LEGO Education robotics

• Wikipedia: LEGO Education
  • Construction sets

LEGO Spike Prime

• FAQ zu LEGO® Mindstorms® EV3 und SPIKE™ Prime
• Linux User: Mit Lego Education Spike spielerisch programmieren lernen
• Test: SPIKE™ Prime auf dem Prüfstand (Teil 1 von 3)
• Spike Prime vs EV3

Compability with Mindstorms

Compability with Mindstorms:

Spike Prime and Mindstorms use the same Hub just different colors. Spike Prime has a large motor, 2 small motors, a distance sensor, color sensor, and force sensor. The Mindstorms set had 4 small motors, a distance sensor, and color sensor. Spike Prime is Mindstorms for all intents and purposes. You can even get either the Spike Prime or Mindstorms app and use it with either Hub.

However, see Can I use a MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor hub with SPIKE Prime?

The MINDSTORMS hub has the same shape as the SPIKE hub, so you’d expect the firmware to be compatible. Until SPIKE2 — the previous major version — that was the case. But the current version, SPIKE3, stopped working. I was unable to install SPIKE3 on a MINDSTORMS hub. The SPIKE app tells me that ‘An error occurred’ as soon as I connect a MINDSTORMS hub.

Hardware

Sets:

• LEGO Education SPIKE Prime-Set 45678
  • three motors (1 large 2 medium) and sensors for distance, force and color, a controller brick based on an STM32F413 microcontroller[30] and 520+ Lego Technic elements
• LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential-Set 45345
• LEGO Education SPIKE Prime-Erweiterungsset 45681 including mounting plate for Raspberry Pi Build HAT

Software

Pybricks

• Website

Pybricks runs on LEGO® BOOST, City, Technic, MINDSTORMS®, and SPIKE®. You can code using Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook, and Android.

• Scatch frontend only as paid SaaS
• Installing Pybricks on LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3

Pybricks for MINDSTORMS EV3 uses Pybricks version 2.0, while newer hubs like SPIKE, Technic, and MINDSTORMS Inventor use Pybricks 3.0 or higher. This means you can only code your EV3 with MicroPython in Visual Studio Code. The simpler online interface with block-based coding is not available for EV3. If you would like to see continued EV3 support, including block-based coding in our web app, please let us know on our forum. If we can find enough teachers and developers who want to get involved, perhaps we can make this happen.

Other

• Host-hub communication for LEGO Spike Prime on Linux
• lego-spike-electron-app
  • LEGO SPIKE web app in Electron
  • lego-spike-git AUR package

Outdated:

• spikeprime-tools Last commit 2022-06
• spike-prime Last commit 2023-08

Learning resources

• Prime lessions

LEGO Boost

• 2017–present
• Scratch wiki: LEGO Boost

Legacy products

LEGO Mindstorms

• Wikipedia: Lego Mindstorms
• 3 Generations
  • Robotics Invention System (launched in 1998)
  • Mindstorms NXT (launched in 2006)
  • Mindstorms EV3 (launched in 2013)
    • LEGO Mindstorms EV3 31313 Set
  • Mindstorms Robot Inventor (launched in 2020)
    • Mindstorms Robot Inventor 51515
      • Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor: "It has four medium motors from Spike Prime, two sensors (distance sensor and color/light sensor) also from Spike Prime, a Spike Prime hub with a six-axis gyroscope, an accelerometer, and support for controllers and phone control. It also has 902+ Lego Technic elements This set was discontinued in 2022 with Lego promising app support through 2024."

Mindstorms software

• ev3dev
  • "Debian Linux-based operating system that runs on several LEGO® MINDSTORMS compatible platforms including the LEGO® MINDSTORMS EV3 and Raspberry Pi-powered BrickPi."