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Thanks! I tried doing tank style turning, didn't really work very well. The rubber helps the front foot from skidding when it's turning.

Added building instructions for SPIKEGelo to the list. This model needs the core and expansion sets. Thanks @Lok24

Yeah, but I use a Mac. I'll check it out. Thanks.

I did a video on this, hope it's useful

Added building instructions for SPIKEBlast to the playlist.

How to install LEGO Mindstorms software on macOS 10.15 Catalina Install VirtualBox 5.2 then install Windows XP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lswhAl_hkgA Install RIS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEWL3P7ZQtY Install NXT-G https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFw1Fr-yCFY Install EV3-G https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyXcJBlOX2U More to come. Have fun!

Hi all, Here's a playlist of my 45678 and 51515 mocs. Hope you like them.

Official LEGO page. You can download some really nice photos. https://www.lego.com/ms-my/aboutus/news/2020/june/lego-mindstorms-robot-inventor

Nice writeup on Hispabrick https://www.hispabrickmagazine.com/content/2020/06/12/the-new-mindstorms-is-here/

Excellent! Have you tried the sensors as well?

Glad to hear it's working again. So if I understand you correctly, if you report errors to Customer Service, nothing happens. But from what i understand from the software industry, issues are assigned priorities, and it's just not high on the list of priorities to fix, but eventually it will be addressed. It can be disheartening and frustrating, but I guess that's how the software industry works currently. To clarify, do you mean plugging a SPIKE Prime motor to the Control+ hub? I don't have one to test yet, but I'll try and do so at some point. Hispabrick did do a video testing all motors with the Powered UP! hub though, perhaps @Jetro can comment on your specific issue. I think it's better to continue this particular discussion in a separate thread though. For a change of pace, I would like to share this link posted on the SPIKE Prime FB page. You can probably build it with 51515.

Thanks for the clarification! I'll reproduce the bug and submit to LEGO Customer Services. It may be futile but it's the only thing that I can do.

Well the efforts of yourself and the LUG Ambassadors must have had an effect because now it is possible to attach Boost parts to a Powered UP! hub and program them with the Powered UP! app. So thank you for that. Video shows a line follower made by Isogawa Yoshito using a Powered UP! motor and the Boost color/proximity sensor.

Wow your magnetic sensor is very impressive! Great work! With regard to the LCD, I'm afraid that all in one is not possible in this iteration. Perhaps if there is a lot of customer request, LEGO will think about this for the next version. Would love to see your experiments though. Perhaps start another thread?

You are right that you can't design the UI as you like, but that doesn't mean that won't change in future. The first version of the Powered UP! app only allowed you to change the actions of the buttons. The current version allows you to program the sliders as shown by the video below. So maybe in future the UI will be customisable. Perhaps you can create a new thread in this forum for Powered UP! feature requests. Getting back to the Mindstorms 51515 set, at this point, I doubt very much that LEGO would change the hardware for SPIKE Prime and MIndstorms 51515. That's why I'm looking for ways to have UI on another device, or even a small i2uc display that you can plug in into one of the ports. Or perhaps just go to a different platform entirely such as BrickPi. I would love to see such a thing, if any third party is willing to develop it.

One example given by @Lok24 is a model of a warehouse where the display can be used to display the available goods and navigate through them. See the video. Another example I can think of is Daniele Benedettelli's Car Factory where the display allows you to choose which body parts you want on your car. See video. The feeling I get though is that a lot of the time, the display is not used. Perhaps LEGO did a customer survey and the response is very few people use the display. I don't know. It is my hope that LEGO will put that interface on the app, similar to what they have done for Boost and Powered up, but we shall see.

I think it would be good to have a listing of all known SPIKE Prime bugs and issues. Would be good to include the following information in your posts. Product: LEGO SPIKE Prime 45678 or LEGO Mindstorms 51515 Hardware Platform: PC / Mac / Android Tablet / iOS Tablet Software Platform (include version number): Windows / Linux / macOS / Android OS / iOS App version: version number for the programming app Hub version: version number for the OS on the hub Issue title: One line description of the issue Issue details: All the details, including pics, videos Steps to reproduce: How to replicate the issue Hope this will help others who have the same issues. Product: LEGO SPIKE Prime 45678 Hardware Platform: Mac Software Platform: macOS 10.14 Mojave and macOS 10.15 Catalina App version: 1.2.0 Hub version: will add later Issue title: Could not use microphone to record sound Issue details: The sound block has an interface to record sound, but does not actually record. See the video in this tweet. Steps to reproduce: Add a sound block, choose Record from the pop-up and click the Record button.

Personally I think it's the exact same hub and battery I'm sorry that was your experience. If you don't mind opening a new topic (call it PoweredUp bugs and issues) and posting all the errors you found, I'll verify them with my own set and do an independent submission to Customer Support. My LEGO friend says it's always more effective if there are multiple reports on the same issue. I'll also be opening a new topic called Spike Prime bugs and issues to address issues with the 45678 and 51515 sets. P.S. I also tweeted LEGO Education and today I got a response!

In a perfect world all software is bug free from day of launch. Alas, even macOS and iOS that I use these days also has bugs and they cost a lot more than the SPIKE Prime set. And as an iOS Software developer the tools I use (Xcode) also have bugs, and I have spent many hours trying to troubleshoot an issue only to find it's an Xcode bug and not my fault. So in a way that will be the world the kids are going into. Anyway, it is my hope that LEGO listens and does make an effort to resolve the issues. Friends at LEGO have advised me to submit all bugs that I find to LEGO Customer Support. Thanks! Control sounds interesting! Wonder if it will be a virtual interface or connectivity to hardware controllers, but seeing what LEGO has done with Powered UP!, it's probably going to be a virtual interface. Indeed! Here's hoping they do something similar with 51515, or have something like the Robot Commander app.

Yeah, that is different from what I'm used to, so now I duplicate a known good program and work on it so that if I mess up I still have a good program to work on.

You're absolutely right. I'm thinking maybe LEGO can put in a customisable user interface on the programming software, so you can see that information on your tablet or computer. I quite liked that feature in Boost.

Well it's new software. Boost software also had issues initially but most of it have been resolved. I also like the fact that it's identical across platforms. Never understood why the EV3 software on computers are different from the one on tablets.

Do you mean on the brick? Yeah that's true but I've seen some fun things that can be done with the 5 x 5 display. It's also bright and easy to see even if the robot is some distance away.

Thanks. What about the text in the box with the remote control icon? Clicking on the sound block shows a menu that allows you to record sound but it wasn't working for me. You can see a short video clip here: I've emailed LEGO Customer support. True but I do like being able to charge the battery from my computer. Agree with you but I like the fact they're more flexible and easier to manipulate. An extension cable would be great though.

I hope you're right, but if it doesn't it's nice to know you can buy the motor and sensor separately. https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-technic-large-angular-motor/45602 https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-technic-force-sensor/45606 Or possibly it means it can be paired with a game controller.