Electronic Robot Kits

Electronic Robot Kits

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	OWI Frightened Grasshopper Kit - Solar Powered List Price: $14.99 Sale Price: $0.01 Average Rating:
	Build your own life-size grasshopper. An educational robot and mini solar kit. He's small, but he's an attention-getter! Explore the potential of solar power with this neat science kit. This build-it-yourself educational solar hobby kit is for the first time science experimenters with little or no experience...

	OWI 6-in-1 Educational Solar Kit List Price: $19.99 Sale Price: $9.99 Average Rating:
	The 6-In-1 Educational Solar -- Robotic Kit is an excellent beginner building kit designed to teach how solar power is used to drive a small motor. Children use the 21 snap together parts (no tools required) to build six different working models including an airboat, car, windmill, puppy, and two different airplanes...

	Elenco AmeriKit Learn to Solder Kit List Price: $17.99 Sale Price: $12.59 Average Rating:
	This kit is a must for the beginner. After practicing your soldering techniques on the special area of the board, you'll be ready to assemble this European siren with flashing LED's. This kit also includes a soldering iron and wire cutters...

OWI Kabuto Mushi Robot Kit List Price: $64.99 Sale Price: $48.55 Average Rating:

Kabuto Mushi (Rhinoceros Beetle) Robot is an infrared remote controlled robot with caterpillar traction. The infrared remote control handset has eight channels, each channel controls four motors: two motors control directional movement: forward, backward, left and right; one motor regulates the elevating position of the claw; lastly, the 4th motor operates the open and close dimension of the claw...

	iBOTZ TriBotz Kit List Price: $54.99 Sale Price: $37.25 Average Rating:
	TriBotz is three robots in one package! It uses sensors to avoid objects, follow a line and respond to sound. The TriBotz will react to sound impulses and objects in the way. It will reverse away from a sound or obstruction, and then move forward...

	iBOTZ Hydrazoid Kit List Price: $43.95 Sale Price: $21.97 Average Rating:
	Hydrazoid is a cool alien creature that is fun to build. No soldering is required.

	NerdKits USB Microcontroller Electronics Starter Kit Sale Price: $79.99 Average Rating:
	Challenge yourself: learn by doing. A NerdKit is a combination of electronic parts and wisdom, which together will teach you about digital electronics, embedded systems, and how to bridge computers with the "real world"...

Insultabotz Toy Robot Kit Sale Price: $78.83

The Insultabotz creeps forward with its six insect-like legs and will avoid objects in its way. It can detect objects with its infrared eye and move accordingly, and while it does so, it insults you! The robot comes with a re-recordable voice chip that allows you to pre-record any message or multiple messages (up to 15 seconds) and Insultabotz will repeat them in sequence every time it comes to an obstacle...

	Remote Control Robot Kit List Price: $12.95 Sale Price: $15.95
	Build your own remote control robot controlled by your TV remote! The kit also includes parts for inventing your own robot arm. No soldering required.

	BugBrain Robot Kit List Price: $179.00 Sale Price: $139.00
	BugBrain is a complete, walking, programmable robot kit that you assemble and program yourself. The BugBrain kit includes a full-color printed manual, microprocessor, compiler, and programming instructions with sample programs...

	TAB Electronics Build Your Own Robot Kit List Price: $59.95 Sale Price: $79.99 Average Rating:
	A dynamic learning platform! Pre-programmed for quick enjoyment, and comes with instructions for custom applications. Customizable, no soldering required. Learn basic skills toward advanced robot building...

	The Robot Kit: With Four Fantastic Easy-to-Build Robots List Price: $19.99 Sale Price: $9.87 Average Rating:
	This box of robotic fun is filled with everything young robot enthusiasts need to start constructing their own automatons. The kit contains components made of reinforced paper with a metallic finish. These parts can be put together to make four different easy-to-assemble robots--a truck, a spider, and two humanoid robots...

	Building and Programming LEGO Mindstorms Robots Kit List Price: $54.95 Sale Price: $32.99 Average Rating:
	The kit includes:Building Robots with LEGO Mindstorms (1-928994-67-9) This best seller provides readers with a fundamental understanding of the geometry, electronics, engineering, and programming required to build your own robots...

	OWI Frightened Grasshopper Kit - Solar Powered List Price: $14.99 Sale Price: $0.01 Average Rating:
	Build your own life-size grasshopper. An educational robot and mini solar kit. He's small, but he's an attention-getter! Explore the potential of solar power with this neat science kit. This build-it-yourself educational solar hobby kit is for the first time science experimenters with little or no experience...

	NerdKits USB Microcontroller Electronics Starter Kit Sale Price: $79.99 Average Rating:
	Challenge yourself: learn by doing. A NerdKit is a combination of electronic parts and wisdom, which together will teach you about digital electronics, embedded systems, and how to bridge computers with the "real world"...

