That’s no guarantee that the pieces won’t get mixed up or lost, but it does help. Once the sets arrived, I labeled and numbered the container compartments. (Lego does offer information about grants and funding.) I also ordered two replacement packs right away. As far as I could tell, no warranty was available, nor was an educator’s discount. You can use the bricks from WeDo 1.0 with 2.0 and vice versa, but the software and the electronic parts are not compatible either way. The software is free and easily downloadable. There isn’t much in the way of paper instructions, though, and if you’re like me and you prefer some things to be tangible and all in one place, you’ll be doing a lot of printing. There’s plenty of online support, plus lots of ideas and directions that can be found within the software.

The bricks and other pieces themselves vary slightly from the originals, and the guided projects are new. Beyond that big change, each set comes with a nice compartmentalized container, instead of a big open bin, with stickers to label the compartments, making sorting pieces much easier. And the hub snaps on to the rest of the project.) That is, you no longer have to plug the hub into your computer. (The hub transmits data from the computer/iPad to the electronic parts of a project. Most excitingly, it has a “ smarthub” that runs on Bluetooth. The current version, WeDo 2.0, came out in 2016. Here’s my practical take on using Lego WeDo 2.0 in library programs.įirst things first. WeDo involves building a Lego contraption with moving parts and then using software to program it. At our February meeting, we looked into Legos and Lego robotics.

Lego wedo software