Teach Tech - Mech-5 Mechanical Coding Robot

Honestly, I’ll need to update my review at a later time because as of this posting it still remains in the box. This has to be entirely put together and looks like one of those old model car kits I remember doing as a kid. Be prepared to spend some time in building this because it looks like quite the project. My 12 year old took one look at the contents and decided it was beyond his ability and that it was better left to an adult in the house to put together.

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.

Bought this during the Christmas break when best buy was offering 25% discount on toys. It took around 2 hrs to build the complete robot but it was a fun family project. You need to be little gentle when assembling the parts as some parts can break easily. I broke couple of parts during assembly. I contacted the manufacturer and they sent me replacement parts free of cost which arrived in 2-3 days. Assembling the coding wheel into the robot was bit challenging but once you figure that out it is fun. I bought this for my 7 yr old kid and had to spend time with him in building this up. The box says it is suitable for 10+ yrs. So its better for bigger kids who can build on their own.

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.

A great learning tool for your children. Other coding sets involving both mech or bots are way too overpriced and eventually set aside! This fun set can be happily expanded with experience wise with its other coding mechs!

Some of the plastic pieces are susceptible to breaking so be careful. Head snapped off when son tried to move/rotate it. Make sure to pay attention carefully to the instructions when putting together otherwise its somewhat of a pain to go backwards. But once put together - it's pretty cool.

Awesome product built with my son and he had a great time for about 10 minutes he left me to do all the hard work. But once it was built he had a blast coding and playing with it.