Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Cheap FingerTech "Viper" R/C Robot Kit
After robogames last year my eight year old daughter wanted to build a combat robot. She was able to assemble this kit entirely by herself in about 1.5 hours by following the included instructions. She has some experience soldering and likes to work with her hands. The kit has survived bashing around our arena and falls from 3 feet repeatedly. She is working on a mold for the vacuum former to improve the top armor which from stock looks like it is only 0.0625. Fingertech has worked hard to put a set of robust components together at a reasonable price with excellent documentation. If you like to work with sheet metal, you could put this kit together for slightly less, but quality costs money and their engineering and planning is totally worth the price of entry for what you will learn about how to put together a small robot.



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