Post by Dad For Jack's first grade science fair project, he decided he wanted to spend his time teaching kids in his school about Little Bits. He put together a Little Bits Showcase to show kids what Little Bits are and what they can do. It was a hands on display allowing kids to actually interact with the Little Bits.
To show off some of the things that can be done with Little Bits, we built a Little Bits robot and a Little Bits timer. The robot had arms that moved up and down (servos) as well as a mouth that lit up (bar graph bit) controlled by a button. The timer used a timer bit that controlled a servo. The servo had a stick and a flag that said "Time's Up!" Press the button and the Time's Up flag would go down, after 2 minutes, the flag would pop up saying time is up.
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We built this motorized box to hold Jack's valentines for valentines day. We decided the morning of Jack's valentine's day party to add the little bits to the box. It was a crazy mad dash to get it done, Jack even missed the bus! But, we got it to work and everyone wanted to try out the box. The box worked by pressing the button which would open/close the lid depending on how long you held the button down. We used the servo on swing mode so it would go as long as the button was held down. The Build: The servo was connected to a spoon which was connected to a pipe cleaner which was connected to the flap on the box.
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