Is building a robot way beyond your capacity? I know what you mean. I’m all thumbs. I have a great imagination and wonderful intentions, but the distance between wishing and doing can be light years. The Do-It-Yourself stuff was designed for other people, people with two hands, four fingers and a thumb on each hand, and know how to use each of those appendages.
I’ve just spent the day “making” a home-made flashlight for a school project – well, WE did. We had no escape. Well, it’s amazing what you can do when you know that ducking it is not an alternative. Many hours later, the dining room table looked like a scrap yard. There had to be enough bits and pieces to build a factory. But – amid that chaos – we had produced a really cute little flashlight that, to our amazement, actually worked!
That made me think – why panic and try to duck those “school project” obligations? Overcome your fears! Show yourself YOU CAN! Build a robot!
The “Build A Robot” kit costs about £25. It won’t help around the house. It won’t do the school projects. What it does have are little infra-red sensors to stop it from bumping into things, and 36 programmable actions with light effects and sound effects to assure you that you’ve created a masterpiece!
It’ll keep you busy and it’ll keep you amused for ages. Most of all, you’ll prove to yourself and your family that you CAN do it.
Of course, there’s an alternative. Let you kid build it – then we you’re asked to do a school project, you can look amazed and say “Why ask me? I’m an idiot. YOU built a robot!”
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