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see that the LEGO Group has a booth here at pepcom at CES 2016 they're showing
off something called we do 2.0 it's a very simple Robotics and programming kit
for kids aged 7 to 10 years old the kit is $159 and comes with 280 pieces
including a single medium motor a programmable bluetooth smart hub
controller which also houses the batteries I think and a tilt and a
motion sensor you can connect two sensors to the Smart Hub or you can
connect one motor and One sensor there's also an educational pack of 24 kits plus
a curriculum for $2,260 is that worthwhile I have no idea
now the marketing material for this kit seems a little over the top it's talking
about an Innovative way for students to model reality and conduct investigations
and how a kid can explore rainforests and discover Mars but of course that's
really just the theme of the various builds that they've given instructions
for there's a frog there's a Mars Rover a rescue helicopter an earthquake
machine that one's my favorite and a few others what makes the kit interesting is
the ability to visually program a simple robot using desktop and tablet-based
software the software also gives you choices between guided exercises or more
independent problem solving now again this kid is aimed at 7 to 10 year olds
or second to four fourth graders so it's not nearly as complex as the well-known
LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits which are designed for ages 10 and up and because
the kit is so simple and it's directed at kids so young it's pretty tough for
me to objectively evaluate just how good of an educational learning tool it might
be for example I was expecting to see two Motors included in this kit instead
of one but the LEGO Group probably has a
lot of good reasons for Designing the kit the way that they did and if you
want more Motors and more complexity and and more of a challenge you can always
just get mind storms or power functions or something like that overall the Lego
weo 2.0 kit looks pretty promising and
I'm hoping to do a full more in-depth review of it on our channel in the
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