Robotics with Mambo

•   1 Mambo Robotic System
•               1.1 Mambo Robot kit
•               1.2 Mambo Resource kit
•               1.3 Mambo Class kit
•               1.4 Recommended allocations of kits

Mambo is an educational environment for teaching robotics, which includes mechanical, electrical and software components for building robotic solutions. The robot is mobile, with 3 wheels - 2 in the front and 1 rear. The robot has an advanced controller, solid and transparent structure for pedagogic purposes, motors and gears, highly stable wheels, etc. Mambo robotic system was developed to compete in international competitions such as FireFighting, RoboTraffic, etc.

The development environment is graphical and user friendly: the programming is drag-and-drop based, and uploading to the robot is made by a single click.

Mambo is made in Israel

Mambo Robotic System

Mambo robotic system currently contains the following kits:

Mambo Robot kit

Mambo kit includes:

• 1 Controller - a board containing the CPU and other electronic components. The controller supports driving of DC and Servo motors, controlling sensors, textual screen, general and indication leds, buzzer and more.
• Mechanical parts - boards, screws, nuts, rods, clips, etc.
• Motion: 2 gearmotors, 2 front wheels, 1 rear wheel
• Sensors: 2 digital light sensors (mainly for detecting paths on the robot pads), 1 touch sensor, 1 object sensor
• Cables: 2 cables for the motors (13 cm), 4 cables for the sensors (27 cm)
• 1 USB cable
• 1 7.2V battery unit
• 1 Charger for the battery unit
• Mambo software: minimum requirements - Windows XP/Vista/7, 500MB memory, 200MB disk space

Mambo Resource kit

The resource kit contains parts for completing more advanced missions, as well as spare parts. Contents:

• Mechanical parts: rods, screws, nuts, clips, shock absorbers
• Electrical parts: 15 cables for motors and sensors
• Extra sensors: 2 light sensors - a digital and an analog, 2 touch sensors, 2 object sensors, 2 temperature sensors, 4 shock absorbers
• 5 personal robot pads

Mambo Class kit

• 1 big robot pad - compatible with RoboTraffic competition pad
• 1 Controller for programming the traffic lights
• 1 USB cable
• 4 programmable infrared traffic lights
• 2 light sensors - used as infrared receivers

Mambo Student kit

• 1 Controller
• 1 USB cable
• 1 digital light sensor, 1 touch sensor

Recommended allocations of kits

The recommended Mambo kits allocations:

• 1 robot per 2 students
• 1 resource kit per 5 robots
• 1 class kit per class
• 1 student kit per student for homework exercises

For example, for a 26 student class 13 robots are required, 3 resource kits, 1 class kit and 26 student kit.