Thames & Kosmos Robotics: Smart Machines – HoverBots w/ BalanceTech STEM Experiment Kit | Build 8 Self-Balancing Robots | Color Manual & 3D Digital Assembly Instructions | Requires Tablet, Smartphone

Build and program amazing robots that balance on two wheels! Discover the world of robotics — an exciting, interdisciplinary field combining physics, engineering, and computer science. This kit gives kids a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics. You’ll be able to build eight motorized robots that use a special self-balancing technology to move around. Code programs for your robots The usage of an easy, visual programming app on a tablet or smartphone, which connects to the robots via a wireless Bluetooth connection. The robots use a combination of sensors to balance themselves. A gyroscope sensor is used to detect the angle of tilt of the vehicle. An accelerometer is a sensor that detects the acceleration, or change in speed, of the vehicle. Together, these two sensors can tell the microcontroller — the robot’s “brain” — if the vehicle is tilting too far forward or backward and moving too fast forward or backward to remain balanced. Then, sensors attached to the motors, called encoders, can resolve the current speed of the wheels. The usage of the app interface, You’ll be able to program the robots to move at different speeds and in different directions, and You’ll be able to program them to light up in more than a few colors and play sounds. Build a HoverBot that balances on two wheels and then transforms into a four-wheeled rover in one quick action. Conduct physics experiments The usage of a swinging pendulum and a balancing bird on top of the robotic base unit. Assemble a robotic waiter that can carry a cup or a soda can, balanced in its basket. Build a target practice robot and check out to hit its target as it moves around and stays balanced upright. Create a fun balancing dinosaur robot. Explore center of gravity with an adjustable figure balanced on top of a personal transporter model. Learn about real-world balancing robots like Segways and hoverboards. After learning how the technology works, You’ll be able to design, build, and program your own robots The usage of the kit’s 227 building pieces. A full-color, 60-page step by step illustrated manual helps kids assemble all the models and teaches them about robotics in the real world. Digital assembly instructions are also available in a separate app for Android or iOS. In the programming app, the visual programming language lets you command the robots’ lights, sounds, and motors. The motors will also be programmed to move at different times, different power levels, in different directions, and in response to the data from the gyroscope sensor. Requires a tablet or smartphone running iOS or Android. Please check the app stores for compatibility and device requirements.

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Build and program eight motorized models.
Models use a combination of sensors to balance themselves.
Two apps available: a visual programming and controller app, and an app that guides model assembly with 3D digital instructions (both for iOS and Android).
Fun, customizable introduction to robotics, engineering, coding, and ultrasonic technology.
A part of the award-winning Robotics: Smart Machines series; all kits in this series require a tablet or smartphone running iOS or Android (not included).
Requires a tablet or smartphone running iOS or Android (not included).