“Great little kit as an introduction to the Pi and Robotics. All you need to make a neat little car. Really clear instructions. Working on turning an old army toy jeep into a beefed up remote control car now!”
“Excellent kit that provides all the bits needed apart from base and Raspberry PI. 3D printed the base and all the parts fitted to make an excellent but economical solution for exploring robotics.”
“It's brilliant and absolutely great value for your money. I built one with a Lego Technic chassis and used it to teach my nephew some basic python coding. He didn't want to part with it at the end so I ended up ordering a new one. The Python script is easy to work with and the instructions are excellent. As an applied linguistics / new literacies researcher I can't emphasize how important coding and physical applications such as simple robotics are for children's literacy development.
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“All the parts and code youll need to get a project started. Perfect for beginners who wants to learn to code and to build a simple robot.
Two thumbs up from me on this one.”
“Great fun - with simple, clear instructions that contain no errors - all the software runs. It's a very easy way to learn alot. Definitely want to do more robotics! :-)”
“The kit is easy to assemble and looks nice.
However, it is totally UNUSABLE for the Raspberry PI-3B. Further thedp fan makes very very much noise. Below are my test results:
First I charged the battery board for more than 24 hours, and I connect an USB-power supply to the battery board.
With the switch on the battery board set to ‘on’, my PI-3B keeps on rebooting (never finishes the boot process). This is caused by the fact that the PI-3B, together with the fan, needs more current (ampere) than the battery board can deliver.
So I disconnected the fan and continued testing.
Also without fan, the PI-3B will still not boot with the switch to ‘on’. In this situation I had no devices connected to the PI-3B, only an UTP network cable. Even in this situation the battery board deliveress not enough current. This also happens when the USB-charger is connected to the battery board.
The only way to boot the PI-3B is to connect the USB-power supply to the battery board AND put the switch on the board to ‘OFF’. After the PI-3B is booted I can put the switch to ‘on’. I can now even disconnect mains, and the PI-3B stays working (that’s fine).
However I can never reboot the PI-3B with the switch on the battery board put to ‘on’ (during the boot process the PI-3B needs more current than afterwards). This makes the whole battery board useless.
CONCLUSION: the whole battery board delivers too less current to boot the PI-3 (even without devices connected to the PI-3B, and with the fan disconnected. The whole package is also completely useless.
I would like to have it replaced with a battery board that can deliver enough current for the PI-3B together with the fan, as you may expect from this set (it is specified to work with PI 3B)”
“I think its a great kit. I enjoy it together with a youth aged 9 who love it and whom I learn Python programing those days. To see practical changes to code you write makes this kit with great value to everyone aged old and young. Send our greetings to the kit makers.”
