The completed Spin Shooter robot
All the Movit kits include a comprehensive instruction booklet which should be followed closely during the construction process to ensure a successful conclusion!

The Spin Shooter in kit form as removed from the box.
All the parts are clearly laid out in relevent groups and detailed in the comprehensive instruction manual accompanying the kit. Individual parts should not be removed until required and care should be taken to correctly identify tapping screws, machine screws and so on to avoid confusion during assembly. All traces of joiners (sprue) should be removed from all the parts.

Pinion gears must first be mounted on the shafts of the 3 motors, using a hammer if necessary and 2 of the motors attached to their housings before the two side panels can be fully assembled. The side panels and housings are both sided and marked R for right and L for left.

All the gear train components in each side must be attached in the correct order to ensure that they mesh correctly before the motor housings are screwed in place, making sure that the motor terminals connect with the 2 medium screws throught the upper part of the side panels.

The right hand photograph shows the completed side assemblies prior to attaching them together.

Screwing the two sides together and assembling the top panel completes the main body of the Spin Shooter, after which attention can then focus on the legs

The left-hand photograph shows the body being screwed together with the various parts behind, while the photograph on the right shows the completed Spin Shooter body awaiting its 6 legs.

Each set of three legs is made up of five main pieces, which should be painted (if required) before assembly. It is the middle pair which is actually driven, so care should be taken to put the corect pieces together, otherwise the walking mechanism cannot work properly. Small foot stickers should be stuck onto the base of the feet to enable them to grip on slippery surfaces.

The photograph on the right, while of the completed robot, clearly shows the layout of the leg mechanisms.

The final, and perhaps the most important, assembly process for the Spin Shooter, is that of the spinning rotor mechanism, which is driven from the motor in the top unit through a set of five meshed gears. Care, therefore, must be taken to ensure that each gear is the right way round and mounted in the correct sequence.

The somewhat strange-looking photograph on the left shows the rotor assembly before it is folded down over the front of the robot.

The completed Spin Shooter robot can be seen on the right. Its blue spinning rotor used for shooting the ball can clearly be seen between its 2 front legs.

All that remains is to correctly wire the robot, which should be done with the assistance of the instruction booklet diagrams.

Unlike many of the robots in our range, the Spin Shooter is remote controlled, operated via a simple handset, which also has to be assembled. This should be done following the instructions in the booklet.

The photograph on the left shows the controller circuit board complete with battery terminals, while the photograph on the right shows the general layout of the controller before the cover is put in place.

The 4 AA batteries should only be inserted once the controller has been wired to the robot, to prevent any possible shorting.

Control of the Spin Shooter is via the two roller switches on the controller, which can clearly be seen in the photograph on the left. Using these switches, the Star Shooter can perform unrestricted moves - forward, backwards, rotation and so on, although a little practice may well be necessary to perfect your technique! Ball catching and shooting is performed using the rocker switch at the front of the controller - pressing the left hand rocker will catch and pressing the right hand rocker will shoot.

The Spin Shooter is supplied in a smokey grey finish which can be painted in your own team colours, as can be seen in the example on the right. Painting should be done before assembly, using plastic model paints.

Football is generally be played on a ping-pong table or equivalent, around which fences should be placed as well as a goal at each end. The ball is simply a brightly coloured ping-pong ball. Teams are generally between 1 and 3 players and each half of the game is usually 5 minutes long, changing ends at half-time.
A ball-gathering competition could also be played, as seen here, in which teams of Star and Spin Shooter robots score as many goals as possible using a large number of balls.

Both the Spin Shooter and the Star Shooter are very simple soccer-playing robots, which cannot hope to compete against the more "professional" software-driven robo-soccer bots such as the MIABOTS. However, in their own way, these bots can provide a great deal of fun in friendly matches between friends.

Good Shooting!!