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Lego Boost or WeDo is on the shortlist for an upcoming birthday present. Boost looks more "fun" but fairly single-purpose. e.g. Some of the command are specifi
by Fred27 8y ago
Lego Boost or WeDo is on the shortlist for an upcoming birthday present.
Boost looks more "fun" but fairly single-purpose. e.g. Some of the command are specific to one model. It seems a bit like the more modern Lego sets where pieces are complex. Cooler models but less flexibility.
WeDo is intended for schools and looks better in that there are simpler block and a more free-form goal to it. It reminds me more of the sets we probably had when we were kids - i.e. just bricks and your imagination.
- dunham 8y agoOut of the box the Boost runs you through the base models with some build-specific commands. We've been through most of those builds. They also have some bases for building your own creations, and they have completely free-form programming. (Scroll to the right and tap on the swirly looking thing in a window - it's not particularly discoverable, but kids are surprisingly good at exploring all the corners of UIs.) They've also added some builds that combine other modern lego sets with boost. I wasn't aware of WeDo, or I would have taken a look at it. I was looking for something to motorize legos and to expose my five year old to programming (if he was interested) and mindstorms seemed too complex/expensive. It looks like boost may have more motors than WeDo (and the motors can be used as rotation sensors), 800 lego parts, some pre-designed builds (he's enjoyed the robot, cat, and truck thing). However, the "control hub" is a bit bigger on Boost (it contains two of the motors), which effects the size of things you build with it. I probably would have still chosen Boost if I'd known about WeDo.