Today, Eagles Robotics members prepared for the Round Rock ISD Sumobot showcase on May 20, 2014 from 5:00-6:30PM at Cactus Ranch Elementary. Team members worked on building more Castorbot models as well as creating programs to manuever obstacle courses. The team can vouch for the fact that programming for obstacles is a lot harder than it looks! We return again in two weeks to learn how to program sensors.
In the meantime, please respond to this form by next week Tuesday, April 30 at 7PM to indicate whether you and your student will be attending the Sumobot competition (optional, but will take the place of robotics that day) and whether you will be able to attend the Robotics party on May 27 from 2:45-4:00PM.
The link to the form is here: http://goo.gl/0XIucz
Stay tuned for upcoming announcements about the fall competition season as well!
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Intro to coding!
Today, our robotics team began an introduction to coding, in preparation for our fall competition season. Members learned how to code with the NXT program. They utilized the "move blocks" to program commands around an obstacle course. For instance, they programmed a robot to move forward 3 rotations at 30% power/force and to make a 45 degree turn at 50% power and so forth.
Our team discovered the math involved in precision, but are excited to continue programming in two weeks as we build our own obstacle course!
If you want to refresh on tutorials, check out the resources page of our blog here.
Our team discovered the math involved in precision, but are excited to continue programming in two weeks as we build our own obstacle course!
If you want to refresh on tutorials, check out the resources page of our blog here.
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