Thames & Kosmos Signature Series: Robotics Smart Machines
This pack provides all students with a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics that empowers them to build eight motorized machines controlled by programs and an ultrasonic sensor. Students write the programs using an easy, visual programming app right on a tablet or smartphone, which pairs directly to every robot model via a wireless Bluetooth connection.
aGet to Know:
Using the familiar idea of building toys and adding modern relevance with app-controlled bots, the Robotics Smart Machines Kit guides kids as they enter the exciting field of robotics by affording them complete control while empowering them build their own robots. With this innovative kit and its 230 building pieces, kids can craft all sorts of inventive projects, including a humanoid bipedal droid, a robo-dinosaur, a motion-sensing catapult, and more!
Once they’ve built all the bots in their manual and mastered new skills along the way, there’s plenty more room for creativity and imagination as these pieces will permit kids to tinker, customize, and make nearly anything! The kit is excellently effective at eliminating apprehensions about robotics, presenting it as a thrilling new scientific field, and ensuring kids get to reinvent learning through intriguing and entertaining challenges all in one! Encompassing physics, engineering, and CS—the key areas of modern robotics—this Smart Machines Kit helps prepare kids for programming in an awesome way!
The Robotics Smart Machines Kit enables students as young as 8 to build and operate eight exciting robots plus any more they can imagine! All eight of these motorized machines are controlled by student-run programs and the ultrasonic sensor, which executes the visual programming cues designed by kids on their device, enabled by a wireless Bluetooth connection. The robots are capable of executing various actions based on distances the ultrasonic sensor detects or kids can use the remote-control to compel the robots to do what they want.
Working on that same principle as sonar, this ultrasonic sensor sends out sound waves, which bounce off of objects, allowing the robots kids construct to detect obstacles in its path. The pieces are durable and reusable, allowing engineering-minded children to re-build robots repeatedly and the app engages students by teaching them how to get their robots to behave based on cues they supply!
What's in the Box:
- 3cm Axle and 10cm Axle
- 2 Square Frames B and Square Frame A
- 2 11-Hole Rods, and 2 14-Hole Dual Rods
- 3 6.5cm Axles, 1 Upper Jaw, and Lower Jaw
- 18 Joint Plugs, 8 Shaft Plugs, and 9 Shaft Pins
- 6 5-Hole Dual Rods B and 4 5-Hole Dual Rods C
- 4 Two-to-One Converters and 1 Anchor Pin Lever
- Motor Unit 1, Motor Unit 2, and 10 Medium Gears
- 2 Short Frames, 4 Motor Shafts, and 8 Small Gears
- Worm Gear, Crank Bar, 2 O-Rings, and 2 Small Pulleys
- 6 Short Anchor Pins. 51 Anchor Pins, and 4 Button Pins
- 6 Diagonal Connectors, 4 30mm Tubes, and 20mm Tube
- 4 90-degree converters X and 10 90-degree converters Y
- 3 Body Plates 3, 3 Body Plates 4, 1 Left Leg, and Right Leg
- 1 3-Hole Rod, 5 3-Hole Cross Rods, and 2 3-Hole Dual Rods
- 8 7-Hole Wide Rounded Rods and 3 7-Hole Flat Rounded Rods
- A Bluetooth Battery Box, Ultrasonic Sensor, and 2 Flexible Shafts
- 4 3-Hole Wide Round Rods, 5 5-Hole Rods, and 4 5-Hole Cross Rods
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