Sphero

This unit, we will be utilizing the Sphero technology, where a small, ball-shaped piece of hardware, hence the name, is programmed to do a certain action like driving in a triangle track. This entails coding using the Sphero Edu App to, first, make the Sphero trace a shape, and later on, find a path through a maze which was pretty easy. This project was, out of the seven standards, both a Computational Thinker-due to the large amount of coding/computer work involved in the project, and a Creative Communicator-due to the large amount of effective communication with a partner needed to succeed. A challenge that my partner Tristan and I faced was getting the Sphero to behave correctly some time it would go to far. At first, we struggled to get it to make the correct turns to get the exact triangle that we needed to trace. It was always just a little short of what we needed it to be, so we, in order to overcome this issue, we ended up having to tinker with the amount of time and speed that we had it go into the last turn with. Eventually, we settled on a code that perfectly accomplished what we set out to accomplish. That being to trace a perfect triangle on the floor. If given the chance, something I'd do differently is I'd use a more maneuverable Sphero, making it easier on us to program.