In this week's coding class, Owen and Jas worked hard trying to debug their spinner robot. It worked great _sometimes_! But they kept running into alignment issues.
In coding class today, the kids continued to build the massive Spinner Factory robot. But today I introduced them to a simple Kanban board to keep track of what was built. The instructions include 465 steps.
Over the weekend Mr. John saw a video from a young woman who studies robotics. Her advice on how to learn robotics was to tear things apart and then put them back together.
In coding class we finished the code for the ellaphants we built. The kids made a program that would use the robot keypad buttons to control what it did. Up button to make the elephant walk forward. Down button for backward. Left button for head tilt and trunk trumpeting. And right button for picking up an object.
For this week's morning and afternoon closing class. We created animations for a space ship and floating monkeys. The kids learned to use loops and how to change the Sprite over time.
In today's coding class we started on a motorcycle robot. It will use the gyroscopic sensor to keep itself balanced on 2 wheels. All they had for instructions was a video showing a working Lego motorcycle. No build instructions and no programming instructions.
