ELEGOO Toy Robot Kit Penguin Bot Robotics Compatible with Arduino Black

No complaints here, for the money it's a great kit, with good assembly instructions, that’s very easy to assemble. It comes pre-progammed straight out of the box with a very good Arduino Sketch that shows off its capabilities extremely well, great fun for kids and adults new to Arduino. It can be controlled on your phone via an Elegoo bluetooth app (which can be downloaded from either the Google or Apple app store). The Elegoo app allows you to access to several pre-programmed Arduino routines: 'Direction Control Mode' - Control the bot's basic functions via 5 button pad on via phone screen, such as moving foward, backwards, left and right. 'Music Mode' - Allows you to play several music samples pre-supplied on the SD card that comes with the kit (several sightly annoying short tracks, which you can thankfully change). 'Dance Mode' - The Penguin Bot performs a short fun dance routine to music, it has 3 dance moves / routines provided by default. 'Auto Follow Mode' - Place your hand or an object in front of the Bot and it will turn and follow it, if it doesn't detect and object within 20cm it'll stop moving. 'Obstacle Avoidance Mode' - Penguin Bot will walk forwards automatically until it encounters an obstacle within 20cm, at which point it will turn and choose an alternative path until it encounters another obstacle and so on. For those looking to be a little more adventrous, you can download all of the Penguin Bot’s Arduino files from Elegoo’s website. These include the main default Arduino sketch the Bot comes pre-loaded with (allowing for bluetooth control via the phones app etc). Along with several example files outlining its individual basic functions, such as movement, obstacle avoidance, play music and auto follow. My only minor gripe lies with the Arduino code itself, it's poorly documented in my opinion. The main Arduino sketch and indeed all of example Arduino sketches, are completely devoid of any form of helpful line comments you usually expect to find in well written code. This makes it unnecessarily difficult for a novice wishing to experiment or tinker with the Bot's existing code, to figure out exactly how the code works. Great kit and extremely good value for money !

Nice little project. Elegoo claim that the age group for this kit is 6 - 12 years. A bright 12 year old may be able to do this; but unless you have a child with a very high I.Q. I doubt it. Be warned; the nuts and bolts supplied are easily lost, so take care. Having said that, there are a couple of spares included. The phone app used to control this robot, is not the same as in the manual. The new (upgraded?) app is still very hit and miss, but it just about does the job. I would have given 5 stars if the app worked well.

A bipedal robot that actually walks for this price point is just incredible. The fact its so cute and fun to play with too is a bonus. I would say for a child or a beginner this could be a little difficult to put together... That's no fault of the instructions, simply that because of what it is and its size it is a little fiddly to put together. However, that being said, ever part of it does go together well and I have to give applause to the clever physical design of it. Note that in some pictures you'll see it with a remote control. This is the V1 robot. The V2 which is what you will receive has Bluetooth and can be controlled in a similar fashion to the remote using an IOS or Android phone or tablet. Note that the V2 robot also includes some solid improvements in the design and how it goes together.

Assembled this with an 8 year old, who did most of the assembly work except the calibration. He needed a small amount of help with the instructions. The recommended age on the box is 12+ and I reckon that at that age, grown up help is probably not going to be needed for this kit as it's simple enough to assemble and the parts connect together easily. The kit has clear instructions and makes a small robot that can be controlled using an app on a smartphone, or by creating custom commands. It's cute and plays music and can dance. The assembly involves connecting a relatively small amount of parts, servos and cables. The assembly is fairly rapid but there's more fun to be had out of the completed robot than with simpler kits.

The components are well made and when completed mine works perfectly . In my opinion it needed great care and dexterity to assemble as some of the connectors and screws are very small . I had a problem in loading the controller App : The instruction book was telling me to get an App which was no longer available (!) . By Google search I eventually discovered that the App has been renamed “ELEGOOKIT” . . . This loaded and enabled me to control it perfectly . I am age75 and have technical experience but a younger person may well complete it quicker. It is fun (if you are a geek like me )

I got this for my 5 year old, I think the build is too complicated for a child that size but we had fun building together, the robot is pretty cool, my soon enjoyed colouring in his own cover and was well chuffed to have built his own robot from scratch Overall let down by app though, which has a very short range, is limited in options and the robot moves incredible slowly. As a result he got bored of it pretty quick

Nice item. Printed manual & App manual conflict on the build process. Battery life not great and battery life not specified.

I bought this for my 9yo daughter while I was isolating from her(covid). She built it up with some mistakes so when I was better we tore it down again and rebuilt it. It now works, it has a slight limp but I think we can fix that by doing the motor reset again. This kit is great! The bits are very small, I'd recommend the precision screwdriver sets plus one of those magnetic mats but you do get a magnetised screwdrivers in the box so not essential. My daughter was able to follow the instructions and with a bit of help together we built it in less that 2 hours. We're using the app to control it using the defaults but we're soon going to look at the programming. It's awesome fun and great parent-child time! Good instructions, not perfect but perfectly serviceable, and great support download with all the API stuff/instructions we need. Highly recommend this kit.

Acquistato per il dodicenne di casa. Ha montato da solo il robottino seguendo le istruzioni e tramite app è riuscito a scrivere i suoi primi i comandi per muovermi.

Facilità di montaggio, istruzioni dettagliate, sebbene in inglese, possibilità di sperimentare la programmazione.

Divertente... il mio gatto va fuori di testa...!!!