	The Robot Kit: With Four Fantastic Easy-to-Build Robots List Price: $19.99 Sale Price: $9.87 Average Rating:
	This box of robotic fun is filled with everything young robot enthusiasts need to start constructing their own automatons. The kit contains components made of reinforced paper with a metallic finish. These parts can be put together to make four different easy-to-assemble robots--a truck, a spider, and two humanoid robots...

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Robot Companions $22.94 MORE THAN TOYS OR INTELLIGENT APPLIANCES -- MECHANICAL FRIENDS AND VALUED ASSISTANTSInside Robot Companions you'll find all the details, plans, and information you need to make a robot partner part of your daily life, at a price you can afford. Author E. Oliver Severin, originator of some of the technologies that make robots friendly, useful, and educational, shows you how to find or build your own robot helpmate -- either from commercial kits or an assembly of separate, off-the-shelf parts. With Robot Companions, you'll learn how to build your own robot for purposes such as companionship, supervision of the elderly, tutoring the young, doing household chores, and much more. The book delves into essential enabling technologies such as mobility, voice, communications, touch, sight, and smell response so you'll understand the mechanics behind form, function, and personality. If you're looking for an industrious mechanical someone to help with the housework, care for the kids, even watch over aging parents without complaint, Robot Companions belongs on your shelf! ENTER THE AMAZING WORLD OF FRIENDLY 'BOTS * Facial expressions and responses to voice * Artificial Intelligence and meaningful response * Educational, mentoring, and minding abilities * The fantastic future of companionable 'bots! * Technologies that make them work * Services and tasks they can perform * Plans for building your own * Kits and off-the-shelf 'bots * Surprising affordability

Artistic and Performing Robots: Robot Machine Art, Aibo, Joseph Nechvatal, Robotic Art, Asimo, Tomotaka Takahashi, Electronic Art, Bill Vorn $14.14 Artistic and Performing Robots: Robot Machine Art, Aibo, Joseph Nechvatal, Robotic Art, Asimo, Tomotaka Takahashi, Electronic Art, Bill Vorn

Robot Builder`s Bonanza $19.57 #1 ROBOTICS BOOK OF ALL TIME SUPER-CHARGED BY A FAMOUS NEW CO-AUTHOR AND UPDATED TO REFLECT STATE-OF-THE-ART ADVANCESEverybody`s favorite amateur robotics book is bolder and better than ever -- and now features the field`s "grand master" Myke Predko as the new author! Author duo McComb and Predko bring their expertise to this fully-illustrated robotics "bible" to enhance the already incomparable content on how to build -- and have a universe of fun -- with robots. Projects vary in complexity so everyone from novices to advanced hobbyists will find something of interest.NEW TO THIS EDITION:*30 completely new projects *All projects have been revamped to be more customizable *More visual -- illustrations of the final product are right at the beginning of the chapter Everything you need to build from plans provided or create your own designs:* Robot Basics * Construction Techniques * Computer and Electronic Control * Power, Motors, and Locomotion * Practical Robotics Projects * Sensors and Navigation * Robot Programming * Tips, Tricks, and Tidbits

I, Robot - Widescreen Collector's Dubbed $12.99 Director Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow) helmed this sci-fi thriller inspired by the stories in Isaac Asimov's nine-story anthology of the same name. In the future presented in the film, humans have become exceedingly dependent on robots in their everyday lives. Robots have become more and more advanced, but each one is preprogrammed to always obey humans and to, under no circumstances, ever harm a human. So, when a scientist turns up dead and a humanoid robot is the main suspect, the world is left to wonder if they are as safe around their electronic servants as previously thought. Will Smith stars as Del Spooner, the robot-hating Chicago cop assigned to the murder investigation. Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, and Chi McBride also star. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

Top 10 Hot Toys for Boys This Christmas

Still searching for the perfect gift(s) for your son this Christmas? Here are 10 of the hottest toys for boys sure to be a hit this holiday season:

Transformers 2 Toys
What Is It? - Giant Robots battle to save humanity from other giant robots.
What Makes This Toy Fun For My Son? - Giant robots that not only transform into vehicles and back, but combine in even BIGGER robots are always a hit with boys.
What Should I Look For? - Megatron, Optimus Prime, Devastator (and other "Combiner" Transformers,) the Transformers Movie 2 Ultimate Bumblebee (which lights up, moves arond, and makes sounds, and the Bumblebee Plasma Cannon, to name just a few . . .
Availability? - Easy to Get. A few characters, such as Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, may not be as redily available as some of their lesser robot counterparts, but should still be relativly easy to Get.

