Game ideas for Robot Camp for Kids
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Hi All,
I am an student instructor for a summer camp to help inner city kids gain an interest in Robotics / Electronics and am using the Boe-Bot with BS2. Keeping their focus has become a challenge for the first week. Today I had a class challenge with the Reaction tester from "Whats a Microcontroller and it was a hit! We are working through the Boe Bot book but I need some fun distractions and games seem to be just the ticket. If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated.
Camp has three more weeks to go Ugg!
Thanks
I am an student instructor for a summer camp to help inner city kids gain an interest in Robotics / Electronics and am using the Boe-Bot with BS2. Keeping their focus has become a challenge for the first week. Today I had a class challenge with the Reaction tester from "Whats a Microcontroller and it was a hit! We are working through the Boe Bot book but I need some fun distractions and games seem to be just the ticket. If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated.
Camp has three more weeks to go Ugg!
Thanks
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Tasks could be things like:
1) "drive" to cone and return
2) retrieve object and return
3) navigate through multiple cones
4) if you are outside, it's warm and you are brave, figure out how to toss and catch water ballons
...or this might be a complete mess and failure.
http://code.google.com/p/propforth/wiki/LittleRobotGameEvent
This is the initial design ideas for games we want to try on our "cheapest possible robot". We hope to get something worked out for National Robotics Week 2014.
The robot simple has 2 steppers, so we can move and rotate with millimeter precision. The range finder is good for 1 cm to 4 meters, and about 1 cm accuracy.
Maybe you could these for inspiration for simple acting games, and let us know what works and what has problems? Then we would make a real game using the actual robots?
Cheers!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Parallax-Programmable-Scribbler-Robot-/200938014536?pt=Educational_Toys_US&hash=item2ec8d6c748
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Parallax-Basic-Stamp-2-Scribbler-Robot-/380639772621?pt=Educational_Toys_US&hash=item589fe5ffcd