Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Lego’s WeDo 2.0 engineering and robotics kit — CES 2016 interview”.
Everybody welcome. This is Ross with The Verge it’s day, 3 at CES and I am a grown human adult who’s gon na be playing with Legos for the next 5 minutes. Please excuse me: it’s been a very long week already enjoyed actually by LEGO Education. This week, they’re unveiling we do 2.0 is an educational kit designed for elementary schools and students to learn robotics engineering, math science. So, with this iteration and new generation of video 2.0, we’ve built in some new technology features so Bluetooth, wireless technology that enables it to run freely and you be run using the tablet devices. So what is this? Is this part of the the curriculum right here yeah? So this is actually from our series of getting started projects, so this build right here would be the first project that we would encourage students and teachers to do it’s a very simple build and it teaches the basics of how to connect your smart hub to the Device that you’re using to control it and also how to control your motor and the motor is a really important feature in most of the builds. So it’s a good place to start so this particular project you, you learn about science, rovers and wide scientists use rovers to explore. You know far-off or dangerous places that they can’t go themselves. So if you open a project in the library the content is launched, and what you see here is what students will actually be working through so initially they’re.
Given a challenge, they’re also asked to watch a video that is a little animation. Video of our to elementary figures Max and Mia, they connect them to the problem that they’re going to be trying to solve in the challenge and after they’ve watched, the video they’re then able to follow our step-by-step building instructions and then you’re launched into your programming palette. What else do you have in here, besides, just like uh pieces yep, so there’s also a tilt sensor, so you can build a model that changes its behavior based on the angle that the tilt sensor is placed at and then there’s also a motion sensor and that Detects if objects are coming forward or away from from your model, okay, so the tilt sensor and emotion since are the other sensors in addition to the motor and then the smart hub that are included in the kit very cool. So this is coming out this this year.
Is it coming out now? Is it available yesterday? Okay, yes, it’s 100 % available suite and is it just for classrooms? Are you guys talking to you know teachers, unions and schools? Are you guys actually selling direct to consumer as well yep so and the product was developed specifically for use in classrooms? We sell through LEGO Education, North America direct to schools, but we also have an e-commerce site. Well, Pamela. Thank you so much okay! This is fun. I really got I needed this today, so thank you so much.
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