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The cloudBit module allows tinkerers, kids and grownups alike, to connect their littleBit creations to a smartphone. This turns your littleBits into an IoT (Internet of Things) device. After I received my cloudBit Starter Kit, my daughter and I tried out a basic circuit to communicate with each other between the two different levels of our house.


Each littleBit has magnets on both ends of the module. This makes it easy for kids to build circuits.
The modules snap together when they are arranged correctly.

The magnets push apart when the modules are not arranged correctly and do not snap together.

Here’s the basic circuit my daughter and I created to test out our communication device idea.

Connecting the cloudBit to our router was easy using a smartphone and the littleBits cloud start website.


After our littleBits cloudBit was connected to the router, we set up some rules (or recipes) with triggers and events using my IFTTT (If This Then That) account. The first recipe we set up was to trigger the long LED module on the circuit using an IFTTT DO button (now referred to as a widget) on my smartphone.


When I pushed the Turn On LED button shown on my smartphone while sitting downstairs, the long LED module in our littleBits circuit would illuminate upstairs where my daughter could see it.


Then we set up a recipe (now referred to as applets) to show an IFTTT notification on my smartphone indicating that my daughter would be on her way down from the upstairs. The recipe would be triggered by the littleBits push button input module on the circuit.


Each time I pressed the button on my smartphone, the LED would light up. My daughter would see it and respond with an IFTTT notification sent to my phone by pushing the button module on the littleBits circuit.


We had a lot of fun testing out our littleBits cloudBit by signaling each other in our house! My daughter loved sending me a message and running downstairs to see if it actually worked. I’m sure will be making many more connected projects with littleBits!

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