Bevel gears allow you to make connections at 90 degrees, which is useful for driving a wheel axle. By testing out different combinations, you can expand the speed range beyond what the motor can offer directly.Ĭombining Technic beams with larger gears allows you to create hinge actions, like this Inchworm project, and wedge belt wheels can be used to make a flywheel or pulley system. Then swap them over and see how it changes. Learn what happens when you connect a small gear to a larger gear, by observing the speed of the second gear. With small, large, bevel, worm and rack gears, you have so many combos. Lego WeDo comes with a range of gears that are great for demonstrating mechanical concepts. They use a different type of connector, and we haven’t found a way around that. You could also add extra legs to a spider ( or this dancing crab) by using more Technic beams.īe aware though, it’s not compatible with the sensors, motors or hubs from other Lego kits, including Power Functions, Mindstorms, Boost or Spike. For Liam’s Christmas Tree project, he wanted all red and green blocks, so pulled out everything he could find in the right colour. That makes it very easy when you want to add extra features. Compatibility with other Lego productsĪs you would expect, Lego WeDo 2.0 is compatible with all the standard Lego and Lego Technic bricks. Liam prefers coding on the Lego WeDo app, because it’s easy with the pictures, but his grandma gets involved as well and prefers to code in Scratch. We’ve tried coding Lego WeDo 2.0 with both Scratch and the Lego WeDo app, and had lots of success with both platforms. The structured classes with Bricks 4 Kidz have given him a great foundation, and his creativity has taken him the rest of the way. Over the last 6 months, Liam has learned a huge amount about gears, coding and design. With a bit of practice, he started creating his own. Liam took inspiration from Yoshihito Isogawa, Mi 2 Tom, and other creators he found on YouTube. As a result, we haven’t done many of the tutorials in the Lego WeDo app, but skipped straight to the ambitious stuff. Liam’s not particularly strong at following instructions, and always wants to skip ahead. We started by getting just the smarthub, motor and sensors individually, and using them with our existing Lego at home. He loved his classes, but wanted to do more work with WeDo outside of class. Every week Liam built a new project, often an animal or a vehicle. Until he started there, we hadn’t even heard of this kit. Liam is in the second level of classes, where they use Lego WeDo 2.0.

That has been such a great piece of luck! The weekend classes are tiny, so he gets to work one-on-one with a teacher and push the limits of the project. So we found out that they were also running classes at the local library on Saturday mornings. It booked out within a few hours, and Liam was really sad about missing out. Bricks 4 Kidz began running some after school classes at his school in mid-2021. He has loved Lego for years, and been getting really interested in building and coding his other robots. Then reopen the WeDo 2.0 App and try connecting to the Smarthub once again.Liam has been using Lego WeDo 2.0 for around 6 months. Restart the Chromebook by turning it off and on. Reopen the WeDo 2.0 App and check if the Smarthub appears in the device list. Then click ‘Manage Devices’ below the ‘Enable Bluetooth’ icon button and delete all devices by hovering over each and clicking ‘X’. If the Smarthub still does not appear in the WeDo 2.0 Connection window, close WeDo 2.0 and any other programs that may be open. Restart Bluetooth by unchecking ‘Enable Bluetooth’, wait two seconds and then re-enable it. Then click the reload icon in the WeDo 2.0 Connection window. If the Bluetooth status is disabled, click the ‘Enable Bluetooth’ icon button. If none of the following steps help, contact your local Consumer Service (visit our website for contact details):Įnsure that Bluetooth is enabled by clicking the Wi-Fi icon in the status area of the taskbar. If at any point the connection is successful, there is no need to complete the remaining steps. Q: What can be done if the Smarthub does not appear in the Connection window?Ī: If you don’t see a Smarthub in the Connection window, please follow the steps below. Now long press on the connected Smarthub and enter the new name. Next, press the green button on the Smarthub and then press on the Smarthub in the Connection window to connect to it. To rename a Smarthub, access the Connection Center from the app.

Since it is not possible to highlight which hub are yours we recommend physically labeling and then renaming each Smarthub in the app before starting a class. Press the green button on the WeDo 2.0 hub.

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