It's that time of the year again.

"Mummy Az" <manth.RemoveThis@westnet.com.au> wrote:

> Athena has recently been researching and building robots. Extremely
> simple thus far but she's getting more adventurous. Her next project
> is a dragon-bot with flapping wings. All her allowance right now is
> going on wires, motors and other delightful items! And she loves it.

Bravo for her! And good luck with her project.

Joe Morris

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:16:58 -0800, "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
<"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Mummy Az wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:38:47 -0800, Edna <huelsenbeck RemoveThis @gmailDOT.com>
>> wrote:
>
>>><snip>
>>>I think our family is going to try some robotics. We went to Wondercon
>>>yesterday, and attended a session on building R2D2. There are a LOT of
>>>people around the world building their very own droids! R2D2 is too
>>>complicated for us, but the kids are very excited at the prospect of
>>>building a working mouse droid, so I'm going to do some research.
>>
>> Athena has recently been researching and building robots. Extremely
>> simple thus far but she's getting more adventurous. Her next project
>> is a dragon-bot with flapping wings. All her allowance right now is
>> going on wires, motors and other delightful items! And she loves it.
>
>Oooo. Dragon-bot. I wanna see a picture!
>
>(Eventually, of course. I completely understand the engineer's need to
>fiddle and perfect before presenting to an adoring public.)

She's still working on designs and collecting equipment so it will be
some time before it's ready to display. I'm sure displays can be
arranged though. Her science teacher at school wants to see it, too,
when it's done.

She has always *loved* making 3-D models of things. Then she
progressed to articulated models where Stuff Moved when you pushed or
pulled. The robotics seems to be a natural progression of this.

And, since she's a massive Draco-Phile, a Dragon-Bot seems to be the
next logical step to her.

Az