Walking Robot

• Grades: 6-8
• Number of Students: 1

Highlights:

Build your own walking robot and experiment with mechanical motion! This robotics kit walks you through wiring up the motor and linking up the legs to get your ‘bot to walk. Then make it your own using the templates included or materials from home. You’re the robot engineer, so you get to decide!

Includes a step-by-step video tutorial link, illustrated blueprint instructions for this project kit, all the materials, and a special-edition Tinker Zine magazine for more fun!

Features: 

• Make it move engineering - Use real electronic components to make mechanical motion
• Build and tinker - Create a custom skin for your robot and make it your own
• Explore robotics - Meet a bunch of real-life bots to step into robot engineering

Curriculum or Lesson Topics:

• Robot Engineering
• Robot Design
• Robots in Fiction
• Mechanical Motion

Standard Alignments:

Next Generation Science Standards

• 4-PS3-Energy

Common Core State Standards

• RI:3.3: English Language Arts > Reading: Informational Texts

Please click here for more info on NGSS and Common Core standards.

What’s Included:

• Tinker Zine
• Engineering Challenges
  
• Step-By-Step Instructions
• motor 
• body piece
• sticky foam sheet
• 4 bolts
• 4 plastic rods
• sticker sheet
• 2 paper arms
• 2 paper links
• 4 paper sheets
• body panel 
• 2 leg pieces
• battery pack
• carbonic zinc AA battery
• wood dowel
• 3 brads
• 2 plastic cranks
• 8 foam gears