To Your Basket Ordering Information Part Number: R73-PHOTOPOPPER Price: $50.00 Weight: 0.19 lbs An intriguing, solar-powered bug robot kit. Once built, this little robot uses only the sun to charge up and chase light.

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Unlike most robots, this BEAM robot is solar-powered, and does not have an on/off switch. Optical and touch sensors give the palm-sized Photopopper Photovore light-seeking and obstacle-avoiding behavior. This robot doesn't use a microprocessor or computer "brain", making it straight-forward and easy to construct and tune.

We have a pet Photopopper here at Acroname. The little critter is quite active in bright sunlight. It's much less active under typical fluorescent office lighting.

This is a kit and requires soldering skill. Here are the parts in the kit: