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Kid Simple, Kid Safe Robotic Tools & Toys

- A new world of Gaming & Robotics -
- A new world of Educational Robotics -
- A new Marketplace for Hobby Robotics -

What's the future? First Person Shooter/Capture the Flag gaming ... safe in the home ... kids are safely OFFline! The fun part ... First Person Shooting @ Targets! Another fun part ... Robots with a mission to find the enemy HomeBase A few short videos that help understand the good "OPEC of the West" is doing to make the world better ... Why we think the preflight so important ... A Preflight Lesson Why we build the R2Pv1 robot ... Combining Technologies What do kids all ages prefer to do? ... Play w/Robot & Lasers Other bad things to consider ... Our goal is to get kids off line and playing with their friends ... Too many kids online Kids can't cheat in front of all their friends ... Cheating Most robot kits are to complicated ... ... they require too much involvement ... for too little excitement? ... Robot Programming This kind of robotics your kid wants is not safe for any kid any age ... BattleBots What about those robot kits ... they can perform one maybe two tasks ... Follow a line? ... ... Follow a light? RoboSumo? ... ... RoboKarate? Crawl around w/no mission? ... ... Fragile RoboWorld Displays?

We don't sell kits ... we sell Ready to Play robot toys that encourage learning.

- NO ADULT SUPERVISION IS NEEDED OR REQUIRED -
- and Kids Play is in a Home SAFE Environment with Home Safe Robotics -
- Any Kid can figure this stuff out! -

