(May 14, 2015) Meet
Tinker the Robot. UC San Diego mechanical engineering alumnus (2007) Kay Yang
created him to teach and inspire young children to play with robots.
As a little girl, Kay loved taking things apart and learning
how they worked – except electronics. She couldn’t understand how an electronic
circuit could bring an object to life.
It wasn’t until she came to UC San Diego and enrolled in
mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Nate Delson’s Introduction to
Engineering Graphics and Design (MAE3) course – where students design and produce
robots from scratch for a competition – that she began to understand how
electronics and code work together.