Little Scientist's - RC Robotics 101 Sunday Workshop, Birthday Parties - NOW OPEN

This is a photo of our students learning about RC Robotics.

March Break Camp is available in Mississauga (near Oakville, Brampton, Burlington)

We are now offering our Little Scientist March Break Camps; details can be found here

Starts Daily, Suitable for Age 7-12. Drop off at 10 am and pickup at 3pm
Please print this Registration Form and come in person to pay for the fees. 

March Break Camps for Mississauga, Oakville, Brampton, Burlington neighborhood and communities. Please use this Registration Form and pay in person, or fax it in to 905-7551100 or simply register online and pay by paypal or in person. We have limited vacancies for each day. Register Early to ensure we have a space for your child to join us for real engineering fun during this March Break.

Little Scientist Club offers learnings and mentorship useful for any science projects, many parents comes to us for help for their sons and daugther's science projects that was meant to be completed by the youths themselves. Too many times,  the parents were doing it the science project for them. We believe there is nothing better than having your child an opportunity to have fun this March Break and learn by themselves the basics of machines, electricity, gears, mechanics, motion, energy and many other science and physics principles - see them in practice. And best of all, they have to finish the projects all by themselves - working hands on, asking questions, solving problems, DIY, and benefit from our vast experience in hobby, science and robotics.  We teach them how to fish, we do not serve the fish on a plate !! You can now benefit from our patience, mentorship, resources, experience, and of course unique bring home projects and curriculum. All finished projects and participants can enter into our own challenges and competitions on their respective class to promotes competitive learning environment.

We are looking for a group of 5-6 individuals to join us FREE for a workshop for a product that we are introducing into the Canadian market. This product is still under development from the inventor/manufacturer. We are delighted to be invited to BETA TEST this product under a control environment.

Interested parties should contact Daniel. The target workshop is Feb 11st (Saturday afternoon)

You are looking at Surveyor's SRV-1 Internet-controlled mobile robotic webcam. It's designed for operation as either a wireless teleoperated webcam, where the SRV-1 is driven around under control of a base station console or a remote network/Internet viewer, or a self-navigating autonomous robotic vehicle, using its sensors and built-in processing to perform assigned tasks such as object tracking and motion detection.

For those of you who had talked to us about Lego Mindstorms and you probably noticed that BoyToys and many other Toys suppliers may not have too many of the Mindstorms in stock or there seems to be a supply issue. We think that the intelligent brick is a bit dated, for one reason. Secondly the value proposition does not hold up to its MSRP. Plus, in the 21st century, it doesn't even hold mp3, or has memory slots for different media...

Hang on, we are not talking about ipod or mp3 player here....We are talking about a LEGO brick ? a PLU unit - a brain for controlling our robots.  Well, if Canadian Tire can bring in RC car that plays MP3 songs, an intelligent brick like LEGO's should do more.. Well if i am the designer or inventor, i will bring in more bells and whistle than that..

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Tamiya has new products catered for robotics hobbyist, students and for educational use. LittleScientist has teamed up with Tamiya Canada to host and organise Ontario's FIRST ever TAMIYA ROBOTICS COMPETITION.

More details available from TamiyaRobots.com

We now have the robot (basic one) running. See the video here.

The forum for RoboFest is now also active. Go visit RoboFest forum now

Our Little Scientist Club was Ontario's First Independent Team to join First Lego League in Canada in 2005 and this year, we believe we still are the only "INDEPENDENT" to join as TEAM 2047. We are inviting the youths that joined us last year at 2005 Team 603 to join us starting next week for our Saturday workshops. Check with coach, Daniel Chun at 905-782-2888 for more details.

More exciting this year will be the fact that our team will be using the all new Lego Mindstorms NXT.
We offer a very unique atmosphere for youths between age 9-14 in Mississauga to join our Team 2047.

We have tested with the following equipment to be legal for use with this summer's Tamiya Robofest

- Tamiya ESC TEU-10BK
- Tamiya Sport Tuned Motor and Silver Can Motor
- Peak Racing (PEK4115) or Team Orion (ORI-10901) Ni-Mh 3000 mAH battery shrink wrapped in red

Remember, the standard component for the drive train will be the newly released Tamiya Motor Gear head with tires set , either Part# 72101 and 72102 . See them here

PWM Speed Controller for Robots. Click here

Since we now have a pretty good idea of the amount of current our motors will need, we need some way to be able to control the speed of the motors. In the early days of combat robotics, many builders controlled the motors in their bots using combinations of relays, solenoids, switches and servomotors to control the power going to the motors. The use of servo motors with electrical switches is call “Servo Switching”, this allowed builders to use high current motors but these systems can be un-reliable, complex and only allowed motors to be run in full forward, stop or full reverse.