	So those of us here at “OPEC of the West” are designing robotic tools and peripherals that can be handed to even the smallest child and they can begin to play and learn without the need for adult supervision or guidance.
	Online gamers range from about 4-years old to over 100-years old … Gamers are probably the single largest online presence today and spend more money per year on computer gaming than this robot and gaming system costs. Gamers are driving the gaming hardware and software market and your pocketbook into bankruptcy. So I want to drive your kids to a new and nicer game. I want to get your kids OFF the internet and playing with their friends again.
	The contemporary kid gets home from school … runs to their room and gets online to play games or chat with their online friends. The only things they’re really learning are;
	Hate, Violence, Sexual Perversions and they are talking to online Predators
	The R2PV1 gaming system is an educational path that accidentally teaches your child while they play and compete. The child concentrates on the lessons little by little as they become familiar and comfortable with using the R2PV1 robot and they’re offline playing with other kids learning good social skills instead of learning all the bad social skills.
	How do they learn? It’s hands-on empirical lessons while playing with a toy! They don’t even know they’re learning anything important for life … but they’re having lots of fun ... learning so they can play a better game.
	Some of the lessons are;
	§ . Fair and Cooperative Play - The kids are now playing with their friends all in the same room … they naturally develop better social skills in this shared environment v. alone on a computer. § . Preflight – Checking out all the systems before operating the machinery … be it an airplane or a giant crane … much of the safety comes from the preflight … making sure everything is working and buttoned down tightly in its proper operating positions. § . Robotics – The first lessons are what is a robot, how does the robot function, what are the primary components of a robot, what are the various types of robotics … hardware, software, operations and maintenance. § . Alignments - How to adjust and align the robots vision system to most rapidly recognize a clue on the wall or an opponent. Sighting in the safe low-power Laser ShotGun to accurately shoot at targets and robotic opponents. § . Mathematics - How to measure and calculate angles to optimize the robots turns in the gaming arena. § . Arts & Crafts - How to build a gaming arena from old cardboard boxes, used paint and other items that can be recycled into the gaming arena. § . Systems SetUp - As the kids learn the preflight, they also learn how to “Tweak” the robots different settings and the different “Tweaks” give them practice in setting up the robots different parameters for more optimal game play … this also is teaching the kids how to adjust and setup software for their own use on other types of machines including general purpose computers. § . Mechanical Engineering - While playing with the robot the kids see how the different mechanical devices work as they use them and find new ways to extend the robots abilities. § . Software Engineering - As the kids learn how to use the robot they begin to study both the hardware and software for robotics so they can improve the robots abilities to perform in games and so they may even invent new games. § . Electrical Engineering - Now the kids are in high-school and learning more and more about robotics and robotic systems while still competing with their friends and find they will want to add more and new electronics to the R2PV1 to make it perform even better in competitions. As they learn the basics of the electronics they also learn the new technologies available and start to incorporate those technologies into their robot to make it faster and better.
	The R2Pv1 R2Pv1-Robot = PreBuilt = Ready to Play the PreLoaded game "Castles & Crosses" and a dozen other robot games ...
	Winner of the Silver “Best of Show” @ 2007 RoboGames
	Parents Benefit:
	Your kids are not sitting alone exposed to any unknown online elements while playing games anymore. Your kids are playing in a much safer environment and developing better social skills at the same time. Your kids are giving themselves an education about Robots but also they’re learning Teamwork, Arts & Crafts and developing many life long skill sets as you can read about in the “Multiple Intelligences” section below. The R2PV1 Robot is a real Educational Toy that provides a long-term study path in Robotics, Math, Mechanics, Computer Programming and Arts & Crafts. As your kids are playing with the robot, they are also learning how to make all the different components that make-up the R2PV1 robot when visiting the L’ Robotorium Arts & Crafts Shop … they learn how to “trick-out” or customize the robot by learning how to make their own exoskeleton parts. They learn how to repair broken electronics by visiting the L’ Robotorium Arts & Crafts Shop. Eventually, your kids will be able to build a robot from nearly scratch at the L’ Robotorium Arts & Crafts Shop.
	. . . . . (additional benifits)
	§ . HomeSpy - Remotely Controlled Video Surveillance to see around inside your home or office via the Internet while you’re away. § . GPS & WiFi - the robot can report its location whenever a wireless internet connection is available … Parents will know where their kids are playing, and both GPS & WiFi can help owners recover their stolen property. These also adds more gaming and other competition features.
	Multi-Skill Benefits
	When kids grow up learning the skills they will need in life many of these skills are required in different disciplines including NASA space/rover explorations and “Home Safe” military combat … when NSAS needs the skills, kids who grew-up playing with the R2PV1 gaming system will have most if not all of the skill set required well practiced and they’ll be ready to take on a new job … a veteran will exit the military with those skills well honed and these skills can translate into real civilian jobs … mining, archeology, caving, ocean exploration, medicine & surgery etc.
	Some of the skills sets learned playing with our robotic toys and tools are … · Telepresence · Eye-Hand Coordination · Preflighting Equipment for Safe & Optimal Operations · Math (Basic Trigonometry) · High-Level Programming (Preflighting) · Puzzle Skills (building the gaming arena) · Arts & Crafts (building the gaming arena and Customizing their bots) · Teamwork (Playing as teams as 4-users/display monitor) · Social Development (Playing as teams as 4-users/display monitor) · Safe v. Friendly Fire (JudgeBots Keep the Score … ... Shots Taken v. Accurate Hits Subtracting Points for Missed and Friendly Fire)
	Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences - the initial listing
