micro: Maqueen Plus - Advanced educational STEM robot with micro: bit

Description

micro: Maqueen Plus is a set for building an interactive robot. It is a small and inexpensive intelligent device equipped with a number of functionalities that will inspire and help you learn new technologies. The user learns the basics of robotics and computer science while improving and coding the robot. The robot perfectly fits into the ideology of STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), so it can be successfully used in schools that want to use modern teaching methods for education.

micro: Maqueen is based on the popular micro:bit module. The robot is programmed from a computer using such environments as Mind+, Scratch, MakeCode and MicroPython. Sample lessons to learn robot programming are available on the Github platform.

Thanks to the numerous sensors, the robot can follow the line and avoid obstacles. It has support for image sensors working within Huskylens AI, which allows expanding the possibilities with a vision system e.g. object recognition. Thanks to IR sensors it can also be remotely controlled in infrared. The electronic module has a Li-Ion battery charging circuit. The driving part of the robot is equipped with encoders and an implemented PID controller, which makes the robot drive precisely and repeatably. On the main board there are numerous connectors enabling free expansion with additional sensors and actuators.

The set is easy to assemble and the assembly process does not require complicated tools.

The micro: Maqueen Plus mechanical design is compatible with additional accessories available as part of the Mechanic series. 

Features

• Power supply: 3.7 V-18650 lithium battery (recommended 2300 - 2500 mAh)
• Charging voltage: 5 V
• Charging current: 900 m
• Charging time: 4 hours
• Battery indicator: 4 LEDs
• N20 260 rpm engine
• Buzzer
• 2 x RGB-LED
• GPIO expansion ports: P0, P1, P2, P8, P12, P13, P14, P15, P16
• 3 x I2C expansion ports
• 3 x Servo expansion ports
• 6 x Line tracking sensors
• Output of the line tracking sensor: analog and digital
• Calibration of the line sensor
• Infrared receiving sensor
• Ultrasonic sensor: URM10
• Top metal plate
• M3x12 threaded connections
• Map size: 50 cm x 50 cm
• Dimensions: 107 x 100 mm

Kit contains

• Maqueen Plus
• Ultrasonic sensor
• Line tracking map