Star Wars: The Last Jedi Droid Maker Kit! Build your own Droid with littleBits' Star Wars Droid Inventor Kit! Kids can build and customize their own Star Wars-inspired droid (think: R2-D2 or BB-8) using littleBits circuits, then bring it to life and control it using the force or the free Droid Inventor app. This easy-to-use, easy-to-make droid activity walks kids through multiple "missions" to unlock and rewire new features for their droid. Check out this video for an overview on how it works and what makes it a fun toy option for Star Wars fans and young inventors. Read our full written review through the link for even more info. Made for iOS, ages 7+
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The Star Wars Droid Inventor Kit, which lets kids (and any Star Wars fans, for that matter) not only own their own Droid but build it from the ground up. The kit comes with everything you need to start creating: 30 pieces featuring circuitry bits, the body to house the droid, wheels, and more. From the moment you take the kit out off the box and download the free Droid Inventor companion app (available for iOS devices), kids are immediately learning the fundamentals of circuitry building as they piece together the brain of your droid. Kids start with the basics, learning as with any LittleBits kit the tools of the trade, from how to connect the battery, power on your circuit and the function of each bit.
You'll also need to connect your droid (i.e. the brain of your droid) to your Bluetooth-enabled device to control and test that all functions are working properly.
Next you'll tackle missions one at a time. What's nice is that the app will not allow you to proceed until you've completed each of the Base Assembly and Droid Training missions one at a time. This ensures that, kind of like a Jedi in training, you know your stuff before tackling bigger missions. This also breaking things down and makes learning circuitry much more accessible and easy to do.
Droid Training Mode, kids learn how to style their droid with the included sticker sheets (including a blank sheet for kids to color in).
Next you can set up an obstacle course using regular household items and learn how to control your Droid using Tilt Drive, record and send secret voice messages on your droid (think: "help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope."), and even how to draw with your droid.
Once you've mastered these missions, or at least tackled them to your best abilities, you can then move on to rebuilding and reconfiguring your droid to test new powers that utilize other circuits. New Powers missions include Disassembly, Intruder Alarm, Arm Wave, Self Navigation, Force Mode, Head Controls, Custom Head, and Custom Body missions. Many of the more advanced missions use the Proximity Sensor bit. In the Intruder Alarm mode, kids can place their droid in front on a door and have it alert you when intruders get too close. In Arm Wave mode, you can control the droid's arm movement with the wave of your hand. In Self Navigation mode, the droid will recognize when it gets too close to an object or wall and redirect itself. In Force Mode, control the droid using the force (your hand).
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