Ozobot Educational Robot Teaches Coding (OZO-020102-0102) 1185

Ozobot 2.0 Bit, Educational Toy Robot that Teaches STEM Coding, Crystal White

Love it ! . Used it for days and days . I purchased 2 of them . Kids got really into it as well . We had mini contests . Racing them . Making them dance . Etc . Very little setup . Easy to follow along with . Kids were able to do it independently after setting up accounts .

Measuring slightly over an inch in diameter and height, ozobot is one of the world's most compact smart robots of its kind. Ozobot uses twin micro-motors and a friction drivetrain design to deliver a remarkably quiet and precise movement. The sensor array on the bottom of the robot allows it to scan its environment. Ozobot bit can see colors, follow lines and detect intersections. And it does it as flawlessly on shapes you draw with regular markers on a piece of paper as it does on the digital screen of your tablet. As ozobot bit navigates its environment, plays games and reads codes, the leds on its main board always provide colorful feedback. Ozobot loves to keep you engaged by communicating back to you using messages with cryptic blinks. Ozobot bit's built-in lipo battery is quickly rechargeable via a micro-usb port and delivers over an hour of continuous action on a single charge.

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Great robot for price. It is a little finicky if your ink lines are not the correct width. But, overall it does what is advertised. -Notice from Y. Marguerite, Washington

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Such a cool toy. My 9 year old had no problems programming it and the way it transfers the programming to the robot by holding it up to the screen with the flashing light is amazing. It eliminates the issues you might see with usb connectivity.

- N. CarolynGot this for my 10-year old daughter after she showed some interest in programming through an app that you need to preset some directional commands. She seems to really like it. We had it trace some lines we made with marker, (you need to make the lines about 1/4" wide or the ozobot gets confused) talked with it on the provided "yes/no/maybe" sheet and had fun with the app. . The app is really well designed and allows for learning as you go through progressing stages of difficulty challenges. We did find that you need to turn the brightness all the way up on the ipad in order for the robot to register the lines consistently. The unit itself allows for some personalization through different colored "helmets" (what my daughter called them) that you can buy online. It comes with one in the package, ours was white. . I think this is a great toy that helps the development of basic coding principles. The fact that not every code will work perfectly because of the physical interaction between the ozobot and the line on the page/card/app is a good lesson in controlling your variables. Something that "grown up" coders need to consider. . I would recommend this to other parents with budding engineers, programmers, or simply curious "gizmo" kids. Works for both boys and girls. . I paid full price for this. Never received anything for my review - i read other reviews that had trouble and claims of "all positive reviews" were paid reviews. Not true in my case. It does not work perfectly every time the first time. Neither does any real code. This teaches some persistence and troubleshooting skills. I also read some reviews where people say this is just a line following gimmick with no real code teaching value. Also not true in my case. We were able to make it follow lines, but also make it do little special moves using the provided color codes. As for "real coding value" the most basic coding is defining predefined commands and then having something execute those commands for a desired outcome. That is exactly what this device does. I believe this teaches the purest form of coding - where the human doesn't need to learn flamboyant languages like pascal, but coding happens organically through human-machine interfaces. I believe this is the future of coding.

This was the year of the robot for my family and i. Cubelets (for me ) dash & dot and these little beauties. I picked all of these up because i'm a gadget guy who happens to be a single dad of a beautiful little six-year-old daughter. I need her not miss out on this world. Her school has them and i wanted to continue the learning at home. Fun, fun, fun and the markers work great. They write on regular paper and you can make your own tracks. Great intro to the world of coding in bite size chunks. For my daughter of course.

Q. Angela, Rhode Island

Makey Makey - An Invention Kit Everyone

There are so many possibilities with this kit. I use it to teach electrical conductivity in mye 5th grade science class. I just touch the surface of all the cool things this product can do. We primarily use the keyboard app and test objects for conductivity. We end with making a human chain to show how a break in the circuit stops the flow of electricity. I have also used the tetris app because they have to stay connected with their hands and only have one hand for the controller. Great exercise in circuits and cooperation. These two activities are only the tip of the iceberg of the activities that can be done.

