Luciana's Maker Station - Satellite, Mars Rover and her Robotic Dog


I was so excited to get Luciana's Maker Station and her Robotic dog.  The maker station is for Luciana to design and build robotics.


The Maker Station has a  robotic arm that can pick things up and a workbench for tinkering with two shelves and two bins. Plus lots and lot of accessories to decorate and for Luciana to use:

  • A poster, photo, and two clips to hold them
  • A measuring tape, screwdriver, and set of screws for building
  • A pair of safety goggles and apron
  • Three graph papers and three papers for ideas and sketching
  • A solar system model of the planets
  • A pretend terrarium for plants
  • A sticker sheet for decorating


 We spent 3 hours on Saturday working on the two MEGA CONSTRUX™ construction sets for a satellite and a rover using the MEGA CONSTRUX™ playbook!


First we opened the bags with all the parts and organized similar parts by color and type. The parts for the satellite and rover were all mixed up together in the 4 bags. So we started with the satellite and took our time. Sometimes the pictures in the playbook were not completed clear. So we looked ahead a page or two to make sure we were putting it together correctly.  When we finished there were NO parts leftover. So that is really good. I really love the satellite and the Mars rover. I'm going to blog more about them when I have time. They are so interesting. 


Luciana's Space Camp team has its own mascot! This robotic dog features light-up eyes, makes more than 20 sounds, and has a posable body, a magnetic mouth that holds a toy wrench, and rolling wheels for feet. It can even wag its tail! I'm going to take some video of this robotic dog soon. I don't think the dog has a name yet.

Here is a youtube video I found.


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