On Kickstarter there was a new project of "a fighting robospider" Vorpal Combat Hexapod which positions itself(himself) as "the cheapest educational robot in a pattern". For start in production it needs symbolically few means – only $18 000. Partly it is caused by the maximum use of open and widely available technologies.
Vorpal represents mobile construction in the form of the six-legged robot spider. Its electronic stuffing is made on the basis of the Arduino platform, mechanical details are bought separately, and the casing, claws and other undriven elements can be printed on any 3D-printer. Requirements to materials and quality of assembly are minimum – the robot it is possible to make in any modern school workshop, as thought initially.
Those who don't want to work hands can acquire ready set and collect it as the designer. In a set there are a gamepad, Bluetooth transmitter and the memory card where algorithms of operation of the robot register. Programs are formed in the Scratch programming language – children will quickly begin to enjoy and will begin to write the sets of teams for the hexapod. Besides them in an arsenal of the robot of 60 movements in which he is trained initially. (By the way, the name "fighting robot spider" given by developers, is, certainly, a joke)
What can be made with ready Vorpal? To study basic and even deep aspects of robotics alive, on the visual aid. On a page in Kickstarter the price tag of $99 for a copy is specified, but in reality the robot for certain will quickly acquire self-made modules, and keen enthusiasts will already make the following models on a knee. The main thing – to begin!
