I've met some lovely people in my time as a maker/tinkerer. None more so than the mighty Snoof and Chris who form Steam Engineers. They are constantly working on expanding STEAM activities and making inclusive exciting STEAM education available and accessible. So I was delighted when they sent me a new little item they had made, Spoonbot.
Spoonbot has a few aspects, it can be a reasonably challenging soldering kit, features some microprocessor entinkerment so could be used for beginner and intermediate STEAM activities, which the team will happily talk to you about delivering. However, it can also be bought as a fully built object from their Tindie store and it's that I was gifted.
The lovely full colour PCB has the robot design on it and it's flashed so that you have a small rotary dial on the side with which you can adjust your Spoonbot LED level. For those that perhaps run out of spoons socially and struggle to sometimes communicate that this is a really valuable tool to tell others in the world whether your social battery is full or somewhat depleted.
I love it as a concept and if you know someone who'd appreciate it, go buy one, you're supporting lovely people doing brilliant work. Oh... and it's fully opensource and OSHWA certified.
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