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
Control the air/fuel mixture for a better fuel economy of a engine with a Arduino Nano.
When you want to paint the walls in your bedroom that very specific shade of Misty Irish Green, all you have to do is head to your local hardware store and have them scan the corresponding card. The paint-mixing machine will then add the pigment to a white base and, a few minutes later, you have that exact color. So, shouldn’t you be able to do the same thing with acrylic paint for hobby purposes? Now you can, thanks to the “Color By Code” machine designed by Caltech students Frida Moreno and Asmat Kaur Taunque. Moreno and Taunque built Color By Code for a class project and it is, essentially, a hobby version of those hardware store paint-mixers intended for acrylic paint. As is the standard across many industries that deal with pigments, paint, and printing, this works using CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, key) color mixing. Here, the key is black and the machine takes an input color value for each component, then dispenses the paint in those ratios to achieve the desired hue. That all happens under the control of an Arduino Nano Every board. That operates peristaltic pumps, via L298N motor drivers, that dispense each color. Afterwards, a flushing procedure clears the lines before the next mix. The pumps fit into a 3D-printed stand, with the hoses dropping below to a waiting container. At this time, the user must set the color values through serial commands. But the team hopes to create a Bluetooth app in the future. They also plan to add a weight sensor, which would improve the machine’s accuracy.
