Educational Insights PYXEL A Coder’s Best Friend, Coding & STEM Toy, Kids Ages 8+

I am really impressed with this toy. It's a great way to start my kid learning computer programming and being able to switch between Blocky and real Python coding is really cool. Quality toy that can grow with her skills. It also makes it more tangible for her since she can see the dog doing the tricks she just coded. Took a bit to figure out the device wifi connection because browsers default to https for URLs and the local connection to the device is just http. I like that it's not using an internet connection outside of downloading updates. The remote doesn't always connect but haven't spent much time troubleshooting it to be fair, and I'm guessing it's user error.

I usually love toys from Educational Insights, and this one is no exception. It's a cool concept that kids love. And even better, Walmart is selling it for about 1/3 of the price from the EI website, making it a great value.

This is a great basic coding toy, my eight year old Granddaughter loves the toy! She was able to read the instructions and along with the quick start coding and pictures, she was able to immediately enjoy it right away.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I love the idea of increasing my knowledge of coding. Pixel is fun and a great way to learn.

Great toy to start programming for kids

great toy. my daughter loves it.

It is very cute. I just think it should be a little bit bigger other than that, it is a very cute fun toy for kids.

It is definitely engaging but you have to get all the information about all it's abilities it has to get the best use

I am so thankful this amazing company (educational insights who has so many cool products) sent me a free PYXEL pet code dog to try with my 8 and 15 year old. My family already owns a Zoomer kitty pet robot which was fun but got boring with the same few tricks. The new PYXEL we recieved has so many customize options from tricks, color and even eye shape! My kids favorite was the heart emotes. So many different options you can input, that we haven't even explored them all yet. It also has updates so they can add more stuff as time goes on. You don't have to have it connected to a device at all times. That's just the coding customizing part that my 15 year old uses and loves. You can then put up to 6 commands on the remote to use wherever so my 8 year old loves that part and is now getting more interested in the coding side of it. Giving my 15 year old the opportunity to learn then teach the basics to her sister. Making this one of those toys that has so many options with fun + learning. The instructions were clear and easy to understand with  QR code links too. The volume on ours is really low but they made it easy to contact them with questions, I am sure it has a setting somewhere so I will ask the company team later if we don't find it. It comes with a few instructions, but the one on the white paper super helped when we thought ours had a broken leg. We were able to follow the instructions and then it was balanced properly. This seems to be a common  issue with videos online on how to easily correct it. I am a homeschool parent so the coding option was super exciting for my whole family, especially now that we are heading into a more technologically advanced world. These are tools they could use later on in life and this toy gives them a headstart. I have even recommended this and the other products educational insights has to offer to my family, friends and neighbors. The price is really good for all the things it does , the updates do not cost money either.

I got this for my son. He has learnt programing, so I thought this would be a perfect toy for him. He could easily use blocky for coding. I wanted him to learn python programing and this toy is very well executed. But I thought the resources for it are lacking. I would have liked to see more details on the dog's attributes in python. That is a let down. Otherwise a very good toy for programing.