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Category Archives: Robot Kit

Bluetooth Boe-Bot Robot Tutorial

09-Dec-08

The Bluetooth Boe-Bot Robot Kit for Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) is a Parallax Boe-Bot Robot and an A7 Engineering eb500-SER Bluetooth module. The eb500 module makes it possible for the Boe-Bot robot’s BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller brain to communicate wirelessly with MSRS running on a nearby PC. The BASIC Stamp microcontroller runs a small PBASIC program that controls the Boe-Bot robot’s servos and optionally monitors sensors while it communicates wirelessly with MSRS.

Vex Robotics Tutorial

08-Dec-08

Vex Robotics Design System is a robotic kit intended to introduce students as well as adults to the world of robotics. The Vex Robotics Design System is centered around the Vex Starter Kit (which retails for about USD $500). This kit comes with the Vex “brain” (a microcontroller), a hobby-grade remote control, various sensors (2 [...]

Mio Pup Robot Toy

30-Dec-07

If Mio Pup is making eyes at you, it’s because that’s how he communicates. This robotic Rover can walk, talk, play music, and more. And he lets you know exactly what he wants with his more than 100 “eye-cons”–images that light up in his eyes to express moods like happiness, hunger, love, and surprise. Standing [...]

LEGO Mindstorms NXT

28-Dec-07

Sure, Mindstorms NXT is a toy, but it is an important toy, like a piano or a chemistry set. It’s one of those items that engages an imagination and possibly opens doors to new interests. Since our future is surely to be shared with robots–it’s already started happening, just look at Roomba–those robots will need, [...]

WowWee Robosapien Version 2 Humanoid Robot

23-Nov-07

Robosapien Version 2 is the next generation of Robosapien technology and personality from Wowwee. This new member of the robotic family comes with more advanced dynamic motion, interactive sensors, new program functions, speech capability, and a personality all his own. It’s clear from the start that he enjoys bowling, dancing, and having conversations.

Movement
RobosapienV2 is able [...]

Hitec 77003 Robonova I Humanoid Robot Kit

22-Nov-07

The Robonova I offers educators, students and robotic hobbyists a complete robot package. The advanced and stable Robonova I can walk, run, do flips, cartwheels, dance moves and once programmed, is ready to compete in any Robo One Class “J” competition. This kit version of the Robonova I allows you to enjoy building your new [...]

WowWee Roboreptile Robotic Reptile

22-Nov-07

Wowwee’s Roboreptile is an often startling robotic toy that, once you get the hang of its wonky controls, is actually pretty fun. Like other Wowwee robots, there’s a preprogrammed animation that goes off when it is first powered up. It’s impressive: growling, snapping jaws and a whipping tail. In short, Roboreptile looks like something out [...]

Parallax Boe-Bot Robot Kit (Serial Version)

22-Nov-07

Build and program a high-quality, complex robot with a BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller runnig on a Board of Education project platform. With the Boe-Bot Robot kit you can do over 40 hands-on activities! Program your Boe-Bot Robot to navigate on its own with touch, light and infrared sensors. Easy to build and program and easily [...]

Kabuto Mushi Robot

14-Nov-07

Get hands-on experience with gears, batteries, motors, and electronic circuits as you build your own robotic beetle.

Build this robotic “Kabuto Mushi” (Rhinoceros Beetle) from the ground up
Learn valuable insights into gear structure, battery wiring, motor principles, electronic circuits and circuit block diagrams
Easy-to-build kit – perfect for students, teachers and hobbyists
4 motors control robotic movements
Full-function [...]

Line Tracking Robot Mouse Kit

12-Nov-07

If you want to engineer a satellite tracking system someday, you have to start somewhere. How about learning circuitry with a Line-Tracking Mouse? This 6″ x 4-1/2″ robot has a transparent mouse-shaped plastic case over its electronics, making him almost 3″ tall. He has (3) photo interrupters that project infrared rays and distinguish between black [...]