Part 1Programming Basics- Downloading a program
- Download the Program mountain.vi onto your robot
- Finding your program on your robot
- Making changes to your program - make changes and download the modified program to your robot
Calculating distance - relating circumference to degrees- Use string to measure # of rotations to travel along one side of the box
- To calculate degrees, multiply rotations by 360
Build your robot- Go to nxtprograms.com and make the Five Minute Bot.
- Click on building instructions.
- Follow instructions to build your robot
- Plug your motors into ports A and C
Challenge- Modify the program to make your robot go around the mountain
- Put two boxes together and modify your program to make your robot go around this newer mountain
Part 2Bumper bots- Build a bumper - page 40 of book
- Plug the touch sensor into port 1
- You will place your robot inside a box
- Program your robot to go straight until it bumps into a wall or another robot
- What do you want it to do after the touch sensor is pressed?
- Here is an example of a program you may want to use
Robot War- Keep the bumper on the robot and
- Attach the light sensor
- Plug the light sensor into port 2
Example ProgramsRun AwayProgramming BasicsLook at the webpage Programming help for examples |
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