This Dash robot review was sponsored by Best Buy. This Wonder Workshop Wonder Pack bundle includes all the hardware and software you need to bring coding to life for students in KS1 and KS2 (Ages 5-11). The Dash robot is perfect for back-to-school fun for your child, and I don’t know a kid who wouldn’t be thrilled to receive their own Dash for Christmas! They’re available at Best Buy, both in stores and online. To be honest, I think the same is true for me and for my husband!įrom making it say specific phrases, to moving in different directions to programming the robot to do crazy actions in specific sequences, the Dash robot is a model of STEM education and child entertainment wrapped up into one adorable package! I can say that both of them could use the Wonder Workshop app to code and program CandyBoop all day long without losing interest. It’s just as fun to watch someone use the robot as it is to be the one using it! It’s pretty rare to find a toy that can be taken out of the box and used immediately!Īll the fun of having a toy robot is in seeing what it can do. They want to open and try their presents right away. Think about Christmas morning or other times your child has received gifts. The required software update took about 20 minutes to complete, but other than that, there was no setup time. That’s a huge plus for this mom: we have plenty of “pieces included with things” scattered throughout our house. Wonder Workshop’s Dash robot is pretty minimalist when it comes to what’s in the package: some brief instructions, a micro-USB cable and two connectors were included with CandyBoop. After that was done, we were ready to really try out this toy robot! You can see in the video that our Dash robot video review was stalled by a software update. He is a miracle of technique that interacts with his environment, dances, sings and. I had no choice but to give it an adorable robot name: CandyBoop. Dash is a real robot that children learn to program in a playful way. I’m sure it’s so you can have one app for multiple robots, but I like to think that it’s just so I could name our robot. Of course, you get to name your robot within the app. In short, it’s like having our own version of BB-8 in the house! The little wheels on the bottom of the Dash robot let it glide around without any mechanical or shifting noises. Did you see its blinking eye and tilting head? Did you hear its voice? Isn’t it the cutest?
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