What is makey makey? turn the whole world into a keyboard. It's a simple invention kit for beginners or experts doing art, engineering, and everything in between. How does it work? alligator clip two objects to the makey makey. For example, you and a banana (or an ice cube, or a kitty cat). When you touch the banana, the computer just thinks a keyboard key is being pressed, so you can type a letter, jump in a video game, take a picture, or play some music. Who is makey makey for? kids, artists, educators, engineers, inventors, makers. Really it is for everyone.   what materials work with makey makey? ketchup, pencil graphite, finger paint, fruits, plants, coins, your grandma, silverware, anything that is wet, pets, aluminum, rain, and hundreds more. Really any material that can conduct at least a tiny bit of electricity. What can i create? make a banana piano, play mario on  a play dough game pad, take a selfie of your cat every time she drinks water. How? first, load up a computer program or any webpage. Let's say you load up a piano. Then, instead of using the computer keyboard buttons to play the piano, you can hook the makey makey to something fun, like bananas, and the bananas become your piano keys. Hundreds more of examples can be found at makeymakey. Com

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Holy moly, did my kids have a great time with this. They spent an entire night getting along wonderfully playing with it. They haven't gone back to it since, but i think they will eventually. -Notice from D. Anonymous, Auvergne

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The makey makey is a great way to introduce someone to the world of electronics. The possibilities with this thing are endless. From music to games and much more the makey makey provides an interactive medium that makes learning about stem and electronics fun at all ages. It is easy to set up, there are a bunch of guides out there on different applications, and skills you will learn while using this could allow you to further your skills to more challenging projects.

- R. KathleneExcellent tool for a project i was working on. I made a piano puzzle using a real upright piano and the makey-makey with alligator clips. Quick assembly and excellent performance. Just make sure you understand which button you are attaching to or you might accidentally code the mouse as a keypad press. This was great!

This was hours of fun for both my husband and 5 year old daughter, i am sure they will go back to it a lot as there are many options to increase the difficulty level based on your child's interests and abilities. I am not sure who liked it more, my husband or my daughter ; )

C. Jackson, California

LittleBits STEAM Student Set, Up to 4-students

Easy to teach. Fun to use. The littlebits steam student set is the easiest way to integrate powerful stem/steam learning into the classroom. Designed with educators, the toolbox engages students in learning through creating inventions while linking to ngss/common core standards.

