The littleBits Droid Inventor Kit is about to roll onto every Star Wars-loving kid’s Christmas list.
LittleBits from New York wants everyone to be an inventor. It has tried to get people of all ages to embrace STEAM (Science, Technology, Arts and Math) through its invention kits, which include modular blocks that snap together with magnets.
It’s all very cool and educational, but now littleBits has a kit that lets you build a programmable, app-controlled R2-D2. If that doesn’t get the kids’ creative juices flowing, now they too may all be accountants and be done with it.
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The basic instructions will show you how to use the included six bits (modules), 20 droid parts and three sheets of stickers to create a droid that can be controlled in drive mode, self-navigation and force modes and the 20 authentic R2 unit sounds features from the Star Wars movies.
After that, you can get a little more adventurous, reconfiguring your droid with new abilities, and even taking part in challenges to customize your droid with household items.
It all sounds far from squeezing commands into the back of a Big Trak and wishing it wasn’t slower than a snail with a slight limp, doesn’t it?
The littleBits Droid Inventor Kit will be available from Force Friday 1st September for £99.99 at John Lewis, Amazon, The Disney Store, Harrods and Apple Store.
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