For inquisitive kids and beginning tinkerers alike, pick up the Makeblock Arduino Starter Robot Kit, now nearly half off at $79.99 in the TechSpot Store.

Quirkbot is a small 8MHz microcontroller with an Arduino-compatible bootloader that can be made part of a Strawbees creation without any need for soldering or breadboarding. It has light, distance ...

Other Arduino kits to consider The HJ Garden Electronic Component Assorted Kit includes an MB-102 breadboard DC voltage-stabilized source module and 65 colorful breadboard jumpers.

An Arduino-based robot for people who don’t know how to build robots "Sparki" ideal for teaching kids (or adults) how to program robots. Jon Brodkin – May 2, 2013 8:22 AM | 28 ...

Dash Robotics makes small bio-inspired robots that teach kids how to program while they play. The bots are $50 apiece and come as a sheet of parts that you have to pop out and build yourself, like ...

Kevin King's educational robot for kids literally began as a light bulb of an idea. LED light bulbs, that is. About a year ago, King, 37, a Vancouver father of two who runs the camera flash ...

So, teachers can design lesson plans around the spherical robots, which normally retail for $80 each. Orbotix sells 10-packs of Spheros to teachers and schools for $600.

Arduino is now offering a fully-assembled robot, designed as a base platform for electronics tinkerers' DIY robotics projects. Its hardware and software are open-source, and designed to be hacked.