Excel Kit is a good choice as it has both RB-88 (R-BLOCK IDE only) and RB-100 controllers, and the RB-100 can also do Python (in addition to R-BLOCK).
I had been using STEAMCUP tools for about 10 months now. On busy times, the on-line tools may take about 20-30 secs to load up on my Windows PC, but no user interaction issues afterwards.
The new R-BLOCK IDE is just a web-based user interface, all R-BLOCK codes are compiled into binary code which are then downloaded into the RB controllers and run locally there. So their runtime performance is no different than when you were using TASK or Micro Python codes. The nice result from using a web-based IDE is that it can be updated from ROBOTIS, and within 15-30 minutes, the new version is accessible worldwide. No more putting up with unplanned side effects from âoccasionalâ Windows Updates issues!
You can see my RB projects so far at this STEAMCUP circle
Regarding the DREAM systems, the CM-150 is replaced by the CM-151 (with embedded BLE) and the STEAMCUP R-BLOCK IDE does support the CM-151 - but I have not used the CM-151 work space on R-BLOCK that much myself yet.
The fact that the Robotis Dream series didnât work on Linux used to frustrate me. However, RTask 2.0, which was separately designed from Scratch, was perfect for me. It allowed both drag-and-drop coding and a closer experience to real-world programming. But now, using a Scratch-like platform feels disappointing. The only good aspect is that itâs now accessible on Linux as well.