Assembling and Programming
The Penguin Robot is sold in kit, and requires a few hours to be assembled. It is not a pre-programmed toy, but rather a hobbyist robot programming platform, since it operates according to the program that the user downloads in it. However, several ready-to-run programs are freely available, released by the supplier (Parallax) and by other users on the Web.
Some of these programs allow it to sing, dance, move autonomously to North or toward the light, avoiding obstacles.
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