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Gizmo Robot

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Randi Williams

by Randi Williams

Nov. 11, 2019

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Based off of Jaidyn Edward's PopPet, Gizmo is a low-cost, Arduino-based robot used in AI curricula developed by the Personal Robots group.

ScratchX Activity Guide ScratchX Extension Chrome Extension Robot Assembly Resources

Acknowledgments

This work would not be possible without the hard work of MIT UROPs Pablo Alejo-Aguirre (Course 2) and MIT PRG staff member Meng Xi.

Also, thank you to the members of I2 Learning and the Personal Robots group who helped assemble dozens of these robots for distribution to classrooms around Massachusetts.

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Build inspiration: PopPet the Robot by Jaidyn Edwards

Software inspiration: LOFI Robot Chrome Extension by LOFI Robots

ScratchX inspiration: Arudino ScratchX Extension by Kreg Hanning

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