Meccanoid G15 KS将Meccano公司带入机器人时代.docVIP

Meccanoid G15 KS将Meccano公司带入机器人时代 　　David SzondyMeccanoid G15 KS brings Meccano into the robot age 　　 　　The Meccano Meccanoid G15 KS is compaTIble with standard Meccano parts 　　Image Gallery （7 images） 　　Meccano is one of those toys with a very strong nostalgia element， involving memories of hours spent bolTIng together a toy wheelbarrow or a coffee table-size Forth Bridge. But 21st century kids relate more to smartphones than traveling cranes， so Meccano has come up with its Meccanoid G15 KS – a kit robot that can be programmed using moTIon capture. 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　First marketed in 1901， Meccano wasn‘t so much a toy when it started out as a prototyping system aimed at kids. It was a mechanical construcTIon set based on standardized engineering parts with which children could build everything from a simple car to a mechanical analog computer， if they were inventive enough and bought a large enough kit. 　　Meccano was intended as an educational toy that taught basic engineering principles， problem-solving， manual dexterity， and had the goal of producing the next generation of engineers. It must have got something right， because in its heyday it was a rare university engineering department that didn’t have at least one project on the bench that wasn‘t a Meccano lash-up. 　　 　　In recent years， Meccano has passed through several owners and has been less about general kits than building specific projects， such as a specific car or an airplane， but the Meccanoid G15 KS moves out of the toy corn thresher league and into open source robotic building platforms. In many ways， it’s a return to the more general， innovative kit days， but wrapped in a specific product. 　　Aimed at ages 5 to 14， the emphasis is on simplicity and ease of use. The kit even comes with ergonomic tools and “user-friendly instructions，” which is a bit of shock for those of us who remember the basic spanners and instructions with deliberate errors included to encourage problem-solving. 　　In its basic constru