Sphero Edu

Sphero, Inc.

About this app

Sphero Edu is your hub to create, contribute, and learn with Sphero robots. Go beyond code by incorporating unique STEAM lessons to complete with your bot.

Designed for learner progression, Sphero Edu beginners can give robots commands by drawing a path in the app for their robot to follow. Intermediate coders can use Scratch blocks to learn more advanced logic, while pros can use text programming and write their own JavaScript.

Sphero Edu is built for makers, learners, educators, and parents. The interactive platform allows you to keep track of your class or group from one easy place. Anyone can save their progress, jump from device to device, and continue the discovery from anywhere. Preparing for the future has never been so fun.

SPHERO EDU FEATURES

PROGRAMS: Program your bots in 3 ways with Draw, Block, and Text modes. Start with the basics and grow.

SENSOR DATA: See location, accelerometer, gyroscope, velocity, and distance sensor data through visual graphs.

LESSONS: Program a painting. Navigate a maze. Mimic the solar system. The only limit is your imagination.

TAKE A DRIVE: Need a brain break? Set LED colors on your robot and zoom around in Drive mode.

ASSIGNMENTS: Are you a teacher? Monitor progress by creating lessons and assigning them to your students.

INTEGRATIONS: Simplify classroom use by signing in and syncing classrooms with Google and Clever accounts.

COMPATIBILITY
Supported Robots: Sphero BOLT+, Sphero BOLT, Sphero RVR/RVR+, Sphero SPRK+, Sphero SPRK Edition, Sphero 2.0, Sphero Mini, Ollie, BB-8, BB-9E, R2-D2, R2-Q5

Unsupported Robots: Sphero Original, Force Band, Lightning McQueen, Spider-Man, indi

Ratings and reviews

The app frequently directs you to the sphero website which does not display properly on my Android device. Menu options are not accessible unless i view the desktop version. Navigating lessons and trying to get my 9 year old set up with an easy beginners activity is way too difficult. The first draw lesson for 3-5th grade doesn't even explain the color system. It wants you to set up a 15 meter croquet course which is too much for an introductory mini project. I'm extremely disappointed

It works perfectly on my Samsung Galaxy 9+. I have downloaded the app and it connects to my bluetooth, but it will not connect to the app. What am I doing wrong? other then that I would give it a Rating of 5. After playing with it for 3 days it finally connected to my surface pro 6. I think it was the bluetooth after I switched it on then off. restarted the surface it started working. Thanks!!!

while I'm glad I can connect my ollie through an up to date app there's a major feature missing and thats the trick board. beyond the fun you can have with it there was a very necessary mode to get the robot unstuck from somewhere without having to pick it up and that's the ability to make the body roll very fast. it makes the bot hop up and out of areas in terrain where it's stuck and you can keep going but through this app that functionality is lost. I have to continue to use the ollie app

What’s new

• General maintenance updates
• Minor user interface improvements and bug fixes
• Fixes to ensure that created programs are correctly linked with lessons
• Minor adjustments to BOLT+ "raw motor" block behavior