Jason and Jill are both IT professionals with daughters. They see the need for more Computer Science education in school. They decided to do something about it! They took their robot and story to Startup Weekend and won! Read about it here.
A little bit of information for you about the day...
- Python, most popular language in the world
- Code.org was a great way to introduce kids to coding and help them think like a programmer, now we move to the next step to get off of the visual step to text programming
- You don’t need the block experience but it is helpful, it’s not a requirement
- Kids as young as 2nd grade have been in their workshop
- All robot parts are 3d printed to save on cost
- Most parts of the robot are biodegradable, the citrus are not the rest are cornstarch based
- All of the parts were designed using Onshape https://www.onshape.com/, it is free for education with support and scales with size changes
- The programming is done using trinket.io
- Check out their setup http://codekitty.org/code/
- This is the 3d printer they use to print all of the parts, they even brought it! Einstart
Programming the Robot!
- Head over to http://codekitty.org/robot/
- Then get the Beagle Terminal chrome app
- We brought in the library they had already setup by using from codekitty import *
Using functions and sensors
I made my led turn pink/green based on touch!
— Angie Kalthoff (@mrskalthoff) August 14, 2018
Chrome Web Apps
- crtl + D will show the output of whatever code is on the robot
- Write code in <txt>, then save, it will send to Beagle and the robot will run your code
Using #
When working with young kids, where typing may take awhile. If you use something like the program below they can take away the # to make their robot do something. This allows the kids to get the feel for it without having to
You can use the # to add notes for you to remember what the code means.
After having a few bugs with Beagle and txt, I downloaded Mu
