For Christmas, Griffin got a robot arm kit from Granddad. It was the "Robot Arm Edge" by OWI (owirobot.com). He loved this kit and would have finished it in one day if Mom hadn't made him go to bed. The parts came in sheets still connected by extra plastic, which kept the pieces from getting lost. Griffin had fun punching the pieces out and then smoothed the sharp edges with his set of mini files. This kit was fairly easy because there was no soldering. Griffin had no trouble following the directions to assemble a case with gears around each motor. The motors already had wires attached with small plugs at the end to connect them to the controller. The hardest part was getting all the screws in correctly. The directions mentioned that the self-tapping screws going into plastic needed to be tightened and untightened a few times to work their way in slowly. Mom's arm was tired after that.
Griffin likes this toy enough to take good care of it and plans to store it out of reach of younger kids. However, right now it is causing mischief at the kitchen table. Griffin used it to pass marshmallows to Mom one at a time. He offered to have it shine a light on the newspaper Dad was reading. He even used it to squeeze a packet of ketchup onto his fries. He thinks it's funny that the arm can push itself up off the table.
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