Pacing

Tentative pacing guide for Robotics

Week 1: Basics
- - Tool Safety
  - Engineering Design Challenge
  - Blink LED (Continuous blinking)
    - For loop (Blink 5 times then stop, using a for loop)
    - While loop (Blink 7 times then stop, using a while loop)
  - Sounds
  - Song
Week 2: Lights, Sensors, and Building the Bot
- - Light Sensor - Serial.print
  - Theremin
  - Build the Bot
  - Get it moving
Week 3-4: Start Driving
- - Meter
  - Square - Data types/variable size
    - Multiple For loops
    - Nested For loops
  - Dead reckoning "Z-maze" - Subroutines and Array for directions
    - Functions
  - Case statement
Week 5-6: Learning to Line Follow
- - Line following with 1 sensor - Comparison operators
  - Line following with LED (optional, provides improved sensing, but not required)
  - Line following with 2 or more sensors - Boolean operators
Week 7-8: Sumo (part 1)
- - Intro to laser cutter
  - Design new chassis
  - Blind sumo
    - If... then... elseif... else...
    - Random number gen
Week 9-10: Distance and Mazes
- - IR and Ultrasonic range finders
  - Maze runner (micro-mouse)
Week 11-12: Sumo (part 2)
- - Sighted Sumo
  - Push button for alternate starts

Second Trimester

Week 1: Data Logging
- - Humidity and temp sensors DHT11 (Library page)
  - Humidity and Temp data logger using EEPROM
Week 2-3: CAD and 3D Printing
- - Design a piece for the robot using OnShape
  - Print, attach, test, and iterate the design
Week 4-6: Data Transfer
- - IR or 433MHz software serial transmission

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