Educational Insights Artie 3000 The Coding Robot: Drawing STEM Robot Toys For Kids Boys And Girls, Classroom Must Haves, Ages 7+

My 8-year-old daughter LOVES Artie. The instructions that come in the box are pretty minimal. I highly recommend going to the website and watching the quick setup videos. For us, the set up was easy. We were able to connect to Artie’s wifi and get to the coding website with no problem. Our Artie didn’t need calibration - worked great out of the box! We’re using him on a hard floor. The drag and drop website definitely works best on a computer. It’s much harder to use on a phone - some of the controls get cut off on the phone, and my daughter kept accidentally moving the code commands when she was just trying to scroll, which was frustrating. All those problems went away on the computer. It might work ok on a tablet; we didn’t try that.The coding website has some fun, basic drawings pre-programmed, which is great for instant gratification. There are also instructions in the box for coding basic shapes. Once you know the basics, you can code your own designs. In the picture, you can see that my daughter (with a little help from Dad on getting the angles right) coded Artie to write her name. The mandala was a pre-programmed design.You might want some larger pieces of paper to keep Artie from going off onto the table or floor. Taping the paper down definitely helps!All in all, fun, great value for the money, and a creative way to introduce kids to coding basics.

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Artie 3000 is a cool drawing coding robot. He comes with setup instruction, 4 markers, marker aligner and 3 activity sheets. He requires four AA batteries and a computer or tablet to run the coding interface.You insert the marker in a compartment on top of his head. You use a plastic circular piece to help guide how far to insert the marker. Put a piece of paper on surface. Make sure you tape the paper on the corners so it doesn’t slide when Artie runs.The recommended age for this toy is 7 to 12. Our 6 year old needed help from our 10 year old. It was much easier for our 10 year kid to code and run it.We connected to Artie on our iPad Air and then went to coding interface. The coding interface and Artie can be a bit quirky at times so we had to retry here and there.In order to do the letters and numbers you will need to upload additional files. These are available on Educational Insight website for computer or on the interface for tablet. There is a stimulator mode on the interface that allows you to test out your code before running Artie.Our kids were able to make Artie draw shapes, patterns, mazes, letters and numbers. Overall, it’s a fun toy to learn to code while making art. It’s cool for kids to see the actual result with their own eyes.One area to improve is to give Artie the ability to retract the marker when he is waiting for coding instructions. Right now he creates a big blob (dot) on the paper while he is in wait mode. The only way to prevent this is to tilt him on his side and put him upright when the kids are ready to run the code.

From first opening the box, this is a great experience! Artie is super cute, and the packaging and support materials are high quality and good looking. The Quick Start guide is handy, and the numbered lessons are guiding us to what we can do and how to make the magic happen.It really does seem magical to be using this drag and drop code, and then watching our little robot follow our instructions to draw on paper right in front of our eyes. It’s like the code comes to life!The lessons are set up from easy to more advanced, so even if you don’t know how to code, it’s a great way to learn. It was really easy to follow the directions, and the pre-set projects were really cool too! Those don’t even take any coding – they’re just selected from a pull-down menu, press go and watch Artie draw. These inspired us to try even more advanced moves.The price is lower than competition, but there was no skimping in the product. How did they do it? I highly recommend the Artie 3000 for curious kids who want some real fun, real world experience with coding.

This product (use that term loosely) does not work at all. You need to update the firmware and then connect it to the device you plan to control it with. This would not be an issue if Artie would actually connect via a data cable. There is no cable included with him either, and it will not work with any of the data cables at I have. I verified my cables work on other devices and they do, I even ordered a new cable to be sure because mine are a bit dated. But I have tried and tried to get Artie to connect to no avail. I reached out to customer support via the website and even after sending 5, five, you heard it right FIVE emails I have yet to get a response (yes I've checked my spam folder and still nothing). So my daughter who I bought this for as a birthday present didn't even get a gift this year because by the time she got to open it, (is underway at the time and she wanted to wait for me to me home) it was out of the return window. Buyer beware, I do NOT recommend this product to anyone.

I had to return by first two Artie units. The first one did not engage any kind of motor to move Artie on the paper. The second would not bring up the internal Wi-Fi to access the programming interface. The third one finally worked.This is a really cool concept. You use a computer to connect to Arite over its own Wi-Fi hotspot to access a web server that has all of its functions built in hence the 4 stars for ease of use.Since buying it for my daughters birthday then going through weeks of troubleshooting and returns - I hope she has not lost interest in it. I would be nervous about gifting this to someone else so they don't have the same disappointment.From my experience, Educational Insights needs to do a better job of quality control. Amazon charged me a restocking fee on my 2nd return so I hope that someone else doesn't get my non-working Artie. I would be willing to pay a higher price for one that is better made.