Makeblock

Makeblock-official

About this app

Makeblock APP is a robot control software in smart devices. Everyone can directly control Makeblock robots using official controller in the software, or creates and programs a specific controller to achieve richer robotic functionality.

Makeblock APP gives the user a way to grow. You can use the controller function to control directly, you can also drag the control to create a different multi-function console; advanced users can even programmatically through the control to achieve more complex functions.

Features:
-Brand New UI Design, User-Friendly Interface.
-Stronger Controllability, Simpler Way to Learn STEM：STEM education becomes easy & fun as you can also master robot freely to sing, dance or light.
-Create Customized Robot Controller with Graphical Programming: Realize your imagination and control your robot by simply dragging, dropping and programming the command blocks.
-Supporting Makeblock Robots: mBot、mBot Ranger、Airblock、Starter、Ultimate、Ultimate2.0 .
-Multi-Language User Interface :Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Croatian, Polish, Romanian.

Support:
-You can visit the official website: www.makeblock.com for more information
-Support email: [e-mail]
-Support forum: us.makeblock.com

Ratings and reviews

Interesting for children to pick up rudimentary programming skills however it is a few years down the road and there are no updates and sharing for more codes from the community. Even your own relative 'newer' products did not feature in your app, like the servos kit and talkative pet. There has been a few years to add them in and there is no update to the phone app to include these. Support is lacking and the desktop version of the programme is vastly different which doesn't work well.

When I click the Code section from my Note 8, I receive the message, "Item not found." Also, the app has the option to upgrade firmware, but when I try it, I receive the message I should use the PC version. The PC version, in contrast, works great. You will want to use a PC with built in Bluetooth or a dongle. The software is designed so that the robot must be very close to the device for pairing to ensure you don't pair with another nearby robot by accident.

The robot is great, and works ok with the windows client. However the coding part of this android app doesn't seem to be available any more, the google play link is dead. Wrote to the support email, let's see if they answer or whether makeblock stopped supporting the robots they are still selling... Edit: 10 days on, no answer from support. And the robot is still being sold on Amazon.

What’s new

-Bug fixs