Zhu Zhu Pets
What Is It? - Cool little motorized pet hamsters that go "zoom zoom".
What Makes This Toy Fun For My Son? - These little guys zoom around, chirp, squeak, and bounce off of walls like they were made of rubber.
What Should I Look For? - Mr. Squiggles, Num Nums, Chunk, and Pipsqueak are the stars of the show. Also be on the lookout for accompanying accessories such as the Zhu Zhu hamster ball, hamster wheel, blanket, and a multitude of interlocking Zhu Zhu playsets which, when put together, form one giant hamster city.
Availability? - Very Very Hard to Get. The hottest of hot toys for 2009, your best bet will be to shop on-line, though expect to pay a slight premium over MSRP.

Nerf N-Strike Raider Rapid Fire CS-35 Dart Blaster
What Is It? - The Nerf gun Al Capone would use.
What Makes This Toy Fun For My Son? - Fires Nerf darts like a tommy gun; semi or fully automatic with a reloadable dart drum that holds the largest amount of Nerf dart reloads in the entire line or blasters.
What Should I Look For? - The special bonus pack which includes an extra drum and darts.
Availability? - Easy to Get (in most cases.) This is the hottest Nerf gun out right now, and stock of the standard Raider blaster is healthy. The bonus pack Nerf Raiders seem to be a bit more limited in distribution however.

Apple iPod Touch
What Is It? - Another year another iPod: but this one really is worth the upgrade.
What Makes This Toy Fun For My Son? - 8gb, 32gb, or 64gb of music, video, photo, and app storage, along with web browsing at the touch of a finger.
What Should I Look For? - A small wallet sized mini touchscreen computer. Be sure to grab at least the 32gb version, if not the 64gb for maximum longevity.
Availability? - Easy to Get. Just about every electronics retailer has an iPod Touch in stock.

Twilight New Moon Action Figures
What Is It? - Another hot book to sliver screen (a la Harry Potter) property involving vampires and werewolves.
What Makes This Toy Fun For My Son? - While aimed more at the pre-teen and up young girl demographic, werewolf vs. vampire battles and a solid storyline have boys digging Twilight New Moon too.
What Should I Look For? - Collectible action figures made by Neca. Highly detailed reproductions of the major Twilight New Moon characters.
Availability? - Easy to Get. Online and in specialty shops primarily, as Neca items are not quite mass market just yet.

Bakugan 7 in 1 Maxus Dragonoid
What Is It? - Pokemon like card games with Transformers like robots.
What Makes This Toy Fun For My Son? - 6 mini robot "traps" combine to make one gigantic robot "warrior." Perfect for battling other robot warriors with or without the accompanying trading card game.
What Should I Look For? - A big dragon headed warrior robot in a big Bakugan box.
Availability? - Easy to Get. No shortages of Bakugan this Holiday season.

Chuck My Talking Truck
What Is It? - A super happy (CARS movie style) Tonka dump truck.
What Makes This Toy Fun For My Son? - Chucks speaks 40 sounds and phrases and comes equipped with sensors that "drive" him over to your boy when he calls.
What Should I Look For? - Be Sure to get the interactive Chuck My Talking Truck, and not one of the non-talking version of Chuck or his friends.
Availability? - Easy to Get. Many Chuck the Talking Trucks are readily available.

Elmo Tickle Hands
What Is It? - Furry red Elmo hands.
What Makes This Toy Fun For My Son? - A vibrating glove lets your toddler pretend to be Tickle Me Elmo.
What Should I Look For? - A pair of furry red hands with Elmo's face on them.
Availability? - Easy to Get. Nowhere near as difficult to obtain ans the original Tickle Me Elmo's that started the craze.

LEGO Ultimate Building Set
What Is It? - A Lego bucket with 405 standard lego bricks.
What Makes This Toy Fun For My Son? - With the LEGO Ultimate Building Set you and your son can build houses, cars, spaceships, virtually anything your imaginations can come up with.
What Should I Look For? - A cool blue box shaped like a tapered Lego brick.
Availability? - Easy to Get. Since the starter kit is not affiliated with any licensed property, finding one should be simple.

Nintendo DSi
What Is It? - The latest generation of Nintendo's king of held video game systems.
What Makes This Toy Fun For My Son? -Built in cameras and sound recorders, adding a new dimension to portable gaming.
What Should I Look For? - Similar look and packaging to the standard DS and DS lite, with a small "i" on the box.
Availability? - Easy to Get. Supply is healthy of just about all the major video game systems, including the Nintendo DSi, this Christmas.

And there you have it, the "Hot Toys for Boys" Christmas Toys 2009 List. Time to get shopping!

About the Author

If you're shopping for Transformers 2 Toys, Twilght Dolls, an iPod Touch, Zhu Zhu Pets (BONUS Zhu Zhu Pets Tips Here,) or any thing else fun for your kids this holiday season, be sure to visit us at J's Holiday Toy Store at HotToysList2009.blogspot.com