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Summary of Contents for Thames & Kosmos KIDS FIRST ROBOT PET SHOP
- Page 1 Story and Instructions...
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Page 2: Choking Hazard
› › › IMPORTANT INFORMATION Dear Adult Helpers, Safety Information Batteries Engineering is an extremely exciting ››› Warning! Not suitable for children under 3 How to insert and remove the batteries and vast field. This kit, along with its years. Choking hazard — small parts may be Open the battery compartment by sliding the lid illustrated storybook and instruction swallowed or inhaled. - Page 3 Story by Dan Freitas and Ted McGuire Illustrations by James Harmon 567015-02-180220...
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Page 4: Kit Contents
Robot Pet Shop › › › KIT CONTENTS Checklist: Find – Inspect – Check off What’s inside your kit: Description Qty. Item No. Short anchor pin, black 7344-W10-C2D Joint pin, blue 7413-W10-T1B Long joint pin, gray 7413-W10-U1S Two-to-one converter 7061-W10-G1W Shaft plug 7026-W10-H1O1 3-hole dual rod... - Page 5 Meet the Omega Family! Ty and Karlie Omega are siblings. They live in a small city Ty loves figuring out how things work. Karlie loves building called Makersville. Ty and Karlie’s dad is a writer. He writes things. science fiction stories. Their mom is a mechanical engineer. When Ty and Karlie were little, Ms.
- Page 6 Karlie and Ty’s Robot Pet Shop Adventure Began Here . . . Karlie and Ty were at their home in “I think it’s actually a robot that just Makersville, tending to their vegetable garden, looks like a bunny,” said Karlie. when a rather strange-looking rabbit hopped The robot hopped right up next to into their yard.
- Page 7 Robot Pet Shop RALEIGH THE RABBIT The green circles denote subassemblies used later. Save the subassembly until it is called for again in the instructions. Round hole gear Round hole gear...
- Page 8 Robot Pet Shop The model of Raleigh the Rabbit moves forward due to its motorized hind legs. The motor inside the motor box turns the small gears, which mesh with the medium gears, causing both medium gears to turn. The rabbit’s hind legs are off-center on the gears, so they function like cams, which are mechanisms that turn rotating...
- Page 9 After getting permission from their parents, Ty and Karlie set off for the pet shop. “I wonder what the best route to the Robot Pet Shop is,” pondered Karlie. Just then, they heard a voice from up in a tree. It was a robotic owl perched on a branch. “Hiya kids!”...
- Page 10 Robot Pet Shop OLIVER THE OWL...
- Page 11 Robot Pet Shop Pay close attention to the orientations of the gears here. The model of Oliver the Owl turns its head from side to side in a reciprocating (which means back- and-forth) motion. Round hole gear There are two cool mechanisms in this model that make this happen.
- Page 12 Karlie — who was cradling the bunny robot — and Ty followed the owl to a small, blue storefront in downtown Makersville. “Roy Rossum’s Robot Pet Shop” was printed in small silver lettering on the door. They went inside. It smelled a little more like a toy store than a pet shop, but a few animals scurried about as they entered.
- Page 13 Robot Pet Shop CLARISSA THE CAT...
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- Page 15 Robot Pet Shop Round hole gear Pay close attention to the orientations of the gears here. The model of Clarissa the Cat wags its tail back and forth. Have you seen this type of motion before? A very similar mechanism was used in the owl Left side model! Here, the crank...
- Page 16 The kids followed Mr. Rossum through a big golden door. They gasped in awe. Behind the modest storefront was an enormous factory workshop with dozens of different habitat zones. From the entryway, Ty and Karlie could see a forest, a jungle, a beach, a desert, an aviary, a number of aquarium tanks, and even a living room setup —...
- Page 17 Robot Pet Shop TANYA THE TURTLE...
- Page 18 Robot Pet Shop Round hole gear Done! The model of Tanya the Turtle scuttles along in a jerky motion due to the rods attached to the medium gears. The rods also tap against the legs, making the legs kick as the model rolls forward.
- Page 19 Ty and Karlie followed Mr. Rossum away from the pond area and down a long hallway. “I’m quite proud of this robot,” Mr. Rossum said, gesturing to the blue wall. The kids were confused because they couldn’t see anything. Just then, a chameleon became visible on the wall.
- Page 20 Robot Pet Shop CARMEN THE CHAMELEON Axle hole gear Round hole gear...
- Page 21 Robot Pet Shop Round hole gear The model of Carmen the Chameleon doesn’t actually have color- changing skin like a real Axle hole gear chameleon, but it does perform a little dance on its four legs. The legs are connected to the 9-hole rods which are connected to the medium gears on both sides of the model.
- Page 22 SLOTH The tour continued into a forest habitat, where a robotic sloth was hanging motionless on a tree branch. “When we first designed the sloth robot, it moved much too fast,” explained Mr. Rossum, “so we changed its gearing and reduced the power and now it basically just hangs around all day.
- Page 23 Robot Pet Shop SILAS THE SLOTH...
- Page 24 Robot Pet Shop Round hole gear Round hole gear...
- Page 25 Robot Pet Shop The model of Silas the Sloth is a silly model indeed. The sloth is on its back, with its legs sticking up in the air. The front legs move back and forth because cranks on both sides of the motor box transfer the rotating motion of the medium gears to the reciprocating motion of the legs.
- Page 26 The kids followed Mr. Rossum into a thick grove of bamboo. In the middle, there was a cute panda robot, chomping away on a bamboo stalk. “Real pandas eat up to 40 pounds of bamboo a day,” Mr. Rossum said. “We designed this panda robot to eat just as much.
- Page 27 Robot Pet Shop PENELOPE THE PANDA...
- Page 28 Robot Pet Shop Axle hole gear Axle hole gear...
- Page 29 Robot Pet Shop The model of Penelope the Panda walks forward using a clever mechansim: Look closely and you’ll see that when one of the hind legs is pushed forward, the other one is pulled back. This allows the model to move forward, step by step.
- Page 30 The group came to another Mr. Rossum explained that this golden door, which lead back into robotic dog wasn’t working and the storefront. he hadn’t been able to fix it yet. “Thanks for showing us around “We can fix it,” Karlie offered. your pet shop,”...
- Page 31 Robot Pet Shop FRANKIE THE FRENCH BULLDOG...
- Page 32 Robot Pet Shop Axle hole gear Axle hole gear...
- Page 33 Robot Pet Shop Done! The model of Frankie the French Bulldog moves using a mechanism very similar to that of the panda. The main difference is the look of the models, rather than the functionality of the models. In engineering and design, the look and styling of a product or device is as important as the way it works.
- Page 34 The kids headed home. With the help of Mrs. Omega — who, coincidentally, has worked quite a lot with robots in her job as an engineer — the kids had the French bulldog robot barking and wagging its tail in no time. “I love this dog!”...
- Page 35 Assembling the Pet Bed Here’s how to assemble the pet bed for your robotic pets! This is the side view of one of the tabs after it has been fully inserted into the slot. With the pet bed die-cut cardboard on the Clip the four side tabs into the slots table in front of you, fold the cardboard (as indicated by the blue arrows in this...