Walt Perko
From HBRC WIki
Hi, My name is Walt Perko ...
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I am "OPEC of the West" = The Old Pueblo Engineering Center of the West.
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I am currently developing a very large robotic gaming project that evolves the use of several different types of robots to be complete. It is centered on one particular robot scheme that I call the “R2P” or “Ready to Play” concept. Rather than kids trying to build a box of parts into a robot, learn complicated programming or having to figure out how the electronics work ... they simply plug in a battery and play with robots. The learning starts as young as 4-years old and continues through the college level classroom. As they grow and learn and understand more and more about robots and robotic devices as as they can they will then begin to disassemble the robots to explore more inside to repair, modify, customize and design their own robots.
Basically I want to sell an "in-reverse" or inverse robot kit.
In preschool kids will learn how to play with the different types of robots and learn how the robots work while playing robot games. Then as the kids learn to read (encouraged by the preflight to make their robot a better competitor) they learn how reading, writing and arithmetic are an important part of life itself. Later as high-school or college students the kids study how the electronics work ... how the mechanics work ... about the software algorithms and on how to assemble their own R2Pv1 type gaming robot.
But all the while the users are playing the dozens of games with their R2Pv1s and developing skills they will need for their future jobs such as; mining, archeology, caving, ocean exploration, medicine & surgery, planetary exploration etc.
The users will customize their R2Pv1s as they need to repair and/or change teams. They will customizing as in the colors, materials, lights, skins, engraved names on the robot etc. even deciding upon using a high-speed wheelbase or tractor base or how many legs the robot might use.
This is a short video showing off a few of the R2Pv1 bot systems;
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I am also trying to open the "L'Robotorium" http://LRobotorium.com/a place where children all ages can come to play and learn about robotics.
Current robotics kits require too much from the buyer that most consumers just don't want to get started. My new approach to product design eliminates much of what is needed to get started experimenting, developing and designing with robotics making it much easier and faster to comprehend.
