Pybricks enters the room

Imagine a world where you simply press a green button on a LEGO Powered Up Hub and your program would automatically start. No phone Bluetooth connecting and mandatory screen on. Just press and play. Meet Pybricks!

Up until now we used the official LEGO Powered Up app to program our models which use LEGO Powered Up. This works fine but users needed to re-create our software in their app via our building instructions (there is no share program option). Not very efficient and very sensitive to errors. LEGO recently updated the graphics in the app which makes everything even more confusing. Next to that you need to connect your phone every time you want to use the model and the screen has to stay on, draining the battery. All in all, very user unfriendly and complicated.

Pybricks is here to fix all these issues. Run and store all code locally on the hub which is 100 times faster and more reliable.

In the last few months we have worked hard on setting up our website and product pages to support Pybricks with code and programming environment.
All our models that use a LEGO Powered Up hub (or can be automated with it) now include a new section where you can download the Pybricks Python code.
Via the Pybricks programming environment you can open this file and send it to your hub.

 

This was quite a time investment and we hope you all appreciate it. If you have any feedback we would love to hear it from you.
Get yourself familiar with Pybricks and start living the dream ;)

 

 

Catch me

Did you know that we are always working on multiple models at the same time?

We have already seen that the GBC 52 Flight Fair features a shooting element. But how to catch them in a way that GBC Balls don’t bounce back? We went over numerous designs and finally ended up with this version.

 

 

 

Pinball Madness at Jorians place

Jorian Doornenbal from the Netherlands recently build his GBC 27 Pinball Madness Machine in full glory.
This classic keeps you busy as you have an active play during the operation of the GBC. You can flip like a real pinball machine or shoot GBC Balls out so they go back to the top.
A clever mechanism on the left side travels the GBC Balls up via a step/stair mechanism. Do you notice the weird part we used as steps? Yes, those were available in high quantity in this set (LEGO 42076 Hovercraft set).

At the end Jorian even uses our GBC Glow Balls to really get into the mood. How cool!

 

 

 


Have you also build one of our models yourself?

A GBC Funnel a day …

Pete Dubois from the USA has installed the GBC Funnel XL – Left into our new GBC 51 Gravel Works. And look at it shine. What we really love about this GBC is the GBC Ball flow and the many it can handle. What is your favorite part of this GBC? Would love to hear your feedback!

 


Have you also build one of our models yourself?

Wing Push Module in a new dimension

We have featured this mechanism before in our GBC 18 Port Factory which is already 6 years old. Can you believe it? This time however we have upgraded the mechanisms and added a double version to gain even more heights.