I just stumbled across the Star★Bot animatronic platform kit out of the community of makers in Florida. It’s designed for kids to “create animatronic robots and learn microcontrollers, mechanics and papercraft.” Its Kickstarter campaign ends in a few hours! Pat Starace developed the kits at FamiLAB “Central Florida’s provider of space, tools, and community for creative technical learning and projects.” (All the organizers for the Orlando Mini Maker Faire met at FamiLAB.)
This campaign’s fully funded, but you can sneak in your support to get some of the kits into your hands. Get one for the maker, teacher, puppeteer, hacker in your life…or even an aspiring writer, playwright, or filmmaker! They offer acrylic bases for Humans or larger-eyed Toons and Toonimals.
Pat displayed the kits at the Orlando Mini Maker Faire last month and the Miami Mini Maker Faire last weekend. And Orlando gets a big plug in this mischievous little dragon’s hilarious video by Ian Cole.
Coming across this, I was reminded of Animatronics Workshop, a terrific site by Paul Dietz, about introducing programming and interactive design to kids.
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