MONDAYS | 10 February - 6 April, 4-5pm | Age 8-14

Do you like to make things out of junk? Would you like to join an elite group battling to save humanity from boring robots? Then sign up for this epic class to build a robot over 8 weeks then fight your robot in the final class for ultimate stupid robot glory.

This will no doubt be a chaotic class with things being drilled, riveted, wired together, soldered, painted, mercilessly tested, and probably smashed. We’ll be providing tools, guidance, and as much enthusiasm as the room can handle. You’ll be bringing parts of old appliances, things from the recycling bin at home, junk from the back of the garage and at least one crazy eyebrow. You also need some ideas on how it can all hang together as a robot with crazy personality and a thirst for smashing other robots in the face. (watch some of the battles on YouTube to see how it works)

We’ll spend the first few weeks building robots, coming up with a back-story for our creations, making the rectagon (the frame they hang from during battles) and doing some “testing” (aka face-punching robots). Then, because this isn’t really tech enough for Discovery Lab yet, we plan to wire up some sensors and a stupid brain to the robots so we can connect them to a scoring system and add appropriately stupid robot sounds.

In May, we plan to bring the official Stupid Robot Fighting League (as seen on ESPN and YouTube) to town for an official battle, commentated by John “Stupid-Robot” Espin himself, and you will have an opportunity to battle it out again on the streets of New Plymouth.

Location: Manifold, 21 Devon Street West, New Plymouth.

NOTE: We require a minimum of 8 students to run this course. If we do not reach the required number all orders will be fully refunded.
Students will be using hand and power tools under supervision, and also exposed to, and causing smashing of robots and parts. While Discovery Lab will make reasonable efforts to ensure the safety of our students and spectators, there remains some risk inherent in these activities. Attendance of this class is taken as an acceptance of these risks.