is this doable?

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Hi Folks,

I’m a high school shop teacher and I have an idea for a project.
We have no funding but I want to teach my kids about robotics.
I’m thinking about building a robot in blender and then using the game engine to make it execute scripts the kids can write (in python of course)
I know C++ and Java pretty well but I’m a newbie at python.
Think simple robot arm with a couple of joints, each joint has a name and the script tells the named joints how to rotate.
Does that capability exist? I’m pretty sure it does but not knowing much about python or the game engine I figured I’d ask you guys before I dive into this.
So what do you folks say, is this a reasonable project to tackle?
If so I promise to come back and ask lots of questions :wink:

Thoughts??

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Absolutely, go for it. You should be able to do it. Just one thing; you’ll have to make your robot as flexibale as possible to meet the demands of kids wild imagination! Continue to post hear if you run into any problems.

/Alex

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thanks for the reply
for starters it will have to be just a proof of concept kind of thing
a simple joint and driving it from a script
I have to admit I have no idea how to do that, guess my weekend is booked up :wink: