I bought my first robot kit. I use the term robot loosely here. Really, it is much more a construction toy for kids 8 and up, but I was curious to see what the package entailed and I wanted to have the solar panel and motor. I took it home and assembled it at the kitchen table in under an hour.
Unfortunately, I built it at dusk and was unable to get the motor turning because my family doesn't use halogen light bulbs and the sun had gone down. Initially, I had imagined the solar panel would work under normal lighting like the old calculators. Wrong. I decided at that point that the solar panel that came with the kit would be useless to my future projects.
Nonthelesss, I finally got it to work and it is pretty cool for a first project.
Fun project for kids. Get the kit here.
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