7P5&6 - Robots

List of Starting Challenges-

1. Dash; game, keep on blue floor and do catapult with Lego's✅ 

2. Bolt; Code a party bomb, Movement, a countdown, then color changing celebration. ✅ 

3. Sphero Mini; how many shapes can you code it to drive?✅ 

4. iRobot; write a 3-4 letter word✅ 

5. ✅ = done

Sphero Mini /  Dash / Sphero Bolt

Using an iPad, iMovie, 3 different robots (Dash, Sphero Bolt, Sphero Mini and iRobot), and the apps Sphere.edu, iRobot Coding, and Wonder Workshop, I created 4 cool codes for the robots. The first one, iRobot, I did with Mya, and Harry. We made the robot write "E", "M", and "O", spelling emo. (But one letter at a time.) For the second robot, I made the Sphero Mini do a triangle, a square, and a trapezoid. For the third robot I did Dash. I made Dash go over the blue line on the floor and I had him do a catapult with Lego's.

  During the process of making the video, I learned how to program 4 different robots all in 2 weeks. The first robot was hard-ish to code, sense  we had to make it turn a bunch and I don't know how angles work, however, Mya does. I coded the "M", while Mya coded the "E" and "O" while Harrison sat there and looked pretty. For the Sphero Mini, I was all alone but I coded it to drive in 3 shapes. Next, I coded Dash to do the catapult thing, then I coded Sphero Bolt with Harrison to jump and spin crazily and have a countdown from 3.

The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to Creative Communicator because I was in a group for two out of four of the robots and within those two groups, I communicated to my partners what to do. Me, Mya and Harry all worked together to come up with writing the word "emo".  With just me and Harry, we worked together to decide to just do a countdown and make the Sphero Bolt jump.

  A challenge I overcame on this project was only having one iPad because Mya and Harry left me. To overcome this problem,  Ben let me take his iPad so I could record my videos for the Sphero robots. I took his iPad and I recorded my videos and then sent them to myself and on my iPad I edited them with iMovie and took the audios out and made the videos shorter where the robots weren't moving or doing anything.

  Given a chance to do this project again, I would be more thorough with coding them. For example, for the iRobot I would write a four letter word and write it all on one code instead of 3 different codes which in my opinion would take longer than doing it in one, because I had to edit them together on iMovie. For the Sphero Mini I'd probably code it to drive in more shapes, and maybe I'd make it different colors for each shape. For the Sphero Bolt, I would make it flash different colors while moving and jumping around like a ballerina. Last but not least, for the Dash robot I would try to make a better looking/working catapult.

  Hastings High School Carrier and Technical Education Program Offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, and Marketing. My project connects to the computer programming part because this whole project was coding four different robots, which are somewhat similar to computers.