	Candidates for the title 'an intelligence' had to satisfy a range of these criteria and must include, as a prerequisite, the ability to resolve 'genuine problems of difficulties' (ibid.: 60) within certain cultural settings. Making judgements about this was, however, 'reminiscent more of an artistic judgement than of a scientific assessment' (ibid.: 62). Howard Gardner initially formulated a list of seven intelligences. His listing was provisional. The first two are ones that have been typically valued in schools; the next three are usually associated with the arts; and the final two are what Howard Gardner called 'personal intelligences' (Gardner 1999: 41-43). Linguistic intelligence involves sensitivity to spoken and written language, the ability to learn languages, and the capacity to use language to accomplish certain goals. This intelligence includes the ability to effectively use language to express oneself rhetorically or poetically; and language as a means to remember information. Writers, poets, lawyers and speakers are among those that Howard Gardner sees as having high linguistic intelligence. Logical-mathematical intelligence consists of the capacity to analyze problems logically, carry out mathematical operations, and investigate issues scientifically. In Howard Gardner's words, in entails the ability to detect patterns, reason deductively and think logically. This intelligence is most often associated with scientific and mathematical thinking. Musical intelligence involves skill in the performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns. It encompasses the capacity to recognize and compose musical pitches, tones, and rhythms. According to Howard Gardner musical intelligence runs in an almost structural parallel to linguistic intelligence. Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence entails the potential of using one's whole body or parts of the body to solve problems. It is the ability to use mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements. Howard Gardner sees mental and physical activity as related. Spatial intelligence involves the potential to recognize and use the patterns of wide space and more confined areas. Interpersonal intelligence is concerned with the capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people. It allows people to work effectively with others. Educators, salespeople, religious and political leaders and counsellors all need a well-developed interpersonal intelligence. Intrapersonal intelligence entails the capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one's feelings, fears and motivations. In Howard Gardner's view it involves having an effective working model of ourselves, and to be able to use such information to regulate our lives.
	Although kids will still be using a computer or gaming console with their game controller they will watch the robot battles unfold on the display screen and they will not be connected to any online server full of “unknown elements”. They will only be connected to their gaming robots right there in the same room with them. They only see what the robot can see there in the room and you can know what they’re doing from another computer in the house using the GPS, WiFi and BlueTooth connections via the internet even if they’re playing at a friends house. The R2PV1 gaming system minimums are an autonomous gaming robot called the R2PV1. The R2PV1 is a black box that sits on top of a mobile platform such as tractors, wheels or legs. Adding the FPS “Gunner’s Position” another smaller black-box that plugs on top of the R2PV1 black box and the robot is the self navigating ship while your kid is the “gunner” on top to fight off attacks from other gaming robots, MonsterBots, GuardBots, TrapBots and TargetBots. Now your kids are safe … away from the online perverts and predators. They better develop their social skills because they are playing with their friends face-to-face in the same room. But on top of all that niceness is the fun they are having while they learn Math, Science, Engineering, Programming and develop their own Arts & Crafts skills and creativity while building their gaming arenas and playing with the R2PV1. The youngest kids start to use the R2PV1 as a toy. Up to four kids on each monitor and/or TV they can join together and play all the fun games together with their friends. As the kids get older, the kids will take their robot to school as a teaching aide in a robotics class and learn on how to use and program the robot to play the games more efficiently … now they’re learning how to apply the mathematics they’re learning to a real world solution with hands-on testing. Just playing with the robot is a challenge for them to figure out the “PreFlight” programming for each different gaming arena to better compete with their friends ... so they play and play and it’s all practice for their school lessons while playing with the R2PV1 robot. As the kids learn to optimize the R2PV1 to play more efficiently, they learn the importance of the “PreFlight”, the importance of mathematics in the real world … all the while they’re learning that math using a robot they don’t even think of as a lesson or work, but just that they are playing with the robot. They learn how to measure angles and calculate angles and they learn how to calculate running time v. battery capacity and they learn many other practical mathematical concepts with a hands-on real-world experiences … all using the R2PV1 robot. They can’t help but to have fun learning when using the R2PV1 robots!
	While learning to PreFlight the R2PV1 the users also begin to learn about Artificial Intelligence by making the initial settings in the PreFlight mode, then watching and learning how the robot plays the game and travels through the gaming arena … the AI inside the robot will adjust and optimize those initial settings to increase the robots playing performance in the gaming arena … and at the end of the competition the kids can look and see the differences from their PreFlight to the AI final settings and log this information for future reference on their computers. As the kids take the robot to school, they learn more about the Arts & Crafts to build bigger and better gaming arenas and MonsterBots, TrapBots, GuardBots and JudgeBots. They learn all about robotic systems. They learn about the physics the robot has to endure to perform some of its functions ... they learn about gaming strategies ... they learn about robotics thinking v. human thinking and Artificial Intelligence. As the kids get older and more comfortable with the R2PV1 they learn how to disassemble and reassemble the robot and how to actually make their own replacement parts and to create new parts to customize their R2PV1 robot. Eventually, the kids are learning how to write their own gaming programs … to design and build their own electronics and how to design and build their own robotic mechanics. Finally, they graduate from college with the most comprehensive education in robotics in history. All the time they’ve mostly just been playing games with the robot and learning how to make the gaming more fun … using the R2PV1 robot.