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Lights are a problem. I've sorted out the thrusters, the aerodynamics of the fins and wings, but getting a set of LEDs that run down the length of my flying robot to toggle on and off with a single keystroke is proving to be significantly more complicated than getting the thing into the air. I'm fiddling around with a toggle circuit that should send power to the lights with one press, and then take it away with another. But for some reason it's just sending more and more power to the bulbs. They're either going to explode or blind me. I should probably rethink what I'm doing.Rawbots melds robotics and programming, and throws in a whole load of punching fists, laser swords, pulse cannons and hydrophonic jets into the mix. With a few dozen components, you can pretty much create whatever kind of robot you could ever want. And then collapse it into its parts and start all over again with something else.
The genius sits inside each of those components, resting just a tap of the escape key away. Click on any of them, and a neat little hexagon with the component's name will latch itself onto the programming grid. You can then expand it into the component's functions, so thrust and glow for rocket jets, or the intensity and colour of a light. Some components are considerably more complicated than others, but every single one can be programmed.
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