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A project log for Mirobot - WiFi robotics kits for kids

Mirobot is an Arduino-based WiFi robotics kit that's designed to help teach kids about technology

ben-pirtBen Pirt 04/27/2015 at 13:500 Comments

It's been a busy week for Mirobot - on Tuesday I launched the latest version on Kickstarter then spent that evening demoing it at the London IoT Meetup (which is well worth a visit if you're in town).

On Friday night I headed up to Newcastle to show Mirobot at Maker Faire UK. As usual, it was a great event. Well organised and well attended. Lots of interesting maker things to see and do (CNC plasma cutter anyone?). Mirobot was well received and I set it up so that it would draw a star pattern over and over which ended up reminding a lot of people of the Spirograph of their youth.

It's always hard getting your head into doing development work whilst running a kickstarter - too much time spent obsessing over Twitter and Kicktraq to concentrate, but I'm going to spend some time working on the new packaging design and a few code features like support for arcs and maybe a accelerometer controller app. Should be fun :-)

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