The combination of the two is epic! You may remember seeing Sphero used to create a tiny BB8 replica. Inside the orb is a tiny robot capable of rolling itself hamster-wheel-style in any direction.

Each Sphero Mini takes ~60 minutes for a full charge. Each charge will last ~20-60 minutes. The robot charges with USB. You will need your laptop or a brick (not provided). You will need a cell phone, ...

Sphero, makers of the eponymous spherical robots that you control with your smartphone — as well as the new BB-8 droid in Star Wars: The Force Awakens… and this excerpt from Fortune Magazine ...

in use to hack the sphero mini (also BB9). Sphero seems to have given up, on providing open source implementations to control their newer robots working with BLE. IT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, IT DOES NOT ...