£225.00 | 20 Units in Stock |
Marty is a fully programmable, WiFi enabled walking robot for makers, kids and educators. The Marty Education Pack contains 1 Marty the Robot Kit plus everything you need to integrate Marty into your club or classroom.
By helping to promote creativity and learning through invention and play, Marty makes learning about programming and engineering a fun and engaging process. Marty acts as an gateway into computer sciences and can grow with the child from early education to their senior phase. By empowering students, Marty allows for inventive learning, engaging the child’s creativity and promoting their STEM skills.
Marty is a real robot for the price of a smart toy. We offer Marts as kits and pre-assembled, so you have the flexibility to decide whether the build experience fits in to your teaching, or if instead you just want the robots to come assembled.
The kits and assembled packs include everything you need to build and program your Martys, with a screwdriver, rechargeable battery and USB charger.
This is the Marty Kit Edu Pack.
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Marty the Robot is for anyone, young or old that wants to learn how to code, and for teachers and educators that want to help them.
This Education pack comes with a Marty, all the equipment to you need get set up at school, access to Lesson Plans and video support. We're keen to help you deliver a great experience with Marty.
Marty is an engaging tool for bringing Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths to life. Let's not forget arts and creativity too!
Marty the Robot perfect for first introducing programming at KS2 level, right the way up to University. Marty is a flexible learning tool that grows with your students.
Adding Marty into your classroom is super easy — just have a look through our lesson plans that will get you up and running in no time!
Our resources have been curated with teachers in mind, creating an engaging environment where students can adopt a hands-on approach to learning about important concepts in robotics and programming.
Marty is Maker friendly — you can download and 3D print all of Marty's parts, add sensors, a Raspberry Pi and even a camera to extend Marty's capabilities.
All the same activities and lesson guides for Schools are available to everyone that buys a Marty, and for a more individual learning or free-form environment we've got fun activities for Marty too.
Have a look at ways Marty can enrich your Classroom
Lesson Plans · Activities for Marty · Case Studies · Robotical for Education · Educator's Guide
Marty is programmed over WiFi, so you can have as many robots as you like connected and running in your class or club.
The education packs come with a command hub which generates its own WiFi network and runs a self-contained version of Scratch, to help you get Marty up and running without requiring school WiFi or internet access.
We're here to help. After you buy an Edu pack, get in touch to schedule your introductory video call where we can answer any questions you have, and make sure you get up and running, and help guarantee you get the most out of your Martys.
All the extras thrown-in with our Education Packs can be bought separately, so you can get a the same setup for one, ten or one hundred Martys.
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Marty has been a head turner with students! He works really well across all of the age groups at GoCode. The younger kids love his human features and are able to use Scratch to get up and running with Marty quickly. For the older kids they're able to explore coding in more detail by moving onto Python and see the physical connection between hardware and software. Rushil Shah
COO at GoCode Academy
Having something physical to move, away from a computer screen, helps kids better understand what happens when they input certain commands. It moves the lessons from theoretical to practical and lets you see the interaction between software and hardware. Marty is cute and engaging which makes it easy to introduce him in the classroom. But he also demonstrates how coding can be applied in the real world as he can interact with his surroundings. Jonathan Baxter
Deputy Head Teacher at The Flora Stevenson Primary School
Playing and learning with Marty has been great fun, and it definitely has taught me a lot about engineering and computer programming which will help me in my future career. I definitely want to do engineering at university, and Marty has just made me more determined to make this happen. I have even taught Marty to feed my dog, so I'm wondering what other household chores he could help me with, maybe he could tidy my room or wash the dishes?! Iona
15 year old Student
Sure there are a ton of other robots made for kids, but Marty is astonishingly special![]()
If you've got any questions about Marty please get in touch
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A Marty kit comes with everything you need to build a walking robot, including a screwdriver. You'll get:
Marty has a unique leg design, which makes him easier to use than a traditional walking robot and prolongs battery life. Marty can walk, turn, dance, kick a ball, and - of course - bust out some funky dance moves!
Marty's legs are a bit different to a traditional walking robot. Each leg has three motors: one for forwards and backwards, one for side to side, and one for turning .
That's fewer motors than a traditional two legged walking robot, and makes Marty cheaper to make, easier to use, and use less energy to move around. The new design allows all kinds of movements, and gives Marty a bit of swagger!
A spring in the step. We use springs to help support Marty’s weight and reduce the amount of work the motors have to do. Marty can even stand on one leg even with all motors turned off!
Getting started programming Marty is incredibly easy.
To beginners we recommend starting in Scratch, a “graphical” language where programming is as simple as clicking and moving blocks. Scratch is aimed at ages from 9+ and widely used around the world.
You can make Marty interact with the environment by moving blocks around to read information from his sensors and sending commands back to his motors.
When you are ready to go into learning text-based programming, Marty makes the transition as easy as possible by providing the same kind of functions in Python too - except they're more powerful.
No previous knowledge of programming is required to program Marty, but if you know what you're doing you can jump in straight away using Python, C++, Javascript, C#, and many more programming languages!
Your kit comes with everything you need to build a Marty, but if you have a 3D printer you can customise the parts! The plastic parts can be 3D printed, and the CAD files will be available.
So if you do have access to a 3D printer you can customise the designs as much as you like. The electronics on board also support additional sensors and motors.
For instance, you could make a four-legged Marty, a wheeled Marty, a bigger Marty, make arms with closable grippers - or anything else you can think of!
Marty is built to hold a full size Raspberry Pi (a little credit card sized computer), so while it's not required to have one, you can add one and then you have a walking quad-core computer!
With a Raspberry Pi on the robot you can do things like vision processing all on-board for tracking a ball and playing football, or even detecting faces to make Marty communicate with your friends!
Adding a Raspberry Pi is very straightforward, as we provide you with a special cable for power and data connection, and a downloadable Raspbian image pre-configured to work with Marty!
Marty's control electronics are custom made and designed to address a few of the issues we have with other control boards on the market. Based around a 180 MHz ARM Cortex M4 micro-controller, the board takes care of all Marty's low level functions, generating movements in real time, reading sensors, and connecting to WiFi.
As well as controlling Marty's servos, our control board also measures the electrical current being used by each servo. That means we can tell if a motor is being over-stressed and turn it off before it risks damaging itself.
The control boards also include:
Marty is designed to be more than a pretty face. Multiple degree of freedom limbs make a robot that is interesting to control. With the capability to use sensors like motor current, accelerometers, force sensors, and even camera(s), you can get into some quite advanced topics in robotics. For example - movement generation, mapping, localisation, and high-level planning.
Right now you can program Marty in Scratch, Python, Javascript and C++, and there are APIs to simplify issuing commands and reading from sensors. We'll support more languages with time, with precedence given first to popular ones such as Java, C# and a few others more.
With a Raspberry Pi (or other single board computer) on board you can do your vision processing for a completely autonomous robot. With a Pi you can even run ROS, the Robot Operating System, on the robot - and we provide wrappers to make it easier to interface with the entirety of the robot software.
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