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Tl; dr: this is a very nice electronics kit that will give your kids introduction into led lighting, motors and the internet of things. It is attractive, fairly well designed and a great teaching device. But it is expensive and you might be able to find other products that achieve the same things at a much lower price point. . This is our third littlebits set. We also have purchased the cloud starter set and the korg synthesizer set. I loved the synth set, but my son was unimpressed. I got the cloud set with the idea of setting up switches in minecraft and having them affect the real world, or vice versa. That is truly amazingly cool. If you aren't familiar with minecraft, just imagine this. Minecraft is a world where you have a little guy (steve) who goes around and cuts down trees, digs for coal and iron and diamonds and such, and builds houses and things with the wood he chops up and the iron and metals he mines. Throw in some zombies, potions and other zany imaginations and then connect to millions of other players (if you choose) and you have minecraft. . Now, along comes your child and he builds a house in minecraft. With the littlebits cloud starter pack, he could put a pressure plate at his front door of his home that he built in minecraft, and while he is away from the game, another player ventures past his home. This person decides to enter your son's home. Perhaps a friend, perhaps a burglar? either way, it is an event you might want to be made aware of, much like if it were to happen in the real world - right? well, with the littlebits cloud set, when the player steps on the pressure plate at his front door in the game, a light - or buzzer - in the real world could be activated and your child could be alerted to check on the game and see who is visiting his virtual home. . Or, turn things around. Let's say you want to alert someone in the game when something happens in the "real world. " perhaps you want to know when your older brother comes up the stairs because he is going to kick you off his computer and you want to have time to save your game. With the littlebits cloud set, you could have a sensor and as your brother comes up the stairs, a light comes on in the game alerting you that something is happening in the real world. . It is pretty fantastic stuff, especially if you take it to the logical extreme and add virtual reality goggles to the experience. At that point, you might be so deep inside the game that you would not notice your brother's entrance into the room, but the littlebits cloud kit could alert you in the game that something is happening in the real world that needs your attention. We are talking multiverse reality here. . So what does the cloud kit have to do with this one? everything. This kit is the introduction to littlebits that attempts to reach out to kids via the stem/steam label and that makes educators and parents like it all the more. For those who aren't familiar with stem/steam, it stands for science, technology, engineering and math (add "arts" and you get steam) and it is the new wave sweeping schools as parents try to arm their children with tools to cope with the fourth industrial revolution that is underway. . Like most of the other littlebits kits, this is about 80% sizzle and 20% steak. Which is not as bad as it sounds. The steak is really good steak, but the sizzle sure adds to the price. What you are left with is a well marketed electronics/erector set that is very pricey. The end result is a pretty decent instruction book that gives you much of the same instruction as you would get from one of the many "85/1 or 300/1 or 500/1 electronics sets. ". . The intruction book is a bit more basic to start out with and a little less specific, but there are plenty of real world examples. I particularly like the invertor. The kit includes a light sensor and the way it is shipped, it works the opposite as you would like in a real world situation. That is to say, it turns on the circuit when it sense light. If you want a night light, for example, you would want it to turn on the circuit when the light goes away. By putting the invertor in line with the power source, you then invert the setting of the light sensor and create a night light. You can do this with a switch on the light sensor, but by using the invertor, you quickly see what the invertor can do and why you would want to take a signal and deliver full power when the circuit senses zero and no power when a circuit senses input. . With the supplied wheels, and lego-like attachments, it is fairly easy to build some basic electric cars, pendulums and other devices - cranes, motors, fans and more. . But there sure is a catch, it is awfully expensive for what you are getting. These are pretty standard parts for a basic electronics kit in many cases, and could easily be purchased as a kit for a third of the price. You are paying a lot for the pretty packaging and the idiot proof magnetic connectors that make it so novel and attractive. And that is a decision you will have to make. If you think that the plain electronics kit would sit and collect dust then this may well be worth the extra expense if it will get used and your child - or student - will learn the principles that you want them to learn. That is up to you to decide. I also worry about the durability of the kit. It seems like it is relatively flimsy for kids and i had a buzzer that did not work out of the box. It took me some fiddling and prying about it before it decided to work properly. (once i had it working, i wished that i didn't - lol. It is noisy and annoying! ). . I also think for $300 it should have much better packaging and storage. The box requires you to put the various littlebits devices into a plastic tray with no labeling and the wheels and gears and other plastic pieces go under the storage bin in the box. It is all crammed in very tight and not organized and it does not protect the relatively fragile pieces well at all. For $300 it should be much better than it is. . But i digress. Should you buy this kit? if you think your child would do well with one of the higher end electronics kits out there for half the price, then by all means save the money. But if you think the clever packaging and easier than average design of this kit would get your kids interested in steam, then it is money well spent. . In closing, i would like to ask a favor of you. If you find this review helpful, please click the helpful box. If not, please leave a comment telling me how i could improve my review and what made the review "not helpful" for you. I try to share my experience as specifically as possible and i also try to provide photographs that will help other shoppers decide if a product is for them or not. In this review, i put together one of the example experiments and tweaked it to show something that i learned about led's from my experience with lasers - namely that red lasers only take about 2 volts to power while green and blue lasers (led's in this case) take much higher voltage to activate them. This is an oversimplification of the situation, but you can see in the photos that it does take more voltage to get to the blue portion of the led while the red part of the rgb led lights up very early at only 2. 1 volts or even sooner. I appreciate any guidance in telling me why a review is unhelpful as i try to spend the extra time posting pictures to make my reviews more helpful. Thank you. Tsteele93 -Notice from X. Williams, Portsmouth

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It is nice, i love it!

- T. RochelleRapid delivery and good quality. My students and i love littlebit products.

Ozoeasy Sticker Codes Timers + Moves + Ends Pack

(timers + moves + ends + counters pack) includes: 216 timers + moves + ends + counters pack sticker codes

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