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The NXT and EV3 programming environments used mostly icons like the powered up app, but there was text if you put the mouse on the icons (and a few things had descriptions for EV3. The scratch-like programming came with RI and SPIKE (and the new EV3 software). The EV3 programming environment had 2 blocks for motors: one for the medium and one for the large motor. I don't think that we'd need such a separation. You can integrate the "stop motor" option into the normal motor block. I don't think that the 127 thing is a big issue. You don't press the stop button by accident and if you do you see the behaviour and you can think about why it does that. Yeah, it's not an "elegant" solution but it works perfectly fine for most use cases.

It's actually very easy to change this for the remote. Change the multiplier to 100, add one to the first block and change the input to the remote sensor block. The "problem" is the hub selection block which has to be added, too. I don't really like the idea of composite blocks. They just add more blocks and the current amount of blocks is already a chaos. Maybe it would make sense to compare the PUP app to the mindstorms ev3 and mindstorms nxt software. They were very similar but yet easier to understand. The blocks were "categories" that could be modified in behaviour (move, move for seconds, move for degrees, all of them were in one block). Also, there was way better documentation.

You wouldn't need to understand start blocks, loops, conditions etc with a very simple examle. Take this, maybe remove the *-1 block. It would be ready to go, only the ports might have to be adjusted. And that wouldn't be a problem if there was an error message that told you about the wrong port.

That comes pretty close to examples (which I think we can agree are really needed). Error messages would probably help, too. Currently the app doesn't tell you if you selected the wrong port or if you tried to read the position of a sensor without position sensor. I don't think that a "simple designer" would be necessary if there were simple examples and error messages. The touchscreen sliders can be adjusted to "keep the position".

Idk. One of the problems that I see is that there are too many special blocks in the motor category (I feel like 5 do almost the same and that functionality could be achieved with other blocks) and I hope that that won't happen in the other categorys. But you can check if a button is beeing released. Simply use the block that you used but add another "is equal" block above the "is equal" block in your program. You can set one side to 0 (basically a NOT).

insert multi track drifting meme here

There is a list (tho a few new blocks are missing) with explanations for all of the powered up blocks by racing brick: https://racingbrick.com/powered-up-code-block-guide-full/ Also, I made a video tutorial series: Yeah, nothing official but I hope that it's a start. I think that that is a major point. Children start to learn programming in schools, so they should be able to adapt to the powered up app more easily than older people that never did anything related to programming. But code examples (simple ones that get more complicated) are a must have. Also, I don't think that there is a real curriculum to teach programming for lego education. It's more of a guide for the teacher but it's not good for self-learning. One problem with the powered up app might be that there is no "specific hardware combination" that you can rely on. LEGO is all about creativity and building stuff on your own. I think that people can expect to do their own stuff with lego. Also, powered up needs to be accessible to compete with power functions, especially since there are many power functions 3rd party options now.

I think that the location permissions might be in the connection or bluetooth settings, but I don't own an ios device myself.

Huh? The clicking sound is for the firmware update mode. They are not bricked if they make it.

but you do know that you can use all the powered up motors with mindstorms? it's one ecosystem

Yep, powered up is a small mindstorms and people don't really know that. But on the other side you could ask if powered up is the better solution for simple stuff. Anyways, it's all one system. The mindstorms hub can communicate with the powered up hubs (in theory) so you could make one giant mesh. Also, there is pybricks.

They don't specify what you get and they don't give you instructions or something. But you can buy "kiloware" from a certain topic (e.g. technic) and then you might get all the parts to build a model by lego in the "kiloware". It's something like "buy X pounds of technic", a bit like a blind bag. So they basically buy lego clones for cheap from china, ship them to europe and sell them without box/instructions. Regarding "lego comes from china": lego has many production facilities but most of the sets for the european market come from europe. GWPs from denmark, other products from hungary etc

Xingbao has the same "parent company" as lepin. King is probably someone else. I think that xingbao had stolen mocs but I'm not sure. Bluebrixx sells sets that are very similar to lego sets/ lego ideas sets and they have the so called "kiloware" which can contain all the parts you need to build something that lego designed. It has a very bitter taste. Not to mention that both bluebrixx and steingemachtes "forgot" to remove minifigures from the sets (after they've been made aware that said minifigures are illegal).

They actually do that from time to time. The hidden side ghost train express had an aid to get the trains on track and back in 2007 there was a double crossing. Also, they developed flex tracks in 2009 or something. But yeah, not much development overall.

Actually the spike hub supports bluetooth low energy. It's just not really supported at the moment, but it can serve as a "base unit" for the other powered up hubs. There is a python library to control the hub directly with the powered up remote: https://github.com/Vinz1911/PrimePoweredUP The scratch-based SPIKE environment is not really similar to the powered up app. You can download it and take a look if you want to see the differences. There is an official scratch extension for powered up I think but I'm not sure how good it works and how good it works especially for your purposes.

Powered Up Hub, Boost Move Hub and Control+ Technic Hub are pretty much on pair in regards of compatibility. The move hub has problems with technic motors, the technic hub doesn't support a direct connection to the remote. The move hub has 2 integrated motors, 2 pup plugs and a gyro sensor. It's relatively large. The normal hub only has 2 ports. The technic hub has 4 plugs and an integrated gyro sensor, so it's the most flexible one but it's not exactly small. The move hub has a bit less processing power than the other hubs which might become a problem if you want to run programs independently on the hub (currently only possible with pybricks).

They probably will. The german mindstorms ev3 download page was updated with a date of late 2020/early 2021 for the retail software but it seems to be missing on the us page.

There are currently PUP extension wires available at aliexpress: https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32871195908.html

I'm pretty sure that the PUP hardware itself will be usable for a long time. There is enough documentation (official and inofficial) for community support and there are enough BLE capable devices that will always work with the PUP hardware (look at all the Raspberry Pis with BLE). The main question is how this support will look like then.

There are currently some adapter cables available on aliexpress: https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32871195908.html Also, I hope that we'll see something in that direction when lego makes a new renewable energies set for education.

Works with remote but doesn't work with PUP App (I tested XL, large angular in blue and medium angular in blue). I'm glad that you liked the videos and that they helped. That's what I make them for :)

Racingbrick made an overview with all the blocks available https://racingbrick.com/powered-up-code-block-guide-full/ Sadly he doesn't update it so that some newer blocks are missing. You might be looking for "TachoMotorAccelerationTime". Another option would be to make a loop for the acceleration.

It seems to be a "my own block" that the video creator wrote himself. You can find the block to access a second hub in the white category. It sticks into the port input.

Hey, just wanted to say that I'm mainly interested in power pickup wheels, too. I can see that it's hard to unify them - some might want to use 9V just to charge the trains, so a pickup to rechargeable battery adapter would be good. Some might want to power IR receivers directly, so a PF output would be good. Also, a "dummy" for the pup hubs would be good. Maybe it would make sense to work together with keybrick one?

Here are my guesses (but they're just guesses!): if it's not wanted: maybe it's an error in the firmware but they are waiting for something for the updates. The updates should be rolled out for all apps at the same time that use the hub, so it's quite a bit of work for boost (it's the PUP app, the boost app and the star wars boost app). Maybe a major update for something has to be finished before the new app version can be rolled out so the other apps have to wait. if it's wanted: there might be a problem with the maximum current the AAA batteries can/should deliver. The move hub has 2 motors more than the city hub.