Tech Specs
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Bluetooth Communication
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45 Min Playtime
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Live Sensors
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Codeable
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LED Lights
Small Bot. Big Fun.
Drive mode
Play games with Sphero Mini
Learn to code with Sphero Mini
Teeny Tiny Tech
Packed with teeny tiny tech, Sphero Mini has a little gyroscope, accelerometer, and LED lights. With almost an hour of play time, Sphero Mini is the next big thing.
Change Your Mind. Change Your Shell.Colorful, interchangeable shells are available, so you can easily switch one out to suit your mood.
INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES
The Sphero Edu app contains 100+ guided STEAM and computer science lessons, activities, and programs, consisting of varying skill level and content areas to help kids learn to code. Wondering where to start? We’ve curated a selection of getting started activities to walk you and your kid(s) through the basics of programming and creating with the Sphero Mini robot.
Once you feel comfortable with the programming canvas and Sphero Mini basics, try out a few other step-by-step activities to run with your kids. Watch their creativity and curiosity soar! Then, scroll through the thousands of community submitted STEM activities on Sphero Edu for endless inspiration.
Sphero goes #BeyondCode
Sphero provides a STEAM-based tool set unbounded in its potential. Sphero uses programmable robots and STEM kits to foster students’ creativity through discovery and play while laying the foundation for computer science and other STEM fundamentals. Our program goes #BeyondCode with collaborative play-based activities, nurturing students’ imagination unmatched by other STEM education programs. Cross-platform apps are approachable for all skill levels so you can foster learning and creativity in any grade.
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OVERVIEW
Approachable, easy-to-learn, introductory programmable robot for all ages and coding skill levels.
SUPPORT MATERIAL
SKILL LEVEL
Beginner
- Drive modes
- Draw coding
- Block-based coding
LEARNER PROGRESSION & ACTIVITIES
DEVICE NEEDED
OVERVIEW
An easy-to-follow, flexible, and powerful introductory circuitry kit.
SUPPORT MATERIAL
SKILL LEVEL
Beginner
- Engineering
- Circuit building
LEARNER PROGRESSION & ACTIVITIES
FREE APPS
Fuse app: Fuse is a progressive web app that is browser based and uses Chrome’s fast web USB/BLE API for connection management.
DEVICE NEEDED
None Needed
OVERVIEW
An open-and-go kit with step-by-step guided activities included to learn the foundations of coding at home.
SUPPORT MATERIAL
SKILL LEVEL
Intermediate
- Drive modes
- Block-based coding
LEARNER PROGRESSION & ACTIVITIES
DEVICE NEEDED
OVERVIEW
Sphero's most widely used in-school robot.
SUPPORT MATERIAL
SKILL LEVEL
Intermediate-Advanced
- Block-based coding
- Javascript
LEARNER PROGRESSION & ACTIVITIES
DEVICE NEEDED
OVERVIEW
Approachable, easy-to-learn, introductory programmable robot for all ages and coding skill levels.
An easy-to-follow, flexible, and powerful introductory circuitry kit.
An open-and-go kit with step-by-step guided activities included to learn the foundations of coding at home
Sphero's most widely used in-school robot.
SUPPORT MATERIAL
SKILL LEVEL
Beginner
- Drive modes
- Draw coding
- Block-based coding
Beginner
- Engineering
- Circuit building
Intermediate
- Drive modes
- Block-based coding
Intermediate-Advanced
- Block-based coding
- Javascript
LEARNER PROGRESSION & ACTIVITIES
FREE APPS
Sphero Edu: Chrome, Mac, PC, iOS, Android, Kindle
Sphero Play: iOS, Android, Kindle
Fuse app: Fuse is a progressive web app that is browser based and uses Chrome’s fast web USB/BLE API for connection management.
Sphero Edu: Chrome, Mac, PC, iOS, Android, Kindle
Sphero Play: iOS, Android, Kindle
Sphero Edu: Chrome, Mac, PC, iOS, Android, Kindle
Sphero Play: iOS, Android, Kindle
DEVICE NEEDED
Enhance your learning with Sphero's Computer Science Foundations
Computer Science Foundations is a standards-aligned, supplemental curriculum built on the K12 Computer Science Framework Principles. Scaffolded across three courses and 72 lessons, teachers and students build Draw, Block, and Text coding skills. They then integrate these concepts into curricular content: everything from polygons and poetry to logic-puzzlers and compliment-givers.
Sphero Edu App
Sphero Edu is your hub to create, contribute, and learn with Sphero robots.
Sphero Play
Drive and play games from ONE app with your Sphero robot.
What's in the box?
- Sphero Mini
- Micro USB charging cable
- 3 Mini Traffic Cones and 6 Mini Bowling Pins
- Connect to Sphero Play app and Sphero Edu app to play STEM games and learn to code
- Compatible with Sphero Edu app for iOS, Android, Amazon Fire OS, macOS, Windows, & Chrome OS
- Compatible with Sphero Play app for iOS, Android, & Amazon Fire OS
- Compatible with Swift Playgrounds for iOS
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