10
Jun
Arts and Crafts for the Digital Age
Who wants to weave potholders when you can build a robot, invent interactive jewelry or make musical sculptures instead?
Or how about making a birthday cake that has electric candles that flicker and go out when someone blows on them. This kit is available from http://www.picocricket.com/ and will retail for $250. Another kit from Vex Robotics Design System is for the older market. Specializing in homemade robots for high school age and up, these kits come at a reasonable $300 a pop and contain over 500 pieces. Consumers can build remote control as well as programmable robots with this kit. However if you want to be able to program the bots it’s going to cost an extra $100 for their “easyC” programming language. Basically a visual representation of “C” designed to allow even the youngest of minds write code. Welcome to CrzyLand
-Nic
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