If your child happen to have an interest in robotics, you might want to look into the Hummingbird Duo kit. Created by the same minds who developed the Finch robots now available in Chicago’s Public Library, the Hummingbird Duo kit is the first electronics kit that’s fun and educational for all ages.
Originating at the CREATE lab at Carnegie Mellon University through the University’s spin-off company BirdBrain Technologies, the Hummingbird Duo kit is designed to increase animatronic and robotic skills through a learning staircase: each step of the kit increases a user’s base skills, while mastering a step will allow the user to interact with the Hummingbird in new and more interesting ways.
The original version of the kit is already being used in several hundred schools, and is leading to more imaginative students in dozens of classrooms. The kit introduces skills in electronics, robots, engineering and programming, and can be used by anybody age ten and up. According to their Kickstarter page, the Hummingbird Duo “may be the first electronics kit that is fun and educational for a fourth grader, a high school student, a college engineering student, or an adult maker.”
Like their Finch Robots, the Hummingbird Duo kit was developed to help people of all ages gain skills in robotics and programming, with the eventual goal of making these subjects part of daily study for students or children.
While there’s no way to know when this kit will become available to the public, it’s already reached half of its funding goal on its Kickstarter page so we should be seeing it hit market shelves soon.
Source Kickstarter
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