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Robotics: Smart Machines
Using the app interface, you can program the robots you build to behave based on the feedback coming from the ultrasound sensor. Using an additional smartphone and tablet, you can even hack together a cute little spy bot that roams around and streams video back to the tablet screen. A cool tiltrotor aircraft model simulates vertical takeoff and landing by rotating its propeller blades 90 degrees. After you have learned how the technology works, you can build and program your own robots using the kit’s 230 building pieces. A full-color, 64-page step-by-step illustrated manual helps kids assemble all of the models and teaches them about robotics in the real world. The visual programming language allows you to command the robots’ motors to move at different times, different power levels, in different directions, and in response to the data from the sensor. You can also add simple sounds to your programs. Requires a tablet or smartphone running iOS or Android. iOS devices must support Bluetooth 4.0 and must be running iOS 8.0 or later (such as iPad 3 or later, iPad mini, iPhone 4S or later, and iPod touch 5 or later). Android devices must support Bluetooth 4.0 and must be running Android 4.4 or later.
About Thames & Kosmos: Thames & Kosmos was founded in 2001 by a science museum director and her son, who saw the great need and demand for better science education materials — resources for parents and their children that are more engaging, more effective, more relevant, and more fun.