Building Instructions

Zatter is the big brother of Zat and Zatty. Zatter is here to take the load. It has a large container on its back, suitable for placing different toys inside and playing with them. Built from LEGO SPIKE Core set 45678 + LEGO SPIKE Expansion Set 45680 it was designed by my wife and just slightly improved by me and my colleagues. We spend a good hour or two with the kids placing different plush toys and playing with it.

Play time for a week: About an hour

Zatty is the smaller sibling if Zat. Zatty is small and cute. It's a car on a frame with 4 small wheels and of course two mini figures riding in it or on it. Built from LEGO SPIKE Core set 45678 + LEGO SPIKE Expansion Set 45680 it was designed by my 7 years old daughter and then slightly improved by me and the colleagues.

Play time for a week: About an hour

Tempus means time in Latin.

Time flies when you are having fun! Luckily, we have this robot to keep us on top of our schedule. Tempus is a robot that is made to look like a clock. The two hands are each connected to a motor and are positioned between the two motors. This makes the robot simple to build and effective in showing how a clock works.

This robot is designed to easily lift a cup while still holding it upright. With its motor attached to the side of the hub, the robot can lift the cup to any angle you want. You could replace the LEGO cup and make it lift real cups with a few adjustments. Be careful around liquids though, the robot doesn't like beverages like you do!

A 3D scheme on how to connect the front steering motor to the Raspberry PI. This includes the Motor Driver and the batteries. The rear motor is also on this scene. 

You know those constructions that you need to push or pull something and you get a cool chain reaction, right? Here are the building instructions of such a Chain Reaction built with LEGO Mindstorms 51515 Robot Inventor set. This construction was created to be used with the smallest Inventor robot Tricky and its Kick the ball attachment. The goal is to program the robot to kick the Mindstorms/Duplo ball, included in the set, so that the ball could push the lever and start the chain reaction.

You can find the LEGO set, with which this was built, by following this link.

You can find constructions created to play with Tricky, by following the links below:

1. Bowling Pins
2. Football Goal
3. Basketball hoop

3D scheme on how to connect the L298N Motor Driver to the Batteries. Follow the step-by-step instructions. Be careful about the PCB terminal connectors.

3D scheme with instructions on how to connect the L298N driver to the batteries and to the motor. Just that. Connecting to the Raspberry Pi is at a later stage of the course. 

3D Instructions on how to add a diode to the Raspberry Pi and indicate when the Raspberry Pi is turned on. 

Step by step guide on how to add the SD card to the Raspberry pi. 

The Raspberry Pi must not be powered.  

This is the Coffee Pot, along with a coffee mug. It was 2 hours of fun

The robot is named after the South Pole–Aitken basin, the largest impact crater in the Solar System that has been discovered on the far side of the Moon.

Astronauts, prepare to enter lunar orbit! This robot comes equipped with a stand that can hold a camera or a phone in order to take a picture of the far side of the moon. If your phone or camera does not fit, the stand can be easily modified to suit your needs. With its two motors, Aitken can make both wide and narrow circles around the Moon to ensure the perfect shot!

These are 3D building instructions on how to connect a diode directly to the batteries and turn it on. 

2 hours of fun on Sunday with the daughters. Each of them was taking turns, walking with them around the house and using them

Are you a football fan? Here are the building instructions you'll need for the construction of the Football Goal, if you decide to play it with a Mindstorms 51515 Robot Inventor set. You'll also need to build the smallest robot Tricky with its Kick the ball attachment. The Mindstorms/Duplo ball is included in the set.

You can find the LEGO set, with which this was built, by following this link.

You can find constructions created to play with Tricky, by following the links below:

1. Bowling Pins
2. Chain Reaction
3. Basketball hoop

You remember Mighty Coffee? Well, my wife is looking at me building Mighty Coffee and is like "Why can't we have a beer?"...yes, the world around me. At the end of the day we had a Mighty Coffee and MBEER and we realized that both of these are not appropriate for 6-10 years old, but nevertheless the children had a lot of fun with them. They were pouring coffee in the beer mug, then put the whole Mighty Coffee into the beer mug they played probably for about an hour. Built from LEGO SPIKE Core set 45678 + LEGO SPIKE Expansion Set 45680 this beer mug is just clean and beautiful. Only with blue frames. As an engineer I tried to construct it the first time with the children and then ask them to construct it without following instructions. Try it. It is like a puzzle. Build it the first time with the 3D Assembly Instruction and the second time without any instruction.

Play time for a week: ~1-2 hours in total.