Teach Tech - Mech-5 Mechanical Coding Robot

It's an amazing and fascinating mechanical device. My 9 year old son wanted to build a robot with Me. It's rated for 10+ so I knew basically I would be building it. He was able for find the pieces and snip them out. He did watch what I was doing and learned some things. I showed him how a small gear turning rapidly could cause a larger gear rotate more slowly. He also learned how it was necessary to work slowly and carefully. It took us several hours over a couple of days to build, but I could have moved faster working alone. We built the drawing robot first then took off the drawing pieces and built the soccer playing version. Works great. As I built it I wondered if at age 10 or 11 I could have built it by myself. I had learned to be careful and follow directions and those things are key.

Bought for my daughters 11th birthday. We purchased this and a more expensive robot to keep her busy, this was, by far, the better robot. It taught her to understand the inner workings of a gear driven motor. The parts on this robot stayed together after being completed. The more expensive robot was made up of what looked like cheap imitation legos. Every time that robot started rolling pieces fell off. I would highly recommend the Mech 5 Mechanical Coding Robot. Even after the initial set up she plays with it and changes the design. The age recommendation on the box is true, this is a 10 and older project.

This robot has fulfilled my longing for a time worthy project of detail and complexity that I’ve been looking for for a while there’s screws there’s wires and there’s batteries involved there’s a whole bunch of different components and just putting pieces together like “LEGO blocks”

I am pretty good at following directions and got this to do with my 11 year old son. Some of the pieces were really difficult to get exactly right and while some are marked with their identification (ie, piece C3) others are not. So when we had to backtrack, it was very tricky to try and put back together. It was a good exercise in following directions for him, but ultimately we were not successful.

It was a birthday present for a grandson who loves anything mechanical and challenging. It was a good fit.

Easy to use step by step instructions. Purchased this item because it is very similar to the Lego Boost.

My son loves these types of activities! Will be buying more

Bought this for my 10 and 6 year old nieces. They love it!