Tuesday 18 March 2014

Robotics Assessment - Planning

Here are some hints for what you need to do to plan for your assessment for the Robotics unit.

Here is a photo of the course/arena that you have to program your Wall-E to go round.


The rulers are in the photo to act as a guide to how far apart some of the walls are and how far your Wall-E will have to travel.  Each wheel rotation is approximately 15cm so you can see from the photo where there are whole 30cm rulers and some half rulers showing.  This is a rough guide to the number of wheel rotations you'll need to program.

You'll be using the ultra-sonic sensor on your Wall-E (which is his eyes) and you must make sure the cable from his eyes goes into port 4 on the control box.

Think carefully about the programming and whether you need to include a loop (repetition or subroutine) to help make your program run smoothly.  You want him to go round the course without you having to press any buttons!

You need to write the following on your Blog post:
1.  A description of the task 
2.  A copy of the photo of the course
3.  Draw a flowchart showing your program for this course.
4.  A link to your flowchart.

You are going to write up just one Blog post for this whole assessment! 

This means you have to Save at the end of each lesson - 
DO NOT PUBLISH YET!!!



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