Penguin Solar: Funny Designer "one in one"

    We often return to the topic of children's designers, and today we will show another small and funny material: the Penguin constructor is solar-powered.



    Why we love designers

    From a pedagogical point of view, a designer is a universal way of developing the child’s skills and abilities, including creative ones.

    If you do not take relatively narrow areas of application of designers, rehabilitation medicine, where the same “Lego” cubes can be used as a means of stimulating the restoration of certain movements and even as a massage tool, then picking up the designer should be recognized as a type of pedagogical activity.

    Depending on the type and tasks, conditionally, we would divide the designers into “creative” and “according to the model”. Currently the latter - much more. The most popular “creative” designers now are, of course, “Lego” and the old “Meccano”. Their main positive difference is that children were given the opportunity to create objects on their own, without a standard, giving them opportunities dictated by their own imagination.

    However, this does not mean that the creation of "on the model" - is bad. Most often, the strict subordination of any model looks very logical, taking into account one of the designer’s assignments - familiarity with the outside world. After all, most of our lives, our children will live in a world that obeys strict rules and laws, first of all - physics, and not in a world where you can easily make hot cold.

    To the creation of "on the model" can be attributed, and some electronic designers. The same " Mikronik“it turns out on closer examination is not so simple: firstly, it develops creative abilities, as the designer in a certain sense is“ metaphorical. ”Secondly, motor skills and attentiveness, as well as the ability to clearly perform certain actions in certain sequences. when you do not assemble a constructor, but a constructor — you.

    One way or another, you need to select at least two important constructor tasks in the process of child development:

    • Psychological and emotional development
    • Motor development

    Speaking about the first “group” of tasks, it is worth saying that the children's designer is the development of memory, attention, logic, and feelings of symmetry. In the second paragraph, mention should be made of the ability to work with relatively small details, the development of ideas about the shape of objects and some others.

    It turns out that finding a “harmful” or “useless” constructor is rather difficult from a didactic point of view. However, there are also such models where the entertainment component is in the base, and everything else is added “from above”. This is the trend of recent years, which we once mentioned , which reached us thanks to the glorious Chinese developers.

    They are known to you as “ 6 in 1 ”, “ 3 in 1 ”, “ 14 in 1 ” robots."and other quantitative modifications. They should be attributed to models created" by model ", which is partially compensated by the universality of details and the number of possible models. That is, they also work out their creative part.

    At the same time, often the created models require additional reflection, because they are something fantastic, non-existent. As a rule, these models are composed of some mechanical components to bring the simple design in motion.

    And one of the most unpretentious models maxi cial close to real life - designer of solar powered " Penguin ".

    What's inside



    Inside the box are several plates with plastic elements, two packages of electronic and mechanical components, as well as instructions.



    The instruction is graphic, with small textual comments, probably designed for the fact that some children still cannot read, but can assemble the same on their own. All elements are numbered: they can not be confused.



    Actually, the “engine” of a toy is quite simple.



    It is proposed to start the assembly. It consists of several parts: a motor and gears fit inside.



    On top of this, everything is covered with a lid, the sides of the penguin legs are installed, and the contacts will look out for the time being:



    The most fascinating part is the bird building. She's really pretty sweet.



    For convenience, black and white elements are spread over different plates. The design of the animal is going pretty quickly.



    A motor is inserted into the penguin.



    Then wings are hung, which he will wave with.



    The designer consists of two parts: a penguin and a needle. The house is going after everything, and a solar cell will be installed in it.



    In the end, you get something like this:



    And the assembled design will look like this:



    • Main material: plastic
    • Assembly time: about 45 minutes

    Plastic parts are made very well, some fear still inspires soldering wires and their thickness, so you should be careful and careful when assembling, so as not to add yourself extra work. Cost everywhere, as always with China, is different. We have such a penguin - 499 rubles .

    The needle is like a penguin dock. You can charge the toy so that it moves, either from sunlight or from a halogen lamp. Charging sets in motion a simple gear mechanism. Time to charge the lamp - about 10 minutes.



    As a result, your penguin should move and flap its wings. At the docking station during charging, he will also perform some actions:



    In the process of walking, he rather amusingly rolls himself from his feet to his feet, imitating the walk of a real animal.


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