I Bought a $450 Coding Toy for My Kids. Then I Opened It Up.

Update: 2026-03-28 Primo Toys support got back to me and sent replacement boards, which confirmed what the empty footprints were already hinting at: this is a different board revision with different silicon. The firmware situation was worse than expected. The code they publish doesn’t target this hardware at all, and the version that actually runs was sitting in a separate GitHub org like a bad…