New in the Maker Shed - Twitchie Robot kit

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Twitchie2

Certainly a unique take on robotic kits, the Twitchie awaits your creative 'touch' -

Twitchie is an open source multi-purpose robot kit. It has the capacity to frighten and scare, but also the power to love and care! It's a regular pathos-o-matic! Grown men scream! Maternal instincts long dormant, suddenly activated! It's a robot unlike any other, and you can make one with this kit. Cover your Twitchie any way you'd like to make it truly unique.

Features

  • 3 Servos
  • 6 Laser cut wooden parts
  • 1 circuit board
  • 1 ATMEGA168 preloaded with Lillypad [Arduino] firmware and Twitchie software
  • 1 set of various electronic parts such as LEDs, capacitors and resistors
  • 1 printed manual
- Twitchie Robot Kit


Check out a clip of Twitchie in action @ the Maker Faire -


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Posted by: ap1.myopenid.com on August 15, 2008 at 8:02 AM

A nice kit to be sure,

but I'm having trouble seeing how it's more than $30-$40 worth of parts. Are they really good servos?


Posted by: meh on August 15, 2008 at 8:12 PM

Guess you gotta pay off the laser cutter somehow.


Posted by: Phillip Torrone on August 16, 2008 at 3:14 PM

@meh - what do you mean? whose laser cutter?

should kit makers not make kits? i don't understand the comment.


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