Building Solar Robots for Kids - STEM Week Continues with Solar Projects Page-7

Building Solar Robots for Kids - STEM Week Continues with Solar Projects

Season:1
Episode:12
Page Number:7

Jeff: The technical jargon is a little elevated here.

Mr. Dog Poop: Yeah. The technical jargon. These are actually double-sided PSA foam tape.

Jeff: White sticky things.

Mr. Dog Poop: White sticky things.

Jeff: And they stick this thing to this other thing.

Mr. Dog Poop: And PSA stands for pressure sensitive adhesive. We're not going to get into all the technical language because this is about kids' projects, and they probably will know it.

Jeff: I will say if your kids drink as much alcohol as we do, they probably won't be successful at building these. And you probably should lock up your liquor cabinet.

Mr. Dog Poop: You should probably lock up your liquor cabinets. Don't let them watch the Man Show.

Jeff: The more you know.

Mr. Dog Poop: So, I've given up. I don't even know where to start. I mean, this would be a step one, step two, put this, insert this.

Jeff: I've got the two main things I feel like built. I guess I haven't gotten far enough to see where you actually get the cool looking thing. Like, I want to build one of these thingies, not just a battery.

Mr. Dog Poop: Well, I mean, these are cool robots, and you can build, what, six different robots or something?

Jeff: Yeah.

Mr. Dog Poop: So which parts?

Jeff: If you ever get that far.

Mr. Dog Poop: Okay. So, do these have numbers on them? No.

Jeff: No, that's my thing is they're not numbered. You're just guessing.

Mr. Dog Poop: An IKEA cabinet has numbers on it. It says, insert this here, do this. Yeah. It's a pain in the butt. You know, we should have included an IKEA cabinet in this week, because it's probably just as complicated as this garbage.

Jeff: Oh man. Now I don't even know what I'm looking at. Oh, the upper gear box. Oh, this is where I got stuck earlier. It says yellow and there's nothing yellow here except for this. And this is not.

Mr. Dog Poop: These are the yellow gears.

Jeff: Right, right here.

Mr. Dog Poop: That makes the robot feet walk. You got to make them. I'm excited to see what you built because this confused a lot of me. I don't even know.

Jeff: Oh, if BS&Beer! is right, I'm going to feel like such an idiot. He said, I think the numbers are on the plastic holders. And if that's true, we probably shouldn't have cut them. They are on

Mr. Dog Poop: This son of a bitch! Son of a bitch!

Jeff: That is bad directions.

Mr. Dog Poop: We cut all the pieces.

Jeff: The very first page, it says to cut these whole things out, and then you realize, oh, never mind.

Mr. Dog Poop: They are literally numbered.

Jeff: This is why you read directions.

Mr. Dog Poop: They're literally numbered. Can you hold one of these up to the camera so they can see the numbers on the camera?

Jeff: Yeah. Yeah. See, there's a one there. A two there.

Mr. Dog Poop: Yep.

Jeff: Oh my God.

Mr. Dog Poop: There's numbers. So, we cut all pieces out.

Jeff: But it's the first thing in here, but it says, do not cut them in advance.

Mr. Dog Poop: Oh, it says.

Jeff: Dammit! This would've been so easy if I knew what part was what, I actually could have done this.

Mr. Dog Poop: So, we basically made this kit useless.

Jeff: Rip everything out like a dumb cave man.

Mr. Dog Poop: All right, so now we have to start trying to put it back together to figure out where the pieces came from. Unbelievable.

Jeff: Yeah. So, I'm sorting through, you know, a hundred pieces on my desk trying to find that right one. And it was right there the whole time.

Mr. Dog Poop: So, if your kid goes through it, cuts all the pieces out, he just wasted the whole kit. Right? Because there's no way you can put this together. It's impossible. It's physically impossible to put this kit together without the numbers.

Jeff: Well, you know what else. I'll say this. So, think about this. The parents, this isn't something you can get your kid and say, have fun with this. This is like, I need to sit here because I don't trust an eight-year-old to cut. You know, use those things to cut it out and their hands aren't going to be strong enough to do it. So, you need to sit there with them, which I guess is good. But I also think it's good to give kids projects that they can do on their own.

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