8P5 - Coding

Tool: Sphero Mini

List of 25:

1. Program a drone to fly in a line
2. Program a sphero to go up a ramp
3. Program a micro-bit
4. Program a dash to pull hot wheels
5. Program the sphero mini to go through a maize
6. Code a minecraft house
7. Make a sphero write my name
8. Make a dash go through a maize
9. Make a sphero make noise
10. Make a dash make a mess
11. Make a dash do a bunch of noises
12. Make a sphero move objects
13. Make a dash move objects
14. Program a dash to make an annoncement
15. Have a drone deliver a package
16. Make 2 dash' fight
17. Play tag with spheros
18. Program a sphero to go in a straight line
19. Make a drone go through a hoop
20. Program a sphero to go in a circle
21. Make a dash make a siren noise
22. Make a drone take off on one side of the room and land on the other
23. Race a sphero mini and a regular sphero
24. Race a dash and a sphero
25. Make a track and have a sphero mini go on it.

For my coding project I decided to program a sphero mini to go through a maize that I made myself. I did a flat maize with cardboard pieces being the borders. At the end of my maize I made a ramp where the sphero mini would go onto and then land into one of the cardboard pieces that you would originally put cans into. My maize was very successful.

I learned a lot in this project. First of all, I learned how to use the app and the sphero and just the basics of it. Secondly, I learned that the degree at which the code block is set at will not go straight like I would just imagine, I had to change it to a certain angle at which it would go in the direction that I wish. The last thing I learned is that I had to be very patient with the coding and I had to know that it would take a lot of tries to get it just right.

Out of the seven standards of this class, I think that my project would tie to Empowered Learner and Innovative Designer the most. I say Empowered Learner because throughout this project I learned many things and I had to bare with myself to not get frustrated and give up. I also said Innovative Designer because for this project I designed my own maize and even added the ramp at the end of it, this was to really give myself more of a challenge. This is why I would say that this project mainly stuck to these two standards.

A challenge that I overcame was the ramp. It was very difficult to get the sphero to go at just the right direction for it to be able to hit the ramp and at the required speed. This was very hard and took a lot of tries and it made me want to just forget about the ramp, but I stuck to it and eventually was successful.

If I had to change something on this project to make it better I would probably make this couse a little bit more complex and a higher level of difficulty. I didn't want to make the maize too hard for myself this time because it was my first time using the sphero and I wasn't that comfortable with the actual coding part in the beginning. So next time that I do something with the sphero, I will change the level of difficulty of whatever I choose to do with it.

I think that this project would tie to the careers of computer programming, engineering, and analyst jobs (Business Analysts, Financial Analyst and Data Analyst). I say these careers because all of these are tied to coding and programming and that is what I used to move my sphero. This project would also tie to the computer programming class at the high school because it involves programming a device.