First look at LEGO SPIKE Prime
Katie Linendoll chats with Esben Staerk Joergensen President of LEGO Education about their newly unveiled LEGO SPIKE Prime, which puts STEAM education in the classroom.
A robot that prints pancakes?
enDecember 01, 2016
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About this Episode
Miguel Valenzuela doesn’t need to make his kids pancakes - he invented a robot to do that. The idea began as a Lego creation, which Miguel turned into a working prototype. He then landed himself half a million dollars on Kickstarter to follow his dream. After whipping up some printed pancakes of her own, Katie chats with Miguel about his amazing invention.
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