Lego SPIKE programming
- Lego spike is newest lego programming kit, replacing mindstorm,
- Lego spike has prime kit and essential kit, just get the prime kit (the bigger one)
- Lego spike prime cost around 700sgd in Singapore, maybe more expensive in other shop or location
- it is under lego education, so you may not find them in lego shops
- why it is under lego education only, because you need to go through lego app built-in tutorials to build something working, or you basically have a expensive junk
- you can learn from start to end with lego spike app, and build something useful
- of course, if you already know other programming language, it is easier to pickup its drag and drop scratch programming.
some limitation of SPIKE
- The SPIKE Prime Hub (the main block) can only play beeps with its speaker.
- The other Sound Commands play sounds On the Computer/ipad attached (wireless) to the Hub.
- it doesn't have dial input module in the prime kit. (other competitor has dial input module)
- but seems motor can use as dial?
- the hub module integrates these modules all in itself (means you can't easily to use gyro on hand as detached to drive the hub):
- gyro
- beep speaker
- LED array display
- battery
- the light module and color sensor module are all in one module, as color sensor use lighting to enhance detection
- it not output RGB, only lego block's color sets, but at least it gives brightness value from 0-100
- light can be also used to output RGB mixed light 0-100 per channel
- NO mic module for sound detection/input
- NO temperature module for temperature input