Showing posts with label Robotics for Kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robotics for Kids. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

VertiBOT



VertiBOT is an inverted pendulum platform that remains balanced by means of two tiny motors, located in the bottom of the structure. The battery is attached in the top of the main body, while the electronics board is located near the rotation axis.
The feedback signal is provided by an IMU 6Dof composed by an accelerometer and a gyro. One ATmega 328 microcontroller execute the main loop every 10 miliseconds.


http://madebyfrutos.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/vertibot/

Sunday, March 9, 2014

What every girl (kids) should know about programming?






"I truly love Facebook and tumblr but I think they are doing something profoundly evil for my generation of girls and woman (human beings), they are making us consumers instead of curators and their are making us possibly copy and repost stuff and  retweet stuff
and reblog stuff instead of us being creating and doing stuff."

"We should be teaching the more robotic programming culture, and by doing that our goal is showing kids that the world is magical and there is full of possibilities."



When Little Ruby, the main character, was at school she studied Reason, Rhythm and Repetition, Ridicule, and Riddles.

Reason Class
  • She learns to take big problems and brake them down into smaller problems. She learns to ask questions and the writing good kind of questions.
  • She learns about logic but she also learns that the best puzzles has many solutions and sometimes and just sometimes the best answers are the ones that people have not ever thought about. 

Rhythm and Repetition Class
  • She learns about both software and hardware (real life things) architectures.
  • She learns to draw and write abstract things so instead of just doing the draw her playground with the little sandboxes, she actually learns to make the blueprint of how the playground was constructed.
  • She learns shaping, joining  and combining things.


Ridicule Class
  • It is a class about working together.
  • Little Ruby and her friends always collaborate on their homework, they never do homework alone. 
  • They do not do things because they are told that you need to do this. They do things because they think that is going to be fun and someone might need this.

Riddles
  • In the Rubik's world knowledge does not come from books is learning from other people.
  • Rubi and her friends, they do not feed books, they research topic, they write them, and they maintaining afterwards.






Friday, November 29, 2013

A company that provide robots for all ages

There is a long list of things to do to reach the level of organization to which the company Rolling Robots have been working on [1]. I have been reading about the creators of this company, and what I found interesting is the fact that both George Kirkman and Bing Jiang want a better future for their children. They have this model idea of pursuing their three passions: kids, technology, and teaching (Figure 1). They said:

"Our mission is simple: to provide robots for all ages. "

Figure 1. Roboteer's Philosophy.


What I dream of is to have a similar company in Mexico in which no fees or cost are needed and the only requirement for anyone is to have a lot of curiosity an imagination. I know that this is far from reality project which , if it is implemented, require a lot of work as I said before: however, I think , it would not be possible, unless there would have been a real cooperation among educational centers, government and industry. 


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