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Welcome to CU Science Discovery!
Welcome to CU Science Discovery!
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Email: wayne.seltzer@colorado.edu
Learning Objectives for Today:
Learning Objectives for Today:
Introductions
Robotics in historical and contemporary context
What's a robot?
Create your first XRP program ("Hello, World!")
Assemble your XRP
Introductions
Introductions
Welcome!
Logon to the notebook on your desk.
Password is "Student"Connect your notebook to the "USB guest" WiFi if it isn't already connected.
Open the Chrome browser and accept the agreement if prompted.
Click on the link below for this week and please introduce yourself:
Your name
School grade level in the fall
Location
Computer programming experience? Which language(s)?
[not to worry -- this class is designed for never-ever programmers.]What are you interested in learning in this class?
What's the origin of the word "robot?"
How have robots been depicted in literature and film?
Unrelated to robotics. Or maybe it is?
Unrelated to robotics. Or maybe it is?
Bebe and Louis Barron composed the soundtrack for Forbidden Planet.
"The soundtrack for Forbidden Planet (1956) is today recognized as the first entirely electronic score for a film. Eerie and sinister, the soundtrack was unlike anything that audiences had heard before. Music historians have often noted how groundbreaking the soundtrack was in the development of electronic music."
Interesting documentary:
Sisters with Transistors - Electronic Music's Unsung Heroines
Available for free via the Boulder Public Library: https://www.kanopy.com/en/boulderlibrary/video/12168721
What's a robot?
What's a robot?
Play with some robots!
Pick one of the robots/kits available in the classroom and explore its capabilities with other students.
Ozobots
Program with colored pens on paper.Module Robotics Cubelets
Sphero: RVR, Bolt, R2D2, BB8
Download and install the Sphero Edu app on your notebook, smartphone, or tablet.
(It may be already installed on the Science Discovery Macbooks and tablets.)Petoi Bittle X (dog)
Press and hold the black power button on the bottom of the battery pack, on the bottom of the robot for 3 seconds. The blue light will stay on and you'll here some "music."
Use voice commands on instruction sheet.
Also use the remote control.
Try saying "play a sound"
Please keep the Bittle in the cardboard box. It's expensive and fragile!R2D2 (Hasbro, 2002):
Use voice commands on instruction sheet.
Try saying:
Hey R2 (wait for tone)
Do you remember? (wait for tone)
Darth Vader?
manual
Observe the robot's characteristics. What components does it have to ...
sense its environment? (user inputs, sensors, ...)
change its environment? (motion, sound, light,)
What behaviors does the robot have? (reactions to environment and user inputs)
Observations: What are the components that make up a robot?
Enter your suggestions on the Padlet (link below) by adding items for each characteristic you have observed. Use one or a just a few words for each item. Move the items into the column where it is most like the items that others have entered.Discussion: What are the three broad components of robots?
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