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You can’t replace the battery in Lego’s Smart Bricks — and many of its sensors aren’t active yet

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The sensors ‘will be unlocked with future products.’ The sensors ‘will be unlocked with future products.’ Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you buy something from a link, The Verge may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The first Lego Smart Brick sets, based on Star Wars, aren’t quite what my kids and I hoped, and I suspect much of that’s down to programming. But the Smart Bricks may also have some technical limitations out of the gate. The first sets don’t ship with a number of their sensors enabled, including the sound-detecting microphone, the ambient light sensor, fine distance measurement, position, and orientation. The Lego Group tells us that “all technology is present, some bits are just not enabled in the current sets.” “There are more sensors that will be unlocked

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