So it's Robot Turtles IRL? My kids dig Robot Turtles and would have fun with this.
Teaching a 3-Year-Old to Program Without a Computer Screen
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's a robot for urban tech-focused dual-income families with probably 1 young child, their first (which means everything they buy is top of the line). honestly they probably could have priced it at $199 or more. witness: http://www.toysrus.com/products/luxury-strollers.jsp http://www.thebump.com/a/25-hottest-baby-products do you know how much these kinds of people spend on their babies? it's astronomical.
stupid people will be stupid. news at 11.
they're not stupid. they just make and spend a lot more money than you.
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#13Kinderlab Robotics' Kibo Robot (http://kinderlabrobotics.com/kibo/) also features a tangible, screen-free programming language where the instructions are wooden blocks that kids put together in a sequence. They are a funded startup shipping mostly to schools and museums, and the whole thing is backed up by a long line of research first at the MIT Media Lab, and now at Tufts. Previously, the founders created ScratchJr. Worth checking out.
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#14Love the idea but way too expensive. Why? I would get this for £30 maybe £40.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's a robot for urban tech-focused dual-income families with probably 1 young child, their first (which means everything they buy is top of the line). honestly they probably could have priced it at $199 or more. witness: http://www.toysrus.com/products/luxury-strollers.jsp http://www.thebump.com/a/25-hottest-baby-products do you know how much these kinds of people spend on their babies? it's astronomical.
stupid people will be stupid. news at 11.
yes how dare they spend their money on their first born!
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's a robot for urban tech-focused dual-income families with probably 1 young child, their first (which means everything they buy is top of the line). honestly they probably could have priced it at $199 or more. witness: http://www.toysrus.com/products/luxury-strollers.jsp http://www.thebump.com/a/25-hottest-baby-products do you know how much these kinds of people spend on their babies? it's astronomical.
stupid people will be stupid. news at 11.
Clannish and wasteful, not stupid.
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#17$180 on a toy for a 3 year old? No. We would absolutely play with this at our local library if they had one though. I love the screenless programming idea, embedding those concepts early.
it's a robot for urban tech-focused dual-income families with probably 1 young child, their first (which means everything they buy is top of the line). honestly they probably could have priced it at $199 or more. witness: http://www.toysrus.com/products/luxury-strollers.jsp http://www.thebump.com/a/25-hottest-baby-products do you know how much these kinds of people spend on their babies? it's astronomical.
as a father of three, I totally agree.
Unicorn idea: As soon as you feel you have too much stuff/outgrown it, you give it to my startup that takes your hand-me-UPs! and cleans them and sorts them and then posts them to our tinder-like UI where you can browse based on categories and your "discovery prefs" are your kids age... you then look through a range of various baby hand-me-ups and swipe right to add to cart and have shipped to you.
you can return them later and if they are in good enough condition, you get a restock credit (think CrossRoads in SF (your lady friend may know this store)....
And yeah - why do you think diapers.com and Jessica Alba are all trying to get into the market...
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#18To everyone complaining about the price: It's pretty difficult to build a robot that does much of anything for under ~$40. And this isn't just a robot, it has All these pieces that communicate with each other.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's a robot for urban tech-focused dual-income families with probably 1 young child, their first (which means everything they buy is top of the line). honestly they probably could have priced it at $199 or more. witness: http://www.toysrus.com/products/luxury-strollers.jsp http://www.thebump.com/a/25-hottest-baby-products do you know how much these kinds of people spend on their babies? it's astronomical.
as a father of three, I totally agree. Unicorn idea: As soon as you feel you have too much stuff/outgrown it, you give it to my startup that takes your hand-me-UPs! and cleans them and sorts them and then posts them to our tinder-like UI where you can browse based on categories and your "discovery prefs" are your kids age... you then look through a range of various baby hand-me-ups and swipe right to add to cart and…
They already have this in Australia (minus the app). They're called "toy libraries" and are great.
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#20This write-up doesn't explain how to program the device, but this page does
http://docs.primotoys.com/docs/cubetto-manual.html#introduct...
Basically, you program a sequence of commands FORWARD, LEFT, RIGHT. There is also a special command FUNCTION that executes a user-specified sequence of up to four commands.
Does it allow the FUNCTION command within the definition of the function? If it does, there's a lot of non-trivial stuff with recursion to do
For instance, a stack overflow
commands = [FUNCTION]
function = [FUNCTION, FUNCTION]