For SPIKE™ Prime builders

Your LEGO® build, now a real RC car.

Spiky RC drives a LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime hub from an iPad or iPhone. Pick which motor drives and which one steers, then grab a remote and go. No coding, no cables, no firmware changes.

Coming soon to the App Store See the remotes
iPad and iPhone Free to drive Stops when you let go
The Joysticks remote in Spiky RC: a black and red game controller with a drive stick on the left and a steer stick on the right
8 remotes 5 engine sounds
How it works

From bricks to driving in three steps.

  1. Connect the hub

    Turn on the hub, press its Bluetooth button and tap it in the app. Spiky RC works with the hub's normal SPIKE App 3 firmware.

  2. Tell it what each motor does

    Tap each port on the hub drawing and give it a job. Any port can take any job.

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  3. Hold and drive

    Press and hold to drive. Let go and the car stops. If your car steers, set left, middle and right once by hand.

Eight remotes

Pick the remote that fits the driver.

Big friendly buttons for little hands, real thumbsticks for gamers, a pistol grip like the hobby racers use, and an 80s toy remote with a TURBO button. Switch any time.

Easy Drive: big Forward, Back, Left and Right buttons

Easy Drive

FREE

Four big arrow buttons and four speeds, from turtle to max. The best start for young drivers.

Joysticks: a red and black game controller with two thumbsticks

Joysticks

PRO

Two thumbsticks, like a game controller. Push further to go faster.

Turbo: a black and orange pistol-grip radio with a trigger, a small screen and a steering wheel

Turbo

PRO

A pistol grip, like real hobby RC cars: trigger for gas, wheel to steer.

Retro: a silver 80s toy radio box with two red levers and a TURBO button

Retro

PRO

The 80s toy remote: two chunky levers and a TURBO button for full speed.

Carbon: a dark remote with two round pads and a gold badge

Carbon

PRO

Sleek carbon pads with a gold badge that straightens the wheels.

Wheel: a steering wheel between Back and Forward buttons

Wheel

PRO

Turn the iPad like a steering wheel to steer.

Race: dashboard, steering wheel, gear stick, and Gas and Reverse pedals

Race

PRO

Gas and reverse pedals, a four-gear shifter and a speedometer.

Autopilot

PRO

Add a LEGO® distance sensor and the car drives by itself. It stops 10 cm before a wall, backs up, turns away and carries on. The hub runs this on its own, so a slow Bluetooth connection can't delay a stop.

Engine sounds

Vroom included.

The engine revs with the speed you drive, catches with a starter crank and clunks when you change gear. Choose from five engines, each modelled on a famous kind of sports-car engine.

On the iPadThe full engine sound through the iPad or iPhone speaker.
From the carA buzzy engine tone from the hub's own speaker, right on the car.
  • Classic V8Deep muscle-car burble
  • Hypercar W16Quad-turbo whoosh and whistle
  • Italian V12High, smooth scream
  • Raging V10Raspy roar with crackles
  • Flat-sixMechanical howl that revs high
For parents

Made for kids. Built with grown-ups in mind.

0.5 s

Let go and it stops

Every control is press-and-hold. If the app closes or Bluetooth drops, the hub brakes on its own within half a second.

0

Ads, accounts or tracking

No sign-up and no ads. Nothing about your child leaves the device.

Ask

Grown-up check before buying

A grown-ups-only question appears before any purchase. Pro is a single payment, never a subscription.

100%

Stock hub, stock firmware

No firmware to install or replace. The SPIKE App keeps working as before.

1

One program slot, with permission

A grown-up allows one hub program slot (slot 20 by default). Spiky RC never touches the others.

25%

Gentle speeds to start

Set a top speed per motor and start on the turtle speed. Turn the steering wheels only as far as your build allows.

Pricing

Free to drive. $3 for every remote.

Try every Pro remote in preview before you decide. One purchase works on every iPad and iPhone in your family with Family Sharing.

Free

$0
  • Easy Drive remote, no time limit
  • All five engine sounds
  • Steering, four speeds and Extra motors
  • Every safety feature

Pro

ONE-TIME
$3once, not a subscription
  • Joysticks, Turbo, Retro, Carbon and Wheel
  • Race, with pedals and a gear stick
  • Autopilot, drives by itself
  • A race-style speed shifter
  • Shared with your family
Questions

Good to know.

Which hub do I need?

A LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime hub with the SPIKE App 3 firmware. If your hub is older, update it once with the official SPIKE App, then close that app before you connect Spiky RC.

Which iPads and iPhones work?

Any iPad or iPhone with iOS or iPadOS 17 or newer. That covers the iPad 6th generation and newer and the iPhone XS and newer. On iPhone, turn the phone sideways to drive.

Do I need to write any code?

No. The app sends a small drive program to the hub on your first press. After that, every press goes to the car live over Bluetooth.

Will it change my hub or my saved programs?

It doesn't change the firmware. It only uses the one program slot a grown-up allows, slot 20 by default, and overwrites whatever was saved there.

What can I build with it?

Anything with a motor that drives it. Add a second motor to steer, and use the free ports as Extra motors for a crane, a claw or a dumper.

Is there an Android version?

Not yet. iPad and iPhone come first; Android is planned.

Spiky RC app icon

Ready when your build is.

Spiky RC is coming soon to the App Store for iPad and iPhone.

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