Freenove Bipedal Robot Kit for Raspberry Pi Pico (Included) (Compatible with Arduino IDE), LED Matrix Expressions, Obstacle Avoidance, Colorful Lights, Buzzer, Speaker, App

For me, the is a great beginner robotic kit to start out with for those looking to learn either about robotics in general or the Raspberry pi or both. Good thing about this kit is it does come with a couple extra parts like a spare servo and spare screws just in case. The only downside was one of the legs cracked where the servos go, but I was a bit lucky that it only cracked where I was able to get the servo screwed in and used a little glue to fix it. The tutorial is downloaded which is a good thing in a sense as its almost 200 pages long to include the setup of hardware and software but the various things that the robot can do. Although the instructions could be a bit clearer than it is.

First problem was the included hardware didn't match the online information for what you should have. Seemed there were perhaps enough screws to go around so I decided maybe I could scrap by - first mistake, nope that was the second mistake, first was getting this thing to begin with.Third mistake was thinking this would be a cool kit to work on with my son. Nope. I mean Lego's sure but this mess, nope. I have built personal computers, code, work with SQL, scripting and programing languages so this "prepared" kit should be a cake walk - even if the included screws were not completely correct. But sadly it wasn't.It started out somewhat okay, as I got the servo's connected and ran the first sketch - success! Short lived success but success none the less! It was after this that it started going down hill actually. I realized the included screws were not going to be much help with the final pieces, there just wasn't enough longer screws to get it to hold everything together like it should, so it was a bit loose instead - I should have stopped and shipped it back at this point but yet another mistake on my part.Once it was somewhat put together, I reconnected to my pc to upload the rest of the sketches and see how this would work. But all I was getting was error, error, error - and it would have been nice if the speaker worked and had the "Warning Will Robinson!" or something so I could at least be entertained, but this thing would only get the original "blink" sketch to work and then nothing but errors on the rest.I could have spent time trying to figure it out or email support asking why their code for their robot didn't work, but have better things to do with my time than spend more of it trying to fix this mess. I mean the M2 nuts were so damn small it took forever to get them on and the "spreader" included didn't seem to fit anything.Just save your money or find another kit that is hopefully better than this garbage. It's bad enough to waste time on it, let alone your money so my advice is just move along, nothing to see here.