GO Eco Model Kit
Freely explore your environmentally friendly modular architectural designs with Arckit's reusable components while learning all about what goes into building a modern, sustainable & energy-efficient home.
Overview
Ideal for Budding architects from age 10 years old to learn all about sustainable architectural design while using eco friendly building methods and materials.
GO Eco is the perfect STEM & STEAM educational tool for boys and girls to be enjoyed at home as a step-up from other architectural building blocks toys or in the classroom for school projects.
Arckit GO Eco is a multiple award winner including, a prestigious GoodDesign Award & UK Independent Toy Award Silver Medal.
The GO Eco building kit comes with:
- 117 Arckit pcs. (Architectural building blocks).
- 22 x Reusable Arckitexture decals (including white louvres, light timber, dark brick and vegetation).
- 30 x Arckit cardboard pop-outs (including wind turbine, solar panels, water harvestation tank, air-source heat pump, figurines, trees & furniture).
Add more cardboard pop-outs. - Features a pitched roof design set.
- 1 x Introductory booklet with instructions for 1 design, reusable box.
- A further 3+ alternative building design instructions are available online as well as lots more printable Arckitexture decals and Arckit inspiration.
- Arckit Digital components are also available to build via SketchUp and Revit platforms.
- Package dimensions: 340x220x60mm
- Recommended for age 10+
And remember that all Arckit construction sets are compatible with one another!
Get Inspired
Makers have long asked the question “why bother with an expensive PLC when I can just use an Arduino?” The answer comes down to the priorities and needs of industrial clients. In a factory automation setting, the client will prioritize durability, reliability, and serviceability over the one-time purchase price of the device itself. But to prove that Arduino’s professional turnkey solutions are just as easy to use as their developer-focused educational counterparts, Jeremy Cook leveraged an Arduino Opta micro PLC to build a drum machine. This isn’t any old drum machine that plays sound samples or synthesized notes, but rather a robotic drum machine that makes noise by banging on stuff like a true percussion instrument. Cook could have built this with any Arduino board and a few relays, but instead chose to implement the Opta and new Opta Digital Expansion. That is robust enough for serious commercial and industrial applications, but is still simple to program with the familiar Arduino IDE. Programmers can also use conventional PLC languages if they prefer. In this case, Cook made noise with relays and solenoids. The Opta has four built-in relays and Cook’s sketch flips one of them to make a sound analogous to a hi-hat. Cook added an Arduino Pro Opta Ext D1608S module with its solid-state relays for the other two “drums.” One of those fires a solenoid that taps a small hand drum (the kick drum sound), while the other controls a solenoid that hits a power supply enclosure (the snare sound). Together, those three sounds can cover the basics of a drum track. Cook’s sketch is a drum sequencer program that stores each sound sequence as array, looping through them until turned off. An Opta may be overkill for a project like this one, but this does a great job of demonstrating the ease at which an Arduino user can transition to professional PLC work.
