
The Crafty Robot makes fun, sustainable robot kits that help you get creative with technology. Re-use #Smartibot and #Fizzbit to invent robots of your own.
Hackney, London
Joined March 2014
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We ran a Robot Unicorn Joisting workshop at EMF festival using 3D printed versions of the Unicorns from the Smartibot kit.
So @nowplaythese is underway and we’ve been running a big participatory game design experiment using #Smartibot and #Smartipresence.
It all started with a robot and two cardboard tiles we’d made. The first had this inconsiderately designed footway, dropped kerb and door. 🧵
Here's the link to drive one if you want👇
Replying to @rossatkin
If you want to drive this robot in the cardboard world people here at @nowplaythese have built you can at this URL: smarti.app/smartipresence/mu…
We’re building what will hopefully be an an interesting and fun collaborative installation at @nowplaythese and have made these stickers to give to people who participate.

ALT A sheet of round stickers showing a small purple wheeled robot with a smiling face and a smartphone behind it with the word ‘SMARTIBOT’ written on the front on a background of isometric squares in cardboard brown, pink, purple, light blue and orange. The words ‘LEVEL MAKER’ are written in large type and ‘NOW PLAY THIS’ and ‘2022’ in smaller type.
We (mainly Gavriel, here doing work experience) made a tutorial that combines CRAFT AND PHYSICS! It's got instructions to build a fun #Smartibot powered crane and details of an experiment to measure it's efficiency and understand forms of energy⚡️ 🧵 thecraftyrobot.net/blogs/pro…
Next the experiment. We use the crane to lift a full drinks can and measure the current and voltage going into the motor using a multimeter. We also time how long the crane takes to lift the can a fixed distance.
Then use all these measurements to calculate the efficiency of the motor. Along the way we learn about electrical, kinetic and gravitational potential energy.
We figured this might be useful for teachers/homeschoolers so there's a print out version: cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/10…
We ran a remote workshop where participants used #Smartibot to build their own cardboard telepresence robots and then built games around them that we all took turns to play. It worked and the games were diverse and fun. You can read about it: thecraftyrobot.net/blogs/pro…
...or watch a video explaining how it all worked. youtube.com/watch?v=BzxaFtuN…
We've been playing space pirates with 80s LEGO. We made an app-controlled spaceship by building on top of the #Smartibot Brick Kit. thecraftyrobot.net/collectio…
Did you know you can use #Smartibot to build robots with your favourite plastic bricks? We even sell a Brick Kit to with the bits you need for a basic chassis. Here’s little stop motion video showing how it works. thecraftyrobot.net/collectio…
Once you’ve got a chassis with the Smartibot circuit board, motors and battery box mounted, you can build whatever you want on top with your own bricks, like Tristan and his daughters did here 👇
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Lovely thread from @tristanwatson on why he thinks you should buy a #Smartibot for Christmas 🎁🎄☺️
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