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Hey guys.
So while I’ve been playing with my R2-D2 mod, my girlfriends granddaughter, Grace, has shown a big interest in robotics and wants to one day build a full size one to help her mum. She is only 9 years old and has lots of ideas. So when she found out I have built robots, she wanted to get envolved.
So together, we set about building a Boxbot. She loved it (I enjoyed it myself actually, lol). Anyway, it still has some work to be done, but we set about doing a Dance Demo. Here is a video of the lil guy in action...
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She has taken it home tonight so she can colour it in. I look forward to see what she does with Bob (as she has now named it).
Yeah I have a habit of recycling things with the previous robot builds I have done. Guess it’s a good thing to pass on to the younglings.
I know, right. There’s something about simple builds using easy to use materials like cardboard boxes. It has been kind of nice going back to basics and teaching someone who loves this kind of thing. I’ve been told that she has started colouring it in, so look forward to see the end result.
Grace wanted to come round to mine and ask me questions about building robots, and she was so surprised when, with her help, we had an up and running robot in 30 minutes. Here’s a short video of Graces first time using ARC controlling her very first robot...
I took photos of the build, and she has asked me if I would post them here so she can show her friends. So even though it’s been done before, I thought I’d use the photos and do a simple and up to date Box Bot build diary here for any newbies to follow who might be interested in doing the same.
It will follow shortly...
Thanks for sharing.
@Will. Hope you’re keeping well buddy. You deffo have to get your girls involved. I’ve had a lot of fun so far teaching her what I have so far, and it’s great to see her take it all on-board and her willingness to learn.
Unfortunately, even after showing her, she had a bit of a mishap and plugged in a battery the wrong way round which in turn damaged the EZ-B. She bought it round on Sunday and after doing some checks, the EZ-B was saying it was only receiving 5.3 volts from a fully charged 7.4v LiPo delivering 8.2v. Luclky I had a couple of spare version 1 v4’s, so did a replacement. As a knock on effect, the 18x RGB board we were using as eyes, got damaged too. So Bob underwent some surgery...
We removed the 18 RGB board and as I didn’t have a spare, we did a redesign and used a single RGB PCB I had and a small lens from a cheap smartphone zoom accessory. Grace wanted a cyclops look so it worked out well.
As the ARC project contains a lot of audio files, I thought I’d take the opertunity to do the EZ-B Sound breakout mod to improve the sound using a 3 volt amplified speaker which I hacked. Sounds much better now...
Grace started to paint Bob, but with the repairs she’ll have to do some touching up which she was happy to do.
So finally, for a bit of fun while learning, I showed her the basic concept of writing scripts. Chose not to use the auto positioner at this time as I wanted to show her writing scripts. The first dance routine video I did myself to surprise Hrave. The following video is what we came up with together. Enjoy.
It was one very happy little girl seeing the finished result of the dance routine, and having her robot working again. So after a bit of a hic up and me explaining that mistakes and trial and error are part of learning robotics, she’s learnt a valuable lesson and is looking forward to getting the paint brushes out again, and learning more to get her robot to do more cool stuff.
I would, but you live too far away, lol
@Jeremie.
Thanks for the kind words. I’ll pass them on to Grace. After telling her about you being the robot engineer at EZ-Robot, she has become a big fan of yours and says that’s the sort of job I want to do, so she’ll appreciate your comments.
Great videos ! Fun to watch the learning process in action. Super job !
Your doing terrific Grace, Keep it up.
Tony