Robotics Smart Machines Super Sphere

Build a Robotic Ball You Control with Your Smartphone

Build an awesome, 9"-diameter, rolling robotic sphere and six other robot models.

Drive your robots using the Bluetooth remote-control interface in the included app, which you can install on your tablet or smartphone (not included). Or write programs for your robots using an easy, visual programming language in the app. The onboard sound sensor lets you program your robots to perform specific sequences of commands in response to the number of claps (or other very loud sounds) that it detects.

A simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics, this kit lets you build 7 motorized machines (controlled by programs and a sound sensor) including a Bigfoot bot, a penguin, a horseshoe crab, a dancing robot, and your own robotic game of cornhole. Each robot comes with a preset program which you can run immediately after building it.  Includes 182 parts and a full-color, 60-page manual.

For ages 8+.

The free app connects to the robot models via a wireless Bluetooth connection. In the programming mode of the app, the visual programming language allows you to command the robots’ motors to move for different lengths of time, at different power levels, and in different directions. You can also program the app to play simple melodies. Program up to 4 unique sequences of commands in each individual program, and save up to 24 individual programs in the app.

When a program is running, the number of claps detected by the sound sensor determines which of the four sequences your robot will perform. For example, you could program your robot to drive in a circle at the sound of two claps, or in a straight line at the sound of three claps.

What will you command your robots to do?!