Pip is a tiny robot on a 7 by 7 grid. Drive, watch bump, light, and distance, then tap sensor, brain, motor, and battery. Drive Pip and Pip's Parts are ready now. Think and Act will show up here when they are ready. No kit, no account, no upload.
Steer Pip around the room. Watch bump, light, and distance, then queue up to six steps and press Run. Eight short missions.
Tap sensor, brain, motor, and battery. See which part looks, chooses, moves, and gives Pip energy.
Longer plans for Pip. This lab is not ready yet.
Motors and doing the plan. This lab is not ready yet.
Sense, think, and act on a tablet. Drive Pip and name the pieces. More labs later.
A search result can tell you what a bumper is. It cannot show a child the moment the bumper lights up because they drove into a wall, then the choice to turn. That loop is the real first lesson.
Robots do not magically know the room. They sample a few sensors, pick a next step, then move. Drive Pip keeps that loop tiny on purpose so it is visible on an iPad from typical viewing distance.
Drive Pip and Pip's Parts are playable. Think and Act stay coming soon so the hub stays honest. Empty URLs would 404; coming-soon cards do not.
Buttons are large. The grid is square. Sensors sit under the floor so a child can see cause and effect without pinching a tiny joystick. A mouse still works on a laptop.
Sit beside them for the first mission. Ask what the bumper says before they press Forward. Let them fail and retry. There is no score that follows them, only a local checklist of solved missions.
This is not Scratch, ROS, Arduino, or a USB robot. There is no camera, no AI chat, and no maze editor. Those belong later, if ever, after the first hour feels easy.
Next labs in this group. Everything runs in your browser.
It is a free browser sandbox for a first robot hour. You meet Pip, a tiny grid robot, drive with three sensors (bump, light, and distance), then think a short list of steps and run them. Drive Pip is the steer lab. Pip's Parts lets you tap sensor, brain, motor, and battery and see each piece work. It is not a textbook article, and it is not Scratch, ROS, or a kit that plugs into USB. Think and Act will appear on this hub when they are ready. Nothing is uploaded. Puzzle progress stays in this browser.
A paragraph about sensors is easy for a search engine to summarize. A sandbox is not. You need to see the bumper change when they face a wall, then decide to turn. That loop (sense, think, act) is the actual idea of a robot, and it only clicks when they drive. Parents get a calm tablet session without accounts or hardware. Teachers get a shared activity that works in a browser. That is why this family exists as a lab, not as another explainer page.
Drive Pip and Pip's Parts are playable. Drive Pip is steer, sensors, and a six-step list. Pip's Parts is naming sensor, brain, motor, and battery on the same robot. Think and Act are coming later. They show as coming soon so you are not sent to a missing page.
Yes. The grid and buttons are built for tablet thumbs first, then phone and laptop. Tap Forward or queue steps, then Run. No app store install and no extra plug-in.
Sense is the three readouts: bump if a wall is ahead, light if the floor is a lamp, dim, or dark, and distance as empty cells ahead (0 to 3). Think is a list of at most six steps. Act is moving or turning, either one tap at a time or by running the list.
Yes. Think will grow longer sequences. Act will focus on doing. They are not pretend-live. When a lab is ready it will get its own URL under /learn/robotics.
Solved Drive Pip and Pip's Parts missions are stored locally in this browser under Justools keys. There is no account and nothing is sent to a server. Clearing site data on the device will reset the checklists.
Beginners who want a calm first hour with Pip. You do not need a classroom kit or prior coding. If you already build robots in Scratch or on hardware, this lab is still useful as a tiny sensor demo you can finish in a few minutes.
Runs in your browser. Puzzle progress stays on this device.