littleBits Code Kit

SKU: 680-0010-B

Learn how to code using the Sphero littleBits Code Kit. With this coding and electronics kit, students create games and make inventions while exploring programming and engineering concepts in the classroom. Snap together the easy-to-use building blocks and start inventing. 

  • Includes 16 bits, 24 accessories, and helpful teacher resources mapped to Common Core, NGSS, and TEKS standards. 
  • Complete 100+ engaging activities and 10 lessons using the free Fuse app and littleBits Classroom
  • Students can work independently or in small groups of two or three per kit.
  • New durable storage container for easy organization and clean up.

Get hands on with littleBits Code Kit today! Recommended for Grades 3+. 

What’s in Sphero littleBits Code Kit for Kids? 

  • 1 USB power 
  • 2 buttons 
  • 1 dimmer 
  • 1 slide dimmer 
  • 1 pressure sensor 
  • 1 sound trigger 
  • 3 wires 
  • 1 branch 
  • 1 code bit 
  • 1 bargraph 
  • 1 servo (cross axle) 
  • 1 speaker 
  • 1 round LED matrix 

NOTE: The previous square LED matrix has been replaced by a round matrix. Some images on this page may still contain the square matrix.

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Price:
$329

Tech Specs

Featured Activities

A kid playing with a purple keytar.
Rock out with your own Keytar invention and customize your sound through code.
Kid's hands holding a littleBit's spider invention.
Program a game of Hot Potato and create your own creepy creature to pass around.
Two sets of hands building an invention using littleBit's circuit board.
Code custom games with the LED matrix and create controllers with the the button bits.

What your Students will Gain

This STEM coding kit gives students the tools to learn coding through hands-on play. Using the Code Kit, students manipulate physical blocks for input, outputs, motors, and sensors. By completing educational games and STEAM activities, students gain hands-on coding experience, creativity, and confidence. 

Empower your students to build games and make inventions. Through hands-on play, students enjoy learning how to code while developing valuable 21st-century skills. 

Students showing teacher their littleBits invention
A boy testing out his littleBit's keytar inventention.

Get hands on with Sphero littleBits Classroom

The littleBits Classroom includes fully developed lesson plans, video tutorials, and student handouts. Use littleBits Classroom and the app to educate and engage students as they learn to code. Lessons are carefully designed to help students build through scaffolded activities and lesson plans.  

A calendar showing littleBit's lessons aligned to national standards.

Lessons Aligned to National Standards

All lessons in the Code Kit are aligned to NGSS, CSTA, Common Core, TX-TEKS, FL-CPALMS, NY-NYSED, CA-CCSS standards.
Laptop with littleBits simulator on the screen.

littleBits Fuse App

Expand upon what your inventions can do using the littleBits Fuse app to program your Bits using conditionals, loops, and functions. Students can create virtual circuits in their own workspace and learn how littleBits’ snap together to ensure their Bits are compatible and their inventions can come to life.

Designed for learner progression, students can take notes in their digital inventor’s notebook and program using blocks or JavaScript. You can save your workspace as well as send it back to your teacher for review.

Technical: Fuse is a progressive web app that is browser based and uses Chrome’s fast web USB/BLE API for connection management. For programming Fuse uses MakeCodes block programming canvas. Device must have bluetooth capability to download code from the Fuse app to the codeBit.

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LESSONS & ACTIVITIES

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NUMBER OF KIDS SUPPORTED

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Bring STEAM and coding to your classroom with the ultimate learning toolkit.

SKILL LEVEL

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  • Circuit building
  • Freestyle inventing
  • Block-based coding

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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 must have bluetooth capability to download code from the Fuse app to the codeBit.

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Durable Storage Carrying Case

 

NUMBER OF KIDS SUPPORTED

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OVERVIEW

  • An introductory kit designed to reinforce STEAM fundamentals in any learning enivorment.

  • Teach STEAM principles and encourage exploration, experimentation, and creativity through hands-on learning.

  • Learn the fundamentals of coding and computer science.

  • Bring STEAM and coding to your classroom with the ultimate learning toolkit.

SKILL LEVEL

  • Beginner

    • Engineering
    • Circuit building
  • Beginner

    • Engineering
    • Circuit building
    • Design
  • Intermediate

    • Engineering
    • Circuit building
    • English Language Arts
    • Block-based coding
  • Intermediate

    • Engineering
    • Circuit building
    • Freestyle inventing
    • Block-based coding

FREE APPS

  • None

  • None

  • 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 must have bluetooth capability to download code from the Fuse app to the codeBit.

  • 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 must have bluetooth capability to download code from the Fuse app to the codeBit.

BITS & ACCESSORIES

NUMBER OF KIDS SUPPORTED

  • 1

  • 1-3

  • 1-3

  • 1-4

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About Sphero littleBits

We’re on a mission to put the power of electronics in the hands of everyone, and to break down complex technologies so that anyone can build, prototype, and invent.

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