Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Begining Robotics

For Christmas Madison received a beginning robotics kit called the Co-bot. (Jr. Scientist - Tumbling Robot)
This kit was surprisingly awesome, and a great learning kit for her.

For the price point ($32.95), this is a fantastic robot!!! My 7yr old and I put it together following the directions. For us the directions were easy to follow and it was nice that there were not too many little pieces to deal with. She put the majority of it together herself (Note: the switch was hard for my 7yr old to turn off. ) The manual was excellent in direction, and also an excellent tool with bonus material written in it about understanding how gears work, how sensors work, and general robot motion. I would highly recommend for the beginning engineer/ robotic fanatics.

Another great thing about this kit is that it can be taken apart and put back together again, so once you are done with it it can be a great tool for learning how it works, fixing it and general mechanics.