Look at an Ino-bot together and find the:
distance sensors
LED lights
light sensor
speaker
headlights (white LEDS)
noise sensor
wheels
Which are inputs and which are outputs?
Unlike Beebots, these bots are controlled using code in Scratch (on a PC) or Blockly (on Android or iPad).
Turn your bot on with the two switches on its bottom.
Load the Ino-bot app on your iPad and click start.
Click the Bluetooth tab in the top right hand corner.
Select the name of your bot.
the LED lights will flash green to show you are connected.
Each LED light has a number. They can glow red, blue or green (RGB). Using different amounts of red, blue and green light you can make many other colours, a bit like mixing paint.
Enter this code then click GO.
What happens?
Look at the program you have created and work out what each piece of code is doing.
Why do you need to 'wait 1 second' between each light change?
How many different colours can you make?
How can you make all the lights flash at the same time?
Make your bot into a Police car with blue flashing lights and white flashing head lamps.
Use 3 of the lights to make the traffic light sequence.
red
red and amber
green
amber
red
Challenge
Work out what this procedure is doing
Tinker with it so that when you clap the Bot moves to draw a pattern.
What else could you trigger with sound?
What does this do?
What happens if you change the wait times?
What other tunes can you play?
What will this do?
How could you improve it?
Add to this so that
the InO-bot moves faster
it has blue or yellow flashing lights as it moves
it makes a noise when it reverses
its headlights come on when it gets darker
What will this do?