You don't need to be a mad scientist to make a robot anymore. Make-A-Pede, a startup created by brothers Cole and Jude Brauer, designs and sells robot kits for kids. "Make-A-Pede is an educational ...

While Lego Boost is great for younger kids, preteens and teens will appreciate the power and versatility of the company's Mindstorm EV3. The community support for Mindstorms is tremendous, because it ...

STEM-based schoolwork is a key part of your kid’s curriculum, but encouraging genuine enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering, and math that extends the classroom requires more than a good ...

The kit is based on the Kria SOM (system-on-module) that's available in industrial and commercial versions (Fig. 2). The SOM is built around a AMD's Zynq UltraScale+. The module adds power management ...

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Sony has launched a smaller, more affordable version of Koov, its candy-colored coding toy for kids. A Koov kit contains blocks, motors and sensors kids can put together to create robots and small ...

With the announcement that Robot Wars will be returning in the UK as a new TV series I am sure many have wished they could enter but may lack the robotic skills to get the main battle robot mechanics ...

Sphero’s second mini kit, Sphero Mini soccer, is inspired by the sport of soccer. Included in the kit is Sphero mini robotic ball with a soccer-ball style shell and cones. Kids can use the Sphero Play ...

DigiKey, the global distributor, has announced that it is collaborating with SparkFun to bring Experiential Robotics Platform (XRP) kits to the next generation of engineers, developers and innovators.

National Instruments has a neat Robotic Starting Kit that runs LabView. This is a second look at the kit by Technology Editor Bill Wong. The Single Board RIO platform lacks built-in WiFi but LabView ...