Robotics Smart Machines - HoverBots With BalanceTech

Build and program amazing robots that balance on two wheels! Discover the world of robotics — an exciting, interdisciplinary field combining physics, engineering, and computer science. This kit gives kids a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics. You can build eight motorized robots that use a special self-balancing technology to move around.

• Spectacular self-balancing robot.
• Build, remote-control and program the bot from scratch.
• Hoverbots App has three modes: remote control, balance settings, and programming.
• Compatible with Android and iOS phone and tablet devices.
• Cool transformations between models – go from car to robot and back in seconds.
• Build your own models or follow the instruction manual to create one of eight amazing models.
• Base unit has built in multi-color LEDs, 2 Motors, and an integrated balance and gyroscopic sensor.

Code programs for your robots using an easy, visual programming app on a tablet or smartphone, which connects to the robots via a wireless Bluetooth connection. The robots use a combination of sensors to balance themselves. A gyroscope sensor is used to detect the angle of tilt of the vehicle. An accelerometer is a sensor that detects the acceleration, or change in speed, of the vehicle. Together, these two sensors can tell the microcontroller — the robot’s “brain” — if the vehicle is tilting too far forward or backward and moving too fast forward or backward to remain balanced. Then, sensors attached to the motors, called encoders, can determine the current speed of the wheels. Using the app interface, you can program the robots to move at different speeds and in different directions, and you can program them to light up in various colors and play sounds.

Build a HoverBot that balances on two wheels and then transforms into a four-wheeled rover in one quick action. 

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