CODE2015: “Yes You Can” among the Top 15 in CODE 2015 Challenge
Are Canadian youths aware of the career opportunities that will come up in the future? HotPopRobot created a simple to use App: “Yes You Can”. The App presents new and […]
Penguin that Draws, Robot that Waves, Swing that Sways @MakerFaire Toronto
HotPopRobot put some of its most recent and specially made creations at MakerFaire Toronto (22-23 Nov 2014) held at the Toronto Reference Library. It included Pengy (the […]
RoboDomino created at Get Your Bot On (GYBO) 2014
As a part of GetYourBotOn (GYBO) 2014 hackathon held in the Ontario Science Centre (14 – 16 November) we created the “Robo Domino”. Robo Domino […]
HotPopRobot @MakerFaire Toronto 2014, 22-23 November 2014
What does see-saw, drawing and singing have in common? They are all fun activities for the kids, correct! But are they fun activities for Robots too? Find out by visiting us at […]
My First Double-Double at Carr Astronomical Observatory (CAO), Canada
Observations made by Artash at the Carr Astronomical Observatory Canada. Published in SCOPE: The Newsletter of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto. Vol 53 / No. 5, Oct/Nov 2014. We first looked at Saturn and its beautiful rings. I learned that the rings are named alphabetically – A, B, and C rings in the order that they were discovered. In […]
Climate Selfie: Producing Clean Energy and Local Food by “Self”
“Climate Selfie” among top 12 Winners of Hack4Good. Runners up in Energy and Sustainable Business Challenge category. http://blog.geekli.st/post/97978462607/announcing-12-challenge-theme-winners-hackers-choice Artash (Grade 3) and Arushi (Kindergarten) created a working model of “Climate Selfie” […]
Arduino and Robotics Training Delivered for 20 Kids @CoderDojo Toronto
Artash, 2nd Grader and Co-founder of Hot Pop Robot http://www.HotPopRobot.com delivered a 3 hour hands-on training on Arduino and Robotics at CoderDojo Toronto on 22nd June 2014. Almost 20 kids and […]
Training on Arduino and Robotics @CoderDojo Toronto, 22 June 2014
Arduino – yes, Motors – yes, Mosfets – yes, LEDs – yes, Resistances – yes. Switches – yes. Handouts – yes. All checked. Artash, Grade 2, will deliver our upcoming […]
Hacking Household Goods for Generating Clean Energy (3v-9v)
Much of the energy produced all over the world is not clean energy. We generate very high voltage using non-clean energy but reduce it to small voltages (between 3v- 9v) for […]
Windmills and Motors
HotPopRobot recently set up a stall to teach kids how to make paper windmills, demonstrate scientific experiments using balloons, and make simple homopolar motors. Over a hundred kids came, and went […]
InukshukBot: 3D Printed Motion Sensing Robot (Arduino Nano powered)
3D Printing is fun. It is even more fun when kids can combine it with Robotics. So here is our InukshukBot: the Motion Sensing Bot inspired by Inukshuks (stone landmarks built […]
Love Robots? Free Session on Arduino Programming + Motors. 22nd June. Toronto.
CoderDojo Toronto is organising its next session on “Robotics With Arduino” on 22nd June 2014 at Bimaker Lab in downtown Toronto. Participants will learn how to programme Arduino to control lights, […]
Rainbow Necklace: Track safety of kids as they place outside @HackingHealth Toronto
Kids all over the world love to play. They like to go out on their own to parks – to run, bicycle or skateboard. Sometimes they fall. In most cases […]
CuriousBot : In Top 5 NASA SpaceApps Winners (People’s Choice Award)
Yeah! Months of hard work has paid off. CuriousBot Robot has been judged among the Top 5 NASA SpaceApps in the People’s Choice Award category. Over 8000 participants in 95 […]
#CuriousBot robot moves to top 20 NASA SpaceApps Finalists.
Exciting news! NASA has named our robot “Curious Bot” as one of the top 20 finalists for #SpaceApps People’s Choice Award globally! Your support is needed to go all the way. You can vote for our project via twitter by clicking http://bit.ly/1hMP7eT (This call is over.) Curious Bot is a self-propelled rover built by kids aged 7 and 4 , with […]
NASA Space Apps Challenge 2014: Toronto People’s Choice Award Winner
Our self-propelled robot – “CuriousBot” won the People’s Choice Award at the 2014 NASA Space Apps Challenge, Toronto. It was an awesome event held at the Ontario Science Center between […]
