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thanks to Squarespace for sending us to CES 2016 this year check them out from the link below and build yourself a beautiful website so I was interested to see that the LEGO Group has a booth here at pep comm at CES 2016 they're showing off something called we do 2.0 it's a very simple robotics and programming kit for kids aged seven to ten years old the kit is a hundred and fifty nine dollars and comes with two hundred and eighty pieces including a single medium motor a programmable Bluetooth smart hub controller which also houses the batteries I think and a tilt and a motion sensor you can connect two sensors to the smart hub or you can connect one motor and one sensor there's also an educational pack of 24 kits plus a curriculum for two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars is that worthwhile I have no idea now the marketing material for this kit seems a little over the top it's talking about an innovative way for students to model reality and conduct investigations and how a kid can explore rainforests and discover Mars but of course that's really just the theme of the various builds that they've given instructions for there's a frog there's a Mars rover a rescue helicopter an earthquake machine that one's my favorite and a few others what makes the kit interesting is the ability to visually program a simple robot using desktop and tablet based software the software also gives you choices between guided exercises or more independent problem-solving now again this kit is aimed at seven to ten year olds or 2nd to 4th graders so it's not nearly as complex as the well-known Lego Mindstorms robotics kits which are designed for ages 10 and up and because the kid is so simple and it's directed at kids so young it's pretty tough for me to objectively evaluate just how good of an educational learning tool it might be for example I was expecting to see two motors included in this kit instead of one but the LEGO Group probably has a lot of good reasons for designing the kit the way that they did and if you want more motors and more complexity and more of a challenge you can always just get Mindstorms or power functions or something like that over all the Lego we do 2.0 kit looks pretty promising and I'm hoping to do a full more in-depth review of it on our channel in the future thanks for checking out our coverage of CES 2016 get subscribed if you want to see more and thanks again to Squarespace for allowing us to be here you can use Squarespace to build yourself a beautiful and functional website they have customizable templates for pretty much anything you can imagine like a restaurant or a store or a band or maybe just you want your own personal website you can put your resume on there or something so go to squarespace.com slash - and use offer code Lynas to save 10% anyway thanks you guys for watching check out the rest of our coverage and I'll see you next time