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Lego Cave Car with Light Show ✨

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Our third Lego project is a car that can explore caves! The story goes like this: a guy wanted to go into a dark cave, but he couldn’t see anything. So, he decided to build a car with a light on it to help him find his way in the dark.

Building the car was fun, but there was one small problem. We only had one LEGO Spike hub, which is the part that gives energy to the car. So, we could only use the hub to make the light work, but we had to push the car ourselves because the wheels couldn’t move.

But here’s where it gets super cool! I discovered something AMAZING about the lights. Did you know you can tap on the lights and change the colors? Each panel of the light can be a different colour! I showed my Yue, and he was so surprised because he didn’t even know about it. Ha, I taught him something (twice! 😄)

Okay, let me tell you about the BEST part! If you take the light, add a randomiser, and put them together in a loop, you can make it flash in all sorts of colours. It looks soooo good! It’s like a little light show! And that’s a reason I really like this project.

LEGO Arctic Car Polar Bear Search 🛷

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In our second LEGO session, we took on the mission of helping a character get to the polar bears he loves so much! We built a car that he could drive across snowy places.

While coding, I discovered something really fun—loops! By adjusting a number, I could make our car do as many turns as I wanted. At one point, I made it spin 57 times!

Yue gave me a challenge to make the car drive in a square shape. Sounds simple, right? But when I tried, the car went a bit wild—it turned around, went backward, and did some crazy spins. It was funny, though!

As we didn’t have four wheels, it turned out to be a sledge/car! I love that I can make this sledge/car do all sorts of things—even if it’s not perfect every time. I 100% loved, and it was so funny!😄😂

LEGO Boat Adventure 🛶

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Yesterday, our new LEGO Spike set finally arrived—yay! We couldn’t wait to try it, so my dad and I decided to build the first project: The Boat Trip. It’s all about these two little LEGO characters who are super excited to go on a boat ride! But there was a problem… what would push their boat into the pretend water?

One of the characters had an idea—let’s build a boat-pushing machine! So my dad and I got to work. First, we used the LEGO battery hub and connected it to a spinny thing (Yue: that’s called Motor). We added some special code blocks to make the spinny thing push the boat into the pretend water. It worked! The boat went right in—splash!

But we didn’t stop there! I thought, why not make it even more fun? The boat had holes in it, so we put the boat on a connector piece and used more code to make it spin like a theme park ride. The characters were spinning around!

Seeing the characters whirl around was so exciting! We did it together, and it felt like a real success. I can’t wait to try even more ideas with our LEGO Spike set.