Robots......

As part of the holiday science programme the CSIRO here in Victoria were facilitating a Robotics workshop..... which Isaac IMMEDIATELY decided he would LOVE to go to! Unfortunately the workshop for 7-10 year olds was booked out but we had a phone call to ask if Isaac would be up for joining in with the 11-14 year old workshop....... uh, yeah!!

He was literally bouncing off the walls at the thought of spending a day building a robot from scratch..... doesn't float my boat, but hey, we're all gifted at different things!!

He spent 5 HOURS following technical drawings and beavering away with screwdrivers, pliers, nuts and bolts, gears, motors and a whole lot of other robotic apparatus and ended up with this.........



It's a walkabout ball catcher/thrower thingy that can walk in circles if you want it to and HE LOVES IT!

I was duly impressed by his perseverance and his ability to work out what he had done wrong and fix it. He is keeping his eye on what the next holiday workshops will be.....