Many kits are too polished and that leads to beginners ... robot. The Shonkbot is what the team at Bristol Hackspace came up with for a robot that is obvious in its working and encouragingly easy ...

Now, we can double up – and because the micro:bit can control them, we can make a robot that roams. First, give your robot a body. I used a pre-made chassis, but you can use cardboard ...

Adafruit’s guide has a simple servo sketch you can use to make your robot move. I’d advise using the base servo (the one on the bottom) for this, as it’s the only one on your robot that has ...

while others use dead-simple commands to make the robot move. Based on our expert interviews and our own experiences, we believe the best robotics kits for beginners challenge you to build and ...

It's not easy building robots ... a tool that allows even beginners to design machines. CSAIL's Interactive Robogami system makes it possible to conjure up a robot design in minutes and to put ...

Now, far from the humble reading light you made in week 2, you should be able to build an autonomous line-following robot to bring the biscuits when your hands are full with mugs of tea.

Like our main pick, it has easy-to-use pieces and a range of projects to spark beginners ... to make paper or cardboard crafts to augment the kit; the light-up module could become a robot ...