Walking Robot

Build your own walking robot and experiment with mechanical motion! This robotics kit walks you through wiring up the motor and linking up the legs to get your ‘bot to walk. Then make it your own using the templates included or materials from home. You’re the robot engineer, so you get to decide!

What’s included?

• motor

• body piece

• sticky foam sheet

• 4 bolts

• 4 plastic rods

• sticker sheet

• 2 paper arms

• 2 paper links

• 4 paper sheets

• body panel

• 2 leg pieces

• battery pack

• carbon zinc AA battery

• wood dowel

• 3 brads

• 2 plastic cranks

• 8 foam gears

• illustrated instruction sheet

• Tinker Zine

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Topics explored

1. 

   Robot engineering

2. 

   Engineering + design

3. 

   Mechanical motion