Dawn Robotics Forum

Hi Folks,

I am looking for a robotics kit for my daughter, she is 12 years old and has Aspergers and is absolutely fixated on building a robot. She is great on computers and tablets devices so I figured a Raspberry PI based robot would be a good thing to keep this interest going. She is going to be learning Scratching Secondary School and so I am very keen to capitalise on this also.

Can anyone make a recommendation as I have found plenty of posts about the kits but not much information on the level at which they are targeted at and nothing concrete on if Scratch can be used.

I work in IT and so will be working on this project with her but I really need what ever she builds to work with scratch as this will be familiar to her.

Thanks in advance

Mike

Hi Mike,

Welcome to the forums. It's not Pi or Scratch, but the Mirobot that was funded on Kickstarter is a nice looking starter robot that can be programmed with a graphical web environment that looks like it should be straightforward for someone who know Scratch.

Eventually, I'm hoping to get it so that our robot kit can be programmed with a Scratch like language called Blockly, but there's still a bit of work to be done before we can achieve that.

Regards

Alan