Sphero Launches Tiny $50 'Sphero Mini' Robotic Ball

[CarpalMac]

What an utterly unwatchable video, it's like it has ADHD.

Made me feel quite unwell and had to stop it after 26 seconds.

 

[justperry]

My cat is gonna love this

Copycat

 

[5105973]

Now they need to take this and combine it with AR!

I would love to have these bots and R2D2 and BB-8 in AR form. I really like my AR dragon but I would enjoy robots more.

 

[jonnysods]

Let’s be honest here; it’s for the cats.

Every cat comment on here. My kitty will be all over this!

 

[thisisnotmyname]

So this model does NOT work with Swift Playgrounds. I was thinking this would be a really cheap way to buy a bunch of Sphero's for all my young relatives to code against with Swift but to get that integration requires the Sphere SPRK+ which is $130 rather than $50. They may have succeeded in getting my attention long enough to make the upsell in this case though

Just in case anyone was thinking of Swift Playgrounds as I was.

 

[ScottC7]

So this model does NOT work with Swift Playgrounds. I was thinking this would be a really cheap way to buy a bunch of Sphero's for all my young relatives to code against with Swift but to get that integration requires the Sphere SPRK+ which is $130 rather than $50. They may have succeeded in getting my attention long enough to make the upsell in this case though

Just in case anyone was thinking of Swift Playgrounds as I was.

I had the same thought and went searching for more info. I came upon this article which claims Swift Playgrounds support is coming.

 

[thisisnotmyname]

I had the same thought and went searching for more info. I came upon this article which claims Swift Playgrounds support is coming.

Good find, unfortunately I bought a pile of SPRK+s already today. Oh well.

 

[Zxxv]

Sex toy disguised as a kids toy.

 

[AlliFlowers]

Got to see and try the originals last summer at the big ISTE conference. Great (fun!) tool for teaching beginning coding. Adding Swift will be a definite plus.