Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with a model compute system for physical programming are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include one or more processors, devices, and/or circuitry to identify first rules associated with one or more physical subcomponents, e.g., blocks, tiles, or the like, or combinations thereof, assembled in a constructed model in a first control modality, wherein at least one first rule defines a first predetermined behavior of the constructed model, and determine a first program stack for execution by the model compute system based on the first rules associated with the one or more physical subcomponents. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Control of an apparatus is provided according to determination of positioning of information pieces with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. In embodiments, an apparatus may include one or more pieces, wherein each piece may be positionable in one or more piece positions of a region and may include a passive RFID tag that stores information relating to a characteristic of the piece. An arrangement of RFID antennas may be positioned proximal to the region, and a RFID reader may provide reads of the pieces near the RFID antennas. One or more processors may determine the piece positions of the one or more pieces from the reads and may provide control of the apparatus according to the one or more pieces and their piece positions.