Hi guys, few days ago we started to plan and make a new robot with my daughter. She is 5 years old and loves to build things. The picture uploaded represents the plan. M stands for motor or servo, B for battery and C for computer. You'll see a strange box with a cabel to the ro…

Right track Using small 9g servos and cardboard should allow you to come up with a working design. You might base your design on: https://www.robotshop.com/letsmakerobots/otto-diy-opensource-biped-robot-you-can-build You can use clear plastic from packaging or a dollar store, a…

Small servos Hi Cbenson, thanks for the commen and suggestion. I’m happy to hear that it should work with those small servos. We’ll try to make the head also from the wood plates. I thought if it was a little heavy and can tilt, then it could help during walking by shifting the …

Weight This is a good idea! Thank you! I’ll try to integrate the battery into the head. Then it can uses the duck bot tilt feature a bit.

Yay! So glad to see your daughter being into robots and building them! We need more girls and women in STEM! I look forward to seeing the completed robot.

creative Hi NeoGirl101, I absolutely agree with you! And for me it seem girls and women are more creative while building robots then men. And that is wonderful. I’ll keep this post updated, I promise.

Awesome! What a cool robot! So unique… Excellent work to both of you!

Copied Well done! You copied her drawing quite well. Hope she appreciates seeing it materialize and wants to continue and learn more.

Hope she will Thank you. I let her do as much as possible. She loves her bot. Her sister helped with painting and they agreed that we need to build another bigger bot. I hope they can write the code soon. We will see.

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cbenson July 27, 2017, 7:50am 4

Weight

Ideally don’t add unecessary weight. If you want to move weight higher, just move the batteries