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BenSpark’s Holiday Gift Guide Code ARTIE 3000 from Educational Insights to Draw For You

The kids with Artie 3000
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We received an Artie 3000 from Educational Insights for free to include in our Holiday Gift Guide and to play with and review. Opinions are our own.When I went to the HoliDAY of Play I was introduced to ARTIE 3000. This adorable little robot can be programmed with several different languages in order to draw using a slim marker. I was so impressed with this robot that I asked for one for my Holiday Gift Guide. It is a such a great toy for kids to use to learn how to code and for a great price point for something so powerful. The fact that you can use several different coding languages to control ARTIE 3000 is amazing. Most toys only have one option for coding. This means that the toy will gorw with your kids. Eva has already caught the programming bug with the Code Car that I included earlier this week on the gift guide. She is beyond thrilled to see what ARTIE can do. You can see ARTIE 3000 in action in our video below.

Some features of ARTIE 3000:

  • THE CREATIVE WAY TO LEARN CODING: Artie 3000 is the coding robot for kids where you design the code, and Artie 3000 draws the lines! With preprogrammed designs, beginners can start coding right away
  • STEAM & STEM POWERED FUN! Artie 3000 was created for beginner to advanced coders. Artie features easy setup where kids can code using Drag & Drop, Remote Control, Point & Click, Blockly, Snap!, Python and JavaScript.
  • WHAT’S INCLUDED? Artie 3000 robot, 4 washable markers, quick start guide, and activity cards. Artie also has pre-coded designs and advanced coding apps for kids to grow with. Requires 4 AA batteries, not included
  • SAFE & SECURE WIFI! No internet connection is required with Artie 3000. With his built-in WiFi server, all you need is a tablet, computer, or phone to control Artie. This allows classrooms and homes to run multiple robots simultaneously
  • MENSA APPROVED! American Mensa named Artie 3000 an Honorary Mensa Member and partnered with Educational Insights to create coding activities and programs that spark curiosity in coding for kids of all learning levels
  • MADE BY EDUCATIONAL INSIGHTS: Since 1962 Educational Insights has been creating toys and games that ignite the spark in every child

You can learn more about ARTIE 3000 the website CodeWithArtie.com.

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BenSpark’s Holiday Gift Guide: Code Car from Let’s Start Coding

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Code Car

The folks at Let’s Start Coding approached me to review one of their coding kits. They sent me a free Code Car kit for me to review and to add to the Holiday Gift guide. Opinions are my own.

The Code Car is a microchip that is shaped like a car that has lights and sounds that you can program using the Let’s Start coding App that you can download to PC, Chromebook and MAC OSX. I downloaded the app to my PC so that I could mess around with the Code Car. Man, do I wish that I had something like this when I was 10 years old. Back then I taught myself how to program in BASIC on my Texas Instruments TI994A computer. This was a keyboard that you connected to your TV and if you wanted to save a program you had to save it to audio tape using a tape recorder and it would take hours to save and hours to load. I worked on my code all the time to make the screen do a ton of different things.

Lets Start Coding Products

My kids have it so lucky because with the Let’s Start Coding app they can learn the basic functions and concepts of coding and see the results of their learning immediately on the Code Car. The code Car is for the absolute beginner coder. With several projects, challenges and quizzes to go through your kids will get a ton of enjoyment and learning from this. The really fun stuff happens when your kids try to change the code on their own to make the car do things you hadn’t thought of before. Because it has lights and sounds maybe they can program it to play a song with lights in time to the music or so many other things.

the great thing about the app is that there is pre-made code that gets you started on a project and if you edit it and make a mistake you can restore the original code once again and start over. There is no way you are going to mess up that original code and lose it forever. Unlike, say when I accidentally blew away a game that my friend had on his Tandy computer back in the in 1980’s because I hit the wrong button. Oof, what a mistake!

You can see the Code Car in action in my video below.

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