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never heard of this brand, but I used to work with my youngest son on a "Boe-Bot" by Parallax. 
http://www.parallax.com/product/28832
 
fun was had by all!
 
I first got into robotics in college when I was the team lead of the IEEE robot challenge in 1998.  We had the best entry by far, there was no doubt in anyone's mind.  but the competition is done by simple elimination and we had a glitch.  we had seen the glitch before, but it didn't arise every time we ran and were not able to track it down.  so we were eliminated before the final round and the ones who won above us couldn't match us at all on the track in time or accuracy when our robot didn't glitch. 
 
 

post some pics!  I'd like to see what she accomplishes with it!

Good post Mike. I'd like my children to learn (possibly when they're 10+) this type of creativity and I'll truly enjoy watching them tinker around. Arduino seems to require a little more knowledge in building whereas Boe-Bot is more beginner friendly AND........"solder-free". :)
 
I'd also like to see what she accomplishes.

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Karyn
Now tell her to connect a second sensor controlling the pulse width and she's created an optical theremin

Oh wow...  You just reminded me that I have a Theremin kit still in a box.  I wonder where my good soldering gun is...

Are ya gonna SHOOT it with solder?

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http://arduino.cc/
 

 
My sister, brother in law and my 10 year old nephew came up this weekend to visit. At some point we starting talking about education and my nephew's interest in learning how to program stuff like the robots that he sees made with Legos and such.
 
I didn't know what I was talking about but I enthusiastically told them about Arduino and how accessible the stuff and the info has become. I told them you can walk right in to Radioshack and buy stuff and I showed them a bunch of YouTube videos on our big screen in an effort to get the juices flowing.
 
They dismissed the idea as too hard to learn for a youngster. I pointed out that Boy Scouts have Arduino clubs.
 
It sort of stopped there.
 
This morning my wife says "I want to mess with Arduino" so we drove in to RadioShack and bought a MakerShed Ultimate Micro Controller Pack beginner kit and a book called "Getting Started with Arduino".
 

 
She read the whole book this afternoon and did all the projects and now I'm scared of what will happen next.
 
She called her mom to tell her what fun it was and her mom said "You've been wanting to do this since you were 10 years old!"
 
 
Good times!
 
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That is awesome!!!

mike_mccue

My wife has discovered Arduino

 
Better than the other way around I'm sure.

I can do you one better.
 
I don't watch sports.

I watch sports, I have a pool table and I avoid mowing the lawn at all costs (jungles are cool, ya?).