How do we build a robot? How do we bring it to “life"? Solder circuit boards, assemble mechanical parts, decorate your robot to match your own ideas and finally program it with a special software - Your dancing robot will be ready for the great disco party.
Raymond Oung and Philipp Reist developed DanceBots, while working on their PHD at ETH Zurich. The first DanceBots workshop took place in October 2011 at the sports holiday camp Fiesch in Zurich. Since then, mint & pepper continuously improved the project together with Philipp Reist and a lot of passion. To make the DanceBots internationally accessible to a wide network of users, they provide an open source software (see modules). This enables children and teenagers to program their dance moves from home.
Children and teenagers create their own robot, with a focus on electronics. Creativity is required for a most personal decoration and the design of a DanceBots’ choreography.
Soldering, assembling, decorating and programming a robot
Children and teenagers build their own dancing robot from scratch. They solder the electronic components onto a circuit board, assemble the mechanical parts and decorate the robot. They then compose a choreography using a special software for DanceBots. They can bring their dancing robots back home to program additional dance moves.
