TheCraftyRobot

The Crafty Robot makes fun, sustainable robot kits that help you get creative with technology. Re-use #Smartibot and #Fizzbit to invent robots of your own.

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

Here's the link to drive one if you want👇

[Ross Atkin @rossatkin]

If you want to drive this robot in the cardboard world people here at @nowplaythese have built you can at this URL: https://t.co/wSFO4Zy6t8

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

So @nowplaythese is underway and we’ve been running a big participatory game design experiment using #Smartibot and #Smartipresence.

It all started with a robot and two cardboard tiles we’d made. The first had this inconsiderately designed footway, dropped kerb and door. 🧵

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

It's got big!

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

We’re building what will hopefully be an an interesting and fun collaborative installation at @nowplaythese and have made these stickers to give to people who participate.

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

Then use all these measurements to calculate the efficiency of the motor. Along the way we learn about electrical, kinetic and gravitational potential energy.

We figured this might be useful for teachers/homeschoolers so there's a print out version: https://t.co/naEFONESqP

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

We (mainly Gavriel, here doing work experience) made a tutorial that combines CRAFT AND PHYSICS! It's got instructions to build a fun #Smartibot powered crane and details of an experiment to measure it's efficiency and understand forms of energy⚡️ 🧵 https://t.co/m8zaGAYurL

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

Next the experiment. We use the crane to lift a full drinks can and measure the current and voltage going into the motor using a multimeter. We also time how long the crane takes to lift the can a fixed distance.

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

@tsiolkovsky Hehehe, as it was 2020 maybe that's not that big an achievement but thanks for saying so none the less, and for participating! We had lots of fun running it too.

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

We ran a remote workshop where participants used #Smartibot to build their own cardboard telepresence robots and then built games around them that we all took turns to play. It worked and the games were diverse and fun. You can read about it: https://t.co/8NfwiD9YdI

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

...or watch a video explaining how it all worked. https://t.co/YKZ3EHH1wh

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

We've been playing space pirates with 80s LEGO. We made an app-controlled spaceship by building on top of the #Smartibot Brick Kit. https://t.co/mVYzubEnGV

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

You can also use your brick chassis with our Smartipresence telepresence system, allowing people anywhere in the world to control your robot from their web browser

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

Did you know you can use #Smartibot to build robots with your favourite plastic bricks? We even sell a Brick Kit to with the bits you need for a basic chassis. Here’s little stop motion video showing how it works. https://t.co/mVYzubEnGV

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

Once you’ve got a chassis with the Smartibot circuit board, motors and battery box mounted, you can build whatever you want on top with your own bricks, like Tristan and his daughters did here 👇

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

@JoshLachkovic @tristanwatson @WalterIsaacson Arduino offers the most flexibility in terms of what you can make but you’ll need to program it and probably add additional electronic components to build most things with it.

Micro:bit has a really great coding environment and you can get expansions that make it more useful 2/2

[TheCraftyRobot @CraftyRobot]

@JoshLachkovic @tristanwatson @WalterIsaacson Our board is very good if you want to build something that moves and you’re more interested in the mechanical elements, as you can connect up to 14 motors directly to it, and our app makes it really easy to build a custom controller, without needing to code. 1/2