How to build a robot at home for kids with stuff found at home? Something easy?
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I dont know if you are talking about a model robot (i.e. one that does not move, function) or a functional moving robot..\n\nI can advice you for the second thing..Google for BEAM robots..they are really simple robots which you can make at home..you just need a few simple components which you can get from any radio shack..\n\nTry that out
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I'd suggest contacting MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  They have a strong robotics program, and may support a robotics club there.
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mix my ex-mother-in-law with a blender... You will get a robot without emotions
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google for kid monitor, etc.\n\nhttp://www.komando.com/nl_10022004.asp
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Go to places like www.nick.com or www.uptoten.com/kids/uptoten-home.html
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Try the link below. It has links to many other sites dealing with home automation.\nTry doing a search for CeBus Home Automation.\nThat should give you plenty of sources of information.
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Here's a way to turn a common household chemical reaction into some fun.\n\nhttp://www.torgo.org/bpsubs/
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So you want to know about building robots... There are a lot of people interested in that.  The best advice I can give you is to get in contact with others who are interested in the same thing.\n\nTry getting involved with this organization:\n  http://www.usfirst.org\nIf you are a high school student, then you can join a US First Robotics team at your school, or at another nearby school.  Or perhaps you could help to start such a team.\n\nIf you are an adult, then you can volunteer as an adult volunteer with a First Robotics team.  No previous experience is required, and you will learn a lot from the other volunteers.\n\nIf you are younger than high school age, then try this:\n  http://www.usfirst.org/jrobtcs/flego.htm\nIt's another robotics program for younger students.
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Now that's a wide open question.\n\nI'd build a robot and do some programming.  Robots are great for mechanicals.  Of course I'm an experienced (ahem older) engineer who just wants an excuse to but a bunch of lego mindstorms and program them too.  Yes lego has a website mindstorms.lego.com  (put that on your christmas wish list)\n\nBreaking things is fun and goes with material strengths classes.  Freeze it - break it - heat it break it. etc.  make friend with a professor in the lab so you can play there
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The best shape activity that worked for my son at this age was a shape sorter. They can picked up at any toy store or Walmart/Target/K-Mart. \n\nIt is a plastic box or ball with holes cutout in various shapes. There are plastic pieces that fit inside of each cutout. The child has to match the shape to the cutout and slide it insde the shape sorter.\n\nIt's fun and easy.....I would name the shapes as he placed them inside so eventually he learned the names of the shapes....hearing it and seeing it at the same time makes a huge difference!\n\nGood luck!
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We would build a jumbo cart that could hold many kids and put lawnmower wheels on it or bigger wheels if we could find it and a bunch of us kids would hop on and some would take turns pushing it down the hill....it had a steering wheel of course -taken from a scrap car...and reflectors for that matter. Later on we learned how to put lights on it hooked up to a car battery. We built tree houses and my dad helped us run the wires to have electricity (we didn't have water though)lol We played a lot of ball games and if we didn't have a ball handy we would just use a 500ml juice box rinsed out and squashed.... condensed milk cans attached to a string made for a nice racket if you walked it down a bumpy rocky unpaved street...steel drums made for good 'pan' drums and I can play quite nicely on a good set of pots and pans thank you very much :-) I'm a girl but I was the biggest tomboy ever...I always thought guy things were more fun and toy trucks etc were pretty easy to build. (I designed and made a working car engine for a full size car at 16) Today kids are stuck in front of video games and don't use their imagination or get physical exercise nearly as much as we did. I don't know what intellivision is and I've heard of Atari but never played it-granted I live in a different country from you and also grew up in another country where there was no Atari etc.
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use an inanimate object like a tree pnce u master basic drills find somthing that movess like a dog or other
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Use cardboard, clay, or sugar cubs.  Cardoard would be the easiest.
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Childminding in your home.
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Well I recomend Tornadoes. They made a great project for me ^^ U can actually MAKE a tornado in ur classroom WIHTOUT that dinky water bottle trick! It was a great project. Another good one is Mice and shape rocognition. U put together a maze with portals in the shape of triangles, circles and squares, and see if u can train the mice to recognize that the triangles will always lead to the food instead of what they naturally assume(circles) E-mail me for further details on the Tornado Project which I HIGHLY recomned! happiest_phantom@yahoo.com
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http://www.searchtools.com/robots/robot-code.html
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You can make any simple machine having fulcrum, load and effort or u can even make a pulley.(These r very cheap and easy to make)\n\nFor ur project on universe u can get information from any encyclopedia or search in net.