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Kit Complexity: 4

(1=Easy, 5=Difficult) Is the kit easy, moderate, or challenging to build for its most likely target audience? Kits clearly aimed at children would, for example, be rated differently from microcontroller kits.

Egg-Bot

Egg-Bot

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Egg-Bot

$195 to $220

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Reviewed: November 13th, 2011

The Egg-Bot is an art robot designed by Bruce Shapiro that’s fun to watch as it draws intricate designs on eggs or any other round objects 3cm–10cm in diameter, including ornaments, golf balls, and light bulbs. You design the patterns in the free app Inkscape, and the bot draws them using fine-point Sharpies, engraving tools, […]

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Sumovore Mini-Sumo Robotics Platform

Sumovore Mini-Sumo Robotics Platform

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Sumovore Mini-Sumo Robotics Platform

$99

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Reviewed: October 25th, 2011

This is one of the most satisfying kits I’ve ever built, and the Sumovore it creates will be eligible for official RoboGames Mini-Sumo competitions, in which robots vie to push each other out of the ring. This is not a project for beginners, but thanks to clear documentation and well-organized components, anyone with moderate soldering […]

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