Often times my son behaves like a little brat; when he does, I threaten we’ll return him to the store or replace him with a robot child that doesn’t whine all the time.
We have the technology…
Ok this is just getting creepy, I’ve watched enough horror movies to know how this ends. Let’s do shorts instead, seeing the Duplos will help me not freak the fuck out if I get up in the middle of the night.
My robots are anatomically accurate
Sure as hell doesn’t whine
The tense confrontation
I don’t see the third one but I didn’t want to intrude too much.
My son is 5, Mindstorms are too complicated to investigate but… By hacking a wire straight to a battery, it’s easy to explain to him how to apply power to a motor. No indirection from the programming or the brick, simply energy applied to motors.
With this you can make a simple car:
It’s been great fun to watch him figure out how various gears work. Now for the project, we simply turned this car into a robot which climbs up a string.
