Hot Wheels id and Swift Playground have teamed up to teach kids coding.
Hot Wheels id and Swift Playground have teamed up to teach kids coding.
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Hot Wheels id teaches kids coding and augmented reality with Swift Playground

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Mattel has announced that kids can learn programming through a matchup of Hot Wheels id, which combines digital and physical race cars, and Apple’s Swift programming language.

Hot Wheels id is a new product that Mattel launched in June, reminiscent of toys-to-life games such as Skylanders. It has toy tracks and cars with NFC tags that you can scan into a digital account on an iPad. The Race Portal measures the speed of the toy car as it moves down the lanes, and it tracks this data in the digital version, where you can complete challenges.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.