Adafruit
Smart Car Cutebot Robot for micro:bit
This fully-assembled and ready-to-rock robot smart car is the nicest we've seen and is incredibly easy to use with a micro:bit and MakeCode. It comes all rea...
This fully-assembled and ready-to-rock robot smart car is the nicest we've seen and is incredibly easy to use with a micro:bit and MakeCode. It comes all ready to go, no soldering or screw-driver required. Simply plug in your :bit into the top slot and add three AAA batteries to get moving.
The Cutebot is a rear-drive smart car driven by dual high speed motors so it can zip around your floor. It comes with an ultrasonic distance sensor to avoid colliding with walls, two RGB LED headlights and two underlights, two line-tracking light sensors, an active buzzer to make beeps and tones, and various headers for attaching additional servos and sensors.
Note: Does not include micro:bit or AAA batteries. This is just the Cutebot kit by itself!
Features:
- Rear-drive high speed motors featuring strong, metal-geared N20 motors with 300 RPM max speeds and rubber tires.
- Cute with a small round structure, the PCB body is durable, crash-proof and easy to pick up and move around.
- Only batteries and ultrasonic sensor need to be assembled featuring easy installation. No soldering or tools required!
- Slot for ultrasonic distance sensor and I2C port for additional sensor add-ons on front edge
- Headers for additional servos and sensors on back edge.
- Metal caster wheel
- Flexible and fast movement
- Dual line-tracking light sensors
- Infrared sensor can support optional IR remote control
- Multiple rainbow LEDs!
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Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- Headers
- Rows of metal pins used to plug a module into a breadboard or connect it with jumper wires. Pre-soldered headers make the module easier to use straight away without needing to solder the pins yourself.
- I2C
- I2C is a two-wire communication bus used by many sensors and small modules. It matters because several I2C devices can share the same two wires, but each device needs a compatible address and your controller must support I2C.
- LED
- A light-emitting diode is a small electronic component that lights up when current flows through it in the correct direction. In this kit, LEDs create the flashing effect, so polarity and correct soldering matter for the project to work.
- PCB
- A printed circuit board is a rigid board with copper tracks that connect electronic parts without loose wires. For this kit, the PCBs also form the airplane shape, so they are both the circuit base and part of the finished model.
- RGB
- Short for red, green and blue, usually referring to an LED that can mix those three colours. It matters because controlling an RGB LED teaches how separate outputs combine to create different colours.
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